Writing Faculty

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Author of the novels The Dylanist, Starting Out in the Evening, A Window Across the River, and Breakable You. SLC, 1998–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, Brown University. Author of Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva (Glad Day Books, 2001), chronicling his experience as a non-Jew teaching English as a second language to Yiddish-speaking Hasidic boys at a yeshiva in Brooklyn; has published stories in numerous anthologies and reviews, including The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories, Global City Review, The Breast, and Fairleigh Dickinson Review; on the faculty of Eugene Lang College; works for the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, where he has initiated numerous documentary projects; conducted hundreds of life history interviews with gay cops, retired vaudevillians and showgirls, ironworkers, immigrants, and, most recently, people affected by the events of September 11 and veterans recently returned from the war in Iraq. He worked as an educator and project designer on Columbia’s “Telling Lives Oral History Project.” This project, which was launched in eight classrooms in two middle schools in New York City’s Chinatown, culminated in seven books, two documentary films, and a multimedia exhibit. He served as editor of three of the books, producer of the documentaries, and curator of the exhibit. SLC, 2004–

BFA, MA, University of Iowa. Essayist and creative nonfiction writer; author of The Boys of My Youth, a collection of autobiographical essays, as well as essays/articles published in magazines, journals, and anthologies. Recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award. SLC, 2000–2005, 2007–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, Columbia University. Author of Sandman’s Dust, Stories of an Imaginary Childhood, While the Messiah Tarries, After, Signs and Wonders, Strange Fire, and A Faker’s Dozen; editor of Neurotica, Nothing Makes You Free, and Scribblers on the Roof. Works have been translated into a half-dozen languages and frequently anthologized; winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and other prizes; stories published in Antaeus, The Paris Review, and other magazines; essays published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and other newspapers. SLC, 1993–

MFA, Columbia University. Poet, Brooklyn poet laureate, and author of Half-Lit Houses and Of Gods & Strangers; co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008). Poems have appeared in American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, and Sonora Review, among others. Recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, and The Van Lier Foundation, among others. SLC, 2005–

BA, Tufts University. MFA, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Author of three poetry collections: The Difficult Farm (Octopus Books, 2009); The Trees The Trees (Octopus Books, 2011), winner of the Believer Poetry Award; and What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012). Poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, and The New Yorker and have been anthologized in The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, The Best American Poetry 2012, and The Arcadia Project. Recipient of the 2009-2011 Poetry Fellowship at Emory University and Web editor for jubilat. SLC, 2012–

AB, Harvard University. Author of A Chance Meeting (Random House, 2004), a nonfiction book tracing a chain of 30 American writers and artists who knew or influenced or met one another over the period from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement; winner of the 2003 PEN/Jerard Fund Award. Essays in The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney’s, DoubleTake, Parnassus, and Modern Painters and in 2003 Best American Essays and 2003 Pushcart Prize anthologies. Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. SLC, 2003–

BA, Mills College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Poet; author of Ruin (Alice James Books, 2006) and The Glimmering Room (Four Way Books, 2012); recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Work has been published in Isn’t it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave Books, 2004) and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (The University of Iowa Press, 2004). SLC 2008–

AB, Brown University. MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University. Writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. Originally trained in pediatrics and public health, she teaches courses in illness and disability memoir—as well as narrative, health, and social justice—at Columbia University’s Program in Narrative Medicine and in the Health Advocacy graduate program at Sarah Lawrence College. Author of a memoir, a book of folktales, and co-editor of an award-winning collection of women’s illness narratives, Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies. SLC, 2001–

BA, Boston University. MFA, Hunter College. Author of Beaten, Seared, and Sauced (Clarkson Potter, 2011). Music, book, film, and television critic for the Boston Phoenix (1992-2002). Staff writer at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (2000-2006). Nonfiction and fiction have appeared in New York Newsday, The New York Times, Leite's Culinaria, Gilt Taste, Sleepingfish, and The Milan Review, among other publications. SLC, 2013-

Melissa Febos: BA, The New School University. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College.  Melissa is the co-curator and host of the popular monthly music and reading series, Mixer, on the Lower East Side. Her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Salon, BOMB, Hunger Mountain, and Glamour, and she has been featured on NPR's Fresh Air, Anderson Cooper, and the cover of the New York Post.  She is a 2010 & 2011 MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2012 Bread Loaf Fellow, and her memoir, Whip Smart, was published by St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books in March 2010. She is currently at work on a novel and a second memoir. SLC, 2011 -

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, City College of New York. Author of the short-story collection Don’t Erase Me, awarded the Art Seidenbaum Award of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the John C. Zachiris Award given by Ploughshares, and the Quality Paperback Book Prize for First Fiction; stories anthologized in The Best American Short Stories of the Century; Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; The Blue Light Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love; and Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present; recipient of grants from the Fulbright Association, the German Academic Exchange (D.A.A.D.), the City University of New York MAGNET Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts (Literature fellow for 2004). SLC, 1996–

BA, Drew University. Wrote “County Lines” column in The New York Times for six years and a book, A Cold-Blooded Business, based on a murder case he covered in The New York Times, which Kirkus Reviews called “riveting.” Produces syndicated online video column for TheStreet.com, often a lead feature on Yahoo! Finance. Served as editor-in-chief of Fertilemind.net; twice named “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine. Awards include the Silver Award in 2007 from the League of American Communications Professionals; named the best journalism critic in the nation by Talking Biz Web site at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication. When not writing or teaching, serves as a firefighter in Hastings, New York. Most recent book (2012) is on firefighters. SLC 2010–

BA, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. MFA, Columbia University. Author of the long poem, The New World, winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in poetry; A World That Will Hold All the People, essays on poetry and politics; Today: 101 Ghazals (2008); the long poem, Dialogue with the Archipelago (2009); and fiction published in The Kenyon Review, The American Voice, and The Paris Review. Recipient of The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence in the Essay and of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. SLC, 1994–

Keith Gessen is the author of the novel All the Sad Young Literary Men and is a founding editor of n+1 magazine. He has written for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and the Atlantic. SLC, 2012-

BA, Oberlin College. Author of Bee Season (New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Borders New Voices Prize, finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award), and Wickett’s Remedy. Teacher at Barnard, Brooklyn College, Columbia, NYU, as well as Sarah Lawrence. SLC, 2008-

BA, University of California-Berkeley. MA, City University of New York. Author of Whistling and Rosalind: A Family Romance; stories published in journals including The Transatlantic Review, Ploughshares, Feminist Studies, The Massachusetts Review, The New England Review, and in the book anthologies Women in Literature, Powers of Desire, The World’s Greatest Love Stories, and elsewhere in the United States and France; nonfiction published in the Village Voice and elsewhere; recipient of Lebensberger Foundation grant. SLC, 1985–

MA English Literature, University of Delaware. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Special interest in photography, visual art, and mixed media. Photographer, painter/mixed media artist, poet; author of Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books, 2010), The Requited Distance (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011), and Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011). Recipient of fellowships, including Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Cave Canem Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, New York State Summer Writers Institute, and others. SLC 2011–

BA, Harvard College. MFA, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Poet; author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000); Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004); Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, a New York Times Notable Book of 2008, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and a children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel (Soft Skull Press, 2007). Contributing editor for jubilat and BOMB. Has taught at Warren Wilson, the Pratt Institute, and the University of Houston. SLC, 2004–

A Brooklyn-based, independent, radio/multimedia documentary producer, transmission sound artist, and educator, her stories air nationally and internationally on National Public Radio, the BBC, and on numerous shows, including: This American Life, Radio Lab, Marketplace, Morning Edition, Studio360, and many others. A Peabody award-winning producer, she has also received Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow, and Third Coast International Audio Festival awards. A transmission artist with free103point9, her work has been exhibited at UnionDocs, Chicago Center for the Arts, and other venues. She has taught classes and workshops at Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Smith College, Columbia University, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; for years, she was the director of radio at Brooklyn College. She is a co-creator of Mapping Main Street, a collaborative media project documenting the nation’s more than 10,000 Main Streets, which was created through AIR’s MQ2 initiative along with NPR, the CPB, and the Berkman Center at Harvard University. Her work has been funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Association of Independents, the Arizona Humanities Council, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. Currently, she is a Rosalynn Carter for Mental Journalism Fellow and will be making a multimedia documentary about preteen anorexia in partnership with Ms. Magazine and NPR. SLC, 2010–

Sally Herships is a Brooklyn-based  independent journalist who has produced or reported for multiple shows and outlets, national and international, including:  NPR’s All Things Considered, Studio 360, WNYC, BBC World Service  and the World. She’s put in many hours at Radio Lab and is a regular contributor to public radio’s Marketplace. Her 2010 year-long investigative project, “The Five Percent Rule” was awarded  the Third Coast Radio Impact Award and a  Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of NY. Sally's work has been presented at UnionDocs,  and she’s taught radio workshops at the New School, Smith College, Feet in Two Worlds, Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Spark Summit for Girls and documentary audio at Fordham University. Sally lives in Brooklyn and when she's not making radio she enjoys daydreaming, and drawing supermodels, robots and cats. SLC, 2012–

BA, Manhattanville College. MA, Columbia University. PhD, University of Wisconsin. Author, Still Waters in Niger, nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune; the French translation, Eaux Tranquilles, was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Yale Review, among other publications, and have won a number of literary awards. The Anointed, published in DoubleTake, was included in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize XXV, and The Pushcart Book of Short Stories. An excerpt from her recently completed novel, Who Occupies this House, appeared in Ploughshares. SLC, 1991-1994, 1997–

BA, State University of New York-Purchase. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. David Hollander is the author of the novel L.I.E., a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous print and online forums, including McSweeney’s, Post Road, The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Collagist, Unsaid, The Black Warrior Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and Swink. His work has been adapted for film and frequently anthologized, most notably in Best American Fantasy 2 and 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11th. He received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence in 1997, and currently lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, the writer Margaret Hundley Parker, and their two children. SLC, 2002–

BA, Oberlin College. MFA, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Poet; author of Translating Mo’um (Hanging Loose Press, 2002) and Dance Dance Revolution (W. W. Norton, 2007), which was chosen for the Barnard New Women’s Poets Series; recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Fulbright grant for South Korea; work has been published in Pushcart Prize anthology and New Asian American Anthology, The Next Generation, among others; essays and articles published in the Village Voice, Guardian, Salon, and Christian Science Monitor. SLC, 2006–

BS, University of Windsor. MFA, Columbia University. Poet; author of The Good Thief, selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series; editor, with Michael Klein, of In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic; author of What the Living Do; recipient of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poet Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Mary Ingram Bunting fellowship from Radcliffe College, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artist Foundation, and the Guggenheim. SLC, 1993–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Columbia School of the Arts. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. NCPsyA, Westchester Institute. Special interests include Jungian studies and religion; author of When Orchids Were Flowers, This Perfect Life, and Wind Somewhere, and Shade, which received the Gradiva Award; most recently published in Ploughshares, The Salt Journal, Luna, and The Sun; recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Award. SLC, 1987–

Harvard College. Fiction writer and video maker; author of A Different Drummer, Dancers on the Shore, A Drop of Patience, dem, Dunfords Travels Everywheres, and stories and nonfiction in The New Yorker, Esquire, Mademoiselle, and Saturday Evening Post; awards and grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. SLC, 1989–

Adam Kirsch is a poet and critic. A senior editor at the New Republic and a columnist for Tablet Magazine, he is the author of two books of poems, most recently "Invasions" (Ivan R. Dee), and several books of criticism, most recently "Why Trilling Matters" (Yale). His writing appears regularly in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Poetry, and other publications. SLC, 2012-

Mary LaChapelle – BA, University of Minnesota. MFA, Vermont College. Author of House of Heroes and Other Stories; stories, essays and anthologies published by New River’s Press, Atlantic Monthly Press, Columbia Journal, Global City Review, Hungry Mind Review, North American Review, News Day, The New York Times; recipient of the PEN/Nelson Algren, National Library Association, Loft Mcknight and The Whiting Foundation Award, and fellowships from the Hedgebrook, Katherine Anne Porter, Edward Albee and Bush Foundations    

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MFA, George Mason University. Author of four books of poetry, most recently The Endarkenment (University of Pittsburgh Press). A fifth book, Chapel of Inadvertent Joy, will be published in 2013, also by University of Pittsburgh Press. Poems have been published in many anthologies and magazines, including Best American Poetry 1994 and Best American Poetry 2010, New (American) Poets, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review; recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Washington, D.C., Commission for the Arts. SLC, 2001–

B.A., Tufts College. M.Phil., Columbia University. Novelist, short-story writer, and writer of travel literature. Author of the novels Crossroads, The Waiting Room, The Night Sky, House Arrest, Acts of God, and Revenge; the short story collections Vanishing Animals and Other Stories, The Bus of Dreams, and The Lifeguard Stories; the travel memoirs Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail; an anthology of the travel literature of women, Maiden Voyages and Angels and Aliens: A Journey West. A book about the Mississippi River is due out in 2006 (Henry Holt and Company). Recent work in Atlantic Monthly, Narrative, and Ploughshares; recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Creative Artists Public Service Awards. SLC, 1994-

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Taught at the 92nd Street Y and New York University. Her short story, Alcestis, appeared in The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love; her fiction work has appeared in the anthology Mending the World with Basic Books, 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 (New York University Press), and The Heretics Bible (Free Press). Her first novel, Knee-Deep in Wonder, won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Award. Her second novel, The Book of Charlemagne, is forthcoming (Free Press/Simon & Schuster). SLC, 2003–

BA, Harvard. Author of nine books of poetry (under “D. Nurkse”), including The Border Kingdom, Burnt Island, The Fall, The Rules of Paradise, Leaving Xaia, and Voices over Water; poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly; recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, and two awards from The Poetry Foundation. SLC, 2004-

BA, Columbia University. MA, University of California-Berkeley. Author of Rescue, short fiction and poetry; Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, memoir and social analysis; Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, history. Fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, The Quarterly, Partisan Review, The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International, and elsewhere. Essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, DoubleTake, The Nation, AGNI, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and New Labor Forum, among others. Recipient of the Cornell Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing from Columbia University, the Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research by Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society, and the DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. SLC, 1997, 2002–

BA, St. John’s University. MA, Georgetown University. Teaches a graduate workshop at Manhattanville College. Author of six collections: Spare Change was the La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner, and his chapbook won the Ledge Poetry Prize; Ready to Eat the Sky, published by River City Publishing as part of its new poetry series, was a finalist for the 2005 Independent Publishers Books Award; In the Eyes of a Dog was published in September 2009 by New York Quarterly Books. Another collection, The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, appeared in 2011 from Black Lawrence Press. Poetry has appeared in many anthologies, including Birthday Poems: A Celebration, Western Wind, and Contemporary Poetry of New England. Nominated for four Pushcarts and has appeared in Verse Daily. Poems and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines, including: Poetry, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Yankee, Hayden’s Ferry, Columbia, and North American Review. SLC, 1991–

BA, Dartmouth College. MFA, Columbia University. Author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Latest novel, The Border of Truth (Counterpoint, 2007), weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter’s awakening to the history and secrets of her father’s survival and loss. Loverboy (Graywolf, 2001/Harcourt, 2002) was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Lover-boy was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Most recent collection of poems, Swoon (University of Chicago Press, 2003), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. SLC, 1996–

BA, Hampshire College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Author of short-story collection, See Through; fiction in magazines and journals, including Bomb, Post Road, McSweeney’s, Nerve, and Black Book, as well as in the anthologies 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Lost Tribe: New Jewish Fiction from the Edge, Found Magazine’s Requiem for a Paper Bag, and Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative (forthcoming). Recipient of a Henfield Prize in 1995, a UAS Explorations Prize in 1997, and a Rotunda Gallery Emerging Curator grant for work with fiction and art in 2001. Codirector of Pratt Institute’s Writers’ Forum, 2005-present; curator of Barbes reading series, Brooklyn; founder and president, Dainty Rubbish record company. SLC, 2002–

Author of four poetry collections: The Beds, Mother Quiet, Perfect Disappearance (winner of the 2000 Green Rose Prize, New Issues Press), and At the Gate. Poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, AGNI, Fence, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and other journals. Anthologized in The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia University Press) and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (University Press of New England), among others. Directs the Frost Place Festival and Conference on Poetry each summer.  Teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Founding editor and director of Four Way Books. SLC, 2005-

BA, University of Michigan. MS, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. MFA, Yale School of Drama. Fiction writer, critic, editor, playwright; author of the novel The Ticket Out and editor of anthologies Great American Love Stories, World Treasury of Love Stories, and The Eloquent Short Story: Varieties of Narration; reviews and articles published in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune Book World, Ms., Saturday Review, The New York Times Book Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review; plays produced at Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theatre Center, Waterford, Connecticut; recipient, Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing; served on Book-of-the-Month Club’s Editorial Board of judges and as the Club’s senior editorial adviser. SLC, 1988–

David Ryan earned his BA from University of Massachusetts and his MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. His fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Fence, Unsaid, BOMB, Tin House, several Mississippi Review Prize Issues, Denver Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, Nerve, Salt Hill, Cimarron Review, and Hobart, among others. His fiction has been anthologized in Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton); Boston Noir 2: the Classics (Akashic Books); and The Mississippi Review: 30 Years, and elsewhere. His essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, BOMB, BookForum, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Fiction (Oxford University Press), and others. He's the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a Connecticut state arts grant, and is a founding editor of the literary magazine, Post Road, where he currently edits the Fiction and Theatre sections.

BA, Oberlin College. MFA, Columbia University. Author of Wild Kingdom and The Long Meadow (poetry collections); former editor at The New Yorker; essayist and book reviewer for The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, and various literary quarterlies; recipient of the James Laughlin Prize of the Academy of American Poets, MacDowell Colony’s Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement, The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellowship, and area studies fellowships from Columbia University. SLC, 1998–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, New York University. Author of two story collections, Ideas of Heaven (finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize) and In My Other Life, and four novels, The Size of the World, Lucky Us, In the City, and Household Words; winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award; short stories anthologized in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, The Story Behind the Story, The O. Henry Prize Stories (2007 and 2003), and two Pushcart Prize collections. Recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. SLC, 1985–

BA, Brown University. MFA, Columbia University. Author of the short-story collection, Voodoo Heart (Dial Press). Stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Epoch, Tin House, and One Story, among other journals. SLC, 2006–

Biography: Martha Southgate is the author of four novels. Her newest, The Taste of Salt, was published in September 2011 and was named one of the best novels of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Boston Globe. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.  Her essay “Writers Like Me,” published in the New York Times Book Review, appears in the anthology Best African-American Essays 2009.  Previous non-fiction articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, Entertainment Weekly, and Essence. www.marthasouthgate.com ; Twitter: @mesouthgate, SLC, 2013-

BA, Vassar College. MA, Middlebury College. Editor at The New Yorker, 1992-2002. Book editor, 2001-present. Book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vogue, The New York Review of Books. Edited books include Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Mostly True by Molly O’Neill, Aftermath by Joel Meyerowitz, The Surrender by Toni Bentley, Send by William Schwalbe and David Shipley, King’s Gambit by Paul Hoffman, and Violent Partners by Linda Mills. SLC, 2004–

BA, MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Fiction writer and essayist; recipient of fellowships and grants from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hall Farm Center for Arts, and In Our Own Write. Winner of I.O.W.W. Emerging Artist Award; and finalist for the Henfield and American Fiction Awards and Pushcart Prize. SLC, 1996–