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...YOUR TEACHERS & COUNSELORS?

Daniel Alarcón's'story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, and the British journal Granta recently named him one of the Best Young American Novelists. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship (2001), a Whiting Award (2004), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007). He lives in Oakland, California, and his first novel Lost City Radio was published in February 2007

Austin Bunn’s fiction has been published in One Story, American Short Fiction, Salt Hill, and Best American Fantasy. His non-fiction has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Village Voice, and Best American Science and Nature Writing. His plays have been developed at The New Harmony Project, the Playwrights’ Center, and the Playwrights’ Theatre of New Jersey. He is the current Axton Fellow in fiction at the University of Louisville, where he teaches creative writing.

Arda Collins's poems are forthcoming or have previously appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The American Poetry Review, The Canary, and GutCult, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in New York City.

Michelle Falkoff teaches Legal Analysis, Writing & Research at the University of Iowa College of Law.

Amy Hassinger's second novel, The Priest's Madonna, was published by Putnam Adult in 2006. A Book Sense Notable pick, The Priest's Madonna is being translated into Dutch, Spanish, Russian, and Indonesian.

Nate Hoks has recently published poems in Octopus Magazine, Crazyhorse, Pilot Magazine and Verse Daily. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and teaches English at Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. He finds spelling Massachusetts very difficult.

Rebecca Johns's first novel, Icebergs, was published by Bloomsbury USA in 2006. Icebergs opens with a stunning plane crash on Newfoundland's Labrador coast and broadens into a multigenerational story of love, war, and fate. Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, calls Icebergs "An enormous and breathtaking debut novel." Rebecca lives in Iowa City.

Sally Keith has published two books of poetry, Dwelling Song and design, the latter of which won the Colorado Prize for Poetry in 2000. She teaches poetry at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Kristin Kelly's work has appeared in Canary Review, Samsara Quarterly, Northwest Review, Verse Daily, and Black Warrior Review. She has poems forthcoming in Court Green and the tiny. She lives in Iowa City.

Danny Khalastchi's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Court Green, Octopus Magazine, The New Hampshire Review, Fairy Tale Review, Sonora Review, and GutCult. A recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he currently teaches at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

Justin Kramon's stories appear in Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, and Boulevard, among other magazines. He is a 2006-2007 recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, and he teaches at the Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City. His story "A Final Peace" will appear in the fall 2007 issue of Fence.

Joshua Kryah's poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Verse, among other journals. His first collection of poems, Glean, won the Nightboat Books 2005 poetry prize. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in UNLV's University College.

Nam Le's stories have appeared in several anthologies including Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best Australian Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthology. His debut collection of short stories, The Boat, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in May 2008. He is currently the 2007-2008 George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy

Dora Malech teaches poetry at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand. Her poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Poetry, and No Tell Motel. She is the author of Inside and Elsewhere, a collection of poems.

Peyton Marshall's short story "Bunnymoon" was selected for the anthology Best New American Voices 2004.

Aaron McCollough's third book of poems, Little Ease, was released in 2006 by Ahsahta Press. His other books include Double Venus (Salt, 2003) and Welkin (Ahsahta, 2002). McCollough lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the editor of the online poetry magazine GutCult.

Kevin Moffett's first collection of stories, Permanent Visitors, was published in October 2006. His stories have received the Nelson Algren Award and the Pushcart Prize, and have appeared in McSweeney's, StoryQuarterly, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. “Tattooizm,” originally published in Tin House, appears in The Best American Short Stories 2006. He teaches at Cal State University, San Bernadino.

Paula Morris's first novel, Queen of Beauty, was published in 2002. The New Zealand Herald called Queen of Beauty "a stunning debut novel...a masterful work." Her second novel, Hibiscus Coast, a literary thriller set in Auckland, was published in November 2005 by Penguin Books New Zealand. Her latest novel, Trendy But Casual, was recently published by Penguin.

Thisbe Nissen's latest novel, Osprey Island, was released in paperback in 2005. The Library Journal wrote, of Osprey Island, "Incendiary tensions, fueled by grief, alcoholism, and island insularity, build to levels so intolerable that one has to fight the urge to read with one eye closed even while tearing through the pages toward the shocking conclusion." Thisbe's previous work includes The Good People of New York, a novel, and a short-story collection, Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night. She is also the co-author, with Erin Ergenbright, of The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook. Thisbe is currently the Fanny Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Alex Ruskell is the Associate Director of Academic Support at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Lewis Robinson's first collection, Officer Friendly and Other Stories, winner of the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award, was published in paperback by Random House in 2004. He received a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2003. His stories have appeared in several anthologies. He teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.

Anjali Sachdeva's stories have been published in Northern Woman, Pittsburgh City Paper, and various regional publications, and included in the anthology The Barefoot Nuns of Barcelona and Other Stories. In 2006-07 she held the Provost's Fellowship at the University of Iowa. Her collection of short stories, Harvest, was a finalist for the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Axton Fellowship at the University of Louisville. She teaches English at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and is currently at work on a novel.

Nina Siegal lives in Amsterdam, where she spent 2007-07 on a Fulbright Fellowship conducting research for a historical novel centered on Rembrandt van Rijn's 1632 masterpiece, "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp." A different novel -- her first, titled A Little Trouble with the Facts -- will be published by Harpercollins in March 2008.

Michelle Taransky's poems appear or are forthcoming in Drunken Boat, La Petite Zine, Court Green, VOLT, canwehaveourballback?, and the anthology The City Visible: Chicago Poetry For The New Century. A chapbook, The Plans Caution, a collaboration with her father, architect Richard Taransky, was recently published by Queue Books. Taransky teaches creative writing at The University of Iowa.

Vu Tran is a Shaeffer Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He won the Lawrence Foundation Prize for the best story to appear in the Michigan Quarterly Review in the calendar year 2004.

Justin Tussing's first novel, The Best People in the World, was published in February 2006 by HarperCollins. A portion of this novel appeared in the Summer 2005 Debut Fiction issue of The New Yorker. Other work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Third Coast, and in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001). Justin is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Trish Walsh spent 2006-7 in Minneapolis, where she was an Associate at Dorsey & Whitney. She is currently clerking for a federal judge in Seattle, Washington.

Malena Watrous has recently published stories in Triquarterly, The Massachussetts Review, and the Alaska Quarterly Review. She is currently working on a novel, and reviews fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Vinnie Wilhelm's fiction has appeared in The Southern Review and Glimmer Train. He most recent story, "The Crying of the Gulls," appears in the Summer 2007 issue of The Mississippi Review.

Antoine Wilson's first novel, The Interloper, was published by Other Press/Handsel Books in Spring 2007. One of his stories, "In Boca," appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of A Public Space.