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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.

Katherine Bell is Deputy Editor at Harvard Business Digital. Her book, Quilting for Peace, will be published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang in 2009.

Marion Bright was the recipient of a Lakeside Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her story "The Fix" was published by Pine Magazine. She lives in Petoskey, Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and composition.

Suzanne Buffam's first collection of poetry "Past Imperfect," won the League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award for best first book published in 2005. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals including Poetry, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, and The Canary. She lives in Chicago were she serves on the creative writing faculty at the University of Chicago.

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, came out in paperback from Berkeley Books (Penguin) in 2007. She won a 2006 Finalist Award in Prose from the Illinois Arts council. Her essay "On Pests" is due out in Fourth Genre this spring. She teaches in the University of Nebraska's low-residency MFA in writing program.

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 American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, and Canary, among others. Her poem, "Endings," was included in the anthology, Best New Poets 2007. She currently lives in Iowa City.

Danny Khalastchi is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Ninth Letter, Court Green, Octopus Magazine, The New Hampshire Review, Sonora Review, and GutCult, among others. A recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Teaching/Writing Fellow at Augustana College, he currently lectures at Marquette University and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

Justin Kramon's debut novel, Finny, is forthcoming from Random House. He has published stories in Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Boulevard, Fence, and other magazines. His awards include a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, a Hawthornden International Writers' Fellowship, and mention in Best American Short Stories. He has taught at the University of Iowa and the Gotham Writers' Workshop.

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 is currently the fiction editor of the Harvard Review and the David Wong Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He has received, among other awards, the National Book Foundations's "5 Under 35" Award. His debut collection of short stories, The Boat, was published in May 2008.

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.

Stephen Marlowe teaches English at Edison State College in Ohio. He also practices Bankruptcy law in Tipp City, which is the funniest name for a town since Kalamazoo. He will finish his novel soon, he promises.

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 firts novel, Water Dogs, will be published by Random House in January 2009. 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.

Vivien Shotwell is pursuing studies in voice performance at the University of Iowa and working on a historical novel to do with opera. Her short story "Methods of Rest" was published in Esopus magazine in Fall 2006 and will soon be available online at www.esopusmag.com.

Nina Siegal's first novel, A Little Trouble With the Facts, was published in February, 2008 by Harper Collins in New York; it's been translated into Dutch and French. She is currently writing her second novel, which concerns a Rembrandt painting, in Amsterdam. Nina received a 2006-2007 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship in Creative Writing, the Jack Leggett Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Ludwig Vogelstein Grant and MacDowell Colony Fellowships. In July 2008, she became the founding editor of Time Out Amsterdam, which launched in September.

Jared Stanley's chapbook, The Outer Bay, was just published by Trafficker Press. He's on the faculty of the Writing Program at the University of California, Merced, where he curates a reading series called Write! Look! Listen! With Lauren Levin, he edits Mrs. Maybe, a Journal of Skeptical Occultism. Poems have appeared in Conduit, Gutcult, horse less review, Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks, and Zoland Poetry Annual, which paid 25 bucks for a poem.

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.

Catherine Theis is the author of the chapbook, The Maybook, published by Your Beeswax Press. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Court Green, Fence, Gulf Coast, Mrs. Maybe, Northwest Review and Blackbird. She lives in Chicago, where she works as an editor.

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' first novel, Repeat After Me, is coming out from HarperCollins in December 2009. It received a Michener-Copernicus award.

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.