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Christine
Schutt is the
author of A Day, A Night, Another
Day, Summer,
the novel Florida,
a
finalist for the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction;
and Nightwork,
a collection
of short stories chosen by poet John Ashbery
as the best
book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement.
Her most recent novel, All Souls, was published in
spring of 2008.
She has twice won an O. Henry
Prize, as
well
as a Pushcart
Prize,
and is the recipient of a New York Foundation of the
Arts fellowship.
Philip
Terman’s
collections of poems include The
House of
Sages,
Book
of the Unbroken Days, Greatest
Hits and Rabbis of
the Air.
His poems and essays have appeared
in The
Georgia Review, Poetry,
The Kenyon Review, The New England
Review, The
Gettysburg Review,
Tikkun,
and other journals.
He teaches at Clarion University
and co-directs
the Chautauqua Writers’
Festival at the Chautauqua Institute.
Gerald
Locklin
is
the author of over 125 books, chapbooks, and broadsides of poetry,
fiction,
and
criticism, with over 3000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and
interviews
published
in periodicals. His most recent books and chapbooks include
Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems, and
The
Cezanne/Pissarro Poems.
His
writings are archived by the Special Collections of the California State
University
at
Long Beach library.
He
has resumed (with his son, Zachary Locklin) co-editing the poetry for Chiron Review
and
will serve as fiction
editor of Shaya magazine. He
publishes regularly in 5:00 AM,
Ambit (London), Tears in the Fence
(Dorset), Poetry International, New York Quarterly,
Storie (Rome), Nerve
Cowboy, Slipstream, Freefall, Coagula Art Journal,
Home Planet News; The Ragged
Edge, and many other periodicals.
His
Collected
Poems will be published by William Roetzheim’s Level Four
Press in Spring,
2009.
Locklin
is currently a Lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing
Program at
the
University of Southern California and a Professor Emeritus of
English at
California
State University, Long Beach, where he taught from 1965
through 2007.
Jan
Beatty's
latest book, Red Sugar, was published by The
University of Pittsburgh Press in
Spring 2008. Her other books include Boneshaker
and Mad River,
winner
of the 1994
Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Ravenous,
her limited edition chapbook,
won
the 1995 State Street Prize.
Beatty’s
poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, Gulf
Coast, Indiana Review, and Court Green.
For
the past 13 years, she has hosted
and produced Prosody, a public radio show on NPR-affiliate WYEP-FM
featuring
the work of national writers. Beatty directs the creative writing
program at
Carlow University, where
she runs the Madwomen in the Attic writing
workshops
and teaches in the MFA program.
Bill
Deasy is
both a singer/songwriter and a novelist.
The
former lead
singer/songwriter of the Gathering Field,
Deasy has gone on to a successful
solo career.
His latest CD is The Miles.
All Music Guide says:
"Sensitive
singer/songwriters are a dime a dozen, but really good ones are a
rarity.
Bill
Deasy is the real deal." Deasy has appeared as an opening act for
artists such
as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Patty Griffin, John Mellencamp and
Norah
Jones.
In August of 2006, he released
his first novel, Ransom Seaborn,
which went on to receive the 2006 Needle Award.
