David Jauss is the author of two short story collections, Black Maps and Crimes of Passion; two collections of poems, Improvising Rivers and You Are Not Here; a collection of essays on the craft of fiction, Alone With All That Could Happen; and a monograph on finishing a work of art, “A Crack in Everything: How We Know What’s Done Is Done.” He has also edited three anthologies: Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (co-edited by Philip Dacey); The Best of Crazyhorse: Thirty Years of Poetry and Fiction; and Words Overflown by Stars, a collection of craft essays by past and present faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program. His fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and have been reprinted in such anthologies as Best American Short Stories; Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards; The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (twice published); The Pushcart Book of Stories: Best Stories from the First 25 Years of the Pushcart Prize; and The Poetry Anthology, 1912–2002, among others. The recipient of the AWP Award for Short Fiction, the Fleur-de-Lis Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a James A. Michener Fellowship, among other awards, he teaches at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His website is www.davidjauss.com. |
Sue William Silverman’s most recent book is Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir. Her memoirs include Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction (W. W. Norton), whichis also a Lifetime television movie, and Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You,which won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award in creative nonfiction. One of her essays appears in The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction: From 1970 to the Present, while others won contests with Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, and Water~Stone Review. Her poetry collection is Hieroglyphics in Neon (Orchises). As a professional speaker, Sue has appeared on The View, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, and a documentary on WE TV. Sue Silverman teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. For more information, please visit www.suewilliamsilverman.com. |
Nance Van Winckel is the author of five books of poetry, including her most recent, No Starling (University of Washington, 2007), and After a Spell (Miami University, 1998), which received the Washington State Governor's Award for Poetry. She has also published three books of short stories, most recently Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2001). Her short story collection Quake (University of Missouri, 1998) received the 1998 Paterson Fiction Prize. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Poetry, the American Poetry Review, the 2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Gettysburg Review, Field, Volt, the Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, the Southern Review, AGNI, the Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, the Georgia Review, and Colorado Review. Nance has received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, Poetry's Friends of Literature Award, Prairie Schooner's 2007 Edward Stanley Award, two Washington State Artist Trust Awards, a Society of Midland Authors Award, and awards from the Poetry Society of America. Nance also received a 2005 Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship for a work in progress. Nance has taught in the MFA in Writing Program at Eastern Washington University since 1990 and served as editor of the literary journal Willow Springs from 1990 until 1996. She has also taught in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program since 1999. In addition, she does some private manuscript consulting work. Her website is www.nancevanwinckel.com. Nance lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband, visual artist Rik Nelson. |
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