Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria. Her first
novel,
Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize
and
the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the Booker. Her
short
fiction has won the 2003 O. Henry Prize and has appeared in various
literary
publications, including Granta and the Iowa Review. She is a
2005/2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and divides her
time
between the United States and Nigeria. Her second novel, Half of a
Yellow
Sun, will be published in September 2006.
Aimee Bender is the author of three books, most recently the
story collection
Willful Creatures. Her short fiction has been published in
Granta, GQ, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Tin House, and other
publica-
tions and has been heard on Public Radio International’s This
American
Life. She lives in Los Angeles.
Judy Budnitz’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker,
Harper’s, Story,
The Paris Review, the Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Fence,
and
McSweeney’s. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize, and her
debut
collection, Flying Leap, was a New York Times Notable Book in
1998.
Budnitz is also the author of the novel If I Told You Once, which
won the
Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and was shortlisted for the Orange
Prize in
Britain. Her most recent book is the collection Nice Big American
Baby.
She lives in San Francisco.
Jennifer S. Davis is the author of Her Kind of Want, winner
of the
2002 Iowa Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction has appeared in
such
magazines as the Oxford American, The Paris Review, Grand Street,
and
One Story. Her new collection of short stories, Our Former Lives in
Art,
is forthcoming from Random House in spring 2007.
Jennifer Egan is the author of the novels The Invisible
Circus and
Look at Me, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in
2001,
and a short-story collection, Emerald City. Her short stories have
appeared
in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and McSweeney’s, among other
publications. Also a journalist, she writes frequently for The New
York
Times Magazine. Her new novel, The Keep, will be published in
August
2006.
Carolyn Ferrell is the author of the short-story collection
Don’t
Erase Me, which won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction,
the
John C. Zacharis First Book Award, given by Ploughshares, and the
New
Voices Award from Quality Paperback Book Club. Her stories have
been
published in several anthologies, including The Best American Short
Stories
of the Century, edited by John Updike, and Children of the
Night:
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present,
edited by
Gloria Naylor. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
fellowship,
Ferrell teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in the
Bronx
with her husband and two children.
Mary Gordon’s novels include Pearl, Spending, The Company
of
Women, The Rest of Life, and The Other Side. She is also the author
of the
memoir The Shadow Man, among other works of nonfiction. She has
received
a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship,
and the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story. She teaches at Barnard
College
and lives in New York City.
Cristina Henríquez is the author of the short-story
collection Come
Together, Fall Apart. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’
Workshop,
and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares,
Glimmer
Train, TriQuarterly, and AGNI. She was featured in Virginia
Quarterly
Review as one of “Fiction’s New Luminaries.” She lives in Dallas
with
her husband.
Samantha Hunt is a writer and artist from New York. She is
the author
of The Seas and the forthcoming novel The Invention of Everything
Else.
Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Cabinet,
and
Seed Magazine and have been heard on Public Radio International’s
This
American Life. Hunt teaches writing at the Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn.
Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of two story collections,
Married
Life and History on a Personal Note, and five novels, On
Mermaid
Avenue, Pure Poetry, A Disturbance in One Place, Hester Among
the
Ruins, and An Almost Perfect Moment. She is a professor at
Columbia
University, Graduate School of the Arts.
Dika Lam was born in Canada and lives in Brooklyn. She was a
New
York Times Fellow in the MFA program at New York University, and
her
work has appeared in Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999,
Story,
One Story, Failbetter.com, and elsewhere. The first chapter of her
novel-in-
progress won the 2005 Bronx Writers’ Center Chapter One
contest.
Caitlin Macy is the author of the novel The Fundamentals of
Play and
is at work on a collection of short stories. Her short fiction has
appeared
in The New Yorker and she is the recipient of a 2005 O. Henry
Prize. She
lives with her family in London.
Francine Prose is the author of fourteen books of fiction,
including,
most recently, A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist
for
the National Book Award. Her nonfiction includes the national
bestseller
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They
Inspired
and Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles. Her next book, Reading Like
a
Writer, will be out in summer 2006 from HarperCollins. A recipient
of
numerous grants and awards, among them Guggenheim and Fulbright
fellowships, Prose was a Director’s Fellow at the Center for
Scholars and
Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in New York
City.
Holiday Reinhorn lives in Los Angeles. Her debut collection
of short
stories, Big Cats, was named one of the best books of 2005 by the
San
Francisco Chronicle. She is a recipient of the Tobias Wolff Award
for Fiction
and a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Creative
Writing
Institute at the University of Wisconsin/Madison. Reinhorn’s
stories
have appeared in Zoetrope, Tin House, Ploughshares, and
Columbia,
among other publications. She is currently at work on a novel.
Roxana Robinson is the author of seven books: three novels,
three
short-story collections, and a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Her
most
recent book is the collection A Perfect Stranger. Robinson was
named a
Literary Lion by the New York Public Library and has received
fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim
Foundation. Four of her books were named Notable Books of the
Year
by The New York Times. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,
The
Atlantic, Harper’s, One Story, Daedalus, Best American Short
Stories,
The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City
and
teaches at the New School.
Curtis Sittenfeld’s first novel, Prep, was a national
bestseller. Chosen
as one of the Ten Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, it
will
be published in twenty-three foreign countries, and its film rights
have
been optioned by Paramount Pictures. Her second novel, The Man
of
My Dreams, was published by Random House in May 2006.
Sittenfeld’s
nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon,
Allure,
Glamour, and on Public Radio International’s This American
Life.
Lynne Tillman’s last novel, No Lease on Life, was a finalist
for the National
Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and a New York Times
Notable
Book of the Year. Her most recent book is This Is Not It, a
collection of
stories and novellas. Her new novel American Genius: A Comedy will
be
published by Soft Skull Press in October 2006. Tillman is a fellow
of the
New York Institute of the Humanities and a recent recipient of
a
Guggenheim Fellowship.
Martha Witt is the author of the novel Broken as Things Are.
Her short
fiction and translations are included in the anthologies Post-War
Italian
Women Writers and The Literature of Tomorrow. She is a recipient
of
a Thomas J. Watson Traveling Fellowship, a Spencer Fellowship,
a
Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, and a New York Times Fellowship, as
well
as residencies at the Yaddo and Ragdale artist colonies. Originally
from
Hillsborough, North Carolina, she now lives in New York City with
her
husband and two children
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