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Dr. Rudolph P. Byrd is the Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Department of African American Studies, and the founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University. He was educated at Lewis & Clark College, where he earned his B.A., and Yale University, where he earned his M.A. M.Phil, and Ph.D. He is the author and editor of six books, including Generations in Black and White. |
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Thomas Beller is author of two works of fiction Seduction Theory, and The Sleep-Overt Artist, and a collection of personals essays, How to be a Man, all from W.W. Norton. His work has been translated in several languages, and the Sleep-Over Artist was a NY Times Notable Book. A former staff writer at the New Yorker Magazine and the Cambodia Daily, his fiction and essays have been re-printed in several anthologies. He divides his time between New Orleans, where he teaches creative writing at Tulane University, and New York City. |
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Elizabeth Nunez, PhD, is a writer and Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY and the award-winning author of six novels: Prospero's Daughter; Grace; Discretion; Bruised Hibiscus; Beyond the Limbo Silence; and When Rocks Dance. Her most recent novel Prospero's Daughter was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, the 2006 Novel of the Year for Black Issues Book Review and the 2006 Florida Center for the Literary Arts One Book, One Community book selection. Nunez is co-editor with Jennifer Sparrow of the anthology Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad. Co-founder of the National Black Writers Conference and director for fourteen years, Nunez is executive producer of the 2004 NY Emmy-nominated CUNY TV series Black Writers in America. |
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Francine Prose is the author of more than twenty books. Her thirteen novels include Blue Angel, which was nominated for a 2000 National Book Award. Her most recent novels are Goldengrove, and A Changed Man. She has also written Sicilian Odyssey, a travel book, The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired., Gluttony, a meditation on a deadly sin, and Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles, a brief biography of the artist. Other books include Hunters and Gatherers, Bigfoot Dreams and Primitive People, two story collections, and a collection of novellas, Guided Tours of Hell. She has also written five children's books, three young adult novels, and co-translated three volumes of fiction. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. Her stories, reviews and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Art News, The Yale Review, The New Republic, and numerous other publications. From 2007-2009 she was President of PEN American Center, and she is currently a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bard College. She is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine and Bomb magazine, and writes regularly on art for The Wall Street Journal. The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 1989 Fulbright fellowship to the former Yugoslavia, two NEA grants, a PEN translation prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Edith Wharton Lifetime Achievement Award. |
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Patricia Towers has just retired as the features director at O, the Oprah Magazine, where she has edited books and feature pieces since 2001. She serves as vice chairman of the artists' colony Yaddo and is on the faculty of the Writers' Institute of the City University of New York. Mrs. Towers began her editorial career at Time magazine, was a founding editor of Vanity Fair and of the weekly magazine Seven Days, which won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. |
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