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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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Anthony Grooms earned a BA in Theatre and Speech from The College of William and Mary and an MFA from George Mason University. Grooms is the author of a collection of poems, Ice Poems (Poetry Atlanta Press, 1988) and of a collection of stories, Trouble No More (La Questa Press, 1995/ Reprint Kennesaw State University Press, 2006). His stories and poems have been published in Callaloo, African American Review, Crab Orchard Review, George Washington Review, and other literary journals and anthologies. His novel, Bombingham (The Free Imprint, 1963), is set against the activism for and resistance against civil rights in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. He is a two-time recipient of the Lillian Smith Prize for Fiction, a finalist for the Legacy Award from Hurston-Wright Foundation, and has won the Sokolov Scholarship from the Breadloaf Writing Conference. Since 1995, he has been a professor of Creative Writing at Kennesaw State University near Atlanta, Georgia. |
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She is the Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. Dr. Nunez is the author of eight novels. Boundaries (Akashic Books, 2011), her most recent novel, was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice. Anna In-Between (Akashic Books, 2009) received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal and was New York Times Editors' Choice. She was awarded the 2011 Barnes and Noble Poets and Writers Award. She is co-founder of the National Black Writers Conference. |
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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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