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Fred Leebron, fiction, director Fred Leebron, program director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte, is also a professor of English at Gettysburg College, and a former director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His novels include Six Figures, In the Middle of All This, and Out West. He has received a Pushcart Prize, Michener Award, Stegner Fellowship, and O. Henry Award. He is co-editor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology and co-author of Creating Fiction: A Writer's Companion. The independent production of Six Figures premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, and he is currently at work on another film project. |
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Pinckney Benedict, fiction Pinckney Benedict grew up in rural West Virginia. He has published a novel and three collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is Miracle Boy and Other Stories. His work has been published in, among other magazines and anthologies, Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, the O. Henry Award series, the Pushcart Prize series, the Best New Stories from the South series, The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction, and The Oxford Book of the American Short Story. He is the recipient of two Transatlantic Review awards, a Michener Fellowship, and the Nelson Algren Award. He has received grants from, among others, the West Virginia Arts Council, the Illinois Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Benedict is a professor in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. |
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Keetje Kuipers, all forms Keetje Kuipers earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her M.F.A. at the University of Oregon. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts, and Soapstone. In 2007, she was the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. She used her residency to complete work on her book, Beautiful in the Mouth, which was awarded the 2009 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was published by BOA Editions. It contains poems previously published in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Willow Springs, and AGNI, among others. You can also listen to her read her work – which has been nominated five years in a row for the Pushcart Prize – at the online audio archive From the Fishouse. Keetje has taught writing at the University of Montana, and was most recently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Keetje is currently the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. |
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Nicolas Lantz, poetry Nick Lantz is the author of two books of poetry—We Don’t Know We Don’t Know and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House — with a third book, How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance, due out from Graywolf in 2014. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, as well as the Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, the Council for Wisconsin Writers Posner Award, and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Larry Levis Reading Prize. His poems have appeared in journals such as Mid-American Reviews, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, and Gulf Coast. He has taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, Gettysburg College, Queens University’s Low-Residency M.F.A., and at Franklin & Marshall College. |
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James McKean, creative nonfiction James McKean writes poems and nonfiction. He has published two books of poems, Headlong and Tree of Heaven. Headlong won a 1987 Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writer Award, and Tree of Heaven won a 1994 Iowa Poetry Award. His latest poetry manuscripts, We Are the Bus, won this year’s 2011 X.J. Kennedy poetry prize and will be published in the fall of 2012 by Texas Review Press. His nonfiction has appeared in magazines and collections such as The Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, and The Best American Sports Writing 2003, and has received a Pushcart Prize. His latest book is a collection of essays titled Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports. He is professor emeritus at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and teaches in the M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte. |
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Thorpe Moeckel, advanced poetry Thorpe Moeckel teaches in the English and creative writing program at Hollins University. His work has appeared in Field, Open City, The Antioch Review, Poetry Daily, Orion, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. He is the author of three books of poems -- Odd Botany, Making a Map of the River, and Venison: a poem. Chapbooks include Meltlines and The Guessing Land. His poetry is featured in the anthologies, Field Work: Modern Poems from Eastern Forests, edited by Erik Reece and From the Fishouse. |
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Daniel Mueller, fiction and creative nonfiction Daniel Mueller's collection of stories, How Animals Mate won the Sewanee Fiction Prize. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Story, Story Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Crescent Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Prairie Schooner, CutBank, Cincinnati Review, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Henfield Foundation, University of Virginia, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He teaches on the creative writing faculties of University of New Mexico and the low-residency M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte. |
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Laura van den Berg, fiction |
