The author of the acclaimed memoir Poor Your Soul (Soho Press 2016) and The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna (Liveright 2019), Mira Ptacin has written for NPR, Guernica, New York, Tin House, and …
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Peg Alford Pursell
In A Girl Goes into the Forest (Dzanc Books, 2019), award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell illuminates the many faces of love and loss in 78 cross-genre stories and fables. Each hybrid flash immerses readers in the complex desires and …
Harold Jaffe
Harold Jaffe is the author of 28 books, as well as many shorter works in Best American Short Stories, Chicago Review, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, among other venues. He has won two NEA grants in fiction and two Fulbright …
Sister Helen Prejean
Anti-death penalty advocate and author of Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean is the rock star of nuns. At least that is how I think of her. We met years ago through a personal connection and have been close …
Gordon Lish
“I believe that we all want to stick out in the world,” Gordon Lish once said, “that the least of us has a profound impulse to distinguish himself from everyone else.” “Sticking out” is the least of Gordon Lish’s accomplishments. …
Scott McWaters
With Abraham Smith, Scott McWaters is co-author of Tuskaloosa Kills, a book of lyrical prose about living and teaching in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His fiction has appeared in many journals, including Caketrain, Carolina Quarterly, New Orleans Review, NANO Fiction, …
Taylor Mali
Taylor Mali has authored three collections of poetry: What Learning Leaves, The Last Time as We Are, and Bouquet of Red Flags. He received the 2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize for The Whetting Stone and the 2017 Quercus Review …
Nathacha Appanah
Nathacha Appanah is a Mauritian-French author of several novels. At present, four of these have been translated into English from the original French: Waiting for Tomorrow, The Last Brother, and Tropic of Violence (forthcoming) were translated by Geoffrey …
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen, the Vietnamese-American author and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, was a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2017. His works include The Sympathizer, which was awarded …
Luisa Valenzuela
The Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela has published more than thirty books, among which are novels, short story collections, flash fiction, and essays. Widely translated, Valenzuela is the recipient of a number of awards, including a Fulbright and a Guggenheim. She …
