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2008 fellows and scholars will be posted in early July.

BREAD LOAF FELLOWS 2007

	Sally Ball--Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry Sally Ball is the author of Annus Mirabilis , which received the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry anthology, Boulevard , Ploughshares, Slate, Threepenny Review , and elsewhere. She is the associate director of Four Way Books and a senior lecturer in the MFA program at Arizona State University.
	Sherwin Bitsui--Theodore Morrison Fellowship in Poetry Sherwin Bitsui is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is the Dine of the Todich’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl’izilani (Many Goats Clan). Bitsui holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program and is currently completing his studies at the University of Arizona. He is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Individual Poet Grant, a Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Literary Residency Fellowship, and a Whiting Writers’ Award. Bitsui has published poems in American Poet , Iowa Review , Frank (Paris), Lit Magazine , and elsewhere. His work is also anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century . Shapeshift is Bitsui’s first book.
	Peter Chilson--Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Fiction Peter Chilson’s Disturbance-Loving Species was chosen by Lan Samantha Chang for the 2006 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for fiction. Chilson is also the author of Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa , which won the Associated Writing Programs prize for nonfiction in 1997. His essays, journalism, and short fiction have appeared in Audubon , High Country News , North American Review , American Scholar , Ascent , Clackamas Literary Review , The Long Story , Gulf Coast , Best American Travel Writing , West Africa Magazine , North Dakota Quarterly , and elsewhere. He teaches writing and literature at Washington State University.
	Nan Cohen--Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry Nan Cohen has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her first book is Rope Bridge . Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Tikkun, and other magazines and anthologies. A former Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, she was the 2005-06 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. She is the poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and lives in Los Angeles.
	Matt Donovan--Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry Matt Donovan’s first book of poems, Vellum , was selected by Mark Doty as the winner of the 2006 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry. His poems have appeared in Agni , Poetry , Threepenny Review , Gettysburg Review , and Kenyon Review , among others. In 2004, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He received a MFA from New York University and is currently an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at the College of Santa Fe.
	Camille Dungy--Alan Collins Fellowship in Poetry Camille Dungy, author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison , has received fellowships and awards from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts and The Virginia Commission for the Arts. Dungy is associate professor in the creative writing department at San Francisco State University. She is assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade , published in 2006.
	Pia Z. Ehrhardt--John Farrar Fellowship in Fiction Pia Z. Ehrhardt lives in New Orleans with her husband and son. The recipient of the 2005 Narrative Prize, Ehrhardt’s stories have appeared in McSweeney’s , Mississippi Review , and Narrative Magazine , and have been anthologized in Stories From The Blue Moon Café V and New Sudden Fiction: Short-Shorts From America and Beyond . Famous Fathers & Other Stories is her debut short story collection.
	Stanley Alfred Gazemba--Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellowship Stanley Alfred Gazemba, author of The Stone Hills of Maragoli , was born in Vihiga, Western Kenya, in 1974. Gazemba has participated in the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop, in Noordhoek, Cape Town, and Crossing Borders, a writers’ mentorship program organized by the British Council. A gardener and contributor to Msanii , a magazine for the arts published by Rahimtula Museum of Modern Art, Gazemba lives in Kangemi, Nairobi, with his wife and three-year-old son.
	Matt Hart--John Ciardi Fellowship in Poetry Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collection Who’s Who Vivid and the chapbooks Revelated and Sonnet . His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including Gulf Coast , H_NGM_N, Lungfull! , and Octopus . A co-founder and editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety , he also plays in the bands Travel and The 50 Shoes. He teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
	Ravi Howard--Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Fiction Ravi Howard received an MFA in creative writing in 2001 from the University of Virginia, where he edited Meridian . He graduated from Howard University in 1996. In 2001, Howard received the Hurston-Wright Short Story Award for College Writers for the story Like Trees Walking , published in the anthology Gumbo: A Celebration of African-American Writing . Howard has published work in Callaloo and Massachusetts Review and has recorded commentary for All Things Considered .
	Major Jackson--Amanda Davis Returning Fellowship Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry Hoops and Leaving Saturn , selected by Al Young for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review , Callaloo , Harvard Review , Poetry , and New Yorker . This past spring, he was the Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Major Jackson is a professor of English at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.
	Bret Anthony Johnston--Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellowship in Fiction Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of Corpus Christi: Stories and the editor of the forthcoming anthology Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. In 2006, he received a National Book Award for fiction writers under 35. He is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University.
	Thai Jones--Bread Loaf Fellowship in Nonfiction Thai Jones—author of A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience —used multiple aliases before he reached the age of four. Since then, however, he has been on the up and up. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, he worked as a reporter for Newsday , and is now pursuing a PhD in American History. He lives in Manhattan.
	Ilya Kaminsky--Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry Ilya Kaminsky, born in Odessa, Soviet Union, in 1977, arrived in the United States in 1993. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa , which won a Whiting Writers’ Award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, a Dorset Prize, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Dancing was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year in 2004 by ForeWord Magazine . Kaminsky teaches at San Diego State University.
	Debra Marquart--William Sloan Fellowship in Nonfiction Debra Marquart is the author of The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, which received Elle magazine’s Elle Lettres award and a New York Times Editors’ Choice commendation. Other books include two poetry collections, Everything’s a Verb and From Sweetness , and a short story collection, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories , which draws on her experiences as a female road musician in the 1970s and 1980s. A collaborating member of The Bone People, a jazz-poetry rhythm & blues project, Debra Marquart is a professor of English and the coordinator of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University.
	Emily Mitchell--Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World . Her short fiction has appeared in AGNI , Indiana Review , and is forthcoming in Raritan . She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College, where she was the recipient of the Rost Goldberg Memorial Scholarship. Born in London, Mitchell has lived in Virginia, Vermont, Osaka, New York, and now California. She teaches English at City College of San Francisco.
	Alix Ohlin--Alan Collins Fellowship in Fiction Alix Ohlin is the author of Babylon and Other Stories and The Missing Person . She grew up in Montreal and currently lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she teaches at Lafayette College. Her writing has appeared in Believer , Wilson Quarterly , Best New American Voices 2004 , Best American Short Stories 2005 , and on NPR’s Selected Shorts .
	Linda Busby Parker--Fletcher Pratt Fellowship in Fiction Linda Busby Parker’s novel, Seven Laurels, won the 2002 James Jones First Novel Award and the 2005 Langum Prize for Historical Fiction. Parker was a 2004 Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her short fiction has appeared in Provincetown Arts and Big Muddy, and is forthcoming in Confluence. She reviews books for the San Diego Union Tribune and the Mobile Press Register. She earned her PhD in journalism and mass communication studies at the University of Michigan and her MFA in writing from Spalding University. Parker currently teaches fiction writing at the University of South Alabama.
	Ed Pavlić--Meralmikjen Fellowship in Poetry Ed Pavlić's second book of poems, Labors Lost Left Unfinished , was published in 2007. His forthcoming books are a prose-poetic photo essay, But Here are Small Clear Refractions : Images from Lamu to Pate and Back, and an improvisation based on the life and music of the soul singer Donny Hathaway , Winners Have Yet to Be Announced . His other books are Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue , which won the 2001 American Poetry Review /Honickman First Book Award, and Crossroads Modernism , a study of African-American modernism. For five years, he worked as an itinerant construction laborer. Later, he was the founding, managing editor of The Madison Times , Madison, Wisconsin’s black community's weekly newspaper. He teaches and directs the MFA/PhD Program in Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.
	Benjamin Percy--John Gardner Fellowship in Fiction Benjamin Percy was raised in the high desert of Central Oregon. He is the author of two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk . His fiction has been performed at Symphony Space, read on National Public Radio, and published in Esquire, Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, Chicago Tribune , Glimmer Train , and Missouri Review , among others. His honors include the Plimpton Prize and the Pushcart Prize. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
	Rishi Reddi--Shane Stevens Fellowship in Fiction Rishi Reddi, author of Karma and Other Stories , was born in Hyderabad, India, and grew up in both England and the United States. Her short stories have appeared in Harvard Review , Louisville Review , and Prairie Schooner . In addition to being featured in Best American Short Stories 2005 , her work received an honorable mention in Pushcart Prize 2004 . She now lives in Massachusetts.
	Douglas Trevor--Theodore Morrison Fellowship in Fiction Douglas Trevor’s first collection of short stories, The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space , won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction. His work has appeared in Paris Review , Glimmer Train , and Epoch , among other publications, and has also been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and The O. Henry Prize Stories . Trevor will soon join the English Department at the University of Michigan as an associate professor.
	Danielle Trussoni--Bernard De Voto Fellowship in Nonfiction Danielle Trussoni has written for Tin House , New York Times Book Review , and New York Times Magazine , among other publications. Her first book, Falling Through the Earth , was awarded the 2006 Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award and was chosen as one of The New York Times Best 10 books of 2006.

BREAD LOAF TUITION SCHOLARS 2007

	Samuel Amadon--Carol Houck Smith Scholarship in Poetry Samuel Amadon is the author of two chapbooks, Advice for Young Couples and Goodnight Lung . His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary , American Poetry Review , Boston Review , Denver Quarterly , New England Review , Verse , VOLT , and elsewhere. He received his MFA from Columbia University and a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
	Amanda Auchter--Theodore Morrison Scholarship in Poetry Amanda Auchter is the editor of Pebble Lake Review and the author of the chapbook Light Under Skin . She is the recipient of the 2006 BOMB Magazine Poetry Prize, the 2005 James Wright Poetry Award from Mid-American Review , and the 2005 Milton Kessler Memorial Poetry Prize from Harpur Palate . Her poems have appeared in Iowa Review , Hunger Mountain , Pleiades , Barrow Street , Marlboro Review , AGNI Online , Crab Orchard Review , Best New Poets 2006 , and others. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at Bennington College.
	Paul Austin--B. Frank Vogel Scholar in Nonfiction Paul Austin has worked in emergencies for twenty years: first as a firefighter, and now as an emergency room physician. His nonfiction narratives have been published in Gettysburg Review , Ascent Magazine , Southeast Review , and turnrow . His essay, Tucker Put His Gun to His Head , was listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays of 2006 . A memoir about the way his job almost wrecked his family will be published in July 2008.
	Rebecca Kinzie Bastian--Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in Poetry Rebecca Kinzie Bastian’s work has appeared in a number of journals, including as an honorable mention in the Ellipsis Prize , judged by Claudia Rankine, and most recently in Kalliope , as a finalist in the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest. Born and raised in Sweden, she received an MFA from Vermont College, and currently works as an editor and copywriter in the mountains of Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and two sons.
	Margaret MacInnis--William Raney Scholar in Nonfiction Margaret MacInnis’s nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Alimentum, Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, Literal Latté, Louisville Review , Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review , and Potomac Review. A Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and former writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, MacInnis won first prize in the 2005 Ames Essay Contest and was a finalist in the 2006 Mid-American Review creative nonfiction contest. In 2006, she was a featured reader at The New York Public Library as part of Periodically Speaking: Literary magazine editors introducing emerging writers . She holds an MFA in creative writing from the low residency program at Queens University, and is currently a student in the nonfiction writing program and an instructor of literature at the University of Iowa.
	Thomas H. McNeely--Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in Fiction Thomas H. McNeely, a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, is completing a novel, The Secret World , which as been excerpted in StoryQuarterly . His stories have appeared in Atlantic Monthly , Ploughshares , Epoch , and other magazines, and have been reprinted in textbooks and anthologies, most recently, Best of the South, Vol.II: The Best of the Second Decade of New Stories from the South .
	Carla Panciera--James Kilgo Scholarship in Nonfiction Carla Panciera has published fiction, memoir, and poetry in several journals, including Chattahoochee Review , New England Review , Nimrod , Sycamore Review , Under the Sun , Kalliope , and Painted Bride Quarterly . Her collection of poetry, One of the Cimalores , received the Cider Press Book Award and was published in 2005. She holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire and the graduate writing program at Boston University. She lives in Rowley, MA.
	Jan Pendleton--Bread Loaf Scholarship in Fiction Jan Pendleton has published fiction in New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Noon, StoryQuarterly, Quarterly, and Quarterly West. She lives in Palo Alto, California, and has recently completed a novel.
	Stephanie Reents--Carol Houck Smith Scholarship in Fiction Stephanie Reents, an Idaho native and graduate of Boise High School, has lived in Amherst, Oxford, Tucson, the Upper Haight, and now Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in StoryQuarterly , Epoch , Gulf Coast , Denver Quarterly , and the O. Henry Prize Stories of 2006 . She teaches creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College and is at work on a novel about a young medievalist studying the mystic, Margery Kempe.
	Billy Reynolds--John Ciardi Scholarship in Poetry Billy Reynolds was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and received his PhD in creative writing from Western Michigan University. His poems have appeared in Laurel Review , Mississippi Review , New Orleans Review , and online at DIAGRAM and storySouth . Currently, he lives in Tifton, Georgia, where he is an assistant professor of English at Abraham Baldwin College.
	Suzanne Rivecca--Alan Collins Scholarship in Fiction Suzanne Rivecca grew up in Michigan and now lives in California, where she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford. Her fiction is forthcoming in Harcourt’s Best New American Voices 2008 and has appeared in New England Review, StoryQuarterly, Fence, ACM, Third Coast, Artful Dodge, Journal, and others.
	Stephen Schottenfeld--Bernard O'Keefe Scholarship in Fiction Stephen Schottenfeld is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Halls Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Grant. He is currently an assistant professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis. His stories have appeared in New England Review , TriQuarterly , Virginia Quarterly Review , StoryQuarterly , Iowa Review , Massachusetts Review , Gulf Coast , and other journals.
	Tess Taylor--John Atherton Scholarship in Poetry Tess Taylor’s chapbook, The Misremembered World , was selected by Eavan Boland for the poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship and published by the PSA in 2003. She is the recipient of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Award and the Morton Marr poetry prize from Southwest Review , and has received writing fellowships from Amherst College, The Headlands Institute, and the American Antiquarian Society. Her poems have appeared in Crossroads , Painted Bride Quarterly , Times Literary Supplement , and Literary Imagination ; and her nonfiction and reviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle , Boston Review , Atlantic Online , the New York Times , and New Yorker .
	Sandy Tseng--Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry Sandy Tseng’s poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review , Crazyhorse , Fugue , Hunger Mountain , and Nation , among others. Her work is forthcoming in the anthology, Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves . Tseng is a recipient of a “Discovery”/The Nation Award, Crab Orchard Review 's Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, and the Vira I. Heinz Foundation Fellowship for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and has taught poetry at Duquesne University. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
	Josh Weil--David R. Sokolov Scholarship in Fiction Josh Weil’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in several literary journals, including Granta , New England Review , New Letters , Harpur Palate , and West Branch . He has published nonfiction in Orion , Sage , Guernica , and has a piece coming soon in the New York Times . The recipient of an MFA from Columbia University and the winner of the 2005 Dana Portfolio Award, he recently returned from Egypt, where he spent a year on a Fulbright Grant researching his next novel.

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