CHARLES BAXTER is the author of three books of short fiction: Harmony of the World, Through the Safety Net, and A Relative Stranger. His novels are First Light and Shadow Play, and he has also written a book of poems, Imaginary Paintings. He has received grants from the NEA, Guggenheim Foundation, and Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Awards. He has taught at Wayne State University and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and is currently on the faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
MICHAEL COLLIER, director of the Conference, has published three collections of poetry, The Clasp and Other Poems , The Folded Heart, and The Neighbor, and has edited The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. He has received a Thomas Watson Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, a "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Antaeus, The Nation, The New Republic , and Poetry. Mr. Collier has taught at Yale University, The Johns Hopkins University, and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College; he is currently on the English and writing faculty at the University of Maryland. Mr. Collier was the recipient of a 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship.
CORNELIUS EADY is the author of five books of poetry: Kartunes, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, The Gathering of My Name, The Autobiography of a Jukebox, and You Don't Miss Your Water (forthcoming). He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award.
He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Sweet Briar College, and is currently Director of The Poetry Center at SUNY, Stony Brook.
JORIE GRAHAM is the author of five books of poems: Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts, Erosion, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness, and Materialism. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Antaeus, The Yale Review, Three Penny Review, and Grand Street. She has received fellowships from the NEA, Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. She is a member of the faculty of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
PATRICIA HAMPL is the author of A Romantic Education, Woman before an Aquarium, Resort and Other Poems, Spillville, and, most recently, Virgin Time. Her short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Antaeus, American Poetry Review, and The New York Times Book Review. She has received Guggenheim, Bush, Ingram Merrill, and NEA Fellowships. Ms. Hampl was a resident fellow at the Bellagio Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, and she was a Fulbright Fellow in Prague in 1995. In 1990 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
EDWARD HIRSCH has published four books of poems: For the Sleepwalkers, Wild Gratitude, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade, and Earthly Measures. His poems and reviews appear regularly in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Times Book Review. He has received Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Award, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He teaches at the University of Houston.
CYNTHIA KADOHATA is the author of two novels, The Floating World and In the Heart of the Valley of Love, which was nominated for a Pen West award. She has received a fellowship from the NEA and a Whiting Writers' Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Grand Street, and The Pennsylvania Review.
HEATHER McHUGH has for the past decade been Milliman Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle, and a core faculty member at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her latest books are Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993 and Partiality.
KEVIN McILVOY has published three novels: A Waltz, The Fifth Station, and Little Peg. The Fifth Station will appear as a 1996 Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie. His fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, Witness, and other magazines. He has received a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship, an NEA Literature Fellowship, the Donald C. Roush Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Burlington Northern Foundation Teaching Award. He has been editor of Puerto del Sol magazine for fifteen years at New Mexico State University where he teaches creative writing, and he is an adjunct faculty member of the Warren Wilson MFA Creative Writing Program.
REGINALD McKNIGHT is the author of two collections of stories, Moustapha's Eclipse and The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, and a novel, I Get on the Bus. He has been awarded the Drue Heinz and O'Henry short story prizes and has received fellowships from the Thomas Watson Foundation and the NEA. He has taught at the Unviersity of Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University, and in the Bennington College M.F.A. program. He currently teaches at the University of Maryland at College Park.
PABLO MEDINA is on the faculty of of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and is visiting professor of English at Hunter College in New York City. His books include Pork Rind and Cuban Songs, Arching into the Afterlife (poetry); Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood (essays); Everyone Will Have to Listen (with Carolina Hospital, translations of the work of Tania Diaz Castro); and a novel, The Marks of Birth. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Iguana Dreams, Visions of America, Seneca Review and The Antioch Review. He has received awards from the Oscar B. Cintas Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the NEA.
VALERIE MINER's novels include A Walking Fire, Winter's Edge, Blood Sisters, Movement, All Good Women, and Murder in the English Department. She is also the author of Trespassing and Other Stories and Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews and Reportage. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, and The New York Times Book Review. Ms. Miner has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, PEN, the McKnight Foundation and the Australia Council Literary Arts Board. She teaches at the University of Minnesota.
C. E. POVERMAN is Acting Director of Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. He has been a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship at Universal Studios. His first collection of stories, The Black Velvet Girl, won the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction; his second collection, Skin, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His work has appeared in The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories and Pushcart Prize Anthology, and he has received two NEA grants.
FRANCINE PROSE is the author of nine novels, including Bigfoot Dreams, Primitive People, and, most recently, Hunters and Gatherers, as well as two story collections: Women and Children First and The Peaceable Kingdom. Her stories and essays have appeared in Best American Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Yale Review, The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic. She has received Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, a PEN/Book of the Month Translation Award, and was a Fulbright Writer-in-Residence in the former Yugoslavia. Ms. Prose has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and The University of Utah. A film based on her novel Household Saints,was released in 1993.
ALBERTO RIOS's most recent book is Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses. Other books include The Lime Orchard Woman, The Warrington Poems, Five Indiscretions, The Iguana Killer, and Whispering to Fool the Wind. He is the recent recipient of the Arizona Governor's Arts Award, and has received Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award in Fiction, Pushcart Prizes, and inclusion in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Mr. Rios teaches at Arizona State University. Forthcoming is a new book of short stories, Pig Cookies.
HELEN SCHULMAN is the author of Not a Free Show (short stories) and Out of Time (novel). Her stories, reviews and articles have been published in The Antioch Review, The North American Review, Elle, and Los Angeles Times. She has taught at New York University, Bard College, Emory University, Bennington College, and is currently a faculty member of the Graduate Writing Division at Columbia University.
JOANNA SCOTT is the author of three novels: Fading, My Parmacheene Belle, The Closest Possible Union, and Arrogance; forthcoming is Various Antidotes, a collection of short fiction. Her work has appeared in Paris Review, Antaeus, and The Yale Review. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Hinda and Richard Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at the University of Rochester.
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT has published four volumes of poetry: Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, and Two Trees; her fifth book, Kyrie, is forthcoming. A graduate of Converse College, where she later received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree, and of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshops, she founded and directed the nation's first low-residencey MFA Writing Program at Goddard College in Vermont and teaches in its relocated incarnation at Warren Wilson College. Ms. Voigt has also taught at Iowa, Wesleyan College, M.I.T, and at the Aspen, Bread Loaf, Indiana, Napa, and Tucson Writers' Conferences. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Nation. She has received two Pushcart Prizes, the Emily Clark Balch Award, and the 1993 Hanes Poetry Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She has been awarded NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, and she was a 1993 Lila Wallace/Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
ALEC WILKINSON has written five books. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and a Lyndhurst Prize. Since 1980, he has been a writer on the staff of The New Yorker.
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS is Naturalist-in-Residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City, and her writing reflects her intimate relationship with the natural world. Her first book, Pieces of Shell: A Journey to Navajoland, received the Southwest Book Award. Her other books are Coyote's Canyon, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Unspoken Hunger, and Desert Quartet (forthcoming). She is a recipient of a Lannan Fellowship in creative nonfiction.
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WILLIAM MAXWELL has published six novels: Bright Center of Heaven, They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, Time Will Darken It, The Chateau and So Long, See You Tomorrow, which won the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is also the author of Over by the River and Other Stories, Billie Dyer and Other Stories and Collected Stories (short stories), Ancestor (memoir), The Outermost Dream (essays) and The Heavenly Tenants (a book for children). For forty years he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. Mr. Maxwell has served as president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and is the recipient of the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal. His most recent book is All the Days and Nights.
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