NONFICTION
CLARK BLAISE has published three nonfiction books: Days and Nights in Calcutta and The Sorrow and the Terror (both co-authored with Bharati Mukherjee), and, most recently, I Had a Father: a postmodern autobiography. He is also the author of several novels, including Lunar Attractions and If I Were Me, and the short story collections Man and His World, Resident Alien, and Tribal Justice. He is the recipient of a Great Lakes Colleges Prize, Books in Canada First Novel Award, President's Medal (Canada), and Canada Council, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He has served as director of the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa, and presently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
PATRICIA HAMPL is best known for her memoirs, A Romantic Education and Virgin Time. She has also published two volumes of poetry and Spillville, a prose meditation on Antonin Dvorak's summer in Iowa. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Bush Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships; in 1990 she received a MacArthur Fellowship. She is Regents' Professor and McKnight Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, and she is a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Seminars. She is co-editor of the Iowa Non-Fiction Series from the University of Iowa Press. A new book, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, and a new edition of A Romantic Education will be published this year.
POETRY
MICHAEL COLLIER, director of the Conference, is the author of 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 Guggenheim and Thomas Watson fellowships, 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, Johns Hopkins University, and is currently on the English and writing faculty at the University of Maryland.
TOI DERRICOTTE has published four collections of poetry: Natural Birth, The Empress of the Death House, Captivity, and, most recently, Tender. The Black Notebooks received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for nonfiction and other prizes. Among Ms. Derricotte's many honors are two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; the United Black Artists, USA, Inc, Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award; and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Folger Shakespeare Library Poetry Book Award. She has taught at George Mason and New York Universities, and is presently at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a co-founder of Cave Canem, a workshop retreat for African-American poets.
EDWARD HIRSCH, a 1998 MacArthur Fellow, has published five books of poems: For the Sleepwalkers, Wild Gratitude, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade, Earthly Measures, and, most recently, On Love. His book of prose, How to Read a Poem, will appear this year, along with a collection of essays, Responsive Reading. He writes a column for American Poetry Review, serves as the poetry editor of DoubleTake magazine, and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.
CARL PHILLIPS is the author of three collections of poetry: From the Devotions, nominated for the 1998 National Book Award, Cortège (1995 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist), and In the Blood (winner of the 1992 Morse Poetry Prize). A fourth volume, Pastoral, is forthcoming. Mr. Phillips has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets. He is associate professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University, where he also teaches in the graduate writing program.
ALAN SHAPIRO has published several books of poetry, including Happy Hour, winner of the 1987 William Carlos Williams Award, Covenant, and Mixed Company, winner of the 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Award. His most recent books of prose include The Last Happy Occasion, which was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Vigil. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. He teaches English and creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
JANE SHORE has published three collections of poetry: Eye Level, winner of the 1977 Juniper Prize; The Minute Hand, which received the 1986 Lamont Poetry Prize, and Music Minus One, nominated for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. She has received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and has been both an Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton and a Fellow in Poetry at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute. She presently teaches at George Washington University. Her fourth collection of poems, Happy Family, will be published this year.
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT has published five books of poetry: Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees, and Kyrie (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). She co-edited a collection of essays (Poets Teaching Poets: Self & the World), and a volume of her own craft essays, The Flexible Lyric, is forthcoming. A recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships, she teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at Warren Wilson College.
FICTION
ANDREA BARRETT's most recent book is The Voyage of the Narwhal; her other novels are Lucid Stars, Secret Harmonies, The Middle Kingdom, and The Forms of Water. She is also the author of Ship Fever, a collection of short fiction, which received the 1996 National Book Award. Her stories have appeared in Mademoiselle, Story and other magazines, and have been anthologized. She has received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and currently teaches in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College.
RICHARD BAUSCH's books include the Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America and All The Ships At Sea and In The Night Season, and the story collections Rare & Endangered Species and The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch. The Last Good Time was recently made into a motion picture. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award, and the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was elected in 1995 to the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He teaches at George Mason University. A new collection of stories, Someone to Watch Over Me, is forthcoming.
JENNIFER EGAN is the author of a novel, The Invisible Circus, and a short story collection, Emerald City. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, GQ, and elsewhere. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was a 1996 Guggenheim Fellow. Also a journalist, she is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine.
PERCIVAL EVERETT is the author of eleven books, among them God's Country, Watershed, Big Picture, and Frenzy. He is professor of English at the University of Southern California. His new novel, Glyph, is forthcoming.
MARGOT LIVESEY is the author of a collection of stories, Learning By Heart, and two novels, Homework and Criminals. She grew up in Scotland and has taught in a number of writing programs, including the Warren Wilson MFA program and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She presently teaches at Emerson College in Boston and divides her time between Boston and London. Her new novel is forthcoming.
THOMAS MALLON is the author of five novels: Arts and Sciences, Aurora 7, Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, and the forthcoming Two Moons. He has written nonfiction books about diaries (A Book of One's Own) and plagiarism (Stolen Words), as well as a volume of essays called Rockets and Rodeos. His work appears in Gentlemen's Quarterly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and many other publications. In 1998 he won the National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in reviewing and served as chairman of the fiction judges for the National Book Awards.
BHARATI MUKHERJEE 's novels, which have been widely translated, include Leave It to Me, The Holder of the World, Jasmine, Wife, and The Tiger's Daughter. She has also published two short story collections, Darkness and The Middleman and Other Stories, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award; and two nonfiction works, Days and Nights in Calcutta and The Sorrow and The Terror (both co-authored with Clark Blaise). Several of her novels were Book-of-the-Month Club selections. Ms. Mukherjee is the recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endoment for the Humanities fellowships. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
HOWARD NORMAN is the author of a collection of short stories, Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad and Other Stories, and three novels: The Northern Lights and The Bird Artist, both nominated for the National Book Award, and, most recently, The Museum Guard. He is also the author of The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems from the Swampy Cree Indians, which received the Landon translation prize from the Academy of American Poets. Mr. Norman is the recipient of Whiting and Guggenheim fellowships, and teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park.
C. E. POVERMAN's short fiction has been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize, The O'Henry Award Prize Stories, The Iowa Award: Best Stories from Twenty Years, and Joyce Carol Oates' Telling Stories. His first collection of stories won the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. His second collection, Skin, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship. He teaches fiction and creative writing at the University of Arizona. His fourth novel, On the Edge, will be out in paperback this year.
HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES is the author of The Moths and Other Stories and a novel, Under the Feet of Jesus, which was nominated for "New Voices" Quality Paperback Book-of-the-Month Club and became a finalist in "Discover Great New Writers." Her work appears in over fifty anthologies. She has received National Endowment for the Arts and Sundance Institute fellowships, and a John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. She teaches creative writing at Cornell University.
SPECIAL GUESTS
MICHAEL S. HARPER is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University. He has published ten books of poetry, including Nightmare Begins Responsibility. Dear John, Dear Coltrane and Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems were nominated for the National Book Award. He is co-editor of Every Shut Eye Aint Asleep, an anthology of poetry by African Americans. His work, which has won many prizes, appears in over eighty anthologies. In 1996, Bowdoin College hosted the "Celebrating Harper" Festival. Mr. Harper was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1995.
SHIRLEY HAZZARD is the author of Cliffs of Fall (short stories) and several novels: The Evening of the Holiday, People in Glass Houses, The Bay of Noon, and The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. A native of Australia and former member of the United Nations Secretariat, Ms. Hazzard has also published two books of nonfiction on international affairs: Defeat of an Ideal and Countenance of Truth. A memoir of Graham Greene, Greene on Capri, will be published this year. She divides her time between New York and southern Italy.
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 appear widely in such places as Best American Stories, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and The Yale Review. She has received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Award, and was a Fulbright Writer-in-Residence in the former Yugoslavia. She has taught at many colleges and universities. A film based on her novel, Household Saints, was released in 1993.
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