authors
Daniel Anderson is the author of January Rain and Drunk in Sunlight His work has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Harper’s, The New Republic, The Southern Review, and The Best American Poetry. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bogliasco Foundation, he currently teaches at Kenyon College.
Margarethe Ahlschwede has published stories and essays in many journals including the Seattle Review, South Dakota Review, Sou'Wester, and Writing on the Edge. She is professor of English at The University of Tennessee at Martin and also a quiltmaker and grandmother.
Diane Aprile has published four books, including two (Place of Peace and Making A Heart for God) on the Abbey of Gethsemani, the monastery where the writer Thomas Merton lived. While a staff writer for the Courier-Journal, she shared a Pulitzer Prize and won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' top award.
Squire Babcock has been published in a variety of literary and journalistic venues including The Colorado Review, The Louisville Review, and The Old Hickory Review. He is currently Associate Professor of English and director of the low-residency MFA program at Murray State University.
Brian Barker recently published his first book, The Animal Gospels, which won the Tupelo Press Editor's Prize. His poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Agni, Quarterly West, American Book Review, The Writer's Chronicle, THe Indiana Review, Blackbird, Sou'Wester, and River Styx. He is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of Undergraduate Creative Writing at Murray State University.
E.A. Baxter III is the author of Captain Hooter at Niagra, a novel forthcoming from Michigan State University Press, and Looking for Niagra, a book of poems (Slipstream Press 1993), in addition to many small press publications. He is the recipient of a NYS Caps Award for Fiction and a Just Buffalo Award.
Don Boes has published two books of poems: Raliroad Crossing and The Eighth Continent. He is the recipient of three Al Smith Fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council and has also been awarded residencies at The MacDowell COlony and Ragdale. He teaches in the Humanities Department at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.
Dixon Boyles has published fiction in the Greensboro Review and currently serves as the chair of Arts and Sciences at Beaufort County Community College in Washington, North Carolina, where he also teaches English.
Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle State University, where he edits Poems & Plays. His most recent books of poetry are Let Me Explain (Iris Press, 2006) and, forthcoming, The Martini Diet (Dream Horse Press, 2007). His work also appears in Best American Poetry 2006.
Bill Brown is the author of two chapbooks, three poetry collections, and a writing textbook. His new collection, Tatters, is forthcoming from March Street Press. He lectures part-time at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. He has new work in Atlanata Review, Prairie Schooner, and The North American Review.
Christopher Buckley has published fourteen books of poetry, including Fall from Grace, Dark Matter, Sky, and, his latest, And the Sea. He has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Award, and four Pushcart Prizes. He currently teaches in the MFA Program at the University of California-Riverside.
Ralph Burns has published six collections, most recently Ghost Notes, which won the 2000 Field Poetry Prize. The former editor of Crazy Horse, he teaches at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.
Rick Campbell is the author of The Traveler's Companion(Black Bay Books, 2004) and Setting The World in Order (Texas Tech 2001). Dixmont, another collection, is forthcoming from Autumn House Press. His poems and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Puerto Del Sol, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. He is the director of Anhinga Press and the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. He teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida.
Richard Cecil is the author, most recently, of Twenty First Century Blues, a book of poems. He teaches at Indiana University.
Mick Cochrane is the author of two novels, Flesh Wounds (Nan Talese/Doubleday 1997, Penguin 1999), named a finalist in Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers competition, and Sport (St. Martin's 2001, University of Minnesota Press 2002). He has published short stories in Northwest Review, Kansas Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Minnesota Monthly, and Water~Stone. Currently he is professor of English and Lowry writer-in-residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y.
Peter Conners is an Editor at BOA Editions. His poetry collection Of Whiskey and Writers is forthcoming from White Pine Press (Spetember 2007). His story collection, Emily Ate the Wind, is forthcoming from Marick Press (April 2008). He edited PP/FF: An Anthology (Starcherone Books, 2006). He is founding co-editor of Double Room. Recent publications include Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Verse, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Mid-American Review, and The Bitter Oleander.
Tony Crunk is the author of Living in the Resurrection, the 1994 selection in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has since published two additional collections of poetry and three books for children. He is currently on faculty at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Silvia Curbelo is the author of three collections of poems, Ambush, The Secret History of Water, and The Geography of Leaving. Her poems have been published widely in literary journals and in more than two dozen anthologies, including The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry, Snakebird:Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets, and Norton's Anthology of Latino Literature. A native of Cuba, Curbelo lives in Tampa, Florida, and is managing editor for Organica magazine.
Christopher Davis has published three books: The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future, which won the 1988 Associated Writing Programs Award; The Patriot, and, most recently, A History of the Only War. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
Philip F. Deaver won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1986. He is the author of Silent Retreats (short stories) and How Men Pray ( poems). He is Associate Professor of English at Rollins College
Pam Durban has published one collection of short stories, All Set About with Fever Trees, and two novels, The Laughing Place and So Far Back. The recipient of many awards, including a Whiting Writers’ Award and a James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, she is the Doris Betts Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Brent Fisk is a writer from Bowling Green, Kentucky. His work appears in recent issue of Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, and Southeast Review. He has been nominated for three Pushcarts and recently received the Willow Review Award for his poem, "At the Babysitter's, Age Eight."
James Galvin has published two books of prose and six collections of poems, the most recent of which is Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997. He has some land and horses in Wyoming, and he teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Malcolm Glass is a writer and photographer who has published five books of poems, including Bone Love and The Dinky Line. He and Bill Brown are the co-authors of Important Words, a textbook for writers of poetry. His plays have been produced in New York and by several universities and local theaters. He and his wife Mitzi team-teach writing workshops for area writers and high school students.
Fred Haefele is the author of the motorcycle memoir, Rebuilding the Indian (River head Books, Bison Books, 2005). His essays have appeared in Outside, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, American Heritage, and other publicatins. He has received literary fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center, the NEA, and Stanford University. He lives in Montana with his wife and two children and teaches in Murray State University's low-residency MFA program.
James Hannah is the author of two collections of short fiction, Desperate Measures and Sign Languages, as well as the critical work Tobias Wolff: A Study of the Short Fiction. The editor of The Great War Reader, he has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Texas Writers’ Guild fellowships, and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship. He currently teaches at Texas A&M-Qata
Jeff Hardin is the author of two chapbooks, (Deep in the Shallows and The Slow Hill Out) as well as one collection, Fall Sanctuary, which won the Nicholas Roerich Prize. Recent and forthcoming publications include poems in Ploughshares, Saint Ann's Review, Poem, Ascent, Nimrod, The Florida Review, Zone 3, and others. He teaches at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, TN.
Robert William Head taught painting and drawing at Murray State University from 1965 until 1997. He has also been a visiting faculty member at he University of Alaska at Fairbanks and on the Semester at Sea. His work has been shown in numerous one person and group exhibitions throughout the United States.
Bill Hemminger teaches English and French at the University of Evansville. He has published poetry, essays, and short fiction, along with academic essays and translations. A recipient of three Fulbright awards, he has worked and taught in Madagascar, Cameroon, Senegal, and El Salvador. He won a 1994 Syndicated Fiction Writers Prize.
George Hovis has published in Carolina Quarterly, Southern Cultures, The Gihon River Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and elsewhere. His book Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction is forthcoming from University of South Carolina Press in 2007. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at SUNY-Oneonta.
Mark Jarman has published twelve books, including North Sea, Far and Away, Unholy Sonnets, and To the Green Man. He has received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, three National Endowment for the Arts Grants, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. He currently directs the creative writing program at Vanderbilt University.
Holly Goddard Jones is the author of many short stories which have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Epoch, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere, and her work will be reprinted in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007, guest-edited by Edward P. Jones. "Good Girl," which originally appeared in The Southern Review, was honored with a "Special Mention" in Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses. She is assistant professor in creative writing at Murray State University.
Mark Levine is an assistant professor at the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He has written three books of poetry, Debt (a selection of the National Poetry Series in 1993), Enola Gay, and most recently, The Wilds
Dale Daniel Leys teaches drawing at Murray State University. His recent drawings have been exhibited at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, and Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado. Next year his work will be shown at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. His work may also be seen at the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.
Janet McNally has published fiction in The Iron Horse Literary Review and Traffic East. She holds an MFA from Notre Dame.
T.M. McNally is the author of five books of fiction, including Almost Home, Until Your Heart Stops, and most recently, The Goat Bridge, a Booklist Editors’ Choice for 2005. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He teaches at Arizona State University.
Ann Neelon is the author of Easter Vigil, which won both the Anhinga Prize for Poetry and The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Readers and Writers Award. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, she is now Professor of English at Murray State University.
Dale Ray Phillips is the author of My People’s Waltz (1999), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, and Ploughshares. He is a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Murray State University.
Joe Ashby Porter is the author of Touch Wood, Lithuania, Kentucky Stories, and, most recently, the south Florida novel The Near Future. He has taught at Brown, at the University Francois Rabelais in Tours, France, and mostly at Duke, where he is Professor of English. In 2004 the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored him with an Academy Award in Literature for the body of his fiction.
James Scruton is the author, most recently, of Galileo's House, winner of the 2004 Poetry Prize from Finishing Line Press. He has poems forthcoming or in recent issues of Poetry East, Louisville Review, Amoskeag, and New Delta Review.
Charles Semones has published work in The Chattahoochee Review, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, The Mennonite, and The South Carolina Review. His collection, Afternoon in the Country of Summer: New and Selected Poems (Wind Publications, 2003) was awarded the Kentucky Literary Award for Poetry at the Southern Kentucky Bookfest of 2004.
Ken Smith is the author of two collections of stories, Decoys and Angels and Others. The recipient of a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, he has published short fiction in many magazines including The Atlantic, TriQuarterly, and Crazyhorse. He recently retired from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga as UC Foundation Professor of English.
Richard Speakes has taught at Santa Rosa Junior College (CA) since leaving Murray State in 1987. His poems have been in The Ohio Review, The Georgia Review, Poetry, and other such places.
Leah Stewart is the author of Body of a Girl (Viking/Penguin, 2000), which won the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for best book by a North Carolina writer. Her second novel, The Myth of You and Me (Shaye Areheart Books, 2005), was chosen for both the September Book Sense list and Target's Breakout Books program. She was the 2006-2007 Nancy and Rayburn Watkins Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Murray State University.
Thom Ward has published several poetry collections, including Various Orbits (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2004) and Small Boat with Oars of Different Size (Carnegie Mellon, 2000), as well as a chapbook, Tumblekid, which won the 1998 Devil'sMillhopper Poetry Contest. He is an Editor for BOA Editions, Ltd. and lives with his wife and children in upstate New York.
Patricia Waters was born and reared in Nashville, Tennessee. Her first book of poetry, The Ordinary Sublime, was published by Anhinga Press. She taught this year at the University of Alabama and she makes her home in Athens, Tennessee.
Brian Weinberg has published fiction in New Letters, Northwest Review, Bellevue Review, Meridian, and Notre Dame Review. He has taught fiction writing at the University of Virginia, the University of Kentucky, and the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, and served as writer-in-residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.
Patti White teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama. She is the author of two collections of poems, Tackle Box (2002) and Yellow Jackets (2007), both published by Anhinga Press. The title poem of Tackle Box was made into an award-winning short film in 2003 (www.tackleboxthemovie.com). Her current play is a movie about the apocalypse.
Charles Wright is the recipient of the National Book Award for Poetry, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at the University of Virginia.
