 Wendell Berry is the author of 50 books of fiction, poetry, and essays. He has farmed a hillside in his native Henry County, Kentucky, with his wife Tanya, for more than forty years. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the T.S. Eliot Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, and the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and recently the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Excellence in Southern Letters and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. Max Brooks. After working for the B.B.C. in Great Britain and East Africa, Max Brooks began writing The Zombie Survival Guide. A former Emmy Award-winning writer for Saturday Night Live, he lives in New York City with his wife, Michelle. He is currently at work on his next release, The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks. Patrick Durgin has collaborated with Jen Hofer since 1998 to produce The Route (Atelos, 2008). On his own, Durgin has published Imitation Poems (Atticus/Finch, 2007), and Color Music (Cuneiform Press, 2002). He edited the selected works of Hannah Weiner, Hannah Weiner's Open House, for Kenning Editions. Other recent publications include essays on "post-ableist poetics" in Contemporary Women's Writing, The Journal of Modern Literature, and XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics. He lives in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is hard at work on a play. John Eisenberg was an award-winning sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun, and is the author of seven books including My Guy Barbaro and The Great Match Race. Jen Hofer is a poet and translator originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her recent publications include The Route (Atelos, 2007) in collaboration with poet and musician Patrick Durgin; a full-length translation of Dolores Dorantes’ sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (Kenning Editions 2007); lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzano’s lobo de labio (Action Books, 2006); Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003); and slide rule (subpress, 2002). She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches poetics, works as a court interpreter, and is happily a founding member of the City of Angels Ladies’ Bicycle Association, also known as The Whirly Girls. English and the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW Madison. She was also the founding director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing there. The author of nine books and two chapbooks of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, she is the recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships and publishes regularly in magazines in the U.S, the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. For more: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jlkerche/web/. Sorrel King founded the Josie King Foundation in 2001 with her husband Tony after their daughter Josie died as a result of medical errors. The Josie King Foundation supports innovative patient safety programs that influence the way safety is incorporated into medical care. The Josie King Pediatric Patient Safety Program and the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Children’s Center, the Condition H – Josie King Patient Safety Call Line at UPMC – Shadyside Hospital, and Dr. Albert Wu’s work on disclosure training all received initial funding from the Josie King Foundation and currently serve as models for patient safety programs across the country. Raymond Luczak is the author of a number of books, including, Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader, and St. Michael's Fall, a book of poems about growing up deaf and Catholic. K. Silem Mohammad is the author of Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003), A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004), Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), and The Front (forthcoming from Roof Books, 2009). He is currently working on a project entitled The Sonnagrams--anagrams of all 154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets. He edits the poetry magazine Abraham Lincoln with Anne Boyer, and he teaches at Southern Oregon University. Susan Neville is the author of five works of creative nonfiction: Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning; Iconography: A Writer's Meditation; Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and Land; Indiana Winter; and Twilight in Arcadia. Her prize-winning collections of short fiction include In the House of Blue Lights, winner of the Richard Sullivan prize and listed as a 'Notable Book' by the Chicago Tribune, and Invention of Flight, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology and in anthologies including Extreme Fiction (Longman) and The Story Behind the Story (Norton.) She holds the Demia Butler Chair at Butler University David Rhodes. Winner of the Milkweed Prize, Rhodes's most recent novel, Driftless, explores the small-but-novel-worthy town of Woods, Wisconsin, whose inhabitants include July Montgomery, the hero of Rhodes' legendary novel, The Rock Island Line. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called Driftless "A profound and enduring paean to rural America." We're also celebrating the republication of Rhodes' 1974 novel The Easter House, a gripping tale of the Easter family of Iowa. |