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Marie-Helene Bertino has been a diner waitress, a muralist and a singer in a band.Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Pushcart Prize Anthology XXXIII, The North American Review (Kurt Vonnegut Award 2007), Mississippi Review, Inkwell, The Indiana Review, American Short Fiction and West Branch. She received a Pushcart prize in 2007 and a Pushcart Special Mention in 2011. She hails from Philadelphia and lives in Brooklyn, where for 6 years she was the Associate Editor of One Story. She is a 2011 Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writer’s Fellow.

 

Alethea Black‘s debut collection of short stories, I Knew You’d Be Lovely (Broadway Books/Random House), has been called “smart … full of heart” by Joan Silber and “downright brilliant” by Robert Olen Butler. Her work has won the Arts & Letters Prize, has been cited as distinguished in The Best American Short Stories, and has been read at venues around the country by such talents as Campbell Scott and Michael Cerveris.

 

Christopher Bollen is a writer who lives in New York City. He regularly writes about art, literature, and culture, and his first novel, Lightning People, will be published in Septemberl 2011. He is currently the Editor at Large at Interview Magazine.

 

Victoria Brown was born in Trinidad and at sixteen came alone to New York, where she worked as a full-time nanny for several years. She majored in English at Vassar College before attending the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Eventually, she returned to New York, where she taught English at LaGuardia Community College. She is now completing her MFA at Hunter College. Victoria lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two young children. She has a part-time babysitter in her employ.

 

Matt Dojny is an artist, designer, and writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. He’s been published in A Public Space and in the upcoming Smith Magazine collection “The Moment.” The Festival of Earthly Delights is his first novel.

 

Benjamin Dolson is a writer from Michigan. He was a finalist in this year’s The L Magazine Literary Upstart Competition. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his lovely wife.

 

Alison Espach is the author of The Adults, a  New York Time’s Editor’s Choice, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writer Pick, and an Amazon Best Book of 2011. Her short story “Someone’s Uncle” was published as an e-book by Scribner in 2011. She received her MFA in Fiction from Washington University in St. Louis, where she taught creative writing. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Five Chapters, Del Sol Review, and Sentence, The Daily Beast, Glamour, and others. She is currently teaching in New York City.

 

Seth Fried is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer, whose stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, One Story, Tin House, Vice Magazine, and others. His debut short story collection, The Great Frustration, was just named by Poets & Writers as one of the best debuts of the summer.”

 

Joshua Furst is the author of the novel The Sabotage Cafe and the story collection Short People.  His fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Chicago Tribune, Esquire, Salon, Nerve and Conjunctions, among many other places.  He’s a frequent contributor to the Jewish Daily Forward and he teaches fiction writing at The New School.

 

Casey Gonzalez  is a graduate of Vassar College. She is currently editorial assisting at PEN America and writing in her free time. She has self-published a comic called Boys I have Blown and Other Bad Love Experiences.

 

David Goodwillie is the author of the acclaimed novel AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE.  Hailed as “genuinely thrilling” by The New Yorker, and “a triumphant work of fiction” by the AP, it was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010, and a Vanity Fair and Publisher’s Weekly top ten Spring debut.  He is also the author of the memoir SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, for which he was named one of the “Best New Writers of 2006″ by members of the PEN American Center. Goodwillie writes about books for The Daily Beast, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including New York, Men’s Health, Black Book, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and The New York Post. He has played professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and been an expert at Sotheby’s auction house. A graduate of Kenyon College, he lives in New York City.

 

Ben Hale is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. He received a University of Iowa Provost’s Fellowship to write The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, which also went on to win a Michener-Copernicus Award. He has been a night shift baker, a trompe l’oeil painter, a cartoonist, an illustrator and a technical writer. He grew up in Colorado and now lives in New York.

 

James Hannaham’s first novel, God Says No, was named an honor book by the Stonewall Book Awards. His stories have appeared in The Literary Review, Open City, McSweeney’s, Fence, JMWW, and One Story. His criticism has appeared in The Village Voice, Out, Salon.com, and in Best African American Essays 2009. He teaches at Pratt, The New School and Columbia University.

 

Tom Hopkins is a graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing Program. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in the print magazines and lit journals Fence, River Styx, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Indiana Review, Sonora Review, The L Magazine, One Story, Quick Fiction, and Opium Magazine; the online lit journals (and online editions of journals) Yankee Pot Roast, failbetter.com, Conjunctions, and Pindeldyboz; and in the anthology Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader. He has also written for Bookforum, Poets & Writers, and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a fellow at the Albee Foundation and the Ucross Foundation; a finalist for the 2011 Calvino Prize, a finalist for the Sonora Review Short-Short Story Contest; and a nominee for the 2007 edition of the Best New American Voices anthology.

 

As a child, Nadia Kalman emigrated with her family from the former Soviet Union. Formerly a teacher and assistant principal, she now works as a writer-in-the-schools with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City. She was a two-time fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and has published stories in Subtropics, the Canadian magazine The Walrus, and elsewhere. Her first novel, The Cosmopolitans, won the Emerging Writer Award from Moment magazine and was a finalist for the Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. Nadia recently received a 2012 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Paul La Farge is the author of four books: the novels The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999), Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001) and Luminous Airplanes (FSG, 2011), and The Facts of Winter (McSweeney’s Books, 2005), a collection of imaginary dreams. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently working on luminousairplanes.com, a large web-based fiction.

 

Kiese Laymon is the author of the forthcoming novels My Name is City, All Things Considered, Long Division and a book of essays called On Parole. Laymon has written essays and stories for numerous publications including Longman’s Hip Hop Reader, Mythium and the journal, “Politics and Culture”. He writes the blog Cold Drank which you can find at Kieselaymon.com and currently teaches English, Africana Studies and Creative Writing at Vassar College.

 

Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, which was named one of 25 important books of the decade by HTML Giant, and a story collection, Asunder. He has taught at The New School, Pratt Institute, Columbia University and The Solstice MFA Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College and was a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in fiction.

 

Fiona Maazel is the author of the novel, Last Last Chance. She is winner of the Bard prize for 2009 and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35″ honoree for 2008. Her work has appeared in Bomb, The Common, Fence, The Mississippi Review, The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Salon, N+1, and The Yale Review. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, and just finished work on her next novel, Woke Up Lonely. She is reading at Fiction Addiction THIS MONTH and answered some questions for me on writing, teaching and her new novel.

 

Victoria Matsui works at Poets & Writers Magazine and occasionally at BookCourt. She has been published in online anthology Plain China: Best Undergraduate Writing 2010, and will be published in 92Y online publication Podium. She lives in Brooklyn!

 

J.E. Reich is the managing editor and fiction editor for the online magazine Art Faccia and recently completed her BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. Writing credits include short stories in Volume 1 Brooklyn, Freshly Hatched, plain china: The Best of Undergraduate Writing 2010, Underground Voices, KGB Bar & Lit Journal, Blast Magazine, The Emerson Review, and others. Reich was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2010 and is a 2011 recipient of the Pitler Scholarship Award. Currently, Reich is living in Brooklyn as a candidate for the MA program in English Literature at Brooklyn College, working on her first novel, and interning for the Franklin Park Reading Series.

 

Tanya Rey was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and The Chattahoochee Review. She holds an MFA degree in fiction from New York University. She has worked as managing editor for One Story magazine and has received fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, UCross Foundation, and Blue Mountain Center. She currently lives in Brooklyn, where she is hard at work on her first novel.

 

Nick Ripatrazone‘s debut book of prose poems, Oblations, was recently published by Gold Wake Press. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Kenyon Review, West Branch, The Mississippi Review, and has been honored by ESPN: The Magazine. He teaches public-school English, as well as sport literature and contemporary fiction courses at Rutgers-Newark, where he graduated from the MFA program.

 

Elissa Schappell is the author of Use Me, a collection of ten linked short stories, which was published in 2000 and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the co-founder of the literary magazine Tin House and Editor-at-Large. She was previously a Senior Editor at The Paris Reivew. Schappell has co-edited two anthologies of essays The Friend Who Got Away, published in 2005 and Money Changes Everything, in 2007. She is a Contributing-editor at Vanity Fair, and author of the “Hot Type” book column. Her second book of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, came out last week with Simon & Schuster.

 

Eliza Snelling was also a finalist in L Magazine’s Literary Upstart Contest. Her work has appeared in the online journals The Writing Disorder and Swamp Writing and is forthcoming in the Wolf Review. Eliza is a Master of Fine Arts student in the fiction program at Brooklyn College and lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

 

Diana Spechler is the author of the novels Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008) and Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011). She has written for The New York Times, GQ, O Magazine, Esquire, New York Magazine, Self, Details, The Wall Street Journal, Nerve, Glimmer Train Stories, and elsewhere. She is also a Moth StorySLAM winner and has been featured on NPR. She received her MFA degree from the University of Montana and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. She teaches writing in New York City and for Stanford University’s Online Writer’s Studio.

 

A recent graduate of Vassar College, Kelly Stout is an editorial assistant at The New Yorker, and previously worked at PEN America: A Journal for Writers & Readers. She is the author of two unpublished novellas, a sometimes-contributor to newyorker.com, and is currently working on a collection of short stories. Originally from California, she now lives in Brooklyn and wants a dog.

 

Darin Strauss is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a winner of the American Library Association’s Alix Award and The National Book Critics Circle Award. The internationally-bestselling writer is the author of the novels Chang & Eng, The Real McCoy, and More Than It Hurts You, and the NBCC-winning memoir Half a Life. These have been New York Times Notable Books, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, Chicago Tribune, and NPR Best Books of the Year, among others. Darin has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries, and he is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU’s creative writing program.

 

Justin Taylor is the author of the novel The Gospel of Anarchy and the story collection Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever. His essays and criticism have appeared in Bookforum, The Believer, Oxford American, and elsewhere online and in print. He co-edits The Agriculture Reader, a small arts annual that will publish its 5th issue this fall. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Columbia and NYU.

 

Susan Tepper is co-author of the new novel “What May Have Been: Letters of Jackson Pollock & Dori G”, the collection ”Deer & Other Stories” and the poetry chapbook “Blue Edge.”  Tepper writes the MONDAY CHAT interview column on Fictionaut, and “Madame Tishka Advises on Love & Other Storms” at Thunderclap Press. She is the fiction editor of Wilderness House Literary Review, has published over 100 stories in journals nationwide, received 6 nominations for the pushcart prize and a nomination for NPR Selected Shorts for the title story of her collection Deer & Other Stories.

 

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the acclaimed memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, for which he received a 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award. It was selected as one of the ten best books of 2009 by Dwight Garner of The New York Times. His short stories and personal essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. His short story collection will published next year by The Dial Press. Saïd lives in New York City with his wife Karen Mainenti.

 

Robert Vaughan’s plays have been produced in N.Y.C., L.A., S.F., and Milwaukee where he resides. He leads two writing roundtables for Redbird- Redoak Studio. His prose and poetry is published in over 150 literary journals such as Elimae, Metazen and BlazeVOX. He has short stories anthologized in Nouns of Assemblage from Housefire, and Stripped from P.S. Books. He is a fiction editor at JMWW magazine, and Thunderclap! Press. He co-hosts Flash Fiction Fridays for WUWM’s Lake Effect.

 

Amy Waldman was a reporter for The New York Times for eight years. She spent three years as co-chief of the South Asia bureau after covering Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the aftermath of 9/11. She was also a national correspondent for the Atlantic, where her stories included this look at Islam in the courts. She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the American Academy in Berlin. Her fiction has appeared in the Boston Review and the Atlantic, and was anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2010. She lives with her family in Brooklyn. The Submission is her first novel.

 

Adam Wilson’s first novel, Flatscreen, will be published by Harper Perennial in Februrary, 2012. He is the Editor of the international online newspaper The Faster Times. His writing appears or is forthcoming in many publications including The Paris Review,The Literary Review, Bookforum, and The New York Times. He is reading at Fiction Addiction in November and answers a few questions for me about publishing his first novel.

 

John Wray‘s first novel, The Right Hand of Sleep, was published in 2001 and received a Whiting Writers’ Award. In connection with his second novel, Canaan’s Tongue, he did a 600-mile tour by raft on the Mississippi River in 2005. In 2007 Wray was chosen by Granta magazine as one of the best American novelists under the age of 35. His third novel, Lowboy, was published in 2009. He is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.

 

Tommy Zurhellen is the author of the novel “Nazareth, North Dakota” (Atticus Books, 2011) and his fiction has appeared widely in literary magazines such as Carolina Quarterly, Quarterly West, Passages North, The MacGuffin, Appalachee Review, South Dakota Review, River Oak Review, Crab Creek Review, Iconoclast, Red Mountain Review, Coal City Review, and the list goes on.