William "Bill" Wall is an Irish novelist, poet and short story writer.
Drue Heinz, DBE was a British-born American actress, philanthropist, arts patron, and socialite. She was the publisher of the literary magazine The Paris Review, co-founded Ecco Press, founded literary retreats and endowed the Drue Heinz Literature Prize among others. She was married to H. J. Heinz II, president of Heinz.
Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist.
The Drue Heinz Literature Prize is a major American literary award for short fiction in the English language.
Andrew Sean Greer is an American novelist and short story writer. Greer received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Less. He is the author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award.
Edwin Frank Ochester is an American poet and editor. He was educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Todd James Pierce, is an American novelist and short story writer.
The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The press was founded in 1963, publishing scholarly books and non-fiction. The press imprint is overseen by an interdisciplinary faculty committee. The press is currently a member of the Association of University Presses.
Randall Silvis is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and teacher.
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo is a British author and academic. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first Black woman to win the Booker. Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second woman and the first black person to hold the role since it was founded in 1820.
Katherine Vaz is an American writer. A Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University (2003–9), a 2006–7 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fall, 2012 Harman Fellow at Baruch College in New York, she is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Saudade, the first contemporary novel about Portuguese-Americans from a major New York publisher. It was optioned by Marlee Matlin/Solo One Productions and selected in the Barnes & Nobles Discover Great New Writers series.
Darrell Spencer is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his short stories, which are widely published in literary journals and have been the recipients of several awards.
Rick DeMarinis was an American novelist and short story writer.
Rick Hillis was a Canadian poet and short story writer.
Geoffrey Becker is an American short story writer, and novelist.
Edith Ann Pearlman was an American short story writer.
Lucy Honig was an American short story writer.
John Blair is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Brett Ellen Block is an American novelist and short story writer.
Anthony Varallo is an author and professor of English] at the College of Charleston.
