James Alan McPherson was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a professor emeritus of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Ploughshares is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in Boston. Ploughshares publishes issues four times a year, two of which are guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Guest editors have been the recipients of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, National Book Awards, MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, and numerous other honors. Ploughshares also publishes longform stories and essays, known as Ploughshares Solos, all of which are edited by the editor-in-chief, Ladette Randolph, and a literary blog, launched in 2009, which publishes critical and personal essays, interviews, and book reviews.
Don Lee is an American novelist, fiction writer, literary journal editor, and creative writing professor.
Xu Xi, originally named Xu Su Xi (许素细), is an English language novelist from Hong Kong.
Melanie Rae Thon is an American fiction writer known for work that moves beyond and between genres as it explores diversity from a multitude of human and more-than-human perspectives.
Julie Orringer is an American writer and lecturer. She attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was born in Miami, Florida and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow writer Ryan Harty. She is a recipient of the Plimpton Prize, among others.
Anthony Dey Hoagland was an American poet. His poetry collection, What Narcissism Means to Me (2003), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors included two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems and criticism have appeared in such publications as Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, Agni, Threepenny Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Indiana Review, American Poetry Review and Harvard Review.
Alexander Chee is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.
William Corbett was an American poet, essayist, editor, educator, and publisher.
Ander Monson is an American novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer.
Hans Ansgar Ostrom is an American professor, writer, editor, and scholar. Ostrom is a Professor of African American Studies and English the University of Puget Sound (1983–present), where he teaches courses on African-American literature, creative writing, and poetry as a genre. He is known for his authorship of various books on African-American studies and creative writing, and novels including Three to Get Ready, Honoring Juanita, and Without One, as well as The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976–2006.
Robie Mayhew Macauley was an American editor, novelist and critic whose literary career spanned more than 50 years.
Elizabeth Graver is an American writer and academic.
Andrew Foster Altschul is an American fiction writer. He is the author of the novels Deus Ex Machina, Lady Lazarus, and The Gringa and his short fiction and essays have been published in Esquire, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Fence, and One Story. His short story "Embarazada" was selected for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 and his short story "A New Kind of Gravity" was anthologized in both Best New American Voices 2006 and the O.Henry Prize Stories 2007.
Patrick Hicks is an Irish-American novelist, poet, and Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University
The Wilderness House Literary Review is an American quarterly online literary magazine, based in Littleton, Massachusetts. The magazine was launched in 2006. It has published authors such as DeWitt Henry – a founding editor of Ploughshares – A. D. Winans, Lyn Lifshin, Mitchell Waldman, and Hugh Fox – one of the founding members of the Pushcart Prize and the first writer to publish a critical study on the work of Charles Bukowski.
Debra Spark is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and editor. She teaches at Colby College and at Warren Wilson College.
Eve Shelnutt was an American poet and writer of short stories. She lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Athens, Ohio, and Worcester, Massachusetts. Over the course of her career, she taught at Western Michigan University University of Pittsburgh, Ohio University, and The College of the Holy Cross.
The biographer, cultural historian and critic Jeremy Treglown is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. He was editor of The Times Literary Supplement through the 1980s and Chair of the Arvon Foundation, 2017-22.
Christine Sneed is an American novelist and short story writer, a graduate fiction professor at Northwestern University and for Regis University's low-residency MFA program. She is the recipient of the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award, Ploughshares' Zacharis Prize for a First Book, an O. Henry Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Fiction Prize, the 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize., and other awards including the Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year Award.
