Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
Lynn Freed is a writer known for her work as a novelist, essayist, and writer of short stories.
Zuwena "ZZ" Packer is an American writer, primarily of works of short fiction.
Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic.
Richard Bausch is an American novelist, short story writer, and Professor in the Writing Program at Chapman University in Orange, California. He has published thirteen novels, nine short story collections, and one volume of poetry and prose.
James Baker Hall was an American poet, novelist, photographer and teacher.
Ron Carlson is an American novelist, short story writer and professor.
Laura Furman is an American author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker,Mirabella,Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere.
Adam Johnson is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, The Orphan Master's Son, and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection Fortune Smiles. He is also a professor of English at Stanford University with a focus on creative writing.
Ann Packer is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the recipient of a James Michener Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for TheNew Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.
Eric Puchner is an American novelist and short story writer.
Lysley A. Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer.
Anthony Marra is an American fiction writer. Marra has won numerous awards for his short stories, as well as his first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, which was a New York Times best seller.
Kate Walbert is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in New York City. Her novel, Our Kind, was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction. Her novel A Short History of Women, a New York Times bestseller, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named one of the ten best books of 2009 by The New York Times.
Gregory Blake Smith is an American novelist and short story writer. His novel, The Divine Comedy of John Venner, was named a Notable Book of 1992 by The New York Times Book Review and his short story collection The Law of Miracles won the 2010 Juniper Prize for Fiction and the 2012 Minnesota Book Award.
Jason Brown is an American fiction and nonfiction writer who writes primarily about Maine and New England. His work has appeared in magazines and anthologies including The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic ,The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh is an American author and novelist. Her debut novel, Eileen (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Moshfegh's subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.
Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer.
Jennifer duBois is an American novelist. duBois is a recipient of a Whiting Award and has been named a "5 Under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation.
