John Fulton (born November 14, 1967) is an American author based in Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He grew up in Utah and Montana, studied at Whitman College, and lived in Europe for five years. [1] He is a 1997 graduate of the University of Michigan Creative Writing MFA Program. His story collection, The Animal Girl, was published in 2007 by Louisiana State University Press. He is the author of Retribution, which won the 2001 Southern Review Short Fiction Award for the best first collection of short stories. His novel, More Than Enough, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a finalist for the Midland Society of Authors Award. His work has appeared in Zoetrope , Oxford American , and The Southern Review . His short story “Hunters” won a 2006 Pushcart Prize. John was the recipient of a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship [2] in Creative Writing.
Peter Guralnick is an American music critic, author, and screenwriter. He specializes in the history of early rock and roll and has written books on Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Sam Cooke.
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.
John Dufresne is an American author of French Canadian descent born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Worcester State College in 1970 and the University of Arkansas in 1984. He is a professor in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program of the English Department at Florida International University. In 2012, he won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for his work.
Andre Jules Dubus II was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays.
Valerie Martin is an American novelist and short story writer.
Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.
Bernard Cohen is an Australian writer, the author of five novels, a book of short stories and a children's picture book.
Steve Yarbrough is an American author and academic, who teaches at Emerson College.
Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia.
Alexander Chee is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.
Cathryn ("Cathy") Hankla is an American poet, novelist, essayist and author of short stories. She is professor emerita of English and Creative Writing at Hollins University in Hollins, Virginia, and served as inaugural director of Hollins' Jackson Center for Creative Writing from 2008 to 2012.
Rodney T. Smith is an American poet, fiction writer, and editor. The author of twelve poetry collections and a collection of short fiction, Smith is the editor of Shenandoah, a prestigious literary journal published by Washington and Lee University. His poetry and stories are identified with Southern literature and have been published in magazines and literary journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, and The Kenyon Review.
Michael Lowenthal, an American fiction writer, is the author of four novels, most recently The Paternity Test. Currently an instructor of creative writing at Lesley University, he has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers' conferences, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers. His short stories have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Kenyon Review, Tin House, and Esquire.
David Madden is an American writer of many novels, short stories, poems, plays, and works of nonfiction and literary criticism.
Leslie Pietrzyk is an American author who has published three novels, Pears on a Willow Tree, A Year and a Day, and Silver Girl, as well as two books of short stories, This Angel on My Chest and Admit This To No One. An additional historical novel, Reversing the River, set in Chicago on the first day of 1900, was serialized on the literary app, Great Jones Street.
Alison Hawthorne Deming is an American poet, essayist and teacher, former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and currently Regents Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.
William Roorbach is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic. He has authored fiction and nonfiction works including Big Bend, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the O. Henry Prize. Roorbach's memoir in nature, Temple Stream, won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction, 2005. His novel, Life Among Giants, won the 2013 Maine Literary Award for Fiction.[18] And The Remedy for Love, also a novel, was one of six finalists for the 2014 Kirkus Fiction Prize. His book, The Girl of the Lake, is a short story collection published in June 2017. His most recent novel is Lucky Turtle, published in 2022.
Andrew Ervin is an American writer whose debut 2010 novella collection Extraordinary Renditions was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2010. His 2015 debut novel Burning Down George Orwell’s House was listed as an Editor's Choice in the New York Times Book Review. He currently lives in Philadelphia.
Alexander Weinstein is an American short story writer and filmmaker. He is the founder and director of The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He is best known for his 2016 collection Children of the New World, which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2016.
Vincent Czyz is an American writer and critic of Literary fiction. His work often explores mythological motifs, religious themes, and dreams as a substrate of reality.