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Judy Troy (born 1951) is a professor emerita at Auburn University, as well as a short story writer and novelist. Before becoming writer-in-residence at Auburn, she taught at Indiana University and the University of Missouri. She received a 1996 Whiting Award.
Her work includes "Ramone" appearing in The Habit of Art : Best Stories from the Indiana University Fiction Workshop ( ISBN 0-253-21807-1) published 1996 and Ten Miles West of Venus ( ISBN 0-385-33288-2; ISBN 0-679-45153-6) published 1997. She also has a story in Sudden Fiction (Continued) (60 New Short-Short Stories). Other published works include West of Venus, From the Black Hills ( ISBN 0-375-50230-0) and Mourning Doves: Stories ( ISBN 0-684-19369-8). Mourning Doves was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Troy has a B.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.A. from Indiana University.
Eudora Alice Welty was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
John Milo "Mike" Ford was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet.
Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Gwyneth Jones is an English science fiction and fantasy writer and critic, and a young adult/children's writer under the pen name Ann Halam.
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.
Stuart Dybek is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
Molly Gloss is an American writer of historical fiction and science fiction.
Olive Marjorie Senior is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature.
Janet Peery is an American short story writer and novelist.
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.
Samrat Upadhyay (born 1964) is a Nepalese born American writer who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing and has previously served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, and came to the United States in 1984 at the age of twenty-one. He lives with his wife and daughter in Bloomington, Indiana.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is a Chinese American writer. She previously taught writing and literature in the Graduate MFA Writing program at Otis College of Art and Design until 2015. Bynum is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Her brother is musician Taylor Ho Bynum.
Nell Freudenberger is an American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.
Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana.
Christine Quintasket or Hum-ishu-ma, better known by her author name Mourning Dove, was a Native American author best known for her 1927 novel Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range and her 1933 work Coyote Stories.
Mary Hood is a fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored three short story collections – How Far She Went,And Venus is Blue and A Clear View of the Southern Sky – two novellas – And Venus is Blue and Seam Busters – and a novel, Familiar Heat. She also regularly publishes essays and reviews in literary and popular magazines.
Brighde Mullins is an American playwright and poet.
Manuel Muñoz is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
Lily King is an American novelist.