Lisa Shea is an American novelist and the author of books published by W.W. Norton & Company. [1] She was the recipient of a 1993 Whiting Award.
Akhil Sharma is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.
Meghan O'Rourke is an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic.
Elizabeth Spires is an American poet and university professor.
Suzanne Strempek Shea, is the author of literary fiction, biographies and memoirs. She was the winner of the 2000 New England Book Award for Fiction. Shea lives in Bondsville, Massachusetts, with her husband, long-time Springfield Republican reporter and then columnist Tom Shea.
Rachel McQuillan and Lisa McShea were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Kerry-Anne Guse and Alicia Molik.
Major Jackson is an American poet and professor at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of six collections of poetry: Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems 2002-2022, The Absurd Man, Roll Deep, Holding Company, Hoops, finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America's Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. He is host of the podcast The Slowdown.
Dionisio D. Martinez, is a Cuban-born poet who grew up speaking Spanish, raised first in Spain, then in the United States.
Julie Sheehan is an American poet.
A. Van Jordan is an American poet. He is a professor at Stanford University and was previously a college professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan and distinguished visiting professor at Ithaca College. He previously served as the first Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor at the Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of four collections: Rise (2001), M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (2005), Quantum Lyrics (2007), and The Cineaste (2013). Jordan's awards include a Whiting Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Lisa McShea is an Australian former tennis player. She played professionally from 1996 to 2006. As a junior player, McShea won the 1992 Wimbledon Championships doubles title. She was also more successful in doubles during her professional career, winning four WTA Tour and 56 ITF doubles events.
Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting is a feminist scholar and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University where she serves as Vice Provost of Arts and Libraries as well as Director of the Callie House Research Center for the Study of Global Black Cultures and Politics. She served as Associate Provost for Academic Advancement from October 2021-June 2022. She was also the Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies until August 2022. She is editor of The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union", and editor of the academic journal Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. She is also series co-editor of "Philosophy and Race" with philosopher Robert Bernasconi.
Atsuro Riley is an American writer.
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing is a 1973 American Western film adaptation of Marilyn Durham's novel of the same name directed by Richard C. Sarafian, written by Eleanor Perry and William W. Norton, and starring Burt Reynolds and Sarah Miles.
Émilie Loit and Åsa Svensson were the defending champions, but had different outcomes. While Svensson did not compete this year, Loit teamed up with Marion Bartoli and reached the semifinals before losing to Olga Blahotová and Gabriela Navrátilová.
Lisa McShea and Milagros Sequera were the defending champions, but Sequera did not compete this year. McShea teamed up with Abigail Spears and lost in semifinals to tournament runners-up Marta Domachowska and Marlene Weingärtner.
Lisa McShea and Milagros Sequera were the defending champions, but Sequera did not compete this year. McShea teamed up with Jennifer Russell and lost in first round to Lilia Osterloh and Antonella Serra Zanetti.
Maija Avotins and Lisa McShea defeated Pam Nelson and Julie Steven in the final, 2–6, 6–4, 6–3 to win the girls' doubles tennis title at the 1992 Wimbledon Championships.
Tathiana Garbin and Émilie Loit were the defending champions, but Garbin opted to compete in Hobart that same week. Loit teamed up with Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro and withdrew the tournament in semifinals.
Elena Dementieva and Lina Krasnoroutskaia were the defending champions, but Dementieva chose not to take part in 2004. Krasnoroutskaia paired up with Anca Barna, but lost in the first round.