Pablo Medina

Pablo Medina lived in Havana, Cuba, the first twelve years of his life before moving to New York City. He is the author of four collections of poetry, three novels, a memoir, and a book of translations, and his work has appeared in periodicals and anthologies in the United States and abroad. Medina has received several awards for his work, among them grants from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He lives in New York City with his wife Beth and is on the writing faculties of the New School and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

His works include the novels The Return of Felix Nogara (2000) and The Marks of Birth (1994), the poetry collections The Floating Island (1999) and Arching into the Afterlife (1991), and the essay collection Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood (1990). His work has appeared in American Poetry Review and Iguana Dreams among others. His most recent novel, The Cigar Roller, was published in 2006.

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Judy Budnitz is the author of two story collections, Flying Leap (Picador, 1998) and Nice Big American Baby (Knopf, 2005), and a novel, If I Told You Once (Picador, 1999) . Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, and elsewhere.  She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and an NEA grant, and was listed as one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007.  She has taught creative writing at Brown, Columbia, and Princeton universities.

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Matthea Harvey is the author of Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007), Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James, 2000). She teaches at Sarah Lawrence, is a contributing editor to jubilat and BOMB and lives in Brooklyn.

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Terrance Hayes is the author of Wind in a Box (Penguin 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin 2002) and Muscular Music (Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Classics, 2005 and Tia Chucha Press, 1999). His honors include a Whiting Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series award, a Pushcart Prize, two Best American Poetry selections, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family.

Sara Pritchard

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Sara Pritchard won the 2002 Katharine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Prize in Fiction, sponsored by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her winning novel, Crackpots, chosen by the contest judge, Ursula Hegi, was published by Houghton Mifflin and went on to become a New York Times  Notable Book of the Year for 2003.  Under the pseudonym Delta B. Horne, Sara has published stories and essays in Arts & Letters, Bellingham Review, Chattahoochee Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere.  Sara lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, and divides her time between home and work at the West Virginia University Press.