Michael Kimball has published two novels,
The Way the Family Got Away (2000) and
How Much of Us There Was (2005), both of which have been translated (or are being translated into) many languages. His third novel,
Dear Everybody (2008), was published in March in the UK and will be published in September in the US and Canada. He has won a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Boswell and Johnson Award, and the Lidano Fiction Prize. Recently, Stephen King short-listed one of his stories for
Best American Short Stories, as did Dave Eggers for
Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has also published many pieces in many literary magazines, including O
pen City, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and N
ew York Tyrant. [myspace.com/michaelkimball]
Maud Casey is the author of the short story collection,
Drastic, and two novels,
The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and
Genealogy, a
New York Times Editor's Pick. Her fiction and essays have appeared in such places as
The Threepenny Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Confrontation, American Short Fiction, Post Road, and
Poets & Writers. An excerpt from Genealogy received The Jane Geske Award from Prairie Schooner; her essay "The Rise From the Earth (So Far)" was a Salon Editor's Pick 2006; and her short story, "Fugueur," was selected by Rick Moody as a finalist in The Bellevue Literary Review's Goldenberg Prize for Fiction and will be published in BLR, Spring 2008. She has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, UCross, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Ledig International Writers House. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland. [maudcasey.com]
Michael Downs, a former newspaper reporter, teaches creative writing at Towson University. His nonfiction book,
House of Good Hope: A Promise for a Broken City, won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Award in 2006. Downs’ short fiction has appeared in
The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, Five Points, and other literary reviews and has been anthologized in, among other places, the Best
American Mystery Stories series. His work won a literary fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. [http://www.michael-downs.net/]
Michael Kimball has published two novels, The Way the Family Got Away (2000) and How Much of Us There Was (2005), both of which have been translated (or are being translated into) many languages. His third novel, Dear Everybody (2008), was published in March in the UK and will be published in September in the US and Canada. He has won a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Boswell and Johnson Award, and the Lidano Fiction Prize. Recently, Stephen King short-listed one of his stories for Best American Short Stories, as did Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has also published many pieces in many literary magazines, including Open City, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and New York Tyrant. [myspace.com/michaelkimball]
Maud Casey is the author of the short story collection, Drastic, and two novels, The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Genealogy, a New York Times Editor's Pick. Her fiction and essays have appeared in such places as The Threepenny Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Confrontation, American Short Fiction, Post Road, and Poets & Writers. An excerpt from Genealogy received The Jane Geske Award from Prairie Schooner; her essay "The Rise From the Earth (So Far)" was a Salon Editor's Pick 2006; and her short story, "Fugueur," was selected by Rick Moody as a finalist in The Bellevue Literary Review's Goldenberg Prize for Fiction and will be published in BLR, Spring 2008. She has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, UCross, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Ledig International Writers House. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland. [maudcasey.com]
Michael Downs, a former newspaper reporter, teaches creative writing at Towson University. His nonfiction book, House of Good Hope: A Promise for a Broken City, won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Award in 2006. Downs’ short fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, Five Points, and other literary reviews and has been anthologized in, among other places, the Best American Mystery Stories series. His work won a literary fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. [http://www.michael-downs.net/]
1 comment:
This is just a great thing you are doing, Jen and Michael. I wish we had something like this here at home.
Jeff LeJeune
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