Blog : Authors

Carol D. Marsh

March 21, 2018
Carol D. Marsh, a 2014 graduate of Goucher College’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction program, won the 41st New Millennium Writings Literary Nonfiction prize with her essay, "Pictures in Leaves." Another essay, "Highest and Best"...

Suzanne Roberts

March 21, 2018
Suzanne Roberts is the author of the award-winning memoir, Almost Somewhere, as well as four collections of poetry. She currently writes and teaches in South Lake Tahoe, California.

Emily Sinclair

March 21, 2018
Emily Sinclair is an essayist and fiction writer. Her work has appeared in The Colorado Review, The Normal School, The Pinch Journal, Empty Mirror, Third Coast, Crab Creek Review, and elsewhere. Best American Essays has recognized...

Heather M. Surls

March 21, 2018
Heather M. Surls uses creative non-fiction to explore cultures and give voice to the voiceless, stereotyped, and marginalized. Her work has appeared in places like Ruminate, Rock & Sling, and...

Alia Volz

March 21, 2018
Alia Volz is a native daughter of San Francisco. You'll find her writing in The Best American Essays 2017, Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California, The New York Times, Tin House, Threepenny Review, Nowhere Magazine, New England Review...

Wendy Bone

March 21, 2018
Wendy Bone is a Canadian journalist, teacher and unabashed nature lover who has lived in Indonesia for the past ten years. Currently an online MFA Creative Writing candidate at...

Mark Beaver

March 21, 2018
Mark Beaver is the author of Suburban Gospel (Hub City, 2016), a memoir about growing up in the 80s Bible Belt. His prose has appeared in Gulf Coast, North American Review, Crazyhorse, Ninth Letter, and many other publications. He is a graduate of...

Bonnie Ilza Cisneros

March 21, 2018
Bonnie Ilza Cisneros is from the borderlands of South Texas. Her work has appeared in Chicana/Latina Studies, El Placazo, Front Porch Journal, and El Retorno.

Anton DiSclafani

March 21, 2018
Anton DiSclafani is the author of two novels, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls and The After Party. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Washington Square Review, This American Life, Narrative, Electric Literature, and American...

Thomas Larson

March 24, 2017
Thomas Larson is the author to The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative and The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s "Adagio for Strings."

Tom Fate

November 20, 2015
Tom Fate is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Beyond the White Noise, a collection of essays, Steady and Trembling, a spiritual memoir, and Cabin Fever, a nature memoir. A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, his essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, Orion, Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, and many other journals and anthologies, and they have often aired on National Public Radio and Chicago Public Radio. He teaches creative writing at College of DuPage in Chicago.

Jill Christman

November 20, 2015
Jill Christman is the author of Darkroom: A Family Exposure (AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction winner), Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood (Shebooks 2014), and essays in magazines and journals such as Brevity, Fourth Genre, Iron Horse Literary Review, Literary Mama, Oprah Magazine, and Brain, Child. She teaches creative nonfiction writing in Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program and at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where she lives with her husband, writer Mark Neely, and their two children.

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