Blog : Authors

Sam Pickering

July 20, 2019
Sam Pickering grew up in Tennessee and has spent the past fifty years in New England, where he taught English at the University of Connecticut. He has written some thirty books and hundreds of articles entertaining himself and the occasional general reader.

Chris Siteman

July 20, 2019
Chris Siteman lives in Massachusetts. He teaches in the English departments at Suffolk University and Bridgewater State University. His chapbook, PART X of ME, is forthcoming from Pen & Anvil Press.

Jill Talbot

July 20, 2019
Jill Talbot is the author of The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir (Soft Skull, 2015) and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (Iowa, 2012). Her essays have appeared in AGNI, Brevity, Colorado Review, Hotel Amerika, Longreads, The Normal School, Paris Review Daily, and Slice Magazine, among others.

Rachel Weaver

July 20, 2019
Rachel Weaver is the author of the novel Point of Direction, which Oprah Magazine named a Top Ten Book to Pick Up Now. Point of Direction was chosen by the American Booksellers Association as a Top Ten Debut for Spring 2014 and won the 2015 Willa Cather Award for Fiction.

J. David Stevens

July 20, 2019
J. David Stevens teaches English at the University of Richmond. Recent essays appear or are forthcoming in Post Road, Sonora Review, and The Gettysburg Review. His most recent book is I and You, a story collection from Arc Pair Press.

Vivé Griffith

November 26, 2018
Vivé Griffith is an Austin-based writer, educator, and student advocate. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The Sun, Oxford American, Hippocampus, and Gettysburg Review, and her op-eds in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Texas Tribune.

Earl Fendelman

November 26, 2018
Earl Fendelman is pleased to witness the first publication of his writing in over forty years. After a very happy career teaching at Lehman College, CUNY, he lives with his wife in New York City, where, among other things, he continues to write.

Beth Alvarado

November 26, 2018
Beth Alvarado is the author of three books, Anxious Attachments (Autumn House Press, 2019), Anthropologies: A Family Memoir (University of Iowa Press), and Not a Matter of Love and other stories.

Ryan Brod

November 26, 2018
Ryan Brod is a senior contributor for The Drake magazine. His writing has also appeared in Gray's Sporting Journal and Stonefly, among others. A Maine fishing guide and filmmaker, he lives in Portland.

Iver Arnegard

November 26, 2018
Iver Arnegard's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in the North American Review, Gulf Coast, the Missouri Review, and elsewhere. In 2014 his first book, Whip & Spur, won the Gold Line Press Fiction Award.

Greg Bottoms

November 26, 2018
Greg Bottoms is a writer of literary nonfiction and fiction. He is the author of a memoir, Angelhead (2000), an Esquire Magazine "Book of the Year," two books about American outsider artists, The Colorful Apocalypse (2007) and Spiritual American Trash (2013), and four prose collections.

Jake Maynard

November 26, 2018
Jake Maynard's writing appears in recent or forthcoming issues of Fugue, Permafrost, Appalachian Heritage, Carolina Quarterly, and others. A former rural social worker, he studied creative writing at West Virginia University and currently teaches composition at Penn State.

Seth Sawyers

November 26, 2018
Seth Sawyer's work has appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Rumpus, Salon, Literary Hub, The Millions, Sports Illustrated, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. He writes essays and is working on a novel. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and is an editor at Baltimore Review.

Holly Willis

November 26, 2018
Holly Willis teaches in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She writes frequently about experimental film, video, and new media, while also exploring experimental nonfiction, creative critical writing, and poetry. She is currently working on a series of text-based videos, and her work has appeared in publications such as Film Comment, Afterimage, ArtWeek, and carte blanche.

Ash Whitman

November 26, 2018
Ash Whitman is a Washington State native who currently resides in Virginia with her husband. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University and is currently working on a collection of essays.

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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.

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.

Nicholas Dighiera

October 3, 2017
Nicholas Dighiera received an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage and is currently working on a nonfiction project called 53 Days With My Kids.

Joan Frank

October 3, 2017
Joan Frank is the author of six books of fiction and a book of collected essays. Prior work has received many honors and awards, including the 2016 Juniper Prize for the Novel, the Richard Sullivan Award for Short Fiction...

Sarah Curtis Graziano

October 3, 2017
Sarah Curtis Graziano’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Salon, The American Literary Review, Literary Mama, the Huffington Post, and other publications.

Ted Gup

October 3, 2017
Ted Gup is a known for his writing on government secrecy. He is the author of three books, including The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA, and A Secret Gift.

Ann Hood

October 3, 2017
Ann Hood is the author most recently of the bestselling novels The Book That Matters Most, The Obituary Writer, and The Knitting Circle.

Cecele Kraus

October 3, 2017
Cecele Kraus has authored two poetry chapbooks: Tuscaloosa Bypass (Finishing Line Press, 2012), and Harmonica (Liquid Light Press, 2014).

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