Literary short fiction at its most meaningful.
William Trevor is the author of twenty-nine books, including Felicia’s Journey, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was made into a motion picture. In 1996 he was the recipient of the Lannan Award for Fiction. In 2001, he won the Irish Times Literature Prize for fiction. Two of his books were chosen by the New York Times as best books of the year, and his short stories appear regularly in the New Yorker. He lives in Devon, England.
Clark E. Knowles lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with his wife Gail and his daughter Grace. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire. His fiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999, the Flying Horse Review, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
N. Nye’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Inkwell, bananafish, Writer’s Forum, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and an anthology, Higher Elevations: Stories from the West. She lives in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, and is an oææn-call reference librarian at Colorado College.
Andre Dubus III is the author of a collection of short fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and the novels Blues¬man and House of Sand and Fog. His work has been included in The Best American ¬Essays of 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the Prix de Rome Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters. Currently a major motion picture, and published in eighteen countries, his novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Booksense Book of the Year, and was an Oprah Book Club Selection and #1 New York Times bestseller.
A member of PEN American Center and the Executive Board of PEN New England, Andre Dubus III has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and has taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Emerson College. He is married to performer Fontaine Dollas Dubus. They live in Massachusetts with their three children.
Daniel Villasenor lives in Italy where he teaches martial arts, and trains and shoes horses for a living. His first novel, The Lake (Penguin, 2001), has been translated into five languages. His first significant attempt at short fiction won Glimmer Train’s Award for New Writers in 1997. His next two novels take place in Italy.
Jonathan Kooker is a graduate of Syracuse University and the master’s program in Creative Writing at Emerson College. A winner at age twenty-eight of the 1999 Virgin Fiction Contest from William Morrow Books, he works as a freelance writer in Chicago. "Vast Inland Sea" is his second story accepted for publication.
Frances Lefkowitz has published short stories in Fiction, Hope Magazine, Passages North, and Northeast Journal. Her essays, reviews, and journalism have appeared in Poets & Writers, Yankee, Island, and other consumer magazines and newspapers. Her books on Marilyn Monroe and David Letterman were published by Chelsea House in their Pop Culture Legends series. Awards include the Fellowship in Literature from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the Martin Dibner Fellowship for Maine Writers, and a stay at the Hedgebrook Writing Retreat in Langley, Washington. Born and raised in San Francisco, she now lives in coastal Maine and works as an editor for Body & Soul (formerly New Age Journal).
George Fahey graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he studied history. He has traveled extensively abroad, lived in Paris, London, and, since, in an assortment of cities in the U.S. For several years he taught English as a second language in the Los Angeles Unified Adult School Program. He is currently living with his wife, Mary
