American Lives: A Reader

Contributors

303 contributors laurie alberts teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at Vermont College and is the author of three novels, Lost Daughters, The Price of Land in Shelby, and Tempting Fate, and a second memoir, Between Revolutions: An American Romance with Russia. Her work has won numerous prizes including a Michener Award for the Novel and an American Fiction award. marvin v. arnett is a retired manager who worked in the federal service for more than twenty-five years and is a former vice president of the National Organization of Blacks in Government. Arnett is a member of the Society of Midland Authors and lives in Southfield, Michigan, where she lectures and tutors. charles barber is currently a senior executive at the Connection, an innovative social services agency, and a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is the author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation and is a regular blogger on the Huffington Post. mary felstiner is a professor of history at San Francisco State University , the author of To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era, and the recipient of the American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History. eli hastings is a Seattle native who received an mfa in creative nonfiction from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and has been published in numerous literary journals. He has worked in food service and retail sales, as a creative-writing teacher and a manual laborer, and as a Get-Out-the-Vote coordinator and a health care and utilities campaign coordinator. sonya huber is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. She is the author of many short stories, essays, and poems appearing in journals such as Fourth Genre, Sub-Lit, and Kaleidoscope. 304 Contributors jonathan johnson is a poet and author whose work has appeared in various literary magazines and in The Best American Poetry. He is the author of Mastodon, 80% Complete, a book of poems. ted kooser, Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska, is a former U.S. poet laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. In addition to his many volumes of poetry, he is the author of The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets and the coauthor (with Steve Cox) of Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing, both available in Bison Books editions. dinah lenney received her ba from Yale and a Certificate of Acting from the Neighborhood Playhouse School. She holds an mfa from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and her essays and reviews have appeared in national journals and papers including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Continuing to work on stage and screen, Dinah played Nurse Shirley on nbc’s critically acclaimed series ER for fourteen seasons. She teaches acting as well as writing at ucla and at usc and is the coauthor of Acting for Young Actors. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children. aaron raz link, a writer, performing artist, curator, and historian of science, is the director of the Museum of Nature in Portland, Oregon. lee martin is director of the creative-writing program at the Ohio State University and the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever. He is also the author of From Our House, which is available in a Bison Books edition. He has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, and the Glenna Luschei Prize. dinty w. moore is a professor of English at Ohio University and the author of several books including The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction and The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment , and Sitting Still. hilda raz, a professor of English and women’s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the Glenna Luschei Endowed Editor of Prairie Schooner and the author of the poetry collections Trans and What Happens, both available in Bison Books editions. Contributors 305 mimi schwartz is the author of five books including Good Neighbors, Bad Times (Nebraska, 2008) and Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (with Sondra Perl). Her essays are widely anthologized and five of them are Notables in Best American Essays. A professor emerita at...