Contributors' Notes
- Contributors' Notes
Charles Baxter is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. Pantheon published his most recent collection, Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, in 2011. Vintage has just reissued his novel First Light, from 1987. He lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota.
Kelly Grey Carlisle's essays have appeared in River Teeth, Subtropics, Tampa Review, Waccamaw, and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. She teaches writing at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
Robert Clark is the author of ten books: the novels In the Deep Midwinter (Picador, 1997), Mr. White's Confession (Picador, 1998), Love Among the Ruins (Norton, 2001), The Lives of the Artists (Harper Collins, 2005), and Heaven (just published, CreateSpace, 2012), as well as the nonfiction works River of the West (Harper Collins, 1995), The Solace of Food (Steerforth, 1998), My Grandfather's House (Picador, 1999), Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces (Doubleday, 2008), and, most recently, Bayham Street: Essays in Longing (CreateSpace, 2012). He is a winner of the Edgar for Best Novel, the Washington State Book Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Non-Fiction. He lives in Seattle.
Jennifer De Leon is the winner of the 2011 Fourth Genre Michael Steinberg Essay Prize. Her work has appeared in Ms., Briar Cliff Review, Poets & Writers, Guernica, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010, and elsewhere. A member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop, she has been awarded scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Hedgebrook, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the editor of the anthology Wise Latina (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), and she is working on a novel.
Patricia Foster is the author of the memoir All the Lost Girls (University of Alabama Press, 2000), winner of the PEN/Jerard Award; Just Beneath My Skin (University of Georgia, 2004), essays; and the forthcoming novel Girls from Soldier Creek, winner of the Fred Bonnie Award. She is the editor of Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul; Sister to Sister; and the forthcoming Understanding the Essay (coedited with Jeff Porter). Foster has been a professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa for nineteen years, has been an exchange professor in Montpellier, France, and has taught in Prague, Melbourne, Wollongong, Barcelona, and Florence.
Lynn Freed's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and [End Page 185] Narrative Magazine, among other publications. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN/O. Henry Award, fellowships, and grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation. Born in South Africa, she now lives in Northern California.
Mary Gordon is the author of six previous novels, two memoirs, a short-story collection, and Reading Jesus (Pantheon, 2009), a work of nonfiction. She has received many honors, including a Lila Wallace—Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an O. Henry Award, an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Story Prize. She is the State Writer of New York. Gordon teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
L. K. Hanson is a graphic artist and writer from Minneapolis, where he worked for the Star Tribune, Minnesota's largest daily. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College, where he was artist-in-residence. He has taught illustration and lettering at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, and has illustrated books for Workman Publishing and the Hazelden Foundation. Hanson is now in semiretirement, and his work appears weekly on the Star Tribune's opinion page.
Phillip Lopate is the author of more than a dozen titles, including Waterfront (Crown, 2004), Portrait of My Body (Doubleday, 1996), and Notes on Sontag (Princeton University Press, 2009). His forthcoming books are Essay Love (personal essays) and To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, both from The Free Press/Simon & Schuster in...
