Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction

Contributors

contributors 209 Sarah Blackman earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Alabama and is the coeditor for fiction of DIAGRAM.She is currently the director of creative writing at the Fine Arts Center, a public high school focusing on the arts,in Greenville,South Carolina.Her most recent prose is published or forthcoming in the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Gettysburg Review, the Fairy Tale Review, and American Fiction. Her chapbook is Such a Thing as America. Bernard Cooper’s most recent book is The Bill from My Father. He is the author of four other books, including Maps to Anywhere and Guess Again. Cooper is the recipient of the 1991 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, a 1995 O. Henry Prize, a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in literature. His work has appeared in several anthologies, including The Best American Essays of 1988, 1995, 1997, 2002, and 2008. His work has also appeared in magazines and literary reviews, including Harper’s Magazine, the Paris Review, and Los Angeles. He teaches creative nonfiction at Bennington College and USC. Cathy Day has been teaching creative writing for almost twenty years, most recently at Ball State University. She is the author of The Circus in Winter (2004), a linked story collection that was a finalist for the Story Prize, and Comeback Season (2008), an immersion memoir. Her stories and essays have appeared most recently in the Millions, Ninth Letter, the North American Review,and Sports Illustrated.She is the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference,and a Beatrice,Benjamin,and Richard Bader Fellowship in the Visual Arts of the Theatre from Harvard University’s Houghton Library. Contributors 210 contributors Lena Dunham is a New York–based writer, director, and actress. Her film Tiny Furniture was released in 2011, and her HBO show Girls will air in 2012. Robin Hemley is the author of eight books of nonfiction and fiction and has won many awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship for nonfiction. He has two books forthcoming in 2012, Reply All, a collection of short stories, and a book on immersion writing. He is the founder of the conference NonfictioNow and the director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, the collection of essays A Little More About Me, and the novel Sight Hound. Her stories have been selected for volumes of The Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the director of creative writing at UC Davis and teaches in the Pacific University low-residency MFA program. Her newest book is Contents May Have Shifted. Kristen Iversen is the author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, forthcoming in 2012; Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Sudler Award for Nonfiction, and Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction . She directs the MFA program at the University of Memphis and is editor-in-chief of The Pinch, an award-winning journal of prose, poetry, art,and photography.She is also on the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at the University of New Orleans, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is cofounder of Orphan Press. David Lazar’s books include The Body of Brooklyn and Truth in Nonfiction (Iowa), Michael Powell: Interviews and Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher, and Powder Town. The anthology Essaying the Essay is forthcoming . His essays and prose poetry have appeared widely. Several of his essays have been named “Notable Essays of the Year”by The Best American Essays. He has lectured widely on nonfiction and editing and founded the PhD program in nonfiction writing at Ohio University, as well as the undergraduate and MFA programs in nonfiction at Columbia College in Chicago. He is the founding editor of Hotel Amerika. contributors 211 E. J. Levy’s anthology Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers won a Lambda Literary Award. Her essays have appeared in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Nation, the Kenyon Review, Orion, and Salmagundi; her fiction has been published in the Paris Review, the Gettysburg...