Nonfiction

Claudia Amadori-Segree

Claudia Amadori-Segree

Claudia Amadori-Segree was born in Italy. She lived in London for eleven years and moved to South Florida in 1997. She will graduate from Florida Atlantic University with an MFA in Fiction in August 2008 and will begin a PhD program in English at the University of Miami in the fall. She writes fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry and much of her writing explores issues of identity, cultural hybridity, loss and family dynamics. Claudia's stories have a strong sense of place and are set in the many countries she traveled to. Claudia's nonfiction explores questions of displacement and family bonds.

Claudia Amadori-Segree

Claudia Amadori-Segree

Claudia Amadori-Segree was born in Italy. She lived in London for eleven years and moved to South Florida in 1997. She will graduate from Florida Atlantic University with an MFA in Fiction in August 2008 and will begin a PhD program in English at the University of Miami in the fall. She writes fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry and much of her writing explores issues of identity, cultural hybridity, loss and family dynamics. Claudia's stories have a strong sense of place and are set in the many countries she traveled to. Claudia's nonfiction explores questions of displacement and family bonds.

Claudia
Amadori-Segree

Laurie Stone

Laurie Stone

Laurie Stone is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime writer for the Village Voice, she has been theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large on Fresh Air, and a member of The Bat Theater Company. She has published numerous memoir essays and stories in such publications as Open City, Anderbo, Ms., nthWord, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, Threepenny Review, Speakeasy, Intar Journal, Signs, and Creative Nonfiction. She is at work on My Life as an Animal, Some Kind of Romance and The Pain of Language, a collection of essays.

Laurie Stone

Laurie Stone

Laurie Stone is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime writer for the Village Voice, she has been theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large on Fresh Air, and a member of The Bat Theater Company. She has published numerous memoir essays and stories in such publications as Open City, Anderbo, Ms., nthWord, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, Threepenny Review, Speakeasy, Intar Journal, Signs, and Creative Nonfiction. She is at work on My Life as an Animal, Some Kind of Romance and The Pain of Language, a collection of essays.

Laurie
Stone

Richard Toon

Richard Toon

Richard Toon was born in England and has kept a notebook since he was fourteen when a teacher taught him to write poetry and to jot down thoughts and observations. Since 2004, he has worked as a senior research analyst at The Morrison Institute for Public Policy, at Arizona State University. In 2006, he was awarded a residency at the artist colony Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he worked on Pictures at an Exhibition, an essay collection, including stories of an English boyhood and meditations on jumping across classes and cultures. He is currently at work on the book Sugar Time, a memoir about diabetes and the British class system.

Richard Toon

Richard Toon

Richard Toon was born in England and has kept a notebook since he was fourteen when a teacher taught him to write poetry and to jot down thoughts and observations. Since 2004, he has worked as a senior research analyst at The Morrison Institute for Public Policy, at Arizona State University. In 2006, he was awarded a residency at the artist colony Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he worked on Pictures at an Exhibition, an essay collection, including stories of an English boyhood and meditations on jumping across classes and cultures. He is currently at work on the book Sugar Time, a memoir about diabetes and the British class system.

Richard
Toon

Sara Bailey

Sara Bailey

Dr. Sara Bailey is a writer living in NYC. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia University and received her PhD in Creative Writing from Texas Tech University. Her most recent publications have appeared in Arabesques, Saucy Vox, Rumble, LitBits, and Big [T]ext.

Sara Bailey

Sara Bailey

Dr. Sara Bailey is a writer living in NYC. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia University and received her PhD in Creative Writing from Texas Tech University. Her most recent publications have appeared in Arabesques, Saucy Vox, Rumble, LitBits, and Big [T]ext.

Sara
Bailey