Interviews

Barbara Hamby

Barbara Hamby

Barbara Hamby's fourth book of poems, All-Night Lingo Tango (2009), was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her third book of poems, Babel, was chosen by Stephen Dunn to win the 2003 Associated Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was also published by Pittsburgh. Hamby received a fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1996. She has also received three fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. Her work has appeared in many national publications. She is Writer-in-Residence in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Barbara Hamby

Barbara Hamby

Barbara Hamby's fourth book of poems, All-Night Lingo Tango (2009), was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her third book of poems, Babel, was chosen by Stephen Dunn to win the 2003 Associated Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was also published by Pittsburgh. Hamby received a fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1996. She has also received three fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. Her work has appeared in many national publications. She is Writer-in-Residence in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Barbara
Hamby

Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke is the author of four works of fiction—most recently the novel An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, which was a national bestseller, a Book Sense #1 Pick, a Borders Original Voices Book and a American Library Association Book of the Year. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, One Story, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, and on NPR's Selected Shorts, as well as in the New Stories from the South and Pushcart Prize annual anthologies. He was a 2008 NEA fellow, and teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke is the author of four works of fiction—most recently the novel An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, which was a national bestseller, a Book Sense #1 Pick, a Borders Original Voices Book and a American Library Association Book of the Year. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, One Story, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, and on NPR's Selected Shorts, as well as in the New Stories from the South and Pushcart Prize annual anthologies. He was a 2008 NEA fellow, and teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

Brock
Clarke

David Baker

David Baker

David Baker was born in 1954 in Maine and grew up in Missouri. He received degrees from Central Missouri State University and University of Utah and has taught at Kenyon College, Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan. Currently he holds the Thomas Fordham Chair of Poetry at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review. He teaches also in Warren Wilson's MFA program. Baker's twelve books include Never-Ending Birds, (poems, Norton, 2009), Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (2007, Graywolf), and Midwest Eclogue (poems, 2005, Norton). Baker has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, Society of Midland Authors, and others.

David Baker

David Baker

David Baker was born in 1954 in Maine and grew up in Missouri. He received degrees from Central Missouri State University and University of Utah and has taught at Kenyon College, Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan. Currently he holds the Thomas Fordham Chair of Poetry at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review. He teaches also in Warren Wilson's MFA program. Baker's twelve books include Never-Ending Birds, (poems, Norton, 2009), Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (2007, Graywolf), and Midwest Eclogue (poems, 2005, Norton). Baker has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, Society of Midland Authors, and others.

David
Baker

Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore's memoir Between Panic & Desire (University of Nebraska) was winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize in 2009. His other books include The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperors Virtual Clothes, and the writing guide, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. He has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse, and teaches in the creative nonfiction MA and PhD program at Ohio University.

Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore's memoir Between Panic & Desire (University of Nebraska) was winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize in 2009. His other books include The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperors Virtual Clothes, and the writing guide, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. He has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse, and teaches in the creative nonfiction MA and PhD program at Ohio University.

Dinty W.
Moore

Eliza Gregory

Eliza Gregory

Eliza Gregory grew up in San Francisco and moved to Phoenix in 2006. She is the recipient of a 2008 Arizona Commission on the Arts Project Grant to support her work making portraits of resettled refugees in Phoenix. Thanks to a public art commission from the City of Phoenix, last year she had a photograph on display at the bus stop installation at 7th Avenue and Glenrosa, and last spring she was honored by a Contemporary Forum Artist Grant Award. She joined the Eye Lounge Gallery and Artists' Cooperative in 2007, and has served as the Cooperative's co-president since 2008. Her next show of new work, Refugee Status at School, will open April 17th at the eye lounge and run through the second weekend May.

Eliza Gregory

Eliza Gregory

Eliza Gregory grew up in San Francisco and moved to Phoenix in 2006. She is the recipient of a 2008 Arizona Commission on the Arts Project Grant to support her work making portraits of resettled refugees in Phoenix. Thanks to a public art commission from the City of Phoenix, last year she had a photograph on display at the bus stop installation at 7th Avenue and Glenrosa, and last spring she was honored by a Contemporary Forum Artist Grant Award. She joined the Eye Lounge Gallery and Artists' Cooperative in 2007, and has served as the Cooperative's co-president since 2008. Her next show of new work, Refugee Status at School, will open April 17th at the eye lounge and run through the second weekend May.

Eliza
Gregory

Erin Mcgraw

Erin Mcgraw

Erin McGraw is the author of five books, most recently the novel The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, STORY, The Southern Review, Allure, The Georgia Review, and many other journals and magazines. Married to the poet Andrew Hudgins, she teaches at Ohio State University

Erin Mcgraw

Erin Mcgraw

Erin McGraw is the author of five books, most recently the novel The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, STORY, The Southern Review, Allure, The Georgia Review, and many other journals and magazines. Married to the poet Andrew Hudgins, she teaches at Ohio State University

Erin
Mcgraw

Mary Sojourner

Mary Sojourner

Mary Sojourner has written the novel Sisters of the Dream; short story collection, Delicate; essays Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest; memoir/essays Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire. She is writing a book on women and compulsive gambling for Seal Press and is co-writing with a man who has befriended a wounded eagle. Her short stories and essays are in High Country News, Mountain Gazette, and many literary magazines. She is an NPR commentator and teaches writing throughout the West. She began her serious writing in 1985 at 45, after she raised her three kids as a divorced mom.

Mary Sojourner

Mary Sojourner

Mary Sojourner has written the novel Sisters of the Dream; short story collection, Delicate; essays Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest; memoir/essays Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire. She is writing a book on women and compulsive gambling for Seal Press and is co-writing with a man who has befriended a wounded eagle. Her short stories and essays are in High Country News, Mountain Gazette, and many literary magazines. She is an NPR commentator and teaches writing throughout the West. She began her serious writing in 1985 at 45, after she raised her three kids as a divorced mom.

Mary
Sojourner

Stella Pope Duarte

Stella Pope Duarte

Stella Pope Duarte's first collection of short stories, Fragile Night, won a creative writing fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and was named a candidate for the Pen West Fiction Award. In 2001, Ms. Duarte was awarded a second creative writing fellowship for her highly acclaimed, debut novel, Let Their Spirits Dance. Ms. Duarte's work has won honors and awards nationwide, and most recently her current novel, If I Die in Jurez, was selected as a Top Pick in the Southwest Books of the Year Competition. Ms. Duarte was born and raised in the Sonorita Barrio in South Phoenix.

Stella Pope Duarte

Stella Pope Duarte

Stella Pope Duarte's first collection of short stories, Fragile Night, won a creative writing fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and was named a candidate for the Pen West Fiction Award. In 2001, Ms. Duarte was awarded a second creative writing fellowship for her highly acclaimed, debut novel, Let Their Spirits Dance. Ms. Duarte's work has won honors and awards nationwide, and most recently her current novel, If I Die in Jurez, was selected as a Top Pick in the Southwest Books of the Year Competition. Ms. Duarte was born and raised in the Sonorita Barrio in South Phoenix.

Stella Pope
Duarte

T. Coraghessan Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty books of fiction, including, most recently, The Women (2009). He received a PhD degree from the University of Iowa in 1977, his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his BA in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978.

T. Coraghessan Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty books of fiction, including, most recently, The Women (2009). He received a PhD degree from the University of Iowa in 1977, his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his BA in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978.

T. Coraghessan
Boyle