Nonfiction

Anna Viadero is a writer living in Monatgue, MA. A first generation American, she enjoys writing about her birth family and the family born to her. She also writes about her work as a fiber artist. Her writing appears in many anthologies. She has been a commentator on public radio in New York and New England.

Carol Ann Bassett is the author of three works of literary nonfiction: Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin's Cradle of Evolution; A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World (a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction); and Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge (part of the Desert Places series). Her essays have been published in the American Nature Writing series and other anthologies. Bassett was a regular contributor to The New York Times and Time-Life, and was an independent producer for National Public Radio. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Cond Nasté Traveler, and numerous other national publications. She teaches environmental writing and literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon.

Christine Steele has written for daily, weekly and alternative weekly newspapers in Maine, New Mexico, Colorado and Massachusetts. She is currently the Bureau Chief, editor and lead reporter for the Silver City Sun-News, in Silver City, New Mexico. She is responsible for planning (and sometimes writing and shooting) all local content in this seven-day daily zoned edition of the Las Cruces Sun-News. She has a BFA in creative writing from the University of Maine Farmington and is completing her MFA in creative nonfiction through Goucher College's low-residency program. Her thesis is a memoir about growing up punk rock and living on the streets of D.C. and N.Y.C. during the hardcore heyday of the early 1980s.

Jo Scott-Coe’s first book is Teacher at Point Blank (Aunt Lute 2010). Her essays have appeared in Salon, The Los Angeles Times, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Ruminate, The Nervous Breakdown, and Ninth Letter. In 2009 and 2010, her work received notable listings in Best American Essays. Scott-Coe is an associate professor of English at Riverside City College in Southern California, where she also teaches public writing workshops for the Inlandia Institute. Her forthcoming book, The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, seeks to understand the relationship between the 1966 UT Austin sniper and a friend who was a Catholic priest.

Joseph Lombo's work has appeared in Philadelphia Stories Magazine, Sub-Lit Journal, The Northville and Chaffey Reviews, BAP Quarterly, The Shine Journal, Word Catalyst and The Wilderness House Literary Review. He has also received the Toni Libro award for Outstanding Masters Thesis from Rowan University.

Rachel Yoder's work has appeared in the New York Times, Sun Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Cimarron Review, and is forthcoming in Quick Fiction and PANK. This past year, she won 2nd prize in Opium Magazine's 500-Word Memoir Contest, had a piece recognized as a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2009, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She's taught creative writing to women in rehab, Arizonan undergrads, and Midwestern retirees. Currently, she's an Arts Fellow in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Rick Steigelman was born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan. He moved to Ann Arbor to attend The University of Michigan, and, like so many others, stuck around afterwards to help staff the local restaurant scene. He has published one novel, The Hope of Timothy Bean (Briarwood Publications, 2002), and has placed creative nonfiction in the online journals Hackwriters and Cosmoetica. He currently resides in Ann Arbor with his wife Donna and daughter Claire.

Tania Katan is an author, playwright, and performer. Her memoir My One-Night Stand With Cancer is the winner of the 2006 Judy Grahn Award in Nonfiction, an honoree of the 2006 American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award in Non-Fiction, and a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. Rock-n-Roller Melissa Etheridge said of Tania's memoir, This book rocks! It's passionate, playful, and downright beautiful, and the Library Journal gave the book a Star Review. Since the success of her first book, Tania has been performing her one-woman show, Saving Tania's Privates (adapted from My One Night Stand With Cancer), which made its European premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008 where it was a critical success! In the U.S. Saving Tania's Privates has been seen at such prestigious venues as ACT in Seattle and The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.