Interviews

Beckian Fritz Goldberg is the author of several volumes of poetry including Body Betrayer, In the Badlands of Desire, Never Be the Horse, Twentieth Century Children, Lie Awake Lake, and The Book of Accident. Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems is due out in 2010. Her work has appeared in such anthologies and journals as The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Harpers, The Iowa Review, and The Massachusetts Review. She has received the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Award, The University of Akron Press Poetry Prize, the Field Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. Goldberg is currently Professor of English at Arizona State University.

Dan Chaon is the author of the national bestseller Await Your Reply, named among the year's best fiction. Dan is also the author of the short story collection Among the Missing, a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, and the novel You Remind Me of Me. Dan's fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, he has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, and the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dan teaches at Ohios Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing and Literature.

David St. John has received many prizes for poets, including several fellowships, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His work has been published in literary magazines such as The New Yorker, the Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and Harper's. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently The Face: A Novella in Verse, and a volume of essays, interviews, and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us. St. John is presently completing a volume of poems entitled, The Auroras, and is co-editor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. He currently teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Nick Flynn's recent book, The Ticking is the Bomb, is a memoir of bewilderment and becoming a father. His previous memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, was translated into thirteen languages and won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He is the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether, and Blind Huber, and a play, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins. His work has appeared in venues such as The New Yorker, the Paris Review, NPRs This American Life, and The New York Times Book Review. His film credits include artistic collaborator on Darwin's Nightmare, and each spring he teaches at the University of Houston.

Pam Houston is the author of two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat. Her stories have been selected for Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the author of a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, a stage play called Tracking the Pleiades, and a novel titled Sighthound. Houston is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA award for contemporary fiction, and The Evil Companions Literary Award. She is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis in Colorado.

Scott Russell Sanders is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, A Private History of Awe, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and A Conservationist Manifesto. Among his honors are the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Mark Twain Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University, where he taught from 1971 to 2009. He and his wife, Ruth, have reared two children in their hometown of Bloomington in the hardwood hill country of Indiana's White River Valley.

The many faces of Terese Svoboda's writing include eleven books of poetry, fiction, translation, and over 100 short stories. Weapons Grade, published 2009, contains poems "as haunting as they are funny...," according to Publishers Weekly. She is also author of Cannibal, Trailer Girl and Other Stories, Tin God, and Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, which was selected as a Japan Times "Best of Asia 2008" book and winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Svoboda is also the recipient of the Bobst Prize, the Iowa Prize, and the O. Henry Award. She is teaching fiction this spring at Columbias School of the Arts.