Kevin Canty's seventh book, a novel called Everything, will be published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday in summer 2010. He is also the author of three previous collections of short stories (Where the Money Went,  Honeymoon, and A Stranger In This World) and three novels (Nine Below Zero, Into the Great Wide Open, and Winslow in Love). His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Tin House, GQ, Glimmer Train, Story, the New England Review and elsewhere; essays and articles in Vogue, Details, Playboy, the New York Times and the Oxford American, among many others. His work has been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian and English. He lives and writes in Missoula, Montana.

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and Veronica, which was nominated for the 2005 National Book Award, National Critic’s Circle Award, and L.A. Times Book Award. She is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner in 1998. Her newest collection of stories is titled Don’t Cry (2009). Her story “Secretary” was the basis for the feature film of the same name starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader. The film received the Special Jury Prize, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Gaitskill’s stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. In 2002 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction. She has taught at U-C Berkeley, the University of Houston, New York University, Brown and Syracuse University. Mary Gaitskill was born in 1954 in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1981 Gaitskill graduated from the University of Michigan, where she won an award for her collection of short fiction The Woman Who Knew Judo and Other Stories.

Lee Henderson is the author of The Broken Record Technique (Penguin Canada 2002) and The Man Game (Penguin Canada, August 2008). The Broken Record Technique won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and The Man Game was shortlisted for the 2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and won the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize as well as the 2009 City of Vancouver Book Award. His short story "Sheep Dub" was included in the 2000 Journey Prize Anthology and “Conjugation” appeared in the 2006 Journey Prize Anthology. He is a contributing editor to the arts magazines Border Crossings in Canada and Contemporary in the UK . He has published fiction and art criticism in numerous periodicals and co-organizes Father Zosima Presents, a monthly night of sound performances where he lives in Vancouver , B.C.

Dawn Raffel's newest book is Further Adventures in the Restless Universe. She is also the author of a novel, Carrying the Body and a previous collection, In the Year of Long Division. Her stories have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Conjunctions, Black Book, Fence, Open City, The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Arts & Letters, The Quarterly, NOON and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. She was a fiction editor for many years, followed by a seven-year stint as Executive Articles Editor at O, The Oprah Magazine and three years as Editor-at-Large at More magazine; she has also taught in the MFA program at Columbia University. She now works part time at Readers Digest as Editor at Large, Books, and is completing a memoir. She lives outside New York City with her husband and sons.

Rachel Resnick is the author of the memoir Love Junkie and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick. She has published articles, essays, and celebrity-profile cover stories in the Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, Women's Health, and BlackBook. She is a contributing editor at Tin House magazine. Her essays and stories have also appeared in the anthologies What Was I Thinking?, Stricken, The Time of My Life, Damage Control, The Dictionary of Failed Relationships, The Best American Erotica 2004, Women on the Edge, L.A. Shorts, and Absolute Disaster.

She is the founder and CEO of Writers on Fire, provider of luxury writing retreats both in the United States and abroad. Writers On Fire also offers private writing coaching and local (Los Angeles area) workshops throughout the year. See www.writersonfire.com for more info.

Jonah Winter is the award-winning author of many acclaimed picture book biographies, including Diego, Frida, and more recently The New York Times Best-Seller, Barack. Winter's book about Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy, received 5 starred reviews and was an ALA Notable. His book on Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude, was a recent Junior Library Guild selection -- as was his fictionalized book about the infamous "Garbage Barge" incident, Here Comes the Garbage Barge! As a mid-life crisis, Winter has taken to performing Gilbert & Sullivan operas, and in particular, the patter song roles. In 2009, he was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition by Linda Wertheimer, who allowed him to make his national singing debut by humming a few bars from "Pirates of Penzance," presumably in the service of promoting his new book, The Fabulous Feud of Gilbert and Sullivan. When not singing in a phony English accent or writing children's books, Mr. Winter writes poetry for adults and has published 4 books, including 2 full-length collections, Maine and Amnesia. Mr. Winter is also a children's book illustrator.

Jon Paul Fiorentino is a writer and editor. His first novel is Stripmalling (ECW, 2009) which was shortlisted for the 2009 Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction. His most recent book of poetry is Indexical Elegies (Coach House Books, 2010).  He is the author of the poetry books The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books, 2006) which was shortlisted for the 2006 A.M. Klein Award for Poetry and Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and Post-Prairie – a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch, (Talonbooks, 2005). He lives in Montreal where he is the Editor of Matrix magazine and Snare Books.

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Max Winter's book The Pictures was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2007. He was the winner of the Fifth Annual Boston Review Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Pleiades, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Iowa Review, Jacket, The Quarterly, Parthenon West, and other publications previously. He was also included on Salon.com in a set of recordings of Paris Review authors, in New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000) (as you know), and in Under the Rock Umbrella (Mercer University Press, 2007). He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006.

In addition to reviewing fiction and poetry forers Weekly intermittently for several years, he has published reviews in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Newsday, The Boston Review, Bookforum, The Denver Post, The Boston Book Review, The Boston Phoenix, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bomb, Poets and Writers, and Kirkus Reviews, among other publications.

He is currently a Poetry Editor of Fence and a Senior Editor at a leading educational publisher.

John Goldbach's writings have appeared in Hobart, Descant, Matrix, the Globe and Mail, the Green Mountains Review and the New Guard and he's the author of Selected Blackouts, a collection of short stories. He lives in Montreal.

Adam Levin is the author of the novel THE INSTRUCTIONS (McSweeney's, 2010) and the story collection HOT PINK (McSweeney's, Fall 2011).  Winner of the 2003 Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, his stories have appeared in MCSWEENEY'S QUARTERLY, TIN HOUSE,  and NINTH LETTER.  He lives in Chicago, where he teaches Creative Writing at Roosevelt University and the School of the Art Institute.  

Fiona Maazel is a writer and freelance editor. She is the author of the novel Last Last Chance (2008). Her work has appeared in Anthem, Bomb, The Mississippi Review, The New York Times, N+1.com, Pierogi Press, Salon, Tin House, The Village Voice, and The Yale Review. She is a 2005 recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, winner of the Bard Prize for 2009, and a National Book Foundation "5 under 35" honoree for 2008. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is currently at work on novel number two.

Fiona McCrae has twenty-eight years of experience in the publishing industry. She has been publisher of Graywolf Press since 1994, following four years at Faber and Faber USA in Boston, where she was a director and executive editor. At Faber USA the books she edited included Sven Birkerts’ The Gutenberg Elegies, David Greenberger’s Duplex Planet, and Coconuts for the Saint by Debra Spark. From 1982 until her move to Boston in 1991, she was at Faber and Faber, Ltd., in London, where she worked with such authors as Kazuo Ishiguro, Caryl Phillips, and Howard Norman. McCrae has taught publishing courses at Harvard University and Emerson College, lectures on publishing throughout the country and has been a panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, Pew Charitable Trusts and others. Authors that McCrae has published at Graywolf include Carl Phillips, Jane Kenyon, Charles Baxter, Per Petterson and Percival Everett. She currently serves on the boards of Summer Literary Seminars and the Pan African Literary Forum in Ghana and is an advisor for Open Letter Press. She served as Vice-Chair of the board for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses from 2000-2005.

Alana Newhouse is editor in chief of Tablet magazine. Before that, she spent five years as culture editor of the Forward, where she supervised coverage of books, films, dance, music, art, and ideas. She also started a line of Forward-branded books with W.W. Norton and edited its maiden publication, A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward. A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Alana has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Slate.

Noah Richler made documentaries and features for BBC Radio for fourteen years before returning to Canada in 1998. He was the books editor and then the literary columnist for the National Post, and has contributed to numerous publications in Britain, including the Guardian, Punch, the Daily Telegraph, and in Canada to The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Saturday Night, the Toronto Star, and the Globe and Mail. A Literary Atlas of Canada is his first book. He lives in Toronto.

Gillian Sze is the author of three chapbooks published with Withwords Press: This is the Colour I Love You Best (2007), A Tender Invention (2008), and, most recently, Allow Me to Conjugate (2010). In 2004, she received the University of Winnipeg Writers’ Circle Prize and her collection, Fish Bones (DC Books, 2009), was shortlisted for the QWF McAuslan First Book Prize and longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award in poetry. Her work has appeared in a number of national and international journals. She co-edits Branch, a quarterly online magazine showcasing Canadian art, design and writing. She has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Concordia University and resides in Montreal. The Anatomy of Clay, her second poetry collection, is forthcoming from ECW Press in Spring 2011.