Brooke Shaffner (2010)

Brooke Shaffner (2010)

Brooke Shaffner received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, where she was a Dean’s Fellow. Her memoir, Between That Body and This One, is represented by Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.; and she is at work on a novel, Borderlands. Her writing has been...
Lauren Alleyne (2009)

Lauren Alleyne (2009)

Lauren K. Alleyne hails from the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry and a graduate certificate in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University. Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction have been widely published in...
James Hannaham (2009)

James Hannaham (2009)

James Hannaham’s stories have appeared in The Literary Review, Open City and Nerve, Significant Objects, and One Story. He has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Blue Mountain Center,Chateau de Lavigny, and Fundacion Valparaiso. He...
Shelley Ettinger (2008)

Shelley Ettinger (2008)

Shelley Ettinger was born in 1954 in Detroit and grew up in Oak Park, Michigan. She moved to Ann Arbor in 1972. There she attended the University of Michigan and later worked for four years as a city bus driver at the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority. Shelley began...
Abeer Hoque (2008)

Abeer Hoque (2008)

Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi-American writer and photographer with BS and MA degrees from the Wharton School of Business and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. She is the recipient of a 2005 Tanenbaum Award and a 2007 Fulbright...