Valerie S. Golightly (1988)
An undergraduate student enrolled at the University of Richmond.
King Andrews (1989)
An undergraduate student enrolled at N.C. State University.
Gillian Kim Ashley (1990)
An undergraduate student enrolled at East Carolina University, and Pamela Johnson, an undergraduate student enrolled at Methodist College.
Karen Coats (1991)
A graduate student enrolled at Virginia Tech.
Patricia Snell (1992)
An undergraduate student enrolled at George Mason University.
Dawn Radford (1993)
A graduate student enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Debra Allbery Gildea (1994)
A graduate student at the University of Virginia who published a book of her poems Walking Distance in 1991.
Randall Kenan (1995)
A lecturer at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College who has published two books A Visitation of Spirit and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead.
Ron Rash (1996)
A lecturer at Tri-County Tech, a two-year college in Pendleton, S.C., who published a book of short stories The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth in 1994. He has also published a number of poems in magazines around the country.
Gail Pollock (1997)
A resident of Trinidad, Colo., she is working on a screenplay for Kit Brandon, Sherwood Anderson's novel, published in 1936, about the bootleg industry in the South during Prohibition. Pollock has had extensive experience as a film editor in New York and has been involved in the production of numerous features and documentaries.
Kamil Turowski (1998)
A native of Poland and a resident of Athens, Ohio, who has produced a film adaptation of Nobody Knows, a story in the Anderson book Winesburg, Ohio. Turowski hopes to adapt more of the Winesburg stories to film.
Tammy Greenwood (1999)
A native of Vermont, currently lives in San Diego, Calif., where she works part-time for a computer software company. Her first novel Breathing Water was published in May by St. Martin's Press. She is currently working on a second novel.
Paola Corso (2000)
A native of the Pittsburgh area, currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Michael, and son, Giona. Corso teaches creative writing at Fordham University and has written a story collection, Giovanna's 86 Circles, and two novels, The River in Me and San Procopio.
Doug Crandell (2001)
A grant writer and instructor of poetry and literature in a community mental health program in Georgia, is the author of numerous poems and short stories, including If He Is a Slave.
Joseph Bathanti (2002)
An associate professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C, has written most recently the novel, East Liberty, winner of the 2001 Carolina Novel Award. He is also the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which, This Metal, was nominated for the National Book Award.
Peggy Payne (2003)
Is author of Sister India, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and of a second novel Revelation, as well as co-author of The Healing Power of Doing Good, a Literary Guild selection. A resident of Apex, North Carolina, she has published articles, reviews, or essays in magazines including Ms., Family Circle, Cosmopolitan, Travel & Leisure, and has published in most of the major American newspapers. She offers consulting services to other writers on manuscripts and marketing through wwwpeggypayne.com.
Mary Beth Caschetta (2004)
Lives in Massachusetts, where she is finishing her first novel. She is the author of Lucy on the West Coast (Alyson Publications, 1996) Interrelated stories from her new collection, What's Not My Fault? have appeared in the Missississippi Review, the Red Rock Review, Bloom Magazine, and Blithe House Quarterly. A recipient of several writing awards, including the W.K. Rose Fellowship for Emerging Artists (2000), Ms. Caschetta makes her living as a copywriter in medical advertising and communications. She has been an adjunct instructor at Fordham University, Vassar College, and New York University.
Jacob lives in New York City. His short fiction has appeared in Agni, Colorado Review, Florida Review, Raritan, Southwest Review, Story Quarterly and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the MFA program in fiction at New York University, and teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City. His website is:
http://jacobmappel.com.
Fisher writes and raises children, trains horses, and builds houses with her husband on Lopez Island, Washington. Her debut novel,
A Sudden Country, in addition to winning the Sherwood Anderson Writer's Grant, was a finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award. It won the 2006 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Best Fiction Award and the 2006 Virginia Commonwealth University's First Novel Award.
Robert Garner McBrearty lives in Louisville, Colorado, with his wife and two children. His short stories have appeared in major literary publications including The Pushcart Prize, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, and New England Review. His first book of shorts stories, A Night at the Y, received glowing reviews from Publisher's Weekly and the Chicago Tribune, which called it a "warm and engaging collection." His new collection of stories-in-progress is called
Episode and includes a story by that title, previously published in North American Review, and "Teach Us, " which first appeared in Narrative Magazine. Those stories were included in his entry for the Anderson Award. Other stories from the new collection were first published in StoryQuarterly and Green Hills Literary Lantern. McBrearty teaches writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Nelly Rosario (2008)
Nelly Rosario was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BS in engineering from MIT and an MFA from Columbia University. She has received numerous awards, including a 1999 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Fellowship, two National Arts Club Writing Fellowships, and a Hurston/Wright Award in Fiction. She was named "Writer on the Verge" by the Village Voice Literary Supplement in 2001. Her debut novel
Song of the Water Saints won a PEN Open Book Award in 2002. Currently she teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos.
