Authors
Rick Campbell
Rick Campbell is the author of The Traveler’s Companion and Setting The World In Order which won the Walt McDonald Prize. Campbell has won an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and two fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. He is the director of Anhinga Press and the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and he teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. He lives with his wife and daughter in Gadsden County, Florida.
Kelly Cherry
A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, Kelly Cherry is the author of seventeen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction (criticism, memoir, and essay), including the poetry collections God's Loud Hand, Death and Transfiguration, and Rising Venus. Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she lives with her husband on a small farm in Virginia.
Michael Chitwood
Michael Chitwood was born in the foothills of the Virginia Blue Ridge in a small town named Rocky Mount. He grew up there, attending the county’s only high school. He attended Emory and Henry College for my undergraduate degree, earning a BA in English in 1980. He worked as a science writer for a number of years at the University of Virginia Medical Center, eventually becoming assistant editor of the magazine Helix. While there, he also became a full-time student in the MFA program, receiving his degree in 1986. He moved to North Carolina that year and worked as a science and medical writer at Duke University Medical Center and then at Research Triangle Institute where he edited the magazine Hypotenuse.
After the birth of his son, he became a free-lance writer and full-time Dad. And he became a commentator for the Chapel Hill affiliate of National Public Radio. He also began teaching at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is now a full-time visiting lecturer at UNC and lives with his wife and two children on the street with the most absolutely ridiculous name in the state of North Carolina—Tallyho Trail.
Leigh Anne Couch
A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, Leigh Anne Couch lives in Tennessee with her husband, Kevin Wilson, and is the managing editor of the Sewanee Review. Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, The Carolina Quarterly, and other journals. Her chapbook Green and Helpless was published in 2007 by Finishing Line Press. She has held residency fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.
Quinn Dalton
A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, Quinn Dalton is the author of a novel, High Strung, and two story collections, Bulletproof Girl and Stories from the Afterlife. She lives in Greensboro, NC with her husband and two daughters.
A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan is the author of Rise, MACNOLIA, and Quantum Lyrics. Among other awards, Jordan has received the Whiting Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Jordan teaches at the University of Texas at Austin and serves on the faculty at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Michael McFee
Michael McFee has published nine collections of poetry, most recently The Smallest Talk (Bull City Press, 2007). In 2006, he published his first collection of essays, The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview (University of Tennessee Press). He has also edited This is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2000, a companion anthology to my The Language They Speak is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets, published by UNC Press in1994.
Jeanne Leiby
Jeanne Leiby grew up downriver Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan, earned her MA from the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and her MFA from the University of Alabama. Her stories, many of them collected here, have appeared in Fiction, New Orleans Review, The Greensboro Review, and Indiana Review, among others. For ten years, she has lived in Orlando, Florida, teaching creative writing at the University of Central Florida and editing The Florida Review. In 2008, she will move to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as an associate professor of English at Louisiana State University and editor of The Southern Review.
John Picard
A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, John Picard is currently an employee of UNCG's Jackson Library. Before moving to Greensboro he had many of the jobs common to struggling writers: general office worker, hotel reservations clerk, chauffeur, courier, dish washer. He has published stories in The Greensboro Review, the Iowa Review, for which he received the Tim McGinnis Award for humorous fiction, Mid-American Review, The Seattle Review, and others. He is also a recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council grant for fiction.
Warren Rochelle
A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, Warren Rochelle is the author of the novels Harvest of Changelings and The Wild Boy, His work has appeared in various journals and literary magazines including The North Carolina Literary Review, Beyond the Third Planet, Forbidden Lines, Coraddi, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Colonnades and Graffiti, as well as the Asheville Poetry Review, GW Magazine, Crucible, The Charlotte Poetry Review and Romance and Beyond. He has had his academic work published in several journals including Foundation (1999, 2002) and Extrapolation (1996, 1999), as well as in two essay collections, More Lights than one on the Fiction of Fred Chappell (2004) and Teaching Ideas for University English: What Really Works (2004). His critical work, Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2001.
Andrea Selch
A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, Andrea Selch earned her PhD from Duke University, where she taught creative writing from 1999 until 2003. Her dissertation was a history of poetry on commercial radio in the United States from 1922 until 1945. Her poems have been published in Calyx, Equinox, The Greensboro Review, Oyster Boy Review, Luna, The MacGuffin, and Prairie Schooner. Her poetry chapbook, Succory, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2000. Her full-length collection of poetry, Startling, was runner-up in the 2003 Turning Point competition and was published by Turning Point Press in October, 2004. Her next collection, Boy Returning Water to the Sea: Koans for Kelly Fearing, will be published in Fall, 2007, by Cockeyed Press. In 2001, she joined the board of Carolina Wren Press and is now President and Executive Director. She lives in rural Hillsborough, NC, with her partner and their two children.
Natasha Trethewey
Poet Natasha Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. Her first poetry collection, Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000), won the inaugural 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize (selected by Rita Dove), a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), received the 2003 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, was a finalist for both the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin and Lenore Marshall prizes, and was named a 2003 Notable Book by the American Library Association. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2003 and 2000, and in journals such as The Greensboro Review, Agni, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review and The Southern Review, among others. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University, and an M.F.A in poetry from the University of Massachusetts. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
She has taught at Auburn University, the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, and Duke University where she was the 2005-2006 Lehman Brady Joint Chair Professor of Documentary and American Studies.
Her most recent collection is Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin 2006), for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.