R157. Like a Virgin: Short Story Writers Read from Their First Books
Thursday, April 9, 2015
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Participants
David James Poissant is the author of The Heaven of Animals. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic, Playboy, One Story, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction writing in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.
Claire Vaye Watkins's story collection, Battleborn, won the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, and others. A 2014 Guggenheim fellow, she is an assistant professor at Bucknell University.
Ethan Rutherford’s first book, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award for First Fiction, long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Award, and it won a Minnesota Book Award. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.
Ben Stroud is the author of Byzantium: Stories, which won the Story Prize Spotlight Award and the Bakeless Fiction Prize. His fiction has appeared in Harper's, One Story, Antioch Review, Best American Mystery Stories, and New Stories from the South. He teaches at the University of Toledo.
Diane Cook is the author of the story collection, Man V. Nature. Her fiction has appeared in Harper's, Granta, Tin House, and One Story. She won the 2012 Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction and is a former producer of the public radio show This American Life.