Featured Writers
Jami Attenberg has contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, and other publications. She is the author of Instant Love, The Kept Man, and The Melting Season. Her fourth book, The Middlesteins, was on The New York Times bestseller list and is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. It will be published in the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Turkey, Russia and Taiwan.
Jason Koo is the author of America’s Favorite Poem (C&R Press, forthcoming 2014) and Man on Extremely Small Island (C&R Press, 2009), winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award for the best Asian American book of 2009. He earned his BA in English from Yale, his MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston and his PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center and the New York State Writers Institute, he has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Yale Review, North American Review and The Missouri Review. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Quinnipiac University and Founder and Executive Director of Brooklyn Poets, a non-profit literary organization celebrating and cultivating the poets, poetry and literary heritage of Brooklyn.
Alissa Nutting’s debut novel, Tampa, will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2013. She is author of the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone/Dzanc 2010), which won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction judged by Ben Marcus. Her fiction has or will appear in publications such as The Norton Introduction to Literature, Tin House, Bomb, and Conduit. Her essays have appeared in Fence, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other venues. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and English literature at John Carroll University.
Ryan Van Meter is the author of the essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now (2011). His work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Normal School Magazine, Ninth Letter, and Fourth Genre, among others, and has been selected for anthologies including Best American Essays. A recent finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he has also been awarded residencies by The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
