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Claudia Emerson was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize
in Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems (LSU Press, 2005).
She is also the author of the poetry collections Pharaoh,
Pharaoh, and Pinion: An Elegy. Emerson's fourth
collection, Figure Studies, will appear in fall 2008. All
mentioned volumes are published in Dave Smith's Southern Messenger
Poets series. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review,
Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review, and other
journals. Emerson is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship
from the Library of Congress and fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She
is an associate professor of English at Mary Washington College in
Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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Steve
Harper's plays include Urban Rabbit Chronicles, The Escape
Artist's Children, almost not quite just about, The Laundry Channel
(Juilliard workshop), Wheelchair Pornography (Spectral Sisters
Productions), and the musical Brink of Life (co-story and lyrics) (Dreamcatcher
Rep). Also an actor, Steve has appeared at major regional theatres
(The Guthrie, Williamstown) on national television (Law & Order: SVU,
All My Children, Rescue Me), in film (Dark September Rain),
commercials, and voice-overs. Steve is a graduate of Yale, The A.R.T.
Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, and the
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Inman Majors is
the author of two published novels: Wonderdog (St Martins
Press) and Swimming in Sky (Southern Methodist University,
2001). His third novel, to be published by W.W. Norton and
Company, is
forthcoming in January of 2009. Majors grew up in Knoxville TN and
attended Vanderbilt University. He received an MFA in Creative
Writing from the University of Alabama. Majors currently teaches
Fiction Writing at James Madison University and resides in
Waynesboro, VA with his wife, Christy, and two children.
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Chad Davidson is the author
of Consolation Miracle (Southern Illinois, 2003). He has work
recently appearing or forthcoming in Barrow Street, DoubleTake,
Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. His
newest book, The Last Predicta, will be published in 2008 by
Southern Illinois. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the
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Todd Dills is the author
of a novel (Sons of the Rapture, Featherproof 2006) and
editor and founder of Chicago- and Birmingham-based new-lit
broadsheet and online mag THE2NDHAND. He lives in Birmingham,
Ala., where he also works as senior editor for a couple of trucking
trade magazines. He finished an M.F.A. at Columbia College in
Chicago in 2003. |
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Susannah Felts is the author
of This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record, a novel
published by Featherproof Books. Felts writes, edits, and teaches
for a living. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her
husband Todd Dills and their two cats.
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Wayne Greenhaw is the
recipient of the Harper Lee Award (2006), the Clarence Cason Award
for Nonfiction (2005). An award-winning journalist and former Nieman
Fellow at Harvard, Greenhaw’s work has appeared in the New York
Times, the Miami Herald, Reader’s Digest, Music City News, and many
others. He is the author of more than seventeen books, the most
recent of which is The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow (coauthored with
Donnie Williams). He divides his time between Montgomery, Alabama,
and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
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Tina Harris teaches
English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and directs the
Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop for high school students. Her
poetry and essays have been published in a variety of journals
including Red Mountain Review, Santa Clara Review, PoemMemoirStory, StorySouth
and the anthologies, Family
Matters: Poems of Our Families and As Ordinary and Sacred as
Blood: Alabama Women Speak. Her personal interests include
making pottery and exploring the outdoors.
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Pete McCommons is Editor &
Publisher of Flagpole Magazine, an "alternative newsweekly"
in Athens, GA, seat of The University of Georgia. He writes a
column, Pub Notes, with a local focus on politics, government,
reminiscences and kudzu. He has published weekly newspapers in
Athens for 30 years, except for a brief fling as a used-car
salesman. |
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Aarron Parrett was born in
Butte, Montana and grew up in Helena. He has played bluegrass and
country music in bands from Alaska to Georgia and has recorded
several CDs of original songs. He began writing fiction and
criticism in 2001 and has published several short stories and a book
called The Translunar Narrative in the Western Tradition (Ashgate
Press, 2004). |
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Chelsea Rathburn earned an
MFA from the University of Arkansas and is a native of Miami,
Florida. Her poems have appeared in The New Criterion,
Hudson Review, Formalist and Pleiades, among other
journals and anthologies. Her first book, The Shifting Line
was chosen by poet Tim Steele as the winner of the 2005 Richard
Wilbur Award and was published by the University of Evansville
Press. A marketing writer by trade, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia |
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Philip Shirley’s
award-winning work includes fiction, poetry, speech and feature
writing, as well as production of literary programming for public
radio. His writing has been anthologized in Stories from the Blue
Moon Café IV and appeared in numerous magazines and both
traditional and online literary journals, including Wind, Aura,
Art Gulf Coast, POEM, storySouth, and Thicket.
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Jeff Weddle
is an Assistant
Professor in The University of Alabama's School of Library
and Information Studies Program. He has published numerous articles,
essays, poems, and stories in Publishing History, Beat
Scene, The Chiron Review, Art Mag,
Appalachian Heritage, Slipstream, Mondo Barbie (St. Martin's
Press), and others. Weddle's book Bohemian New Orleans:
The Story of The Outsider and Loujon Press (2007) was
published by the University of Mississippi Press. He is the winner
of the 2007 Eudora Welty Prize.
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