FACULTY                                                           GUESTS, LECTURERS AND PANELISTS
Christian Bök Kevin Canty Mary Gaitskill Josip Novakovich Dawn Raffel			Steve Almond Jared Bland Jason Camlot Stephen Elliott Jon Paul Fiorentino Dylan Landis Adam Levin Fiona Maazel Nancy Mauro Fiona McCrae	Alana Newhouse Francine Prose Suzanne Rivecca Miguel Syjuco Michael Weinreb Jonah Winter Max Winter Matvei Yankelevich
Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters). His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik’s cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. The Utne Reader has recently included Bök in its list of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Bök teaches English at the University of Calgary.
Kevin Canty's seventh book, a novel called Everything, will be published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday in summer 2010. He is also the author of three previous collections of short stories (Where the Money Went,  Honeymoon, and A Stranger In This World) and three novels (Nine Below Zero, Into the Great Wide Open, and Winslow in Love). His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Tin House, GQ, Glimmer Train, Story, the New England Review and elsewhere; essays and articles in Vogue, Details, Playboy, the New York Times and the Oxford American, among many others. His work has been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian and English. He lives and writes in Missoula, Montana.
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and Veronica, which was nominated for the 2005 National Book Award, National Critic’s Circle Award, and L.A. Times Book Award. She is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner in 1998. Her newest collection of stories is titled Don’t Cry (2009). Her story “Secretary” was the basis for the feature film of the same name starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader. The film received the Special Jury Prize, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Gaitskill’s stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. In 2002 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction. She has taught at U-C Berkeley, the University of Houston, New York University, Brown and Syracuse University. Mary Gaitskill was born in 1954 in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1981 Gaitskill graduated from the University of Michigan, where she won an award for her collection of short fiction The Woman Who Knew Judo and Other Stories.
Josip Novakovich moved from Croatia to the U.S. at the age of twenty. He has published a novel, April Fool's Day, three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk, and Salvation and Other Disasters) and two collections of narrative essays as well as two books of practical criticism, including Fiction Writers Workshop. His work was anthologized in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize collection, and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Ingram Merrill Award, and an American Book Award, and he has been a writing fellow of the New York Public Library. He has taught at Bard, Die Freie Universitaet in Berlin, Penn State, and now, Concordia University in Montreal.
Dawn Raffel's newest book is Further Adventures in the Restless Universe. She is also the author of a novel, Carrying the Body and a previous collection, In the Year of Long Division. Her stories have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Conjunctions, Black Book, Fence, Open City, The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Arts & Letters, The Quarterly, NOON and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. She was a fiction editor for many years, followed by a seven-year stint as Executive Articles Editor at O, The Oprah Magazine and three years as Editor-at-Large at More magazine; she has also taught in the MFA program at Columbia University. She now works part time at Readers Digest as Editor at Large, Books, and is completing a memoir. She lives outside New York City with her husband and sons.
Steve Almond is the author the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction books Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked) . His most recent book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, came out in Spring 2010. He is also, crazily, self-publishing books. This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey , is composed of 30 very brief stories, and 30 very brief essays on the psychology and practice of writing. Letters from People Who Hate Me is just plum crazy. Both are available at readings. In 2011, Lookout Press will publish his story collection, God Bless America.			Jared Bland is the managing editor of The Walrus. Before joining the The Walrus in 2007, Jared studied twentieth-century poetry and poetic theory at the University of Toronto’s graduate department of English. He sits on the board of directors of pen Canada, and is a member of the International Visitors Committee in association with the International Festival of Authors.
Jason Camlot is the author of three collections of poetry: The Animal Library and Attention All Typewriters and, most recently, The Debaucher. His critical works include Language Acts (co-edited with Todd Swift) and Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic: Sincere Mannerisms. His poems and critical essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies including New American Writing, Postmodern Culture and English Literary History. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford. Camlot is poetry editor of the Punchy Writers Series (DC Books), and Chair of English at Concordia University.			Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries which has been described as "genius" by both the San Francisco Chronicle and Vanity Fair. The Adderall Diaries was the best book of the year in Time Out New York, a best of 2009 in Kirkus Reviews, and one of 50 notable books in the San Francisco Chronicle.  His novel, Happy Baby, was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award as well as a best book of the year in Salon.com, Newsday, Chicago New City, the Journal News, and the Village Voice. Elliott's writing has been featured in Esquire, The New York Times, The Believer, GQ, Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 and 2007, Best American Erotica, and Best Sex Writing 2006. He is the editor of The Rumpus.
Jon Paul Fiorentino is a writer and editor. His first novel, Stripmalling (ECW, 2009), was a finalist for the 2009 QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. His most recent book of poetry is The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books, 2006). He is the author of the poetry book Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and Post-Prairie - a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch, (Talonbooks, 2005). He lives in Montreal where he teaches writing at Concordia University and is the Editor of Matrix magazine.			Dylan Landis is the author of the novel-in-stories Normal People Don't Live Like This, which made Newsday's Best Books of 2009. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A former newspaper reporter, she is working on a novel.
Adam Levin is the author of the novel THE INSTRUCTIONS (McSweeney's, 2010) and the story collection HOT PINK (McSweeney's, Fall 2011).  Winner of the 2003 Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, his stories have appeared in MCSWEENEY'S QUARTERLY, TIN HOUSE,  and NINTH LETTER.  He lives in Chicago, where he teaches Creative Writing at Roosevelt University and the School of the Art Institute.			Fiona Maazel is a writer and freelance editor. She is the author of the novel Last Last Chance (2008). Her work has appeared in Anthem, Bomb, The Mississippi Review, The New York Times, N+1.com, Pierogi Press, Salon, Tin House, The Village Voice, and The Yale Review. She is a 2005 recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, winner of the Bard Prize for 2009, and a National Book Foundation "5 under 35" honoree for 2008. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is currently at work on novel number two.
Nancy Mauro has worked as a copy writer and creative director in Canada and the United States. Her first  novel, New World Monkeys published in September 2009, has received critical praise from USA Today and The Observer’s Very Short List among others. She is a fellow and recent graduate of University of British-Columbia’s MFA program in creative writing. Ms. Mauro is the recipient of several Ontario Art Council grants as well as Canadian Council grants for emerging writers. Her work has been nominated for a McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, received gold at the Western Magazine Awards, and placed in the international Toronto Star Fiction Contest.			Fiona McCrae has twenty-eight years of experience in the publishing industry. She has been publisher of Graywolf Press since 1994, following four years at Faber and Faber USA in Boston, where she was a director and executive editor. At Faber USA the books she edited included Sven Birkerts’ The Gutenberg Elegies, David Greenberger’s Duplex Planet, and Coconuts for the Saint by Debra Spark. From 1982 until her move to Boston in 1991, she was at Faber and Faber, Ltd., in London, where she worked with such authors as Kazuo Ishiguro, Caryl Phillips, and Howard Norman. McCrae has taught publishing courses at Harvard University and Emerson College, lectures on publishing throughout the country and has been a panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, Pew Charitable Trusts and others. Authors that McCrae has published at Graywolf include Carl Phillips, Jane Kenyon, Charles Baxter, Per Petterson and Percival Everett. She currently serves on the boards of Summer Literary Seminars and the Pan African Literary Forum in Ghana and is an advisor for Open Letter Press. She served as Vice-Chair of the board for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses from 2000-2005.
Alana Newhouse is editor in chief of Tablet magazine. Before that, she spent five years as culture editor of the Forward, where she supervised coverage of books, films, dance, music, art, and ideas. She also started a line of Forward-branded books with W.W. Norton and edited its maiden publication, A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward. A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Alana has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Slate.			Francine Prose is the author of many bestselling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical of the same name by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, which ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City in the Fall of 2007. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City.
Suzanne Rivecca story collection, "Death is Not an Option" (Norton, 2010), was recently named a New York Times' Editor's Choice. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she is currently working on a novel as a Bunting fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her work has received the Pushcart Prize and a grant  from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Boston.			Miguel Syjuco received the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize and the Philippines' highest literary honor, the Palanca Award, for the unpublished manuscript of Ilustrado. Born and raised in Manila, he currently lives in Montreal.
Michael Weinreb is the author of, most recently, Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and How the '80s Created the Modern Athlete (Gotham Books). His previous book, The Kings of New York (paperback title: Game of Kings), a narrative nonfiction account of a championship Brooklyn high-school chess team, won the Quill Award and was named one of the best books of the year by Amazon.com and the Christian Science Monitor. He is also the author of a short-story collection, Girl Boy Etc. He has been a regular contributor to ESPN.com and The New York Times, and his work has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing collection. He lives in Brooklyn.			Jonah Winter is the award-winning author of many acclaimed picture book biographies, including Diego, Frida, and more recently The New York Times Best-Seller, Barack. Winter's book about Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy, received 5 starred reviews and was an ALA Notable. His book on Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude Is Gertrude, was a recent Junior Library Guild selection -- as was his fictionalized book about the infamous "Garbage Barge" incident, Here Comes the Garbage Barge! As a mid-life crisis, Winter has taken to performing Gilbert & Sullivan operas, and in particular, the patter song roles. In 2009, he was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition by Linda Wertheimer, who allowed him to make his national singing debut by humming a few bars from "Pirates of Penzance," presumably in the service of promoting his new book, The Fabulous Feud of Gilbert and Sullivan." When not singing in a phony English accent or writing children's books, Mr. Winter writes poetry for adults and has published 4 books, including 2 full-length collections, Maine and Amnesia. Mr. Winter is also a children's book illustrator.
Max Winter's book The Pictures was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2007. He was the winner of the Fifth Annual Boston Review Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Pleiades, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Iowa Review, Jacket, The Quarterly, Parthenon West, and other publications previously. He was also included on Salon.com in a set of recordings of Paris Review authors, in New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000) (as you know), and in Under the Rock Umbrella (Mercer University Press, 2007). He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006. In addition to reviewing fiction and poetry for Publishers Weekly intermittently for several years, he has published reviews in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Newsday, The Boston Review, Bookforum, The Denver Post, The Boston Book Review, The Boston Phoenix, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bomb, Poets and Writers, and Kirkus Reviews, among other publications. He is currently a Poetry Editor of Fence and a Senior Editor at a leading educational publisher.			Matvei Yankelevich’s books and chapbooks include Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), The Present Work (Palm Press), and Writing in the Margin (Loudmouth Collective). His writing has appeared in Action Yes!, Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Zen Monster, and other little magazines. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker and in some anthologies. His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook). He edited a portfolio of Contemporary Russian Poetry and Poetics for the magazine Aufgabe (No. 8, Fall 2009). He teaches at Hunter College, Columbia University School of the Arts, and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. At Ugly Duckling Presse, he designs and/or edits many and various books, is the editor of the Eastern European Poets Series, and a co-editor of 6×6.