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David Payne is the author of five novels, Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, Early from
the Dance (Doubleday, 1989), Ruin Creek, (Doubleday, 1993) Gravesend Light (Doubleday,
2000) and Back to Wando Passo (Wm Morrow, 2006).
Susan Perabo is the author of a collection of stories, Who I Was Supposed to Be and a
novel, The Broken Places. Stories from the collection have appeared in such places as Story,
Glimmer Train, TriQuarterly, The Black Warrior Review and the anthologies Best American
Short Stories and New Stories from the South.
Jon Pineda is the author of Birthmark (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), winner of the
2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry and the recent winner of the 2007 Green Rose
Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose (Western Michigan University) for his second manuscript
The Translator’s Diary (due out in March 2008). His work has appeared in numerous literary
journals, including the Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, among
others.
Robert Polito is the author of Doubles (poetry), A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s Changing
Light at Sandover and Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, which received the National
Book Critics Circle Award in Biography/Autobiography. He edited the Library of America
volumes Crime Novels: Noir of the 1930s & 1940s and Crime Novels: American Noir of the
1950s. His poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the Voice Literary Supplement,
Verse, Threepenny Review, Yale Review, Bookforum, Ploughshares, The New York
Times Book Review, Bomb, Fence, Open City, Boston Phoenix, Best American Poetry and
other journals and anthologies.
Patricia Powell is the author of Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda and
a forthcoming novel, Revelation.
Kym Ragusa is the author of The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty and Belonging,
published by W.W. Norton and Company in 2006. Her essays have appeared in the anthologies
Are Italians White: The Making of Race in America and The Milk of Almonds and the
journals Leggendaria and TutteStorie.
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Claudia Rankine is the author of four collections of poetry, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Greywolf
Press, 2004), Plot (Grove/Atlantic, 2001), The End Of The Alphabet (Grove/Atlantic, 1998)
and Nothing in Nature Is Private (Cleveland State University Poetry Press, 1995). She is coeditor,
with Julia Spahr, of American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets
Language and her work has been published in numerous journals and is included in several
anthologies.
Kathryn Rhett is the author of Near Breathing, a memoir and editor of Survival Stories: Memoirs
of Crisis. Her essays have been published in Crab Orchard Review, Creative Nonfiction,
Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New York Times
Sunday Magazine and elsewhere. She has also published poetry in journals such as Bellingham
Review, Grand Street, The Ohio Review, Ploughshares and reviews in Chicago Tribune
Books.
Steven Rinehart is the author of the 2003 novel Built in a Day and the 1999 short story collection
Kick in the Head, both published by Doubleday/Anchor. His short stories have appeared
in Harper's, GQ, Story, Ploughshares and elsewhere.