Deborah Ager is the author of the poetry collection Midnight Voices (WordTech Communications, 2009). Fellowships include residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MacDowell Colony. Many poems that first appeared in 32 Poems, a magazine she founded in 2003, have been republished in Best American Poetry and Best New Poets. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Allison Amend holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers‚ Workshop. She is the author of a short story collection, Things That Pass for Love (OV Books, 2008), and the forthcoming historical novel, Stations West (LSU’s Yellow Shoe Fiction Series, 2010). Allison has been living and teaching in Florence, Italy. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Gonzalo Barr is the author of The Last Flight of José Luis Balboa, a collection of short stories published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006 that won the Bakeless Prize, awarded by Bread Loaf Writers Conference. He is presently revising a novel. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Hilary Bettis had her first play, American Girls, produced Off-Broadway last April. Her first screenplay, B-Hurst, is currently in post-production. She is a member of New River Dramatists and The Actor's Studio playwright division. She is a proud member of Equity, Screen Actor's Guild, and Dramatist Guild. (John N. Wall Fellow)

Jessica Anya Blau's novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (Harper Perennial, 2008), was picked as a Best Summer Book by the Today Show, New York Post, and New York Magazine. It was also chosen as a Best Book of 2008 by the San Francisco Chronicle and other major newspapers. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Morri Creech has published two books, Field Knowledge (Waywiser Press, 2006), which won the first annual Anthony Hecht Prize, and Paper Cathedrals (Kent State University Press, 2001). He has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a Louisiana Artist's Grant, and an NEA Fellowship. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Katie Crouch is the author of the novel Girls in Trucks (Little Brown, 2008), which was a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Her writing has also appeared in Tin House, Glamour, and the New York Observer. She received her MFA from Columbia University and currently lives in San Francisco. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Gregory Fraser has published two poetry collections, Strange Pietà (Texas Tech University Press, 2003) and Answering the Ruins (Northwestern University Press, 2009), and the textbook Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009), co-authored with Chad Davidson. An associate professor at the University of West Georgia, Greg received an NEA in 2005. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Frank Giampietro's book Begin Anywhere was published by Alice James Books in 2008. He is the editor and designer of La Fovea (www.lafovea.org). His poetry, flash-fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in 32 Poems, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review, FENCE, Hayden's Ferry, Poetry Daily, and Subtropics. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

James Allen Hall's poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, Boston Review, and American Letters & Commentary. His book Now You're the Enemy was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2008. He teaches creative writing at the State University of New York—College at Potsdam. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Cory Hinkle is a two-time Jerome fellow, a former Macdowell Colony Fellow, recipient of a Jerome Travel Grant, and a Core Member of the Playwrights’ Center. He has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater and Actor’s Theater of Louisville and received his MFA from Brown University. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Skip Horack is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His short story collection, The Southern Cross, won the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize and will be published by Mariner Books this summer. He is currently a lecturer at Stanford. (Fr. William Ralston Fellow)

Andrew Kozma's poems have appeared in Subtropics, AGNI Online, Zoland Poetry, and Court Green, and non-fiction has appeared in Iowa Review. His first book of poems, City of Regret, was co-winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Prize and was published in 2007. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Houston creative writing program and currently lives in Houston. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Amy Lemmon is the author of the poetry collections Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009). She holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is Associate Professor of English at the Fashion Institute of Technology. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Irina Reyn is the author of What Happened to Anna K.: A Novel (Touchstone Books, 2008). She is also editor of the anthology Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State (Touchstone Books, 2007). She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

David Roderick's first book, Blue Colonial, won the 2006 APR/Honickman Prize and was published by The American Poetry Review. He was the recipient of the 2007 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, and he teaches creative writing and poetry at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Victoria Stewart is this year’s Martha R. Ingram Artist-in-Residence at Tennessee Repertory Theatre. She graduated from the Playwrights’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her play 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick was recently produced by the Workhaus Collective in Minneapolis. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Pauls Toutonghi's work has appeared in the New York Times, Zoetrope: All-Story, Boston Review, Glimmer Train, and numerous other periodicals. His first novel, Red Weather, was published by Random House in 2006. He teaches at Lewis and Clark College, in Portland, Oregon. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Josh Weil is the author of the novella collection The New Valley (Grove, 2009). A former Fulbright Fellow, he has written for The New York Times and Poets & Writers and published short fiction in Granta, New England Review, American Short Fiction, and Narrative Magazine. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)