LaShonda Katrice Barnett, the author of the story collection Callaloo (New Victoria, 1999) and editor of I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters On Their Craft (DaCapo, 2007), teaches history at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City. She is completing an historical novel and collection of short stories. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Douglas Basford’s poems, translations, and prose have appeared in Poetry, Subtropics, Smartish Pace, 32 Poems, National Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at SUNY-Buffalo and edits the online poetry journal Unsplendid. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Traci Brimhall received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, FIELD, Southern Review, Indiana Review and elsewhere. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Greg Brownderville has published poems in Oxford American, Measure, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2007 Porter Prize, given annually to a writer with an Arkansas connection. He is the author of Deep Down in the Delta: Folktales and Poems (Doodlum Brothers Press, 2005). (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Rose Bunch’s work has appeared in Gulf Coast, River Styx and Fugue as well as won awards from Playboy and Atlantic Monthly. A 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee, she is currently a PhD student at Florida State University’s creative writing program. (Tennessee Williams Scholar).

Joseph J. Capista’s poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal and Colorado Review, and are forthcoming in North American Review and Quarterly West. He is the past recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council award and teaches writing at Towson University. (Mona Van Duyn Scholar)

Michael Croley's stories have been published in Louisville Review, Blackbird, and Narrative Magazine, where he also serves as an associate editor. His work has received grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Key West Literary Seminars. He teaches creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. (Peter Taylor Scholar)

Anna Evans’ poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, and 32 Poems. She gained her MFA from Bennington College, and is the Editor of Raintown Review. Her chapbooks Swimming and Selected Sonnets are available from Maverick Duck Press. (Howard Nemerov Scholar)

Michael Garriga’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in New Letters, Black Warrior Review, Surreal South ’09, Louisiana Literature, and Versus. He will receive his Ph.D. from Florida State University’s creative writing department in the summer of 2009. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Adam Giannelli has taught at Oberlin College. He is the editor of High Lonesome: On the Poetry of Charles Wright (Oberlin College Press, 2006). His poetry and translations have appeared in Field, American Literary Review, Smartish Pace, and other journals. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Laurel Gilbert's fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review and Gettysburg Review. She is a recent graduate of the MFA program at The Ohio State University, and she currently teaches composition and literature courses at Miami University Middletown in Ohio. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Peter Grimes is a doctoral candidate in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati and has an MFA from the University of Florida. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, Orchid, Hayden's Ferry Review, Waccamaw, and Lake Effect. (Stanley Elkin Scholar)

Elliott Holt's short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in various places, including Bellevue Literary Review and online at Kenyon Review. She is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program, where she won the Himan Brown Award. She works for One Story. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Elizabeth Horner’s poems have been published in Gulf Coast, POOL, Burnside Review, Caketrain and others. She graduated from the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College, and was the Poetry Scholar at the Tin House Writers’ Workshop in 2006. She currently resides in Oakland, CA. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Caitlin Horrocks’ fiction has appeared in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, Paris Review, Tin House and elsewhere. Her first short story collection, This Is Not Your City, is forthcoming from Eastern Washington University Press. She teaches at Grand Valley State University. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Luke Johnson’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, Third Coast, and Best New Poets 2008. He is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. program at Hollins University, where he was a teaching fellow. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Stephen Kampa has poems published or forthcoming in Southwest Review, Subtropics, Smartish Pace, Sewanee Theological Review, River Styx, Hopkins Review, and others. He currently teaches in the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University, and he plays a mean harmonica. (Donald Justice Scholar)

Kevin Anthony Kautzman is a current Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center. He has studied writing and performance in Minneapolis and London, and his work has been performed on both sides of the Atlantic. His play Then Waves was a 2009 Yale Drama Series finalist. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Anna Moench’s plays have appeared at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dixon Place, The Looking Glass Theatre, Spoke The Hub, FringeNYC, a kitchen, a warehouse, Central Park, and elsewhere. A member of Youngblood, Anna received the Jerome Foundation’s 2009 Travel and Study Grant to research her next play, The Sky is High. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Adam Peterson’s work has recently appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, and Ninth Letter, among other journals. His series of short shorts, My Untimely Death, is currently available from Subito Press. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Sonia Rapaport's poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry and Prism Quarterly. She received an MFA from Spalding University. Her chapbook, A Density of Ghosts, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. A holistic family physician, she lives in Chapel Hill, NC. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

John Reimringer’s first novel, Vestments, is forthcoming in 2010 from Milkweed Editions. An excerpt, “Betty Garcia,” appears in Fiction on a Stick: Stories by Writers from Minnesota. A 2009 Loft-McKnight fellow, Reimringer and his wife, Katrina Vandenberg, live in Saint Paul. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Billy Reynolds grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, and currently lives in Tifton, Georgia, where he teaches writing and literature at Abraham Baldwin College. He is a previous winner of the John Ciardi scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His most recent publications include poems in Copper Nickel, Hunger Mountain, New South, and Third Coast. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Rachel Richardson's poems have appeared recently in Southern Review, New England Review, PN Review, Blackbird, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she currently teaches poetry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she is also completing an MA in Folklore. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

David Roby’s play Arts and Science, winner of the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, has recently been published by Blackbird. He received the 2008 John N. Wall Fellowship in Playwriting at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He is a professional actor and member of Actors’ Equity Association. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Lauren Goodwin Slaughter’s work has appeared in Verse Daily, Hayden’s Ferry, Fugue, Cimarron Review, Blue Mesa Review, Salt Hill and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is assistant poetry editor for poemmemoirstory and fiction editor for DIAGRAM. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Charles (Chuck) Sweetman is the author of the poetry collection Enterprise, Inc. (Dream Horse Press, 2008). An earlier version of the book won the 2007 Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize. He is also the author of the chapbook Lake House and Other Stories (Texas Center for Writers Press, 1995). He currently teaches writing and literature at Washington University in St. Louis. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Anne-Marie Thompson's poems have appeared recently in Smartish Pace, Ploughshares and The Dark Horse. Before beginning her MFA at Johns Hopkins University, she taught piano and gave lecture-recitals in Texas. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Laura van den Berg’s stories have or will soon appear in One Story, Boston Review, Epoch, American Short Fiction, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV. Her first collection will be published by Dzanc Books in October. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Holly Wilson's fiction is forthcoming in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2009, and has recently appeared in Narrative Magazine, Redivider, The Northwest Review, and Opium. She's a 2009 Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University, where she's at work on her first novel. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)