Jane Armstrong’s work has appeared in Newsweek, The North American Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, New Orleans Review, Brevity, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She teaches at Northern Arizona University.
Jerry Dennis lives in northern Michigan. His most recent book, The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martin’s Press, 2003), has received numerous honors, including The Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award and the Great Lakes Culture Award.
Philip Gerard is the author of three novels and four books of nonfiction. He teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and in the Goucher College limited-residency MFA program in Creative Nonfiction.
D. L. Hall received her PhD in creative writing from Florida State University. Her publications have appeared in the International Quarterly, Florida Flambeau, FSView, the Tallahassee Democrat, ProCreation, and Crescendo. Her honors include winning the Academy of American Poets John Mackay Shaw award, and placing in the Mulberry Press prize for poetry and Richard Eberhart prize for poetry.
Kim Dana Kupperman is the managing editor of the Gettysburg Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Baltimore Review, Eclectic Literary Forum, Hotel Amerika, isle, the Louisville Review, the Maine Scholar, Quarter After Eight, and elsewhere. In 2003 she received the Quarter After Eight Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize, and in 1996 won first prize in the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. She was awarded an MFA in creative writing by the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program.
Janet C. McCaa, a practicing lawyer for thirty-seven years, recently began the limited-residency MFA in Creative Nonfiction program at Goucher College. She is a partner in the law firm of Johnson & McCaa LLC in Portland, Maine, where she concentrates her practice in business transactions, estate planning, and probate.
David Plante is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the Francoeur trilogy—The Family, The Woods, and The Country—and the nonfiction Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, and it has been nominated for a National Book Award. Plante teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York and London. “American Ghosts” is an excerpt from his book American Ghosts, published by Beacon Press.
Lynda Rutledge, a longtime professional writer, has authored and collaborated on more than a dozen books. Her travel and feature articles have been published in such places as the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Post, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Poets & Writers, the German Die Woche, and most recently in Brevity. As a creative writer she’s won fellowships and awards from the Illinois Arts Council, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of New Orleans, and her first novel, Brave New Wanda, was published last year. “The Center of Another Universe” is part of an unfinished memoir.
Sue William Silverman is the author of two memoirs, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You (University of Georgia Press), which won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction (W. W. Norton). She has also published a collection of poetry, Hieroglyphics in Neon, with Orchises Press. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College and is associate editor of Fourth Genre. Please visit http://www.suewilliamsilverman.com.
Dustin Beall Smith’s essays have been published in the Gettysburg Review, the New York Times Magazine, Quarto, Writing on the Edge the New London Day, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, BackStage, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and now teaches at Gettysburg College.
