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Yannick Murphy is the author of the novels, THE CALL, SIGNED, MATA HARI, HERE THEY COME, and THE SEA OF TREES. Her story collections include STORIES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE and IN A BEAR'S EYE. Her children's books include THE COLD WATER WITCH, BABY POLAR, and AHWOOOOOOOO!. She is the recipient of various awards including a Whiting Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award, a Chesterfiel...

Ron Carlson is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently the novel Five Skies. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Tin House, The New Yorker, and other journals. It has been collected in The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Award Series, and The Pushcart Prize Annual. He is Regent's Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Since1983, Yu Xinqiao has written many books of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays, most of them unpublished. He is also a painter. In addition to art creation, he has focused on supporting the arts and has curated exhibitions of art, music, film, and drama. Brian Holton is an award-winning translator and poet. He translates Chinese works into English and Scots, and has published more than a dozen...

Noy Holland’s collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First (FC2),What Begins with Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf.) She has published work in Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Ploughshares, Milan Review, Western Humanities Review, The Believer, NOON, New York Tyrant, and Post Road, among others. She was a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council...

Susan Mitchell is the author of three books of poems, most recently Erotikon and Rapture which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. She has been honored with grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, American Poetry Rev...

Ron Carlson is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently the novel Five Skies. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Tin House, The New Yorker, and other journals. It has been collected in The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Award Series, and The Pushcart Prize Annual. He is Regent's Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the HumanForm (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007) was a finalist for the National Book Critics CirlcleAward and a New York Times Notable Book. Her first children's book, TheLittle General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizab...

McNair is the recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Foundations, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in literature, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for Creative Writers, and in 2006 a United States Artists Fellowship of $50,000, fifty of which were awarded across the arts to a selection of "America's finest living artists." Other ho...

A reading celebrating the publication of From Sorrow’s Well: The Poetry of Hayden Carruth, edited by Shaun T. Griffin. An acclaimed American poet and critic, Hayden Carruth lived for many years along the Foote Brook in Johnson and wrote some of his most lasting and significant poems about the rural environment and people of northern Vermont. This book launch features readings and reflections by: S...

Melissa Bank is the author of two story collections The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot. She received the Nelson Algren Award for short fiction from the Chicago Tribune and holds an M.F.A. from Cornell University. Her work has been translated into 33 languages.

Lu De’an, a native of Fujian province, was born in 1960. His initial interest in poetry was sparked by the emergence of the so-called “obscure” poets at the end of the 1970s, and his friendship with Shu Ting, another Fukienese who is probably one of the most extraordinary Chinese poets of the second half of the twentieth century, but he trained as a commercial artist, and has learned much from mod...

A 2007 MacArthur Fellow, Peter Cole is the author of three books of poems, most recently Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (New Directions). His many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (Yale), The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Princeton), Aharon Shabtai’s War and Love, Lov...

A 2007 MacArthur Fellow, Peter Cole is the author of three books of poems, most recently Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (New Directions). His many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (Yale), The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Princeton), Aharon Shabtai’s War and Love, Lov...

Annick Smith is author of the memoir Homestead, as well as a collection of essays, In This We Are Native, and a history of the tallgrass prairies, Big Bluestem. She was co-editor with William Kittredge of the Montana anthology, The Last Best Place, and co-editor with Susan O’Connor of The Wide Open: Prose Poems and Photographs of the Prairie. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many maga...

Galway Kinnell is an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont.

Rebecca Brown is the author of ten books, including The Last Time I Saw You, The End of Youth, and Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary. Her work has been translated into Japanese, German, Danish and Norwegian and widely anthologized. She is Creative Director of Literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington, and teaches in the MFA program at Goddard College in Vermont. She lives in Seatt...

Born in Louisiana, Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including: Selected Poems, Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, which received the 2006 SFSU Poetry Center Book Award, Hat On a Pond, Voyages in English, Our Master Plan, which received a Phi Beta Kappa Award Finalist Citation, Blue for the Plough, The Book of Knowledge, All You Have in Common, The 8-Step Grapevine, and Blood...

Adam Davis was the recipient of the 2013 Kay Evans Fellowship at VSC. Fanny Howe has written numerous books of poetry including Gone, (University of California Press, 2003), Selected Poems (UC Press, 2000), On the Ground (Graywolf Press, 2004), and The Lyrics (Graywolf, 2007). She has also written novels, five of them collected in one volume called Radical Love. At seventeen Howe left her home in...

Poet Song Huiyuan reads in Chinese with translator Meifu Wang. Their joint residency in September 2013 was supported by the Henry Luce Foundation as part of VSC's Chinese Poetry and Translation Residency Fellowships Program.

Stephen Dunn is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, including Here and Now, which will be published by Norton in May, 2011. His Different Hours was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Among his many other awards are The Paterson Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Distingui...

Srikanth Reddy grew up in Chicago. He is the author of two books of poetry, Facts for Visitors and Voyager, both published by the University of California Press. A scholarly study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Reddy earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa and a PhD in English Literature from Harvard Uni...

Michael Steinberg is founding editor of the literary journal, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. His most recent books include Still Pitching, winner of the 2003 Foreword Magazine /Independent Press Memoir of the Year; Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs From Michigan (2001); The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (currently in its fifth edition); and Those Who Do, Can:...

Noy Holland’s collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First (FC2),What Begins with Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf.) She has published work in Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Ploughshares, Milan Review, Western Humanities Review, The Believer, NOON, New York Tyrant, and Post Road, among others. She was a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council...

Evie Shockley is the author of two poetry collections, the new black (Wesleyan University Press, 2011) and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), and two chapbooks, 31 words * prose poems (2007) and The Gorgon Goddess (2001). Also a scholar, she has written a critical study entitled Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (forthcoming, University of...

Michael Martone's most recent books are Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, a collection of essays, and Double-wide, his collected early stories. Michael Martone, a memoir in contributor’s notes, Unconventions, Writing on Writing, and Rules of Thumb, edited with Susan Neville, were all published recently. With Robin Hemley, he edited Extreme Fiction. With Lex Williford, he edit...