MICHAEL DOWNS (fiction 1999) is the author of House of Good Hope (Nebraska 2007), which received the River Teeth Literary Nonficion Prize. His stories appear in Gettysburg Review, Five Points, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of an NEA fiction fellowship, he teaches at Towson University.
NAY HANNAWI (translation 1999) received the King Fahd Center's Arabic Translation Award for her translation of Jabbour Douaihi's Autumn Equinox (Arkansas 2001).
BETH ANN FENNELLY (poetry 1998) is the author of Open House (Zoo 2001, Kenyon Review Prize) and Tender Hooks (Norton 2004). Her poems have been anthologized in Poets of the New Century, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Best American Poetry (three times), and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her awards include the Diane Middlebrook Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin and an NEA Fellowship. She teaches at the University of Mississippi.
TOM FRANKLIN (fiction 1998) has published a collection of short stories, Poachers (William Morrow 1999), and a novel, Hell at the Breech (William Morrow 2003). The recipient of a grant from the Arkansas Arts Council and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is currently the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence for at the University of Mississippi.
THOM SATTERLEE (translation 1998) is the author of one volume of poetry, Burning Wyclif (Texas Tech 2006), and the translator of another, Henrik Nordbrandt's The Hangman's Lament (Green Integer 2003). His poetry has appeared in Image, Southwest Review, The Southern Review, and on Poetry Daily. He teaches at Taylor University.
JOHN L. GETMAN (translation 1998) has translated several novels from the Catalan, including two by Baltasar Porcel and, most recently, Stars Over the Desert by Francesc Estival (Trafford 2006).
MICHAEL CATHERWOOD (poetry 1997) is the author of Dare, forthcoming from The Backwaters Press. His poetry has appeared in Agni, Black Warrior Review, Kansas Quarterly, and elsewhere. His awards include an AWP Intro Award for Poetry and a fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council. He teaches at Creighton University.
PAULA HAYDAR (translation 1997) has translated many books of fiction and poetry from Arabic into English, including several novel by Elias Khoury and, most recently, This Side of Innocence by Rachid al-Daif (Interlink 2001).
STUART HANCOX (translation 1997) received the King Fahd Center's Arabic Translation Award for his translation of Nazik Saba Yared's Improvisations on a Missing String (Arkansas 1997).
KATRINA VANDENBERG (poetry 1997) is the author of Atlas (Milkweed 2004), a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar, The Iowa Review, on the website Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright and Bush foundations.
JOHN HENNESSY (fiction 1996) has published poems in The Yale Review, The New Republic, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. His first collection, Bridge and Tunnel, will be published in 2007 by Turning Point Books. He teaches undergraduate creative writing and literature classes at the University of Massachusetts and lives in Amherst.
MICHAEL RAY TAYLOR (fiction 1996) is the author of Cave Passages (Scribner 1996) and Dark Life (Scribner 1999). He teaches at Henderson State University.
ELIZABETH OEHLKERS WRIGHT (translation 1996) is the translator of Ernst Peter Fischer's Beauty and the Beast and Zafer Senocak's Door Languages. Her honors include Agni’s William Arrowsmith Translation Award and an NEA Translation Fellowship. She is translation editor for Perihelion.
CODY WALKER (poetry 1995) is the author of Shuffle and Breakdown (Waywiser 2008). His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Parnassus, Subtropics, and elsewhere, and he blogs at the Kenyon Review.
BRAD BARKLEY (fiction 1995) is the author of two novels, Alison's Automotive Repair Manual (St. Martins 2003) and Money, Love (Norton 2000), and two story collections. He teaches at Frostburg State and in the Stonecoast MFA program.
HEATHER DOYAL (translation 1995) is the translator of Marie NDiaye's Among Family (Angela Royal 1997).
SUSAN PERABO (fiction 1994) is the author of a novel, The Broken Places (Simon & Schuster 2001) and a story collection, Who I Was Supposed to Be (Simon & Schuster 1999). The latter was named a "Book of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She teaches at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.
GORDON GRICE (poetry 1993) has published work in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Granta. His books include The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators (Delacorte 1998) and Rough Beasts (forthcoming, Dial/Random House). In 1999, he received a Whiting Writers Award.
IAN MORRIS (fiction 1991) is the managing editor of TriQuarterly. His essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in various national magazines and on public radio.
DALE RAY PHILLIPS (fiction 1990) has had stories in Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, and elsewhere. His debut collection, My People's Waltz (Norton 1999), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
CHARLES RAFFERTY (poetry 1990) is the author of three books of poetry: During the Beauty Shortage (M2 2005), Where the Glories of April Lead (M2 2001), and The Man on the Tower (Arkansas 1995).