2000s

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ADAM CLAY (poetry 2005) is the author of The Wash (Parlor Press 2006). His poems appear in Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, CutBank, and elsewhere. He co-edits the online journal Typo.

NIC PIZZOLATTO (fiction 2005) is the author of Between Here and the Yellow Sea (MacAdam/Cage 2006). He has published stories in The Atlantic Monthly, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, and other journals.

TONY TOST (poetry 2004) is the author of Invisible Bride (LSU 2004, winner of the Walt Whitman Award), which American Book Review called "one of the more interesting and engaging avant-gardist efforts of recent memory," and of Amplifier for Hercules (Iowa 2007). His work has appeared in Fence, Jacket, Verse, and elsewhere. He co-founded and co-edited the online journal Octopus before launching his own journal, Fascicle.

SANDY LONGHORN (poetry 2003) is the author of Blood Almanac (Anhinga 2006, winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry). Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Pulaski Technical College, North Little Rock.

BRIAN SPEARS (poetry 2002) was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford from 2002-2004. His poems appear in various journals, and he is the recipient of a 2005 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize.

NIRVANA TANOUKHI (translation 2001) is the translator of Passage to Dusk (Texas 2001), a novel by Rashid al-Daif.

CHELSEA RATHBURN (poetry 2001) is the author of The Shifting Line (U. of Evansville 2005, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award). Her poems have appeared in The New Criterion, The Formalist, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere.

ROB GRIFFITH (poetry 2000) is the author of Necessary Alchemy (1999 Tennessee Chapbook Prize) and Poisoning Caesar (Finishing Line Press 2004). His poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, The Formalist, and Another Chicago Magazine. He is a founding editor of Measure and teaches at the University of Evansville, where he was named the 2005 Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

ALISON PELEGRIN (poetry 2000) is the author of The Zydeco Tablets (Word Press 2002) and several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University.

GHASSAN NASR (translation 2000) is the translator of The Journals of Sarab Affan (Syracuse 2007), the final novel by the Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra.

OTIS HASCHEMEYER (fiction 2000) was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford from 2000-2002. His work has appeared in journals including The Sun, Missouri Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and in anthologies including The Best New American Voices 2003 and Politically Inspired: Fiction for Our Time.