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Wesley Gibson

Wesley Gibson

Wesley Gibson is the author of the forthcoming memoir You Are Here, from Little Brown, and Shelter, a novel published by Harmony Books/Random House. His stories have been published in the Village Voice Literary Supplement, the New Virginia Review and anthologized in Men On Men 5, among others. He has been a recipient of a Virginia Commission on the Arts Grant in Fiction and New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Non-fiction Literature. He won the Mississippi Review 2000 prize in fiction. In addition, he writes art and book reviews. He's taught writing at Brown University, the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University.

 

 

Martha Hughes

Martha Hughes is the author of a novel, Precious In His Sight, Viking/Penguin, and two books of nonfiction. Her essay “Isolation”is in Out of Her Mind: Women Writing On Madness, edited by Rebecca Shannonhouse, Random House. She has taught writing at New York University for the past ten years, at the NY State Writer’s Institute at Skidmore College, and founded The Peripatetic Writing Workshop, a summer writing workshop, in 1991.


Jenifer Levin

Jenifer Levin, author of the highly acclaimed novels Water Dancer, Snow, Shimoni's Lover, The Sea of Light, and the short story collection Love and Death, and Other Disasters, lives, writes, edits and teaches in Manhattan. Her feature articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Mademoiselle, Ms. Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forward, The Advocate, and many other publications. Her short fiction and essays are widely anthologized. Winner of multiple Avery Hopwood Writing Awards, nominee for the Pen/Hemingway Award, and recent recipient of the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Nonfiction Editing, she has taught literature and creative writing at The University of Michigan, The Center, and The Writers Voice.


Jackie Sheeler

Jackie Sheeler curates the popular Pink Pony West Poetry Reading series at The Cornelia Street Café and publishes an online NYC poetry calendar and newsletter. Her first book, The Memory Factory, was awarded the Magellan Prize; her second book, Off the Cuffs: Poetry By and About the Police, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in March 2003. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Painted Bride Quarterly, Rattapallax, Slant, New York Press and Long Shot Magazine.

 

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