Tin House: Summer 2012: Summer Reading Issue: Vol. 13, No. 4 - Tapa blanda

Lee K. Abbott is the author of seven collections of short stories, most recently All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories (Norton). His fiction has appeared in nearly one hundred periodicals, including Harper’s, the Atlantic Monthly, the Georgia Review, Epoch, the Southern Review, and Boulevard. His work has been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories; The O. Henry Awards: The Prize Stories; The Best of the West series; and The Pushcart Prize series. Twice a winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has published essays and reviews in the New York Times Book Review, the Miami Herald, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at the Ohio State University, where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Sherman Alexie is the author of, most recently, Face, poetry from Hanging Loose Press, and War Dances, poetry and stories, from Grove Press. He lives with his family in Seattle.

Katie Arnold-Ratliff received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the novel Bright Before Us (Tin House Books). An associate editor of O, The Oprah Magazine, where her writing appears regularly, she lives in New York. Visit her at katiearnoldratliff.com.

Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Theories of Falling, winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. Other awards for her work include a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, the Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. Her most recent book is the memoir Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life. She lives in Washington DC.

Nina Buckless is currently in the MFA program at the University of Michigan, where she is the recipient of a Zell Fellowship. She is a veteran of Jim Krusoe’s ongoing writing workshop. Her previous work has appeared in the Santa Monica Review and Unsaid. She is a writer-in-residence with InsideOut Literary Arts Project and teaches poetry at Parker Elementary in Detroit Michigan.

Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, translator, playwright, and classicist. With her background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art, Carson blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Greek mythology. She is a MacArthur Fellow; she has received the Lannan Prize, the T. S Eliot Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, fall 2007.

Paul Charles Griffin’s work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Brooklyn Rail, the New York Press, the Common Review, and other venues. He writes fiction, essays, and book reviews, and he lives and teaches in Brooklyn, New York.

Aaron Hamburger was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his short story collection The View from Stalin’s Head (Random House, 2004). His next book, Faith for Beginners (Random House, 2005), was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, Details, the Forward, Boulevard, and the Village Voice. He has received fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy, as well as residencies from Yaddo and Djerassi.

Amy Hempel has won the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Award in recent years. Her Collected Stories won the Ambassador Award for Best Fiction of the Year and was one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. She teaches writing at Harvard and Bennington, and is a founding board member of the Deja Foundation (dejafoundation.org) to aid in adoptions of animals from high-kill shelters. This is her third appearance in Tin House.

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