AMY BLOOM is the author of two novels and three collections of short stories, and she has been a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the Atlantic, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her latest novel, Away, is an epic story about a Russian immigrant. Her new collection of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out, has just been released.

ROXANA ROBINSON's novel Cost was selected as one of the five best fiction books of 2008 by the Washington Post and as a best book of the year by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. She is the author of Sweetwater and two other novels, of short story collections, and a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe.  Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Daedalus, Best American Short Stories and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.

PETER BLAUNER is the author of six novels, including Slow Motion Riot, a winner of the Edgar Allen Poe award given by the Mystery Writers of America for best first novel, and The Intruder, a New York Times and international best-seller. His books have been translated into twenty languages. His short fiction has been anthologized in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Mystery Stories and been read on National Public Radio's "Selected Shorts from Symphony Space."

HONOR MOORE is the author of three collections of poems, Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir, and a biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter. Her recent book, The Bishop’s Daughter, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was an Editor’s Choice of the New York Times Book Review, and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year. She is the editor of Poems From the Women's Movement and of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems. She recently translated Revenge by Taslima Nasrin. Her play, Mourning Pictures, was produced on Broadway. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction for The Bishop's Daughter, awards from the NEA and Connecticut Commission on The Arts in poetry, and from The New York State Council on the Arts in playwriting for Mourning Pictures. She teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University.

LIS HARRIS is now at work on a book about three generations of a Palestinian family and three generations of an Israeli family.  Her previous books include Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family, Rules of Engagement, and Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings and the Corporate Squeeze, the story of an eight-year struggle to build a paper mill in the South Bronx. As a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, she wrote on a wide range of social and cultural matters, and she has received awards from the Woodrow Wilson, Rockefeller, and J. M. Kaplan foundations.  She teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia University.

KIT REED’s short story collection What Wolves Know, from P.S. Publishing, will be followed by The Story Until Now, a best-of collection with new stories, coming in Spring, 2013 from The Wesleyan University Press. She has stories coming out this year in Asimov’s S-F and The Yale Review. Her most recent novel is Enclave. Others include The Baby Merchant and Thinner Than Thou, which won an ALA Alex Award. Often anthologized, her short stories appear in venues ranging from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction to Omni, The Kenyon Review and The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Her short collections include Thief of Lives, Dogs of Truth and Weird Women, Wired Women, which along with the short novel Little Sisters of the Apocalypse, was a finalist for the Tiptree Prize. A Guggenheim fellow and first American receipt of a five-year literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation, she is Resident Writer at Wesleyan University. 

PAUL LAFARGE is the author of three novels, The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999), Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001) and Luminous Airplanes (FSG, 2011). He has also published a book of short fiction, The Facts of Winter (McSweeney's, 2005). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and of the Bard Fiction Prize. He is currently working on two novels and is the Writer-in-Residence at Bard College.

PAMELA DORMAN: In her more than twenty years at Viking Penguin, Pamela Dorman acquired and edited the multi-million copy #1 bestsellers The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding, and The Deep End Of The Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard, which was the first selection of the Oprah Book Club, along with many other fiction and non-fiction bestsellers. In 2006, she became Vice-President, Editorial Director of Voice, a new imprint for women at Hyperion, where she acquired and edited the fiction bestsellers The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe and The Monsters Of Templeton by Lauren Groff, and edited Candace Bushnell's One Fifth Avenue. She also acquired and edited the bestselling memoirs The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan, and Perfection by Julie Metz. In 2008 she rejoined the Penguin Group, where she is now vice president and publisher, to found her imprint, Pamela Dorman Books.

BEN LOORY’s fiction has appeared online and in print, ranging from literary to fantasy, humor to horror, young adult to SF to sports-related and more. His story "The TV" was named a Distinguished Story of the Year in The Best American Short Stories 2011. His book Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin, 2011) is now in its fourth printing. It was chosen as a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and the Starbucks Coffee Bookish Reading Club, and was named one of the 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year by the Hudson Booksellers retail chain. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America west, and holds an MFA from the American Film Institute.

STUART KRICHEVSKY, who founded The Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency in 1995, has over twenty-five years experience in the agency business. He began his career in the mail room (literally) at The Sterling Lord Agency (now Sterling Lord Literistic) and was with that company for fifteen years before entrepreneurial interests led him to start his own agency. The agency has represented fourteen New York Times bestsellers in its thirteen years in business and its clients have been the recipients of major literary and journalism awards, including the National Book Award, the National Magazine Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the George M. Polk Award, the Livingston Award, the Michael Kelly Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

MAX RUDIN is the publisher of The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher whose mission is to foster greater appreciation and pride in America’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, authoritative editions of America’s best and most significant writing. Mr. Rudin writes on American history, literature, music, and popular culture for American Heritage and Raritan magazines. He created, hosts, and introduces the ongoing program of readings “Great New York Writers in Great New York Places.” He has directed several NEH-funded publishing and national public programming initiatives, among them the Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial (2004) and Lincoln in American Memory: Exploring the Life and Legacy of Our Sixteenth President (2009). He serves on the Board of Directors of The Great Books Foundation and The New York Festival of Song. 

Kate Maruyama (Fellow in Fiction) is a writer, teacher, and editor. She is the author of award-winning short fiction and a forthcoming novel Harrowgate. She also has substantial experience in the film industry, having worked for The William Morris Agency, Jon Peters' Company, and as an executive for Sylvester Stallone at Universal. She is also the co-founder of Annotationnation.com.

Emily McLaughlin (Fellow in Fiction) is a novelist and playwright. She has also worked in Los Angeles as a screeenwriter for Warner Brothers' TV show Supernatural and as a script consultant for ABC Daytime Television in New York City. She has recently completed a new novel.

T. Zachary Cotler (Fellow in Poetry) is author of several poetry collections including House with a Dark Sky Roof, and a recent novel. In 2011, he received the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Janet O'Shea (Barach Fellow in Nonfiction) is the author of numerous essays, a novel, and two books about dance, both published by Wesleyan University Press. She is commissioning editor for the Routledge Dance Studies Reader and has worked as a choreographic mentor and dramaturge.


Fellows in previous years: Amy Bloom, Amanda Davis, Paul LaFarge, Suji Kwok Kim, Bruce Bond, Judy Jordan, G.E.Patterson, Tom Hallman (Pulitzer winner), John D'Agata, Beverly D'Onofrio, Jennifer Haigh, Daniel Handler (author of Lemony Snicket), Wendy Rawlings, Jess Row, Jim Tomlinson, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Ravi Shankar, Alexandra Peers, and Roya Hakakian, Michelle Hoover, Jonathan Thirkield, Alta Ifland, Miranda Kennedy, Irina Reyn, Jeff Jones, Steve Almond.