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 novel, Away, is an epic story about a Russian immigrant. Her recent collection of short stories is Where the God of Love Hangs Out.

ROXANA ROBINSON is the author of five novels, three short story collections and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Her new novel Sparta was released this year. Her novel, Cost, was named one of the five best fiction books of the year by the Washington Post. It won the Maine Writers Fiction Award, and was on the best books of the year list of the Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune and elsewhere. Four of her books have been New York Times Notable Books. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, One-Story, Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. Her books have been published in England, Holland, France, Spain and Germany. She is a regular essayist for the NPR station WSHU, and her fiction has been read on Symphony Space’s “Selected Shorts.” She has received fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, and the Guggenheim Foundation. 

ALEXANDER CHEE is the author of the award-winning novel Edinburgh. He is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award and the NEA Fellowship in Fiction, and has contributed stories and essays to TriQuarterly, Tin House, The Morning News and Lapham's Quarterly, among others. He has taught fiction writing at Wesleyan University and The Iowa Writers' Workshop, and comics and the graphic novel at Amherst College and Columbia University's MFA in Writing. His new novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming in from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2014. He lives in New York City.

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 recent books include the short story collection What the Wolves Know, The Story Until Now (a best of her work collection) (Spring 2013), and Son of Destruction. She has stories coming out 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. 

ERIKA GOLDMAN is Publisher and Editorial Director of Bellevue Literary Press (BLP), a nonprofit mission-driven publisher located within the New York University School of Medicine, which has been publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and the sciences since 2007. Among the fifteen works of fiction BLP has published to date, three have received major literary prizes: The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak was a 2011 National Book Award finalist and 2012 winner of the first annual Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner won the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the New York Times best seller Tinkers, by Paul Harding, received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.

Before co-founding BLP, Goldman worked at several major publishing houses in New York , including Scribner, Simon & Schuster, and W.H. Freeman. A recipient of the Jerusalem International Book Fair Editorial fellowship, she has taught at New York University's Center for Publishing and in the Creative Nonfiction Mentoring Program. She lives in Brooklyn.

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. 

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.