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Writer Biographies

The Animal Girl (Louisiana State University Press) is John Fulton’s third book. Retribution (Picador USA) won the Southern Review Short Fiction Award in 2001, and his novel More Than Enough (Picador USA) was a Barnes and Noble’s Discover Great New Writers selection, a finalist for the Midland Society of Authors Award, and the Salt Lake City Tribune Best Adult Novel of the West for 2002. “Hunters,” a story from his new book, won a 2006 Pushcart Prize. “In their exploration of loss, Fulton’s moving vignettes offer glimpses into all that is painful and hopeful and human.”—Booklist

Teresa Cader’s first book, Guests, won The Journal Award from Ohio University Press and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has been a fellow of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and a member of the international Legacy Project. A Visiting Writer and Lecturer at UMass Boston for Fall 2007, she is on the faculty of Lesley University’s Low-Residency MFA program. Her second book of poems, The Paper Wasp, was published in 2000 by Northwestern University Press. “Wonder-laden poems, seen as if under a microscope, seek forms of what they describe.”—Library Journal.

A native of Prince Edward Island, Canada, Thomas O'Grady is Professor of English and Director of Irish Studies at UMass Boston. His book of poems, What Really Matters, was published by McGill-Queen’s Press in 2000. His articles, poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in publications including James Joyce Quarterly, Eire-Ireland, New Hibernia Review, Agni, Verse, Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Queen's Quarterly, Dalhousie Review and Massachusetts Review. “To read Thomas O’Grady’s first book of poems, What Really Matters, is to experience delight in the intersections of form and content.”—Joyce Wilson

Catherine Parnell received her M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is a fiction writer whose personal essay, The Kingdom of His Will, was published last spring as a chapbook by Arrowsmith Press. She is an instructor in creative writing at UMass Boston.

Taylor Stoehr’s most recent book is I Hear My Gate Slam, a volume of translations of classical Chinese poems. (Pressed Wafer). “Written a thousand years ago yet more current and relevant than the hip-hop of today, these poems call out to us because they are so intense and true. The section in the book called ‘Woe to the Soldiers’… will break your heart. This is a passionate, clear, honest book of poems translated by a passionate, clear, honest man,” writes poet David Budbill. Stoehr is a writer on many cultural and literary topics; he has edited volumes of the works of Paul Goodman and George Dennison, for whom he is literary executor. Stoehr founded the Dorchester District Court program for Changing Lives Through Literature, and is currently writing a book on the subject.

Michael Patrick McDonald is author of the national bestseller All Souls: A Family Story From Southie, which won the American Book Award, New England Literary Lights Award, and The Myers Outstanding Book Award. Kirkus Review calls it, “An incendiary, moving book that startles on nearly every page.” His second book, Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under, is a memoir of roots and rebellion, a “tale of a journey that is as inspiring as it is haunting” (Publishers Weekly). He is currently writing the screenplay of All Souls for director Ron Shelton.

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, Matrimony, is an ABA October 2007 Books Sense selection. His first novel, Swimming Across the Hudson, was named a Los Angeles Times notable book in 1997. His short stories, essays, and reviews appear in Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, Triquarterly, DoubleTake, The North American Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Nation, and Mother Jones. Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of The Hours, calls Matrimony “…a devastating novel about love, hope, delusion, and the intricate ways in which time's passage raises us up even as it grinds us down. It's a beautiful book."

Maggie Dietz’s first book of poems, Perennial Fall, won the 2007 Jane Kenyon Award from the New Hampshire Writers Project. Dietz is director of the Favorite Poem Project, and co-edited America’s Favorite Poems, Poems to Read, and An Invitation to Poetry. She was the George Bennett Fellow and writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, and currently teaches creative writing at Boston University. She is assistant poetry editor for the on-line magazine Slate. “Dietz’s lippy candor is invigorating in a wish-I’d-thought-of-that way, and it’s a pleasure to be led through her world as she looks at familiar subjects with fresh eyes.” –David Kirby, New York Times Book Review

Elizabeth Searle is the author of three books of fiction: Celebrities in Disgrace, a novella that is being adapted for film; A Four-Sided Bed, a novel nominated for an American Library Association award; and a story collection, My Body to You, winner of Iowa Short Fiction Prize. Searle’s opera, Tonya and Nancy, based on the skating scandal, has recently brought her national media attention. About Celebrities in Disgrace, Booklist writes: “In this vivid, distinctive short story collection, Searle has some disquieting things to say about the nature of fame and how it both feeds and distorts relationships. Searle… is a skillful writer with a gift for creating atypical characters and themes.” Searle is the MFA Program’s Visiting Writer for 2007-2008.

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