CONTRIBUTOR BIOS
DONALD ANTRIM is the author of the novels Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist; a memoir, The Afterlife; and a collection of stories, The Emerald Light in the Air. He contributes fiction and nonfiction to The New Yorker, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review and Harper’s. He has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
JESSE BALL is the author of five novels—Samedi the Deafness, The Way Through Doors, The Curfew, Silence Once Begun, and A Cure for Suicide—as well as several works of verse, bestiaries, and sketchbooks. His prizes include the 2008 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and his verse has been included in the Best American Poetry series. He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s MFA in Writing program.
NOVIOLET BULAWAYO is the author of We Need New Names, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize’s Art Seiden-baum Award for First Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 fiction selection. We Need New Names was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and included on the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 list and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers list. Bulawayo attended Cornell University and Stanford University, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction.
KYLE COMA-THOMPSON is the author of The Lucky Body. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
ROBERT COOVER has published fourteen novels, three short-story collections, and a collection of plays since The Origin of the Brunists received the William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel in 1966. At Brown University, where he has taught for more than thirty years, he established the International Writers Project, a program that provides an annual fellowship and safe haven to endangered international writers who face harassment, imprisonment, and suppression of their work in their home countries. In 1990–91, he launched the world’s first hypertext fiction workshop, in 1999 was one of the founders of the Electronic Literature Organization, and in 2002 created Cave Writing, the first writing workshop in immersive virtual reality.
LUCY CORIN is the author of the short-story collections One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses and The Entire Predicament and the novel Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls. She was the 2012 John Guare Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. She teaches at the University of California, Davis.
REBECCA CURTIS is the author of Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money (HarperPerennial) and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, NOON, and other magazines. Curtis received her bachelor’s degree from Pomona College in California. She also holds a Master’s of Fine Arts from Syracuse University and a Master’s of English from New York University.
LYDIA DAVIS is the author of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, a translation of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, a chapbook entitled The Cows, and a poem in Two American Scenes entitled “Our Village.” In 2013, she was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for fiction, and her most recent collection of stories, Can’t and Won’t, was published in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
DON DELILLO is the author of fifteen novels, including Falling Man, Libra, and White Noise, and three plays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2006, Underworld was named one of the three best novels of the last twenty-five years by The New York Times Book Review, and in 2000 it won the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction of the past five years.
ANTHONY DOERR is the author of two story collections: The Shell Collector, which won the Rome Prize in 2004, and Memory Wall, which won the Story Prize in 2011. His most recent novel, All the Light We Cannot See, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and sons.
DEBORAH EISENBERG’s four collections of short fiction are available in one volume, The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg. She is also the author of a play, Pastorale. She is a MacArthur Fellow and teaches at Columbia University.
MARY GAITSKILL is the author of four novels: Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica, and The Mare, which is forthcoming from Knopf. She has also written three story collections: Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don’t Cry. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn.
RIVKA GALCHEN is an essayist and fiction writer whose work appears regularly in Harper’s, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. She is the author of the award-winning novel Atmospheric Disturbances and the short-story collection American Innovations.
RACHEL B. GLASER is the author of the story collection Pee on Water, the poem book MOODS, and the novel Paulina & Fran. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and teaches creative writing at Flying Object. She tweets as @Candle_face and @FriendsOnMars.
DENIS JOHNSON is the author of nine novels, one novella, one book of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award.
REBECCA LEE is the author of Bobcat, a collection of stories, and The City Is a Rising Tide, a novel. Her fiction has been read on NPR’s Selected Shorts, and her stories have been published in The Atlantic Monthly and Zoetrope. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
YIYUN LI is the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers; The Vagrants; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; and Kinder Than Solitude. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Guardian First Book Award, among others. Granta named her one of the best American novelists under thirty-five, and The New Yorker named her one of twenty American writers under forty to watch. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis.