Beth Bachmann

Beth Bachmann's first book, Temper, won the AWP 2008 Donald Hall Prize and 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Tin House, and Best New Poets. She teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Jehanne Dubrow

Jehanne Dubrow has published three poetry collections, Stateside (Northwestern University Press 2010), From the Fever-World (Washington Writers Publishing House 2009), and The Hardship Post (Three Candles Press 2009).  She holds a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is an assistant professor at Washington College. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Dorothy Fortenberry

Dorothy Fortenberry's plays include Good Egg, Caitlin and the Swan, and Bibles and Candy. Her work has been produced or developed by Arena Stage, Ars Nova, Geva Theatre, Perishable Theater, and The Management, among others. She was in residence at the Djerassi Program this spring, and her play Good Egg will be produced by Red Fern Theatre in NYC this fall. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Clifford Garstang

Clifford Garstang, a former international lawyer, earned his MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. His linked story collection, In an Uncharted Country, was published by Press 53 in 2009. Recent work has appeared in Cream City Review, Los Angeles Review, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. He is the Editor of Prime Number Magazine. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Aryn Kyle

Aryn Kyle is the author of the novel The God of Animals (Scribner, 2007) and the short story collection Boys and Girls Like You and Me (Scribner, 2010).  Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories 2007, and elsewhere, and has been translated into fifteen languages.  She lives in New York City. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Dylan Landis

Dylan Landis is the author of a novel-in-stories, Normal People Don't Live Like This (Persea Books), published last fall. She has received an NEA Fellowship, a Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange Award, and an NEA-funded Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

James Magruder

James Magruder's fiction has appeared or will appear in The Gettysburg Review, Subtropics, Bloom, The Normal School, and the anthologies Boy Crazy and New Stories from the Midwest. His debut novel, Sugarless, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2009 and was shortlisted for a Lamdba Literary Award. He teaches at Swarthmore College and the Yale School of Drama. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy teaches at the University of Montevallo. His chapbook, The Memphis Sun (Kent State University Press, 2000) won the Wick Poetry Award. Heaven Overland is his new full-length collection (Kennesaw State University Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in venues including Brooklyn Review, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Matthew Pitt

Matthew Pitt is the author of the story collection Attention Please Now (Autumn House Press, 2010), winner of the Autumn House Fiction Prize. His stories have appeared in Oxford American, Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, Best New American Voices, and elsewhere. He writes for numerous magazines, and is at work on a novel and second collection. (John N. Wall Fellow)

Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the memoir Wild (forthcoming, Knopf, 2011) and the novel Torch (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Her writing has appeared in many periodicals and anthologies and twice in The Best American Essays. Strayed has an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Julie Tosh

Julie Tosh’s plays include Skirt, which won the Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award at Carnegie Mellon University where she earned her M.F.A. Fellowships include the Shubert Foundation Fellowship and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a 2010-2011 Core Apprentice at The Playwrights’ Center. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Cody Walker

Cody Walker's poems have appeared in Parnassus, Slate, and The Best American Poetry. He has received fellowships from the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the Amy Clampitt Fund. His first book, Shuffle and Breakdown, was published by Waywiser Press in 2008. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

M. O. Walsh

M.O. Walsh's story collection The Prospect of Magic won the 2009 Tartt's First Fiction Award and was published by Livingston Press in April 2010. His stories have appeared in Oxford American, Epoch, and American Short Fiction, and have been anthologized in Best New American Voices, Best of the Net, and Bar Stories. He has an MFA from Ole Miss and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee in 2005. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Jillian Weise

Jillian Weise is the author of a poetry collection, The Amputee's Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press, 2007), and a novel, The Colony (Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint, 2010). Her recent essay, "Going Cyborg," appeared in the New York Times. She received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Fulbright Program, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro before joining the faculty at Clemson University. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Will Wells

Will Wells’ poems have appeared in Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, Field, and Boulevard among others. His second book of poems, Unsettled Accounts, won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published by Ohio University/Swallow Press in 2010. His first book, Conversing with the Light (Anhinga Press, 1987), won the Anhinga Award. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Catherine Wing

Catherine Wing's poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Field, The New Republic, and Poetry. Her first book, Enter Invisible, was published by Sarabande Books and nominated for a 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in Cleveland and teaches at Kent State University. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)