Bread Loaf Fellows 2013

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1 Bread Loaf Fellows 2013 Samuel Amadon Alan Collins Fellowship in Poetry Samuel Amadon is the author of two collections of poetry: The Hartford Book, winner of the 2013 Believer Poetry Book Award, and Like a Sea, chosen by Coldfront as the best first book of His poems have appeared or are forthcoming from A Public Space, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, New Yorker, and elsewhere. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where he teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina, and co-edits the poetry journal Oversound. Carlene Bauer Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Fiction Carlene Bauer is the author of Frances and Bernard, an epistolary novel inspired by the friendship between Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell. Her first book, Not That Kind of Girl, a memoir about growing up and away from evangelical Christianity, was published in She holds an MA in nonfiction writing from the Johns Hopkins University's Writing Seminars, and her work has been published in Elle, n+1, Salon, and Slate. She lives in Brooklyn. Will Boast John Farrar Fellowship in Fiction Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for a California Book Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in American Scholar, Best New American Voices, Glimmer Train, Narrative, New York Times, and Salon, among other publications. He s been a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the UK. His memoir, The Pantomime Horse, is forthcoming. Christine Byl Bread Loaf Fellowship in Nonfiction Christine Byl is the author of Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods. Byl received her MFA in fiction from the University of Alaska-Anchorage; her prose has appeared in Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, and The Sun, among other journals. She lives with her husband and an old sled dog north of Denali National Park outside of Healy, Alaska, where she owns and operates a small trail design and construction company. Amanda Coplin Bread Loaf Fellowship in Fiction Amanda Coplin is the author of The Orchardist. She was born in Wenatchee, Washington and received her BA from the University of Oregon and MFA from the University of Minnesota. A recipient of residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Omi International Arts Center at Ledig House in Ghent, New York, she lives in Portland, Oregon.

2 Elyssa East William Sloane Fellowship in Nonfiction Elyssa East s first book, Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, won the 2010 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award in Nonfiction. Dogtown was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Awards and an Editors Choice selection in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Elyssa has received fellowships and awards from the Jerome, Ragdale, and Ludwig Vogelstein foundations; Columbia University; the University of Connecticut; the Phillips Library; and Yaddo. Her reviews, reportage, and essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Kansas City Star, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle, and her short fiction has been published in Cape Cod Noir and is forthcoming in The Best of the Akashic Noir. She currently teaches creative writing at the Rhode Island School of Design. Keith Ekiss Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry Keith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook and translator of The Fire s Journey by the Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio, forthcoming in four volumes starting in He is the recipient of scholarships and residencies from the Squaw Valley Writers Conference, Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Petrified Forest National Park. Vievee Francis-Olzmann Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry Vievee Francis is the author of Blue-Tail Fly and Horse in the Dark, which won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize for a second collection. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African American Poetry and Best American Poetry She was the 2009/2010 Poet in Residence for the Alice Lloyd Hall Scholars Program at the University of Michigan, where she earlier received her MFA. She is the recipient of a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award as well as a 2010 Kresge Fellowship. A native Texan, she makes her home in Detroit and is currently living in Asheville, NC, with her husband, poet Matthew Scott Olzmann. She is an Associate and Developmental Editor for the journal Callaloo. Amina Gautier Alan Collins Fellowship in Fiction Amina Gautier is the author of the short story collection At-Risk, which won the Flannery O Connor Award. Her stories have been published, appearing in Best African American Fiction, Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, New Stories from the South, North American Review, and Southern Review among other places. Gautier s stories have won the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, the Danahy Prize, the Jack Dyer Prize, the Lamar York Prize in Fiction, the Schlafly Microfiction Award, and the William Richey Award.

3 Ross Gay Theodore Morrison Fellowship in Poetry Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and grew up just outside of Philadelphia. He is the author of two books of poems, Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Massachusetts Review, and The Sun, among other magazines and anthologies. He is also the co-author, with the painter Kimberly Thomas, of the artists books The Halo, BRN2HNT, and The Bullet. Editor for the chapbook press, Q Avenue, he has been a Cave Canem fellow and a Bread Loaf tuition scholar, and is a 2013 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Gay is also a founding member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a publicly owned, volunteer-run, free-fruit-for-all, organic orchard, where he serves as the co-chair of the education team. Gay teaches in the MFA program at Indiana University and in Drew University s low-residency MFA program. Peter Heller John Gardner Fellowship in Fiction Peter Heller holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in both fiction and poetry. His recent novel, The Dog Stars, was the Apple itunes Novel of the Year 2012 and a San Francisco Chronicle and Atlantic Monthly best book of the year. His second novel, The Painter, is forthcoming in An award-winning adventure writer and long-time contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at Men s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, and Outside magazine, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the author of several nonfiction books, including Kook, The Whale Warriors, and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet s Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver. Michelle Hoover Shane Stevens Fellowship in Fiction Michelle Hoover teaches writing at Boston University and Grub Street. Her work appears in Best New American Voices, Confrontation, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, and TriQuarterly, among others. She has been the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell Fellow, and the 2005 winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction. Her debut novel, The Quickening, was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, was a finalist for the Indies Choice Debut of 2010 and Forward Magazine's Best Literary Book of 2010, and is a 2010 Massachusetts Book Awards "Must Read" pick. Kristiana Kahakauwila Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellowship in Fiction Kristiana Kahakauwila is a native Hawaiian born and raised in Southern California. She earned a BA in comparative literature from Princeton University and an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has worked as a writer and editor at Highlights for Children, Wine Spectator, and Cigar Aficionado, and at present is an assistant professor of creative writing at Western Washington University. Her first book, This is Paradise, a collection of short stories about Hawai`i, earned Kristiana recognition as a Target Emerging Author and has been selected as a Barnes & Noble Summer 2013 Discover Pick.

4 Bridget Lowe Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry Bridget Lowe is the author of the poetry collection At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2011, Boston Review, New Republic, Parnassus, and Ploughshares, among other publications. Her honors include a "Discovery /Boston Review prize and the 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship to the MacDowell Colony. She is a graduate of Syracuse University's MFA program and currently lives in Kansas City. Anthony Marra Shane Stevens Fellowship in Fiction Anthony Marra is the author of the novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, which was published in May and will be translated into over a dozen languages. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Narrative Prize, and his work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow, he will begin teaching at Stanford University this fall as a Jones Lecturer. Domingo Martinez Bernard De Voto Fellow in Nonfiction Domingo Martinez is author of The Boy Kings of Texas, a New York Times Best Seller and finalist for The National Book Award His work has appeared in Epiphany Literary Journal, New Republic, and he has twice contributed to This American Life. Originally from Brownsville, TX, Mr. Martinez now lives in Seattle, WA, where he worked as an art director for news weeklies and alternative newspapers while writing his first book. Tomás Q. Morín John Ciardi Fellowship in Poetry Tomás Q. Morín is the winner of the 2012 APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his collection A Larger Country. He is co-editor with Mari L Esperance of the anthology Coming Close: 40 Essays on Philip Levine. His poems have appeared in Boulevard, Narrative, New England Review, Slate, and Threepenny Review. Chinelo Okparanta John Gardner Fellowship in Fiction Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Chinelo Okparanta earned her BS from the Pennsylvania State University, her MA from Rutgers University, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her collection of short stories, Happiness, Like Water, has been published in the United Kingdom and is forthcoming in the United States in August. She has been nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship in Literature, long-listed for the Frank O Connor International Short Story Award, and shortlisted for the Caine Prize. Emilia Phillips Bread Loaf Fellowship in Poetry Emilia Phillips is the author of the book Signaletics and two chapbooks, including Bestiary of Gall. Her poetry has appeared in AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, Hayden s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She s the recipient of the 2012 Poetry Prize from The Journal, selected by G.C. Waldrep as well as fellowships from U.S. Poets in Mexico, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Commonwealth University, where she received her MFA in Prose editor for 32 Poems and staff member at the Sewanee Writers Conference, Phillips is the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College.

5 Jaime Quatro Theodore Morrison Fellowship in Fiction Jamie Quatro s debut story collection, I Want To Show You More, is a New York Times Editors Choice, Indie Next pick, and New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller. Her stories are forthcoming in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 and the new edition of Ann Charters The Story And Its Writer and have appeared in AGNI, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. A contributing editor at Oxford American, Quatro lives with her family in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Brian Russell Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry Brian Russell is the author of The Year of What Now, selected by Tom Sleigh for the Bakeless Prize in Poetry. Brian holds a BA from Miami University in Ohio and an MFA from the University of Houston. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two dogs. Ben Stroud Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Fiction Ben Stroud is the author of Byzantium: Stories, selected by Randall Kenan for the Bakeless Prize in Fiction. His stories have appeared in Antioch Review, Boston Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature, Harper's, One Story, Subtropics, and other magazines, and have been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories and New Stories from the South. He received his BA from the University of Texas at Austin and his MFA and PhD from the University of Michigan. He currently teaches English and creative writing at the University of Toledo. Corinna Vallianatos Fletcher Pratt Fellowship in Fiction Corinna Vallianatos's story collection, My Escapee, won the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, selected by Jhumpa Lahiri. Published in 2012, it was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Her fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Epoch, Gettysburg Review, McSweeney's, Tin House, and elsewhere, and she was a 2011 fellow at the MacDowell Colony. She teaches in the University of Tampa's low-residency MFA program and lives in Claremont, CA, with her husband and son.