Molly Antopol was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction from 2006-2008. She received an M.F.A. from Columbia University, and her fiction and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Mississippi Review Prize Stories of the Year, Nimrod's Prize Stories of the Year, Esquire.com, on NPR's This American Life, New York Public Radio and elsewhere.
Currently the Draper Lecturer in Creative Nonfiction, Sarah Frisch was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction from 2007-2009. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and has been a finalist for the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award in fiction.
Skip Horack was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction from 2006-2008. He holds a BA from Florida State University in English/Creative Writing, as well as a JD law degree. A native of Louisiana, his fiction has appeared in The Southeast Review, New Delta Review, Louisiana Literature, The Southern Review, StoryQuarterly, Epoch, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. His short story collection, The Southern Cross, won the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize and his novel The Eden Hunter is forthcoming from Counterpoint in 2010.
Maria Hummel is the author of the novel Wilderness Run (St. Martin's) and chapbook City of the Moon (Harperprints). Her story "The Curtain" won the 2009 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. Maria's nonfiction, poems, and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, New England Review, Los Angeles Magazine, Crazyhorse, and Hayden's Ferry Review.
Scott Hutchins is a former Truman Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly and Esquire.com. He recently returned to the Bay Area from Paris, where he was in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts.
A former Stegner Fellow, Jones Lecturer and Marsh McCall Lecturer, Adam Johnson currently teaches creative nonfiction and The Graphic Novel. He is the author of Emporium, a short story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us, which won a California Book Award. He was awarded the Whiting Writer's Award in 2009.
Tom Kealey is the author of The Creative Writing MFA Handbook. His stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired, Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere. His nonfiction has appeared in Poets and Writers and The Writer. Tom is also a tutor at 826 Valencia.
David MacDonald was born in Cape Breton and grew up mostly in the United States. He spends his summers in Boularderie, Nova Scotia, writing in a renovated barn on his family property. He has received two Pushcart Prizes, an Ingram Merrill Award and an O. Henry Award for his short fiction. His first novel, Cape Breton Road, was a national bestseller. He recently published another novel, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart, to wide acclaim.
Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He has received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation, and a Michener Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Choke (Traprock Books, 2006) and Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), which won the 2007 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the 2008 Balcones Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Tomas Tranströmer's The Sorrow Gondola. His work has appeared in Slate, Field, Agni, The Believer, and Poetry, among other publications.
Jeff O’Keefe was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford from 2004-2006, and received his MFA from the University of Arizona in 2004. Before attending Arizona he worked as an advertising copywriter in New York and San Francisco. His short fiction has been published in Epoch.
Bruce Snider is the author of The Year We Studied Women, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin Press. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he is the former recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize from the University of Kent at Canterbury as well as the James A. Michener fellowship in Creative Writing.
Currently the Marsh McCall Lecturer, Justin St. Germain was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford from 2007-2009. He received his M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Arizona. His fiction has appeared in ZYZZYVA and other journals, and has been selected to appear in Best of the West 2010. His memoir is forthcoming from Random House.
Shimon Tanaka has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Asian Cultural Council. His fiction has appeared in the anthology Best New American Voices 2000, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, and Glimmer Train, and he was the winner of the 2007 W.P. Kinsella Award for Excellence in Baseball Fiction. He is currently a Jones lecturer in fiction.