About the Author:
Kim Addonizio is the author of two novels, a book of stories, two books on writing, and five collections of poetry. She lives in Oakland, California.
Geoff Dyer has published several books, and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in London.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) wrote dozens of short stories and five novels, including The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. He was considered one of the iconic figures of the Jazz Age, a term he himself coined.
Ted Gioia is a pianist, composer, and music historian. He is the author of eight books, and has also recorded several albums.
Daniel Handler is the author of several novels, as well as the wildly popular Lemony Snicket children's series. He lives in San Francisco.
Adam Haslett is the author of the novel Union Atlantic and the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, and a recent winner of the Berlin Prize.
Blake Hazard is one half of indie-pop duo The Submarines. She has recorded and toured internationally for more than a decade. She lives in Los Angeles.
Sam Lipstye has published several books, and his work has appeared in many places, including The New Yorker, Playboy, Harper s, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Tin House, New York Tyrant, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York.
David Mason has published many books of poetry, and his work has appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times, Poetry, and The Wall Street Journal. He currently serves as Poet Laureate of Colorado.
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He moved to New York in the early 1990s, where he set his first novel, Dead I Well May Be, among upper Manhattan s illegal Irish immigrant community. He currently lives in Australia with his wife and two children.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. As a girl, she aspired to be a concert pianist, but she switched to writing when a teacher insisted her hands were too small for a career in music.
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