Emily Ruskovich grew up on Hoodoo Mountain in the Idaho Panhandle. She is the author of the novel IDAHO, which won the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Idaho Book Award. She is also the recipient of an O. Henry Award for her short […]
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Paul Harding is the author of two novels, Tinkers, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Enon. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and PEN America. He was a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, MA, […]
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize. It was a finalist for the National Book award, for the Kirkus Prize, and is to be translated into over twenty- four languages. His short stories, Found Wanting, and The Englishman, were published in […]
Kristen Chandler is the author of Thief of Happy Endings and the award-winning Girls Don’t Fly and Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me. She was nominated for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. She thrives on making readers laugh, cry, and worry about what will happen next, so […]
Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine-American who loves meteor showers, summer, astrology, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids, two adorable dogs, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of […]
Jack Harrell grew up in southeastern Illinois and moved west to Utah in 1981, where he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 21. His first book, Vernal Promises, won the Marilyn Brown Novel Award. He is the author of A Sense of Order and Other […]
Allison K. Hymas received both her Bachelors of Arts in English and her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from BYU. She writes poems and short stories that have been published in Rivet, FLARE, Sassafras and Dark Matter. She has also published two middle grade novels with Aladdin/Simon & […]
Matt Mendez is the author of Barely Missing Everything, his YA debut novel, and the short story collection Twitching Heart. Barely Missing Everything has been called a “searing portrait of two Mexican-American families” by Publishers Weekly and “accessible and artful” in a starred review by Kirkus. The New York Times […]
Kirstin Chen‘s second novel, Bury What We Cannot Take, was named a best book of the year by Entropy, Popsugar, and Book Bub, and a top pick of the season by Electric Literature, The Millions, The Rumpus, Harper’s Bazaar, and InStyle. She is also the author of Soy Sauce for […]
Courtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations in creative writing and multi-ethnic American literature from the University of North Texas, where she taught English and served as the American Literary Review’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her short stories appear in The Pinch, Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Booth, Juked, […]
Peter Turchi is the author of six books and the co-editor of three anthologies. His books include the New York Times bestseller A Muse and A Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic; Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer; and The Girls Next Door. His work has appeared […]
John Bennion is a fifth-generation native of Utah’s western desert. He has published a collection of short fiction, Breeding Leah and other Stories (1991), and three novels—Falling Toward Heaven (2000), An Unarmed Woman (2019), and Ezekiel’s Third Wife (2019). He has published short stories and essays in Hotel Amerika, Southwest […]
Tony Earley is the Samuel Milton Fleming Chair in English at Vanderbilt. He received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and has taught at Vanderbilt since 1997. He has been named one of the “twenty best young fiction writers in America” by The New Yorker and […]
RYAN RIDGE is the author of four chapbooks as well as four full-lengths, including the hybrid novel, American Homes (University of Michigan Press, 2015). His next story collection, New Bad News, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2020. Past work has appeared in American Book Review, The Collagist, DIAGRAM, Los […]
Spencer Hyde worked at a therapeutic boarding school before earning his MFA at Brigham Young University and his PhD at University of North Texas. He wrote his debut novel, Waiting for Fitz, while working as a Teaching Fellow in Denton, Texas. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer […]
Victor Lodato is a playwright and the author of two critically acclaimed novels. Edgar and Lucy was called “a riveting and exuberant ride” by the New York Times, and his novel Mathilda Savitch, winner of the PEN USA Award, was hailed as “a Salingeresque wonder of a first novel.” Victor’s […]
Caitlin Sangster grew up in the back woods of California and would rather go hiking, running, swimming, or general outdoorsing than just about anything else. If there aren’t any mountains, it doesn’t count as a real place. At eighteen, she moved to XinJiang, and at twenty-one it was Taiwan. She […]
Ann Dee Ellis is the author of three young adult titles including This is What I Did:, Everything is Fine, and The End or Something Like That. Her middle grade debut, You May Already Be a Winner, was released July 2017. Her books have received starred reviews and been featured on multiple lists. […]
Francisco Stork was born in Monterrey, Mexico and came to El Paso, Texas with his mother and adoptive father when he was nine-years old. He has an M.A from Harvard University and a J.D from Columbia University. He worked as an attorney until his retirement in 2015. Francisco is the […]
