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Leslie A. Fiedler received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle in 1998. He died in 2003, a month before his 86th birthday. His essays have been collected by Samuele F. S. Pardini in the book, The Devil Gets His Due.
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Robert Finch is the author of six collections of essays, including The Iambics of Newfoundland, and co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing. He is a recipient of the New England Booksellers Association Award for Nonfiction. His weekly radio series, A Cape Cod Notebook, is heard on the NPR affiliate WCAI-FM, and he received a New England Edward R. Murrow Award for Radio Writing in 2006. He divides his time between Cape Cod and Newfoundland. |
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Author of Swallow the Ocean, Laura Flynn currently teaches writing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband and two children.
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Amy Fusselman is the author of 8 and The Pharmacist’s Mate. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons. |
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Bruce George is cofounder of Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam, winner of a Peabody Award, and the co-editor of The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates. He lives in New York City. |
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Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997. Thirty-five years of correspondence between him and Gary Snyder has been collected in The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder: 1956-1991.
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Poet, performance artist, activist, and author John Giorno lives in New York City. A leading figure in the Beat, New York School, and Factory art and poetry scenes, his career-spanning collection of poetry is called Subduing Demons in America.
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Victoria Glendinning is a biographer, critic, broadcaster, and novelist. Her biographies include Leonard Woolf; Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions; Rebecca West: A Life; Vita: The Life of V. Sackville West, and Trollope. She lives in Somerset, England. |
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Meisei Goto was the prizewinning author of more than thirty novels. After fleeing from northern Korea during his adolescence, he remained in Japan for the rest of his life, where he worked as a novelist until his death in 1999. His novel, Shot by Both Sides, has been translated by Tom Gill.
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San Francisco-based performance poet Daphne Gottlieb is the editor of Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, as well as the author of Kissing Dead Girls, Fucking Daphne, Final Girl, Why Things Burn, and Pelt. She teaches at the New College of California.
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