Summer 2016

Jane Alison is the author of several novels; a memoir, The Sisters Antipodes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009); and Change Me, translation of Ovid’s stories of sexual transformation (Oxford, 2014). “But I’ve Got Ovid” is adapted from her nonfiction novel, Nine Island (Catapult, 2016). She is Professor and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

Bret Anthony Johnston’s most recent novel is We Burn Daylight (Penguin Random House, 2024). His work appears in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the New Yorker, and The Best American Short Stories. He is the Director of the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.

Laura Kolbe is a writer, physician, and medical ethicist in New York City. Her debut poetry collection, Little Pharma (Pittsburgh, 2021), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Her work has been awarded the Iowa Review Prize and featured in Best American Poetry, and has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell and the James Merrill House.

Lori Nix is a two-time NYFA grant recipient and serves on their artist advisory committee. Her work has been shown in the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, Museum Schloss Moyland in Germany, and the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is a 2014 John S. Guggenheim Fellow.

Amanda Petrusich is the author of several books about music, including Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records (Scribner, 2014). Petrusich is the recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, and her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, the Oxford American, Pitchfork, and elsewhere. She is a commissioning editor for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, and an assistant professor of writing at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.