Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 […]
Steve Almond is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and […]
M.C. Armstrong is the author of The Mysteries of Haditha, published in 2020 by Potomac Books. The Brooklyn Rail called The Mysteries of […]
Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Julianna Baggott has published more than twenty books under her own name as well as pen […]
Julie Brooks Barbour received an MFA in Creative Writing from UNC Greensboro. She is a recipient of an Artist Enrichment Grant from […]
Writer
Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of the story collections The Secret Names of Women, The Land of Go, and, most recently, Magpies. She […]
Writer
Mark Beaver is the author of the memoir Suburban Gospel. His prose has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Gulf Coast, […]
Poet
David Blair grew up in Pittsburgh. He is the author of three books of poetry, Ascension Days, which was chosen by Thomas […]
Elly Bookman’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Florida Review, and […]
Writer
Jamey Bradbury is the author of The Wild Inside, forthcoming from William Morrow, March 20, 2018. The Wild Inside, her first novel, will […]
Poet
Kathryn Stripling Byer was raised on a farm in Southwest Georgia, where the material for much of her first poetry […]
Cathy Carr is the author of 365 Days to Alaska. A former copy editor, library clerk, and technical writer, she […]
Poet
Kelly Cherry has published over twenty books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, nine chapbooks, and translations of two classical plays. […]
Writer
Gretchen Comba is the author of The Stillness of the Picture. Her fiction has appeared in a number of journals, including Alaska […]
MAGGIE COOPER is an agent at Aevitas Creative Management, a full-service literary agency, home to more than thirty agents in five […]
LEIGH ANNE COUCH, formerly at Duke University Press and the Sewanee Review, is a freelance editor of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, […]
Paul Crenshaw is the author of the essay collections This One Will Hurt You and This We’ll Defend. His work has also appeared […]
Logen Cure is a queer poet and professor. She curates Inner Moonlight, a monthly podcast reading series for The Wild […]
Steve Cushman earned his MA from Hollins University and MFA from UNC Greensboro. He has published four works of fiction, […]
Writer
Quinn Dalton was born in South Carolina, moved to Ohio for high school and college at Kent State, then came […]
Writer
Angela Davis-Gardner is the author of the internationally acclaimed novels Felice, Forms of Shelter, and Plum Wine, which was inspired by the time […]
Poet
Shawn Delgado is the author of the chapbook, A Sky Half-Dismantled (Jeanne Duval Editions). His work is appears or is forthcoming from Connotation […]
Poet
Award-winning poet and teacher Kathleen Driskell is Professor of Creative Writing and serves as the Associate Program Director of Spalding […]
Poet
Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry: Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), Smith Blue (Southern Illinois UP, 2011), Suck on the Marrow (Red […]
Anna Elkins is the author of the poetry collection, Hope of Stones. A traveling poet and painter, she earned a […]
Poet
Ansel Elkins’s debut collection of poetry, Blue Yodel, was selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2014 Yale Series […]
Poet
Claudia Emerson published six poetry collections with LSU Press, including Late Wife, Secure the Shadow, and The Opposite House. A professor of […]
Kathy Flann is the author of the short story collection, Smoky Ordinary, winner of the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award, Get […]
Poet
Kerri French is the author of Every Room in the Body, winner of the 2016 Moon City Poetry Award. Her poetry […]
Poet
Julie Funderburk is the author The Door That Always Opens (Louisiana State University Press). She is the recipient of a North Carolina […]
Writer
Elizabeth Gentry‘s debut novel Housebound was awarded the 2012 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize, which was judged by novelist and […]
Marianne Gingher has published seven books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her novel Bobby Rex’s Greatest Hit was made into an NBC movie, […]
Poet
Jennifer Habel is the author of Good Reason, winner of the 2011 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, and In the Little House, winner […]
Writer
Ethan Hauser is the author of the novel, The Measures Between Us. His fiction has been published in Esquire, Playboy and New Stories From […]
James Tate Hill is the author of a memoir, Blind Man’s Bluff, released August 3, 2021 from W. W. Norton. […]
Poet
Jaimee Hills is the author of How to Avoid Speaking, winner of the tenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. She was […]
Maria Hummel is a novelist and poet. Her books include Lesson in Red, a follow-up to Still Lives, a Reese […]
Writer
Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award-winning author of A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North […]
Rodney Jones’s books of poetry include, among others, Village Prodigies; Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985–2005, winner of the Kingsley Tufts […]
Writer
Jen Julian is a writer, artist, and transient North Carolinian. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University […]
Writer
Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble. […]
Jennie Malboeuf is the author of God had a body, which was awarded the 2019 Blue Light Books Prize by Adrian […]
Writer
An award-winning writer of fiction, drama, nonfiction and poetry, Kat Meads is a native of eastern North Carolina. She holds […]
Writer
Andrew Meredith is the author of The Removers. He has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo and from the Fine Arts Work Center […]
Poet
Robert Morgan grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and currently lives in an […]
Writer
Keith Lee Morris is the author of Travelers Rest, as well as two previous novels, The Greyhound God and The Dart League King (a Barnes […]
Lauren Moseley‘s first book of poems, Big Windows, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2018. Her poems have appeared […]
Writer
Travis Mulhauser is from Petoskey, Michigan. He is the author of two works of fiction, most recently the novel Sweetgirl from Ecco/Harper […]
Poet
Sarah Rose Nordgren was raised in Durham, North Carolina, and has lived in New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Ireland. Her poetry […]
Editor
Matt O’Donnell graduated from the MFA writing program at UNCG in 1998. He is Editor & Executive Director of From the Fishouse, […]
Kirsten Oliphant writes under the pen names Emma St. Clair and Sullivan Gray. She has written over twenty novels, hit […]
Rachel Marie Patterson (also known as Rachel Patterson Moles) is co-founder and editor of Radar Poetry. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative […]
Writer
Drew Perry lives in North Carolina with his wife, a dog, two cats, and, somehow, two boys. He teaches writing […]
Poet
Bruce Piephoff has been writing and performing songs and poetry for over 40 years. Firmly a part of the Appalachian […]
Ösel Jessica Plante is the author of the poetry collection Waveland. fiction and poetry have appeared in Best New Poets […]
Jack Riggs’s writing has been published in The Crescent Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Habersham Review, and Writing, Making It Real. In 2000, he […]
Poet
Rob Seals is a songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator with an M.F.A. in poetry, an innovative curriculum for teaching creative […]
Writer
Warren Rochelle lives and writes in Charlottesville, VA. He retired from the University of Mary Washington in 2020, after 20 […]
Stephanie Rogers is the author of Plucking the Stinger (2016) and Fat Girl Forms (2021), both published by Saturnalia Books. She grew up in […]
Writer
Tim Sandlin has published eight novels. Two of his screenplays have been made into movies. He turned forty with no phone, […]
Poet
Sarah Lindsay is the author of Primate Behavior, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; Mount Clutter; Twigs and Knucklebone; and Debt […]
Poet
Allison Seay is the author of To See the Queen, winner of the 2012 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. […]
Poet
Andrea Selch has an MFA from UNC Greensboro and a PhD from Duke University, where she taught creative writing from 1999 until […]
Writer
Greg Shemkovitz is the author of the novel Lot Boy. His fiction has appeared in Foundling Review, Gihon River Review, the Journal […]
Writer
George Singleton has published six collections of short stories (These People Are Us, the Half-Mammals of Dixie, Why Dogs Chase […]
Marcus Slease (Portadown, N. Ireland 1974) is the author of Puppy (Beir Bua Press), Never Mind the Beasts (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) and The Green Monk (Boiler House Press), […]
Gabriel Spera has published two collections of poetry. His first, The Standing Wave, was published by Harper Collins (New York) as part of […]
Poet
Christina Stoddard is the author of Hive, winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and forthcoming in 2015 from the University of […]
New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford recently released Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe and R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen […]
Poet
Jillian Weise was born in Houston, Texas, in 1981. Her first poetry collection, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, is a bold […]
Poet
Jennifer Whitaker is the author of The Blue Hour, winner of the Brittingham Prize and forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin […]
Corrie Lynn White is a poet and essayist living in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Originally from Gold Hill, North Carolina, she holds […]
Jim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press, 2019), and is […]
Writer
Melissa Wiley is the author of more than a dozen books for kids and teens, including The Prairie Thief, Inch and Roly […]
Leslie C. Youngblood received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A former assistant professor of creative […]
