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Poetry
Stanley Plumly is the author of eleven books, most recently Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, (which was runner-up for the PEN/Jacqueline Bogard Weld Award for Distinguished Biography), Old Heart (which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award), Argument and Song, Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, The Marriage in the Trees, Boy on the Step, Summer Celestial, Out-of-the-Body Travel, Giraffe, How the Plains Indians Got Horses, and In the Outer Dark. He is the recipient of seven Pushcart Prizes, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ingram-Merrill Foundation. He is currently a Distinguished Professor and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Maryland.
Nonfiction
Rebecca McClanahan is the author of The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, (which won the 2005 Glasgow Award), five volumes of poetry, and three books about writing, including Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Poetry’s J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood prize, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and (twice) Shenandoah’s Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay. She teaches in the low-residency MFA programs at Queens University and Pacific Lutheran University, and at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.
Fiction
Lee K. Abbott is the author of seven collections of short stories, All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories; Dreams of Distant Lives; Strangers in Paradise; Love is the Crooked Thing; The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting; Living After Midnight; and Wet Places at Noon. He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Ohio Arts Council grant. He is a recipient of the 2004 Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He teaches at Ohio State University.
