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MARCH 9, 2012:
Nicole Louise Reid is the author of the short story collection, So There! (SFA University Press) a novel, In the Breeze of Passing Things (MacAdam/Cage), and two fiction chapbooks, If You Must Know (Burnside Review Press) and Girls (RockSaw Press). Her award-winning short stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, and Meridian. Winner of the 2010 Dana Award in Short Fiction and 2011Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition, she teaches creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana, where she directs the RopeWalk Reading Series and is editor of RopeWalk Press and fiction editor of Southern Indiana Review. www.NicoleLouiseReid.com
Patrick Wensink has done a lot of things he is not proud of. He’s also done a few he isn’t so shy about, such as getting married in a doughnut shop and selling his own line of Wentastic BBQ Sauce. In addition, he is the recipient of the Patrick Wensink Foundation’s 2011 Nobel Prize for Good Looks. His books include the novels Broken Piano for President (2012, Lazy Fascist Press) and Black Hole Blues (2011, Lazy Fascist Press) and the story collection, Sex Dungeon for Sale! (2009, Eraserhead Press). He lives in Louisville, KY with his wife and son. www.patrickwensink.com
Joan Shelley is a songwriter and singer currently performing with her band, Joan Shelley and June Brides, and as one-third of the old-time trio Maiden Radio (along with Julia Purcell and Cheyenne Mize). She has released several albums with these projects in the past two years, with one upcoming release in April on the Ol Kentuck label. She is currently working on a duo project with a fellow Kentuckian and sub pop recording artist, Daniel Martin Moore, which is expected to be a spring release as well. http://www.joanshelleymusic.com/
APRIL 13, 2012:
Adam Day is the recipient of a 2010 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha. He is also the recipient of a 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in the Boston Review, Guernica, AGNI, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, APR, and others. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, and is an editor for the literary and comics journal, Catch Up, and for Memorious. Though born and raised in Kentucky, he is currently writer-in-residence at Earlham College. www.earlham.edu/users/dayad
Brian Barker is the author of The Animal Gospels (Tupelo Press, 2006) and The Black Ocean (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011), winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition. His poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Cincinnati Review, Blackbird, and Pleiades. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize and the 2009 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. He is married to the poet Nicky Beer and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver where he co-edits Copper Nickel. www.brianbarker.net
MAY 11, 2012:
Charlotte Pence’s poetry has received the Discovered Voices award, an individual artist commission from Tennessee, and three Pushcart nominations. She has been published in North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online and many other journals. This year, she published two chapbooks, one that won the Flying Trout chapbook prize and the other that won the Black Lawrence Press chapbook prize. She also recently published The Poetics of American Song Lyrics, an essay collection that she edited on the similarities and differences between poetry and songs. She is married to the fiction writer Adam Prince and currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. www.charlottepence.blogspot.com
Born and raised in Southern California, Adam Prince has since lived in New York, South Korea, Arkansas, Nicaragua, and Knoxville, Tennessee. His award-winning fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and Narrative Magazine, among others. In 2011, Narrative Magazine named him one of the best twenty new writers. He is married to the poet Charlotte Pence and is currently at work on a novel that takes place in Jakarta, Indonesia. His first book, a short story collection called The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men will be released in May from Black Lawrence Press, an imprint of Dzanc Books.