A.M. Homes
A.M. Homes is the author of the forthcoming novel, This Book Will Save Your Life (2006) and Things You Should Know (2002). Her earlier books include MusicFor Torching (1999), The End of Alice (1995), In A Country of Mothers (1993), …
A.R. Rea
A. R. Rea’s stories and essays have appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXV, the Kenyon Review, the Iowa Review, the Sun, Indiana Review, Green Mountains Review, New South and Wazee. Her work has been awarded fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Institute of Creative Writing in Wisconsin and Jentel …
Aaron Belz
Aaron Belz lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and teaches at Durham Technical Community College. He’s published two books of poetry, The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Lovely Raspberry (Persea, 2010), and has a third forthcoming, Glitter Bomb (Persea, 2014). For more information, please …
Aaron Gwynn
Aaron Gwyn is the author of the story collection Dog on the Cross (Algonquin Books, 2004), finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and the novel The World Beneath (W.W. Norton, 2009). His short fiction has appeared …
Abigail Thomas
Abigail Thomas has published stories in several magazines and is a former winner of the Missouri Review’s William Peden Prize. [1993]
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson’s first published story appeared in The Missouri Review in 1995. In 2013 he won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. [2013]
Adam Krause
Adam Krause is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Cream City Review, Tammy and Turbine. He lives in Iowa City. [2010]
Adam Prince
A graduate of Vassar College and the University of Arkansas MFA program, Adam Prince is currently a doctoral candidate in creative writing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, Northwest Review and Literal Latte. …
Adria Bernardi
Adria Bernardi Adria Bernardi has won The Missouri Review‘s Editors’ Prize in Essay. She is widely published as an essayist, fiction writer and translator. [1999]
Adrian C. Louis
Adrian C. Louis Adrian Louis’s book of poems, Ancient Acid Flashes, was published in 2000. [1999]
Adrie Kusserow
Adrie Kusserow Adrie was a finalist in the Larry Levis Editors’ Prize Contest. [1999]
Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali, from Kashmir is a Bread Loaf Scholarship winner, he has published poems in Canada, Denmark, England, India and the U.S. [1982]
Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender is the author of the short story collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) and Willful Creatures (2005), and the novels Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010). She lives …
Albert Goldbarth
Albert Goldbarth was born in Chicago and currently lives in Wichita, Kansas. He has been publishing notable books of poetry for thirty years and has twice received the National Book Critics Circle Award. In addition to his poetry, he has …
Albert Guerard
Albert Guerard published nine novels, six books of criticism and a memoir called The Touch of Time: Myth, Memory and the Self, as well as a number critical essays.
Alberta Turner
Alberta Turner’s publications include Need (Ashland Poetry Press); Learning To Count (Pitt Poetry Series); Lid and Spoon (Pitt Poetry Series); A Belfrey of Knees (Alabama Poetry Series); Fifty Contemporary Poets (Longman); and many other titles.
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia in 1964, of Ukrainian descent on his father’s side and Bosnian, of Serb background on his mother’s side. He graduated from the University of Sarajevo with a degree in literature …












