Jessica Anthony Margaret Bridgman Fellow in Fiction

Bread Loaf Fellows

Jessica Anthony—Margaret Bridgman Fellow in Fiction

Jessica Anthony’s first novel, The Convalescent, received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, was an American Library Association Notable Book, a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, and an Editor’s Choice from the San Francisco Chronicle. Anthony has won fellowships to Summer Literary Seminars, the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, and she is the recipient of McSweeney’s “Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award.” Her short fiction can be found in Best New American Voices, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Maine.

Beth Bachmann—Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry

Beth Bachmann's first book, Temper, won the AWP 2008 Donald Hall Prize and the 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and Tin House, among other journals, and have been anthologized in Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis, and Wonderland and Best New Poets 2005 and 2007. She teaches creative writing at VanderbiltUniversity.

Belle Boggs—Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Fiction

Belle Boggs is the author of Mattaponi Queen, selected for the 2009 Bakeless Prize in Fiction by Percival Everett. Mattaponi Queen has been shortlisted for the 2010 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award in Fiction, and stories from the collection have appeared in Paris Review, Glimmer Train, At Length, storySouth, and Five Chapters. She lives in Chatham County, North Carolina, with her husband.

Paula Bohince—Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry

Paula Bohince is the author of two books of poetry, Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods and the forthcoming The Children. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, Slate, and Yale Review. She has received the Grolier Poetry Prize, the“Discovery”/The Nation Award, the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 2010-2011 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. She lives in Pennsylvania.

Matt Bondurant—John Gardner Fellow in Fiction

Matt Bondurant’s second novel The Wettest County in the Worldwas a New York TimesEditor’s Pick, a San Francisco ChronicleBest 50 Books of the Year. His first novel, The Third Translation, was an international bestseller, translated into 14 languages worldwide. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, New England Review, and Glimmer Train, among others. Matt has appeared on various media outlets, including the Discovery Channel, Radio France, and NPR, and in the past he has worked for the Associated Press, NPR, and the British Museum. He currently teaches literature and writing in the Arts & Humanities graduate program at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Jericho Brown—Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. He teaches creative writing as an assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego. His poems have appeared inIowa Review, Jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American,and several other journals and anthologies. His first book, PLEASE, won the 2009 American Book Award.

Ashley Butler—William Sloan Fellowship in Nonfiction

Ashley Butler is the author of Dear Sound of Footstep. Her work has recently appeared in Jubilat, Ninth Letter, Creative Nonfiction, POOL, Drunken Boat, and Gulf Coast; and she is the recipient of fellowships from the Ucross Foundation and Jentel. She received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was a University of Iowa Museum of Art Writing Fellow. She lives in Texas.

H. G. Carrillo—Amanda Davis Returning Fellow

H. G. Carrillois the author of the novelLoosing My Espanish.His short stories have appeared inKenyon Review,Conjunctions,Iowa Review,Glimmer Train,Ninth Letter,Slice,and other journals and publications. Carrillo is assistant professor in the department of English at The George Washington University and serves on the board of directors for the PEN Faulkner Foundation. He is currently at work on a novel.

Ken Chen--John Ciardi Fellow in Poetry

Ken Chen is the 2009 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, chosen by Louise Glück. A graduate of Yale Law School, Mr. Chen and former Wall Street lawyer, he is now the Executive Director of The Asian American Writers’ Workshop. His poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming in Review of Books, The Yale Anthology of American Poetry, Fence, Jubilat, Film International, C-Theory, Radical Society, Art Asia Pacific, and Best American Essays 2006.

Heidi W. Durrow—Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellowship in Fiction

Heidi W. Durrow is the author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, chosen by Barbara Kingsolver for the Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change and named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by the Boston Herald. A graduate of Stanford, Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and Yale Law School, she has worked as a corporate litigator and life skills trainer to professional athletes. She is the co-founder and co-producer of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, and co-host of the award-winning podcast Mixed Chicks Chat.

Millicent Graham—Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellow

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Millicent A. A. Graham is the author of The Damp in Things, published in 2009. A member of the Wayne Brown Writers’ Workshop, she has been an honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa International Writing Program and a fellow of the Calabash International Literary Trust. Winner of the Jamaica Observers Annual Literary Competition in 2004, her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Jamaica Journal, BIM: Arts for the 21st Century, City Lighthouse Poetry Anthology, Caribbean Writer, and Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters.

James Hannaham—John Farrar Fellow in Fiction

James Hannaham’s first novel, God Says No, was a finalist for a Lambda Book Award, named an honor book by the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Awards, and semi-finalist for a VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. His stories have appeared in Literary Review, Open City, Nerve, One Story, andseveral anthologies. His criticism and journalism have appeared in Village Voice, Spin, Us, Out, and Salon.com, where he was once on staff, and have been reprinted in Best African American Essays 2009 and Best Sex Writing 2009. He has held residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, The Blue Mountain Center, The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Chateau de Lavigny, Fundación Valparaíso, and has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. He teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute and the New School.

Joan Kane—Theodore Morrison Fellow in Poetry

Joan Kane, an Inupiaq Eskimo with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, is the author of The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife. She received a 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award, the Connie Boochever Fellowship from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, and a National Native Creative Development award. She received an individual artist award from the Rasmuson Foundation in 2007 and the John Haines award in 2004. A graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University's School of the Arts, she lives in Anchorage with her husband and two sons.

Kim Dana Kupperman—Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Nonfiction

Kim Dana Kupperman is the author of I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence, which received the 2009 Bakeless Prize in Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Best American Essays 2006, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and Ninth Letter. Honors include notable mentions in Best American Essays (2007, 2008, 2009) and in the Pushcart Prize anthologies (2007 and 2010); fellowships in 2009 from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts; a scholarship in 2008 from the Center for Book Arts; the 2003 Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize from Quarter After Eight; and first place in the 1996 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. She is the founder of Welcome Table Press, a nonprofit independent press devoted to publishing and celebrating the essay, in all its forms. For her day job, she works as managing editor of Gettysburg Review.

Nick Lantz—Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Poetry

Nick Lantz is the 2010–2011 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. He was the 2007–2008 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His first book of poems, We Don’t Know We Don’t Know,was selected by Linda Gregerson for 2009 Bakeless Prize in Poetry. His second book, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House,was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Felix Pollak Prize.

Kathryn Ma—Shane Stevens Fellow in Fiction

Kathryn Ma is the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her bookAll That Work and Still No Boys, which was named a San Francisco Chronicle “Notable” Book and a Los Angeles Times “Discovery” Book. Her stories have appeared in many literary magazines, and she won the 2008 Meyerson Prize for Fiction. Kathryn practiced law for many years before becoming a writer and teacher. She lives in San Francisco and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.

Lisa Margonelli –Bernard DeVoto Fellow in Nonfiction

Lisa Margonelli is a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, where she writes about the global culture and economy of energy. Her book about the oil supply chain, Oil On the Brain: Petroleum's Long Strange Trip to Your Tank, was published in 2007. Recognized as one of the 25 Notable Books of 2007 by the American Library Association, Oil On the Brain also won a 2008 Northern California Book Award for general nonfiction. Lisa has been published in the Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Discover, Salon, San Francisco Magazine, and California Monthly, among other publications. Her work has won two Excellence in Journalism awards from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. In 1999-2000 she was awarded a Sundance Fellowship. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Nami Mun—Theodore Morrison Fellow in Fiction

Nami Mun is the author of the novel Miles from Nowhere, which was shortlisted for the Orange Award and selected for Booklist’s Editors’ Choice as well as Top Ten First Novels, Amazon’s Best Fiction of 2009 So Far, and Indie Next List. Named Best New Novelist of 2009 by Chicago magazine, she is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a 2009 Whiting Writers’Award.

Kristin Naca—Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry

Kristin Naca was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Recently she earned an MFA at University of Pittsburgh and PhD at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.She currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she serves as mentor for the Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series. She teaches Asian American and Latino poetics and creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Octopus, and Bloom. Her book Bird Eating Birdwas selected for the National Poetry Series mtvU Prize. She has been a long-time member of Sandra Cisneros’s Macondo Workshop, in San Antonio, Texas.

Lori Ostlund—Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellowship in Fiction

Lori Ostlund’s collection of stories, The Bigness of the World, received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, a California Book Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. It was a Lambda Book Award finalist and shortlisted for The Story Prize. In 2009, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her stories have appeared in New England Review, Georgia Review, andKenyon Review as well as the 2010 Best American Short Stories. She lives in San Francisco but will spend the upcoming year as the Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill.

David Roderick—Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry

David Roderick's first book, Blue Colonial, was chosen by Robert Pinsky to win the APR/Honickman Prize. He has published poems in several journals, including Hudson Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner. He is a recent recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and teaches at the University of North Carolina, Greeensboro.

Ed Skoog—Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry

Ed Skoog is the author of Mister Skylight. His poems have appeared in Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Narrative, Ploughshares, New Republic, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. He has been a scholar at Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences and writer-in-residence at the Richard Hugo House and George Washington University, as a Jenny McKean Moore Fellow. He lives in Seattle.

Tiphanie Yanique—Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellowship in Fiction

Tiphanie Yanique is the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony. Her writing has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. Her fiction has also appeared in Callaloo, Transition Magazine, American Short Fiction, London Magazine, and other places. The Boston Globe lists her as one of the sixteen cultural figures to watch out for in 2010. A former Fulbright Scholar, she is an assistant professor of creative writing and Caribbean Literature at Drew University.