• Steve Almond, Pushcart Prize winner, National Magazine Award finalist, writer  twice featured in the Best American series; and author of the books Candy Freak and Not That You Asked . More @ www.stevenalmond.com
• Ethan Gilsdorf, poet, journalist, critic and essayist for The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler and the Boston Globe, with poems published in Poetry, The Southern Review and Poetry London; author of the book Escape Artists: Travels through the Worlds of Role Playing Freaks, Online Gaming Geeks,  Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms (forthcoming 2009)
• Matt Gross, Frugal Traveler columnist for the New York Times
• Felicia Sullivan, author of the new memoir The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here. More @ www.feliciasullivan.com

• Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog, an Oprah's Book Club selection and finalist for the National Book Award; Bluesman; The Cage Keeper and Other Stories; and more
• Margot Livesy, author of the novels Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona and The House on Fortune Street; recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the N.E.A., the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts; and current distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College and the John F. and Dorothy H. Magee writer in residence at Bowdoin College
• Two writers-to-watch from Grub Street's YAWP Teen Writing Fellowship
• Two young up-and-coming authors from Beacon Academy
   

• Robin Lippincott, author of the novels In the Meantime, Our Arcadia, and Mr. Dalloway, and the story collection The Real, True Angel, as well as fiction/nonfiction in Paris Review, Fence, American Short Fiction, Memorious, The Literary Review, and others; recipient of fellowships to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony; and teacher of writing in Spalding's brief-residency MFA Writing Program and at Harvard University.
• Yael Goldstein Love, author of the novels Overture  and The Passion of Tasha Darsky (which are actually the same novel...). More @ www.yaelgoldsteinlove.com.
• Joseph Olshan, award-winning author of the novels Clara's Heart, The Conversion, Nightswimmer, Vanitas, The Waterline, A Warmer Season, The Sound of Heaven, and In Clara's Hands; and essayist with pieces in the New York Times,  the New York Times Magazine, The Times, The Guardian , The Independent , The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and more.
• Scott Pomfret, author of Since My Last Confession, the Romentics gay romance novels series, The Q Guide to Wine and Cocktails, and short stories in Post Road, New Orleans Review, Fiction International, and other places. More @ www.scottpomfret.com.

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