Field-Of-Study: Fiction

Claire Vaye Watkins was born in Bishop, California, in 1984 and raised in the Mojave Desert. She is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, and the M.F.A. program at the Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Her short-story collection, Battleborn (Riverhead Books, 2012), won the Story Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize,

Christopher Castellani is the author of three novels, each published by Algonquin: All This Talk of Love (2013), a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Literary Award; The Saint of Lost Things (2005); and A Kiss From Maddalena (2003), which won the Massachusetts Book Award. His fiction and non-fiction have

Peter Rock is the author of six novels, most recently The Shelter Cycle and My Abandonment, and a collection of stories, The Unsettling.  His books have been translated into several languages, and his stories have appeared in magazines such as Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin House, Epoch, and Ploughshares; they have been anthologized widely. Rock was born

Victoria Redel is the author of the novels The Border of Truth (2008) and Loverboy (2001), and of  two collections of short fiction: Make Me Do Things (2014) and Where the Road Bottoms Out (1995). She is also the author of three award-winning collections of poetry: Woman Without Umbrella (2013), Swoon (2003), and Already the

Terese Svoboda is the author of five novels, most recently Bohemian Girl, named one of the ten best 2012 Westerns by Booklist and an Historical Book of the Year Finalist in Foreword. "Astounding!" proclaimed The New York Post in a review of her memoir Black Glasses Like Clark Kent that won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize

Born in London, Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist (2002), Transmission (2004), My Revolutions (2007), and Gods Without Men (2011), as well as a short-story collection, Noise (2006) and a novella, Memory Palace (2013). His work has been translated into twenty languages. In 2003 Granta named him one of its twenty

David Means was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  He has published four short stories collections, including Assorted Fire Events, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.  His third collection, The Secret Goldfish, was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International