Jerry Bradley is the author of five books and more than one hundred fifty published stories and poems, and he has published more than thirty critical articles and eighty reviews. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, and the New Mexico Arts Division. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he currently serves as Professor of English at Lamar University. http://jerrybradley.net/ Laura Payne Butler Laura Payne Butler is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Sul Ross State University, the University of the Big Bend. Her fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in fine journals such as Night Train, Iconoclast, and Iron Horse, and been anthologized in New Stories from the South and CrossRoads. Oscar Casares is the author of a novel and a collection of stories. He has earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Copernicus Society of America, and the Texas Institute of Letters. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and on "All Things Considered" for National Public Radio. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he now teaches creative writing at the University of Texas and directs their Master of Fine Arts Program in English. http://www.oscarcasares.com/ Terry Dalrymple has published a novel and a story collection, and served as editor for a collection of short inspired by Texas songs. He is the founding editor of the literary journal Concho River Review, and his short stories and essays have appeared in a variety of journals and magazines. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he currently teaches English at Angelo State University. http://www.angelo.edu/dept/english_ modern_ languages/faculty/dalrymple_terry.php Robert Flynn, professor emeritus at Trinity University and a native of Chillicothe, Texas, is the author of thirteen books: ten novels, two story collections, and a collection of essays. His dramatic adaptation of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying was the United States entry at the Theater of Nations in Paris in l964 and won a Special Jury Award. He is also the author of a two-part documentary on the Vietnam War shown on ABC-TV. Flynn’s work has received awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, the Texas Literary Festival, and the Western Writers of America. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he received its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1998. http://www.robert-flynn.net/ James Hoggard is the author of more than twenty books, including six collections of translations, three of them of collections of poems by Oscar Hahn; he has published six collections of poems, as well as two collections of stories, a novel, and a volume of nonfiction. The winner of numerous awards, including an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Literary Translation, he recently completed his first stint as the poet laureate of Texas; he has served as president of the Texas Institute of Letters, of which he was recently named a Fellow. He currently serves as Perkins-Prothro Distinguished Professor of English at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm/48/James-Hoggard/ Stephen Graham Jones is the author of thirteen novels and three story collections, with four or five more books due out over the next couple of years. Jones has been an NEA fellow, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, and has been a Stoker Award and Colorado Book Award finalist. He teaches in the MFA program at CU Boulder and the low-res MFA program at UCR Palm Desert. www.demontheory.net Dave Kuhne Dave Kuhne is recently retired as Associate Director of the William L. Adams Center for Writing at Texas Christian University, where, since, 2000, he edited descant, TCU’s literary journal. Kuhne is the author of The Road to Roma (Ink Brush Press, 2011), African Settings in Contemporary American Novels (Greenwood Press, 1999), and principal editor of descant: Fifty Years (TCU Press, 2008). He currently directs the Angelina River Press. Clay Reynolds is the author nearly 1,000 publications ranging from scholarly studies to short fiction and poems, essays, critical reviews and a more than a dozen published volumes. A Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, he is Director of Creative Writing. His novels, short fiction, and essays have won numerous awards including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Spur Award for Short Fiction from the Western Writers of America. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. www.clayreynolds.info Jim Sanderson has published two collections of short stories, four novels, and a composition textbook. An as yet untitled novel is forthcoming from TCU press. He has won the Kenneth Patchen Award, the Frank Waters Award, and has been a Texas Institute of Letters Award finalist. In addition, he has published over sixty short stories, essays, and scholarly articles. Sanderson was named the 2002 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer and 2006 University Scholar at Lamar University, where he currently serves as Writing Director. http://sites.google.com/site/jim2sanderson/home Jan Seale is the author of seven volumes of poetry, two books of short fiction, three volumes of nonfiction, and nine children's books. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and seven PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Awards, and two of her stories have been broadcast on National Public Radio. She is the 2012 Texas Poet Laureate. http://www.janseale.com/ Betty Wiesepape teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has published one book and numerous articles on Texas literary history; and her short stories, book reviews, and creative nonfiction essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and been selected for presentation at the Arts & Letters Live, Texas Bound Series and the Texas Book Festival. Her newest book is to be released in December 2012. https://explorer.utdallas.edu/editprofile.php?pid=13303&onlyview=1 |        
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