MARGOT SINGER, Director, is an Assistant Professor of English at Denison. She is a graduate of the University of Utah (Ph.D 2005), Oxford University (M.Phil. 1986) and Harvard University (BA 1984). She is the author of a collection of linked stories, The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2007), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, The Sun, and many other literary journals. She has been awarded the Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Prose.

DENNIS READ is an Associate Professor of English at Denison, where he has taught since 1979. His Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has published more than 200 essays, reviews, and scholarly articles in such publications as The American Scholar, American Literature and Philological Quarterly. His writing appears regularly in Columbus Monthly magazine. His book, R.H. Cromek: Engraver, Entrepreneur, will be published by Ashgate in 2009.

HOLLY GODDARD JONES's first book, a collection of short stories, will be published by Harper Perennial in 2009. Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Epoch, and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in two volumes of New Stories from the South (2007 and 2008) and in Best American Mystery Stories 2008. In 2006 she was honored as a Peter Taylor Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and in 2007 she was the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a prize of $25,000 given to only six emerging women fiction writers each year. A graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at The Ohio State University, she has taught at Denison University and is now part of the creative writing faculty at Murray State University in her home state of Kentucky. You may visit her web site at http://www.hollygoddardjones.com to learn more.

ALISON STINE, an alumna of Denison, was a student in the inaugural Reynolds, and has been on the faculty for nine years. Her first book of poems, Ohio Violence, won the Vassar Miller Prize and will be published by The University of North Texas Press in 2009. She is also the author of Lot of My Sister (Kent State University Press 2001). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, and many others, and her awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She has taught at Fordham University, Gettysburg College, Grand Valley State University, and at the University of Maryland, where she received her MFA. Currently, she is a PhD Candidate in English at Ohio University.