Ascent » The Authors

Tatjana Soli

Scott Olsen — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:37:18 +0000

Tatjana Soli’s stories have been published in The Sun, StoryQuarterly, Gulf Coast, Other Voices, Nimrod, Confrontation, North Dakota Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Sonora Review, Third Coast, and Blue Mesa. In April 2010, her novel, The Lotus Eaters, was published by St. Martin’s Press. She has been twice cited in the 100 Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories and twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Most recently she was awarded the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize, the Dana Award, and scholarships to both the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Bread Loaf. Currently she teachs through the Gotham Writers’ Workshop.

David McAleavey

Scott Olsen — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:20:58 +0000

David McAleavey, who teaches literature and creative writing at George Washington University in DC, has published poems in many journals, including Poetry, Georgia Review, Ploughshares – and, roughly 30 years ago, in Ascent. His fifth and most recent book of poems is HUGE HAIKU (Chax Press, Tucson, 2005), and he has work forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Chiron Review, Poet Lore, Connecticut Review, Gigantic, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Hubbub, Innisfree, Modern Haiku, and Medulla Review. He also has work currently online at Divine Dirt Quarterly. He spent the month of June, 2010, in residence at the Red Sea resort community of El Gouna, courtesy of the Orascom Development Company.

Marjorie Maddox

Scott Olsen — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:17:35 +0000

Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published Perpendicular As I; Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation; Weeknights at the Cathedral; When the Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems; six chapbooks, and over 350 poems, stories, and essays in journals and anthologies. She is the co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and author of two children’s books from Boyds Mills Press. Her short story collection, What She Was Saying, was one of three finalists for the Katherine Anne Porter Book Award. The recipient of numerous awards, Marjorie lives with her husband and two children in Williamsport, PA.

Theresa D. Smith

Scott Olsen — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:11:06 +0000

Theresa D. Smith received her M.F.A. in poetry from Purdue University, where she served as poetry editor for Sycamore Review, and her B.A. in creative writing from the University of Redlands. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, and Harpur Palate, and have been reprinted in Verse Daily. She won an Academy of American Poets Award last April in a contest judged by Ely Shipley.

Thomas Reiter

Scott Olsen — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:09:55 +0000

Thomas Reiter’s most recent book of poems, Catchment, was published in 2009 by LSU Press. He has received an Academy of American Poets Prize as well as fellowships from the NEA and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, The New England Review, The Hudson Review, and The Caribbean Writer.

A.S. Waterman

Scott Olsen — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:51:12 +0000

Amy Waterman has a master’s degree in writing with distinction from the University of Wales-Aberystwyth (UK). Her non-fiction has been published in the FOE Quarterly and Glimpse Quarterly. In 2005 she won the University of Wales Language and Learning Centre Student Writing Competition. A short story and a poem of hers have appeared in The Pacific Review. She blogs about the writing life at www.watermanwords.com.

Michelle Menting

Scott Olsen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:30:29 +0000

Michelle Menting lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. Some of her recent or upcoming work can be found in Ampersand Review, Redactions, Superstition Review, Opium, and Pank Magazine. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

April Lindner

Scott Olsen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:26:47 +0000

April Lindner’s novel Jane, a contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre, is forthcoming from Poppy in October 2010. Her poetry collection Skin received the 2001 Walt McDonald First Book Poetry Prize from Texas Tech University Press. An Associate Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, she lives in Havertown, Pennsylvania.

Claudia Serea

Scott Olsen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:20:28 +0000

Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in Meridian, Mudfish, Main Street Rag, Harpur Palate, Exquisite Corpse, The Fourth River, The Red Wheelbarrow, among others. She is the author of two poetry collections: Eternity’s Orthography (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and To Part Is to Die a Little, forthcoming from Červená Barva Press. She also writes creative nonfiction, published by The Rambler and The Writers’ Workshop Review. Claudia lives in New Jersey and works in New York for a major publishing company.

Donald Morrill

Scott Olsen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:09:53 +0000

Donald Morrill is the author of two volumes of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky and With Your Back to Half the Day, as well as four books of nonfiction, The Untouched Minutes (winner of the River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool, A Stranger’s Neighborhood and Impetuous Sleeper. He has taught at Jilin University, Peoples’ Republic of China, and has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Lodz, Poland, as well as the Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. For many years, he directed the Writers at the University series at the University of Tampa, and has been a poetry editor of Tampa Review and the University of Tampa Press Poetry Series. Currently, he teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing Program at Antioch/Los Angeles and is Associate Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at the University of Tampa.