Pam Houston

Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, as well as five other books including the novel Contents May Have Shifted...

Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins is a contributing writer for National Geographic Magazine and the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Wyoming. A critically acclaimed author a...

Bret Lott

Bret Lott is the author of fourteen books. He is currently at work on the novel excerpted here, Save me a Place, a nonfiction book on food and community in Isra...

Valerie Miner

 Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fifteen  books, including novels, story collections and a memoir.  Her latest novel is Traveling wi...

N.S. Morris

N.S. Morris is a California-based writer and educator. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Queen’s Quart...

Tom Noyes

Tom Noyes has authored three story collections: Behold Faith and Other Stories (Dufour 2003), short-listed for Stanford Libraries’ William Saroyan Award; Spooky...

Lance Olsen

Lance Olsen is author of more than 25 books of and about innovative writing, including the novel My Red Heaven (Dzanc, forthcoming January 2020), from whic...