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Delia Falconer

Delia Falconer is the author of The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers as well as the breakout debut novel The Service of Clouds, and her essays and stories have been anthologized widely in many publications and international journals. She lives in Australia.

 

Leslie A. Fiedler received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle in 1998. He died in 2003, a month before his 86th birthday. His essays have been collected by Samuele F. S. Pardini in the book, The Devil Gets His Due.

 

 

Robert Finch is the author of six collections of essays, including The Iambics of Newfoundland, and co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing. He is a recipient of the New England Booksellers Association Award for Nonfiction. His weekly radio series, A Cape Cod Notebook, is heard on the NPR affiliate WCAI-FM, and he received a New England Edward R. Murrow Award for Radio Writing in 2006. He divides his time between Cape Cod and Newfoundland.

 

Author of Swallow the Ocean, Laura Flynn currently teaches writing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband and two children.

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William Fox

William L. Fox is a writer, independent scholar, and poet. He is the author of Aereality: On the World from Above, and his previous books include Making Time and Terra Antarctica. He lives in Burbank, California.

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Janet Frame

Award-winning author of Towards Another Summer, Janet Frame was a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, and poet. Her memoir An Angel at My Table was adapted into a movie by Jane Campion. Frame died in 2004.

 

Amy Fusselman is the author of 8 and The Pharmacist’s Mate. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons.

Frank Gaspar

Frank X. Gaspar, author of Stealing Fatima, is the recipient of many literary prizes, including the Morse Poetry Prize, Anhinga Prize for Poetry, Brittingham Prize in poetry, Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and California Book Award for First Fiction. Winner of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize, he lives in Southern California.

Gardner

Controversial critic, novelist, teacher, translator, music composer, medievalist, and scholar of ancient languages, best-selling author John Gardner wrote several books, including On Writers and Writing, Nickel Mountain, Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues ,and October Light. One who proclaimed himself never to be cautious, he died in a motorcycle accident in 1982.

 

Bruce George is cofounder of Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam, winner of a Peabody Award, and the co-editor of The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates. He lives in New York City.

David Gilmour

David Gilmour is an award-winning journalist and author of Sparrow Nights: A Novel, Lost Between Houses, and A Perfect Night to Go to China. The Film Club, a father-son memoir, is his most recent critically acclaimed book. Gilmour is the Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and lives in Toronto.

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Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York City in 1997. Thirty-five years of correspondence between him and Gary Snyder has been collected in The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder: 1956-1991.

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Giorno

Poet, performance artist, activist, and author John Giorno lives in New York City. A leading figure in the Beat, New York School, and Factory art and poetry scenes, his career-spanning collection of poetry is called Subduing Demons in America.

 

Glendinning

Victoria Glendinning is a biographer, critic, broadcaster, and novelist. Her biographies include Leonard Woolf; Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions; Rebecca West: A Life; Vita: The Life of V. Sackville West, and Trollope. She lives in Somerset, England.

 

Meisei Goto was the prizewinning author of more than thirty novels. After fleeing from northern Korea during his adolescence, he remained in Japan for the rest of his life, where he worked as a novelist until his death in 1999. His novel, Shot by Both Sides, has been translated by Tom Gill.

 

Gottlieb

San Francisco-based performance poet Daphne Gottlieb is the editor of Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, as well as the author of Kissing Dead Girls, Fucking Daphne, Final Girl, Why Things Burn, and Pelt. She teaches at the New College of California.

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Terry Gould

Terry Gould is a Brooklyn-born investigative journalist who focuses on organized crime and social issues and the author of Marked for Death. He has won forty-seven awards and honors for his writing and was nominated for the Tara Singh Hayer International Press Freedom Award, an award named after a murdered journalist. Gould’s previous nonfiction books include Paper Fan and The Lifestyle. He lives in Vancouver.

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Marcus Gray

Marcus Gray is the author of The Clash: Return of the Last Gang in Town and It Crawled from the South: An R.E.M. Companion, among other books. As a journalist, he’s written for numerous publications, including NME, Q, Mojo, Time Out, and The Guardian. He lives in Belfast.

 

Jeff Greenwald

Jeff Greenwald is the author of five bestselling books, including Shopping for Buddhas and The Size of the World. His writing has appeared widely in print and online in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Salon.com. He lives in Oakland, California.

 

 

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