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CAROL ROH-SPAULDING was born in Oakland, California, in 1962, and now lives in the Midwest with her son, Jonah. She is assistant professor of English at Drake University, where she teaches fiction writing and American ethnic literature. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several journals, including Ploughshares, Amerasia, the Beloit Fiction Journal, and the Pushcart Annual XVI, and have been anthologized in several collections, including Writing Fiction, Love Stories for the Rest of Us, Other Sides of Silence: New Fiction from Ploughshares, and Asian American Literature. Her awards include the Heathcote Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, and a Cohen Award from Ploughshares for the best story of the year. She is completing a thematic collection of short stories and is compiling an edited collection of literary scholarship on mixed-race in Asian American literature.
TIM KEPPEL lives in Cali, Colombia, where he teaches literature at the Universidad del Valle. His stories have appeared in the Literary Review, Prism International, Mid-American Review, Carolina Quarterly, Florida Review, and other magazines.
MERRILL FEITELL was born and raised in New York City. Her fiction has appeared in River City, the Sonora Review, and most recently the Harcourt anthology Best New American Voices 2000. She completed her MFA at Columbia University and is currently working on her first novel, Any Minute Now.
DEBRA INNOCENTI earned her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Her work has appeared in a number of journals including American Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, the Beloit Poetry Journal, New Letters, Italian Americana, and the Texas Observer, among others. She has received poetry prizes from American Literary Review, the Center of Texas Studies, and the University of Houston–Clear Lake’s Gulf Coast Writers Conference. Presently she teaches at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio.
After a long yeshiva education, Carl Schaffer attended Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Universities of Michigan, Iowa, and Denver. He has published fiction, poetry, journalism, and academic articles, and has taught at Southern Methodist University and the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He now teaches fiction writing and Jewish literature at the University of Scranton, a Jesuit institution. “Inside the Wall” is a section of a novel-in-progress.
TOM KEALEY is a student in the creative-writing department at the University of Massachusetts. He also teaches CollegeWriting to a group of eighteen and nineteen year olds who continually surprise him (pleasantly) with their creativity, intelligence, and humor.
GEORGE STOLZ’s work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, the Antioch Review, the New York Times, and other publications. This is his second story published in Glimmer Train: “The Boy Who Lay Down” was published in the Summer 1999 issue. He lives with his wife and two young sons in Madrid, where he is currently putting the finishing touches on a short-story collection.
VIKRAM CHANDRA was born in New Delhi, India, in 1961. He briefly attended St. Xavier’s College in Bombay before moving to the United States to study creative writing at Pomona College in Claremont, California. After graduating in 1984, he attended Columbia University’s film school. He left before completing his degree to begin the novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain. He worked on the novel while a student of John Barth at Johns Hopkins and, later, of Donald Barthelme at the University of Houston. Red Earth and Pouring Rain was awarded the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Published Book. Love and Longing in Bombay, a collection of stories, followed. It won the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book (Eurasia region), was included in the New York Times Book Review’s “Notable Books of 1997” and was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. The story “Dharma,” included in the collection
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- PublisherGlimmer Train Pr Inc
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1880966395
- ISBN 13 9781880966396
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages184
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