Fielding Dawson’s fiction, essays and art/literary criticism appeared in books, magazines, anthologies and newspapers in the U.S. and abroad for over thirty years. He published 23 books during his lifetime, including stories, novels, memoirs and poems. His writing roots reach back to Black Mountain College in 1949, where he went to study art and stayed

Author of the Marine Corps novel Maggot (Warner Books) and the short story collections Naked to Naked Goes (Scribner’s) and Loving Power (Bottom Dog), Robert Flanagan was born in Toledo, Ohio. He worked as a dishwasher, night watchman and janitor before serving in the Marine Corps Reserve and attending the University of Toledo and the

Mike Newell is the author of No Bottom: In Conversation with Barry Lopez, which includes what reviewers have described as a relaxed, wide-ranging and original interview and a critical inquiry that greatly advances scholarship on Lopez’s writing. Newell previously published three books of poetry — uNderground Fires, The Unlived Life and Aestivation — and is

Michael Barich has taught at Kenyon College in Ohio since 1985. His courses there include Greek and Latin at all levels, literature in translation, and ancient history, and he has recently offered advanced Greek and Latin courses on Plato, Aristophanes, and Petronius. His scholarly work is devoted in particular to epic poetry and the literature of

Robert Hamburger’s first three books have been the subject of an exhibition at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as well as television, radio and theatrical treatments. They form a loose nonfiction trilogy of studies of race and social injustice in contemporary America, and were praised by the likes of Dr. Kenneth Clark,

Perry Carlton Lentz is undertaking his final year as Charles P. McIlvaine Professor of English at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Perry joined the Kenyon faculty in 1969, and has served as department chair and as director of the Kenyon Exeter Program, which he helped establish in 1974. He is the author of the novelsThe Falling

Loranne Marsh Temple grew up in Louisiana and now lives with her husband in Mount Vernon, Ohio. She began writing fiction after many years spent raising their six children. She won the “Best of Ohio Writers” prize for a story in 2000. Her stories have been published in Potpourri and The Ohio Writer magazine. She received her M.F.A. in creative

Fred Andrle is known to many as the voice of WOSU-820/NPR radio in Columbus, Ohio. His twenty years of intelligent talk on WOSU’s public affairs show “Open Line” provide a rich, insightful alternative to normal talk-radio fare. What is less known is Fred’s dedication to the craft of poetry. He is the recipient of a Thurber

Novelist, journalist and teacher, P.F. Kluge is Writer in Residence at Kenyon College. His six previous novels include Eddie And The Cruisers and Biggest Elvis. His non-fiction books include The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia and Alma Mater, an account of a year in the life of Kenyon College. Two films, Dog Day Afternoon and Eddie And The Cruisers, have been based on his work. His journalism appears

Patrick Meanor, Ph.D. has taught at the State University of New York, College at Oneonta since 1974. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Professor Award and the State University Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. A graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, Patrick completed his Ph.D. at Kent State University. A

Susan Gluck Rothenberg is an oral historian living in San Francisco. She has used her training as a psychiatric social worker with a variety of populations: troubled families; abused and neglected children; young families learning parenting skills; and older adults. Recently, she has found a niche in helping elders record their life experiences and editing those

Charlene Fix is a Professor of English at the Columbus College of Art Design and a member of The House of Toast Poets. She received poetry fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council (1993) and the Greater Columbus Arts Council (1995 and 2002), and has published poems in various literary magazines, among them The Antioch Review,

Laura McCullough is a Prairie Schooner Merit Scholar in Poetry and has won two New Jersey Arts Council Fellowships. She holds an MFA in fiction from Goddard College and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Essex, where her work focuses on poet Stephen Dunn. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner and The

Bruce Haywood was a professor and provost at Kenyon College in Ohio for seventeen years, then president of Monmouth College in Illinois for fourteen years. Born in 1925 in York, England, he served with army intelligence in Germsany at the end of World War II, then continued his education at Leeds University. He is a

New York native Peter Rutkoff has been teaching at Kenyon College in Ohio since 1971, and is currently the Robert Oden Professor of American Studies. Peter took his bachelor’s degree at St. Lawrence University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1999-2001, Peter held the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished

Harry Marten is Edward E. Hale, Jr., Professor of Modern British and American Literature at Union College in Schenectady, NY. He has published in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, The Gettysburg Review, The Ohio Review, New England Review, The Cortland Review, ELH, Agenda, The Centennial Review, Contemporary Literature, and

Ed Schiebel works for IBM Software Group out of his home, where he may or may not choose to put on pants on any given day. Ed’s home is Littlewood Farm, a couple miles off highway 62, near Johnstown, Ohio. Littlewood holds a long gravel driveway, their house, the barn and fields, fences, lines of

August Franza is a novelist and poet living on the south shore of Long Island with his wife, Amy. He is the author of four novels:The Murder of Hitler (2002), The Events At Vista Bay (2005 — optioned for film development), If I Die Before I Live (2008) andThe Man in the Middle (2009). The last named novel is volume one of

Galbraith Miller Crump married Joan Lee in 1952 and spent the next 54 years by her side, raising five sons while teaching in the United States, Canada, France and England. He took his B.A. from Hamilton College, then a Masters at Reading University, England and a Ph.D. at St. John’s College, Oxford. He taught at