Faculty
Keynote: Lee Martin
Lee Martin is the Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of The
Bright Forever, and three other novels, including Break
the Skin, which will be published by Crown in June,
2011. His other books are the novels, River of Heaven and
Quakertown; the memoirs, From Our House,
and Turning Bones; and the short story collection, The
Least You Need to Know. His fiction and nonfiction have
appeared in such places as Harper's, Ms., Creative
Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Fourth
Genre, River Teeth, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner,
and Glimmer Train. He is the winner of the Mary
McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He
teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where
he was the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished
Teaching.
Fiction:
Barbara Shoup is the author
of six novels and the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary
Authors Share the Creative Process. She is the recipient of
numerous grants from the Indiana Arts Commission two creative
renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and the
2006 PEN Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. Currently,
she is the executive director of the Writers’ Center of
Indiana and an associate faculty member at IUPUI.
Bryan Furuness's stories have appeared
in Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Freight Stories, and
elsewhere, including New Stories from the Midwest and
Best American Nonrequired Reading. He teaches at Butler
University, where he is launching their new small press,
Pressgang. His first novel, The Lost Episodes of Revie
Bryson, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in
2012.
Barbara Bean is Professor Emerita of English at
DePauw University where she taught creative writing and
literature. She has a B.A. from Knox College and an M.F.A. from
Indiana University. Her stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, Colorado Review, Northwest Review,
Booth and elsewhere. Dream House, her
collection of stories, was published in 2001 by the Center for
Literary Publishing at Colorado State.
Patricia Henley began writing in
1970. She has published short stories, novels, poetry, and
essays. Her books have been published by Three Rivers Press,
Carnegie Mellon Press, Graywolf Press, MacMurray and Beck,
Pantheon, and Anchor Books. Her first novel, Hummingbird
House, was a finalist for The National Book Award. Engine
Books (www.enginebooks.org)
published a collection of her stories, Other Heartbreaks,
in October 2011. She has taught for 24 years in the MFA Program
at Purdue University.
Poetry:
Ma
ry Leader began writing poetry in the midst of a career as a lawyer
in my home state of Oklahoma. Her first book of poems, Red Signature (Graywolf 1997) won the National
Poetry Series; her second, The Penultimate Suitor (Iowa 2001) won the Iowa
Poetry Prize; and her latest book, Beyond the Fire,
was recently published by Shearsman Books in England. She
teaches creative writing at Purdue.
Karen Kovacik is the author of four collections of
poetry, most recently Metropolis Burning, and her work has received numerous honors, including the Charity Randall Citation from
the International Poetry Forumand a Creative Renewal
Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. She has
received a fellowship in literary translation from the
National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Research Grant
to Poland, and her translations of contemporary Polish poetry
have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including APR, Crazyhorse and Southern
Review. She’s professor of English at IUPUI, where she
directs the creative writing program. Her poem “Invisible
Movements” won the Moving Forward contest and will be
installed along the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. In January
2012, she will become Indiana’s next
Poet
Laureate.
Micah Ling earned her
master’s degree in 20th century American literature and Master
of Fine Arts degree in poetry at Indiana University. Ling
teaches in the English department at Franklin college, and in
the MFA program at Butler University. Ling has two collections
of poetry: Three Islands and, Sweetgrass (sunnyoutside
press). In addition to poetry, Ling writes freelance
arts/entertainment articles for NUVO, and she manages a trio
of websites that review books, music and film.
Shari Wagner teaches poetry
and memoir writing for WCI. Her books include Evening
Chore, a collection of poems, and A Hundred Camels,
a memoir of Somalia she co-wrote with her father, Gerald
Miller, a retired physician. Most recently, her writing has
appeared in North American Review, The Writer’s Almanac with
Garrison Keillor, Shenandoah, and National
Wetlands Newsletter. Her poetry has been nominated
twice for Pushcart Prizes, and in 2009, she was co-winner of Shenandoah’s
The Carter Prize for the Essay.
Nonfiction:
Sarah Layden’s fiction and poetry has
been published in Stone Canoe, Gargoyle, PANK, the
anthology Sudden Flash Youth, and elsewhere. She is
the winner of two Society of Professional Journalists awards,
an AWP Intro Award, the Allen and Nirelle Galson Prize for
fiction, and Purdue University’s Paul Sidwell Memorial Award
for her novel, Sleeping Woman, which is excerpted in
Freight Stories and the Dia de los Muertos anthology.
She teaches writing at IUPUI and Marian University. Find her
online at www.sarahlayden.com.
Jim McGarrah's poems and essays
appear frequently in many literary journals and magazines, most
recently Bayou Magazine, Breakwater, and North American Review. He is the author of two
award-winning books of poetry and two memoirs, A
Temporary Sort of Peace (Indiana Historical Society Press,
2007), which received the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award for Legacy
Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Montaigne Medal and The End of an Era (Ink Brush Press, 2011). He is
a contributing editor for Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana.
Lili Wright worked
as a newspaper reporter for ten years before earning her MFA
from Columbia University. She is author of the travel memoir,
Learning to Float. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek,
The Cincinnati Review, The Normal School, Cream City Review. In 2008, she won the Mary C.
Mohr Nonfiction Award. Her work was noted for distinction in Best American Essays 2010 and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010. She teaches writing at DePauw
University.
Andrew Levy is Edna Cooper Chair in English and
Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Butler University in
Indianapolis. He is author of The Culture and Commerce of the
American Short Story, co-author of Creating Fiction: A Writer's
Companion, and co-editor of Postmodern American Fiction: A
Norton Anthology. His First Emancipator (Random House) was cited
as a "Best of 2005" by the Chicago Tribune, Amazon, and
Booklist, and received the Slatten Award for biography. The
Brain Wider Than The Sky (Simon and Schuster) was similarly
recognized in 2009 by the Wall Street Journal and Washington
Post. His essays and reviews have appeared in Harper's,
the American Scholar, Dissent, Best American Essays,
Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago, and elsewhere, and he has been a
guest on numerous national radio programs and on
C-Span.
Levy currently lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Siobhan, and
son, Aedan.
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