FACULTY

TIMOTHY DONNELLY is the author of two books of poetry: The Cloud Corporation and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit. His poems have appeared in Fence, Harper’s, Iowa Review, jubilat, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, A Public Space and elsewhere. He is poetry editor of Boston Review and teaches in the Writing Program of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Visit his author page at Wave Books or read a poem.

MARK DOTY is the author of nine books of poems, including Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems and School of the Arts. He has published three volumes of nonfiction prose and two memoirs, including Dog Years, a 2007 New York Times bestseller. Doty has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and a PEN/Martha Albrand Award, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Rutgers University. Visit his website or listen to an interview.

DARA WIER is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Selected Poems, Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, and Hat on a Pond. She teaches in the University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets and Writers. Her awards include the Poetry Center and Archives Book of the Year Award, a Pushcart Prize, the American Poetry Review’s Jerome Shestack Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She edits Factory Hollow Press, a small literary press. Visit her author page at Wave Books or read an interview.

MATTHEW ZAPRUDER is the author of three books of poetry: Come On All You Ghosts, The Pajamaist, and American Linden. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is editor of Wave Books and teaches in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside at Palm Desert. He lives in San Francisco. Follow his blog or listen to him read a poem.

CHARLES D'AMBROSIO is the author of  two collections of stories, The Point and Other Stories and The Dead Fish Museum, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a collection of essays: Orphans. His honors include a Whiting Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Read an interview or a story.

NOY HOLLAND is the author of The Spectacle of the Body and What Begins with Bird, and the forthcoming story collection Swim for the Little One First. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, she is a professor in the University of Massachusetts MFA Program. She serves on the Board of Directors for the independent press Fiction Collective Two. Read an interview or an excerpt from a story.

PAUL LISICKY is the author of the novels Lawnboy and The Burning House, and a memoir, Famous Builder. Unbuilt Projects, a collection of short prose, is forthcoming in 2012. He is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a fellow. He teaches at NYU and is the New Voices Professor at Rutgers University this year. Follow his blog or watch a video.

JOSEPH CARDINALE is the author of The Size of the Universe (FC2, 2010). He grew up on Long Island and lives in Honolulu, where he teaches writing and literature at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His fiction has appeared in the New York Tyrant and Denver Quarterly.  Read a review or a story.

HEATHER CHRISTLE is the author of three books of poems: The Difficult Farm, The Trees The Trees, and What Is Amazing, a new collection forthcoming spring 2012. She has taught at Emory University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She serves as the web editor for jubilat and lives in Northampton. Learn more on her blog or read some recent poems.

MATTHEA HARVEY is the author of three collections of poems: Sad Little Breathing Machine, Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form and Modern Life, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of two children's books and an illustrated erasure, Of Lamb, with images by Amy Jean Porter. A contributing editor to jubilat, Meatpaper and BOMB, she teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn. Visit her website or read an interview.

AMY HEMPEL is the author of five books of prose, including The Dog of Marriage and Tumble Home. Her Collected Stories, was named one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year, won the Ambassador Award for Best Fiction of the Year, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won an inaugural fellowship from the United States Artists Foundation. A Guggenheim recipient, she has also won the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She teaches writing at Harvard and Bennington College, and is active in dog rescue through The Deja Foundation. Watch an interview or read a story.

LISA OLSTEIN is the author of two books of poems:   Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, winner of the 2005 Hayden Carruth Award, and Lost Alphabet, named one of the nine best poetry books of 2009 by Library Journal.  A new collection, Little Stranger, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2013. Cold Satellite, an album of songs based on her poems and lyrics, was released in 2010 by Jeffrey Foucault. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Centrum, she is Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Listen to an interview or read a selection of poems.

JAMES TATE is the author of sixteen books of poetry and several collections of prose, including The Ghost Soldiers, awarded the 2008 Massachusetts Book Award, and Return to the City of White Donkeys, and The Eternal Ones of the Dream, Selected Poems 1990-2010 forthcoming in spring 2012. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award, he is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a professor in the University of Massachusetts MFA Program. View his page at the Academy of American Poets or sample audio clips from past readings.

BETSY WHEELER is the author of the poetry collection Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room, and Start Here, a poetry chapbook. Her poems have appeared in notnostrums, Bat City Review, Forklift Ohio, The Journal, and elsewhere. From 2005-2007, she served as the Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. She is editor of the limited-edition poetry chapbook publisher Pilot Books, and Managing Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institutes. Read or listen to some poems.

LENI ZUMAS is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator and the novel The Listeners, forthcoming in 2012. Her fiction has appeared in Quarterly West, Open City, Salt Hill, New Orleans Review, Keyhole, New York Tyrant, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and elsewhere. Zumas has received fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches in the MFA Program at Portland State University. Visit her website or read a Q&A.