University of Arizona Creative Writing Program faculty members Ander Monson and Kate Bernheimer read from their new books, Letter to a Future Lover (Graywolf Press, 2015) and How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales (Coffee House Press, 2014).
Kate Bernheimer is the author of two story collections: How a Mother Weaned a Girl from Fairy Tales and Horse, Flower, Bird, and a novel trilogy. She is also the author of the collaborative novella Office at Night – with Laird Hunt – a joint commission of the Walker Art Center and Coffee House Press. She has edited four influential fairy-tale anthologies of original work including the World Fantasy Award-winning and bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and the current World Fantasy Award nominee xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths. Her nonfiction has appeared such places as The New Yorker and The New York Times, and she is a frequent radio guest – invited to offer her expert commentary about fairy tales such places as NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Weekend Edition,” APR’s “Marketplace,” and BBC Scotland. She also writes award-winning children's books. Her books have been translated into Russian, Greek, Italian, Korean, Chinese, French, Hebrew, and Spanish, among other languages.
Ander Monson the author of six books, including Letter to a Future Lover (Graywolf Press, 2015), Vanishing Point (Graywolf Press, 2010, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Other Electricities (Sarabande Books, 2005, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize), along with a decoder wheel, chapbooks, broadsides, an extensive website, and other media. He is the founder and editor of DIAGRAM, one of the first online literary journals, and of New Michigan Press. Find him online at otherelectricities.com. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona.