Shannon Cain’s debut short story collection, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2011 as the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her honors include an O. Henry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and an NEA fellowship. She has taught fiction writing at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, and in 2011 was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig. Shannon co-edited Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks from Vietnam to Iraq (Kore Press, 208) and edited the anthology Roadside Curiosities: Short Stories on American Popular Culture, forthcoming from the University of Leipzig Press. She is a writing coach and manuscript consultant and also teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Read an excerpt by Shannon Cain here.
Lydia Millet is the author of many novels, including one called My Happy Life, which won the 2002 PEN-USA fiction award, and a story collection called Love in Infant Monkeys, which was one of three fiction finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. Her new book Magnificence is the last of a trilogy about extinction that began with How the Dead Dream (2008) and last year’s Ghost Lights. Millet has lived in Tucson since 1999, where she works as an editor and writer at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Read an excerpt by Lydia Millet here.