Faculty Reading: Aurelie Sheehan and Farid Matuk

Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels and two short story collections, most recently, Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories (BOA Editions, Ltd.). Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Conjunctions, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Fence, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, and the Jack Kerouac Literary Award. Sheehan teaches fiction at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine, 2010), recipient of an honorable mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Award, finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award, finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award, and chosen by Geoffrey G. O’Brien for recognition in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets series. New poems appear in Third Coast, Iowa Review, Poets.org,The Baffler, Denver Quarterly, and Critical Quarterly, among others. He is a contributor to Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada (Shearsman, 2011), American Odysseys:  Writings by New Americans (Dalkey Archive, 2013), and Beyond the Field: New Latino Poetries, forthcoming from Counterpath Press. Matuk serves as poetry editor for Fence and contributing editor for The Volta.