Faculty

	Peter Cameron's latest novel, The City of Your Final Destination (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction. His previous novel, Andorra (FSG) was a New York Times notable book of 1997. He is also the author of the bestselling novel The Weekend, and of the short story collections The Half You Don't Know, Far-Flung and One Way or Another. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Mademoiselle, Grand Street, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, The Antioch Review, Rolling Stone, The Quarterly and many other magazines. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as several O. Henry Awards, and has taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, Oberlin College and the 92nd Street Y. He lives in New York.
	Gary Fincke is the author of 13 books, including most recently Sorry I Worried You (stories), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction; Writing Letters for the Blind (poems), winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Poetry Prize; Kicking Ass (nonfiction), The Stone Child (stories), and Blood Ties (poems). His work (poetry, fiction and nonfiction) has appeared in Harper's, The North American Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The New England Review, Newsday, Minnesota Review, Black Warrior Review, Carolina Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah and on National Public Radio. He has received Pushcart Prizes for both poetry and nonfiction, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from Susquehanna University, where he is Professor of English, Director of the Writers' Institute, and Coach of the Men's Tennis Team.
	James Harms is Director of the West Virginia Writers' Workshop as well as the MFA Program in Creative Writing at West Virginia University. He is the author of four books of poetry from Carnegie Mellon University Press, Freeways and Aqueducts (2004), Quarters (2001), The Joy Addict (1998) and Modern Ocean (1992), as well as a limited edition letterpress volume, East of Avalon (2000). He is the recipient of the PEN/Revson Fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes, as well as awards and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, West Virginia Commission on the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and others. His poems, essays and stories have appeared in such journals as Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshare, TriQuarterly, Chicago Review, Verse and elsewhere.
	Rebecca McClanahan's most recent book is a collection of memoir-based essays, The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings (University of Georgia Press, 2002). She's also published four volumes of poetry (most recently Naked as Eve, Copper Beech Press, 2000) and three books about writing, including Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively and Write Your Heart Out. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Poetry, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, and elsewhere. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize in fiction, the Wood prize from Poetry, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and (twice) the Carter prize for the essay from Shenandoah. For fifteen years, she was the writer-in-residence for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina. McClanahan moved to New York City in 1998 and teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at Queens University in Charlotte, th e Kenyon Review Writing Program, and the Hudson Valley Writers' Center.
	Jane Mead's most recent book of poetry is House of Poured-Out Waters (Illinois). Her first collection, The Lord and the General Din of the World, was selected for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry by Philip Levine, and is in its third printing. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Pequod, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Ironwood, and in many anthologies, including The Body Electric, The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, Last Call, Poet's Choice, and The Best American Poetry of 1990. She is the recipient of grants and awards from the Whiting, Lannan and Guggenheim Foundations, is Poet-in-Residence and Associate Professor in English at Wake Forest University, and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at New England College.
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	Sara Pritchard won the 2002 Katharine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Prize in Fiction for her first novel, Crackpots (Houghton Mifflin 2003). Under the pseudonym Delta B. Horne, Sara has published stories and essays in Arts & Letters, Bellingham Review, Chattahoochee Review, Literal Latté, Mid-American Review, Northwest Review, and elsewhere. Sara has lived in Morgantown for most of the last 30 years and is currently completing the M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing at WVU.
	Mark Brazaitis is the author of the novel Steal My Heart and a book of short stories, The River of Lost Voices, which received the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His work has appeared in many fine journals, including Shenandoah, The Sun, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Notre Dame Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. A past winner of an NEA Fellowship, he teaches creative writing at West Virginia University.
	Gerald Costanzo is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard (BOA, Editions). He is the editor of the Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series, and winner of the Devins Award and two NEA Fellowships among other prizes.

	John Hoppenthaler's book of poems, Lives of Water, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2003. He has published poems, essays and interviews in such distinguished journals as Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Chelsea and Arts & Letters. He is poetry editor of Kestrel, West Virginia's leading literary journal.

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