Our Writers

OUR PARTICIPATING 2006 WRITERS

Tim Weed- lives in the foothills of the Green Mountains in southeastern Vermont. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, GulfCoast, The Gihon River Review, and other reviews and magazines. He has been nominated for a Pushcart and was a finalist for the Cutthroat National Literary Awards, the Richard Yates Short Story Awards, the Alligator Juniper Fiction Award and a finalist in Glimmer Train's 2005 Short Fiction Award for New Writers. Mr. Weed received his M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College and is currently at work on a novel. Mr. Weed is the author of our featured story, Keepers.

Ericka Lutz lives in Oakland, California. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Green Mountains Review, Scrivener Creative Review, Chemical Lust: a sex and drugs anthology (Monophonic)and Sideshow: An anthology of contemporary fiction (Somersault Press). She is a two-time fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the fiction editor at the online magazine Literary Mama, and she teaches writing at U. C. Berkeley. Ms. Lutz is the author of our featured story, Deer Story. -Link to Ericka Lutz's home site here. (new window)

Bruce Pratt was a finalist for the 2005 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, the 2003 Andre Dubus Award, and the 2003 Fiction Award from Dogwood, A Journal of Poetry and Prose. Mr. Pratt’s work has appeared in numerous journals including The Greensboro Review, Word-Smitten Quarterly Journal, Briar Cliff Review, Portland Magazine, Watchword, The Staccato Literary Magazine, The Gihon River Review, Puckerbrush Review, The Blue Earth Review and Crosscut. A graduate of The Stonecoast MFA at The University of Southern Maine, Mr. Pratt lives with his wife, Janet, in Eddington, Maine. Mr. Pratt is the author of our featured story, The Trash Detail.

Perry Glasser has published two collections of his short fiction, Suspicious Origins (St. Paul: New Rivers Press) and Singing on the Titanic (Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press). His work has twice been read on National Public Radio's "The Sound of Writing" and has three times won P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards. Mr. Glasser's book reviews have been featured in The New York Times Book Review and The Chicago Tribune's Sunday Review of Books; his fiction has appeared in more than 50 literary journals. He is also a Contributing Editor at the North American Review. Mr. Glasser is the author of our featured story, Satan Takes Twelve Steps.
-Link to Perry Glasser's home site here. (new window)

Mary Millner McCullough’s plays and stories are influenced by her African American and Cherokee ancestry and inspired by people who strive to fulfill their dreams from America’s margins. Her plays have been presented by ACTRoxbury, Boston’s African American Theater Festival and The Theater Cooperative of Somerville, MA. Her work has appeared in (among others) Streetfeet Women’s Anthology, Laughing in the Kitchen; Ibbetson Press Poetry Journal; and Fresh!Literary Journal. Ms. McCullough has a B.A. in Theater Arts from Goddard College and M.A. in writing from Northeastern University. Ms. McCullough is the author of our featured story, Hugs and Kisses.

Eric Gabriel Lehman is the author of the novels Waterboys, Quaspeck, and Summer’s House, as well as short stories and essays that have been published both in the United States and abroad. His fourth novel, Fear of Trains, will be published next year. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at Queens College. Mr. Lehman is the author of our featured story, Salt.

Jessica Treat is the author of Not a Chance (FC2, 2000) and A Robber in the House (Coffee House Press, 1993), both story collections. Her fiction has appeared in: Ms. Magazine, Epoch, Black Warrior Review, WebdelSol, 3rd Bed and Quarterly West, among others. New work can be found in Quick Fiction, Double Room, Outsider Ink, Gargoyle and in anthologies: The Nine Muses and The PP/FF Anthology. She is completing a third collection of stories and lives with her son in the northwest corner of Connecticut. She is Associate Professor at Northwestern CT Community College. Ms. Treat is the author of our featured short-short stories, Drive, Beached and Meeting M.
-Link to Jessica Treat's FC2 site here (new window)

Sandell Morse’s fiction has appeared in many literary magazines including Iris, Green Mountains Review, Ploughshares, and The New England Review. She has read her work on New Hampshire Public Radio, at Chapter and Verse in Jamaica Plain and in various venues on the Seacoast. Morse has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and a finalist in the Ploughshares Robie Macauley Fellowship Award. She teaches writing workshops for the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and New Hampshire Writers' Project. Ms. Morse is the author of our featured story, The Glass Unicorn.

Maricia T. Verma began writing at fifteen, but gave it up to pursue a "real career." She got a degree in physics, a job as an engineering peon, a house in the burbs, two point three children, and a dog. One day, a muse came to breakup this ordinary life, and dragged poor M.T., kicking and screaming, from the mundane world into the literary. Ms. Verma is the author of our featured story, New Fashion Natural Medicine.

Susanne Davis’s fiction has won literary awards and appeared in numerous magazines, including American Short Fiction, Notre Dame Review, descant, Zone 3, Carve and others. Her first novel won the Hemingway First Novel Competition and her second novel is currently under consideration for publication. She graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Ms. Davis is the author of our featured story, Under the Surface of Glass.

Our Noted Writers

We would like to acknowledge the following semifinalist writers for sharing wonderful stories with us. While- due to constraints of time and money- we were not able to feature their works in the Festival, we certainly found their fiction to be "Festival-worthy" and have a strong suspicion that their stories will find their way to print very soon.

California-

Hal Ackerman for Maidens
Jessica D. Tappin for The Lowest Place
Alia Yunis for A Day at the Beach

Connecticut-

Elizabeth Edelglass for Lab Science

Florida-

Rita Ciresi for Parting Shot Link to Rita Ciresi's home site (new window)

Illinois-

Amy Hassinger for Revelation. Link to Amy Hassinger's home site (new window)

Massachusetts-

Emily Bloch for The Flood
Mary Jo Hetzel for Dr. Edmond’s Visit & Guff email Mary Jo Hetzel at Mary_Jo_Hetzel@SPFLDCOL.edu
Lucy Honig for Messwechuit Neck, Insh’ Allah
Melanie R. Meadors for Brownie Points
Laura A. Salamy for Anagram Christmas
Soko S. Thompson for A Rite of Passage
Laurette Viteritti for The Rise and Fall of Theresa (excerpted from Ariadne's Rising)

New Hampshire-

Sylvia Beaupre for ‘Til (excerpted)
Robert J. Begiebing for Underdogs
Joan Dempsey for Practically Twelve email Joan Dempsey at jdempsey@netryders.com
Elizabeth Gauffreau for The Chet Arthur Five Play Jeffersonville
Kevin King for Hoofing (excerpted from Birth of the Curse)

New York-

Nancy Caronia for Eight
Gary Earl Ross for The Faithful Wife

Pennsylvania-

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for She Woke Up With the Words in Her Mouth
Allison Whittenberg for Why Didn’t You Call Me September 11 th?

Rhode Island-

Diana Spechler for Inheritance

Virginia-

Nan Byrne for Redemption Song
Glen Finland for Trout for Breakfast

Washington DC-

Thomas Cashman Avila for Untitled with Red Line

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