Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017 Fellow, Scholar, and Rona Jaffe Biographies FELLOWS Xhenet Aliu—Alan Collins Fellow in Fiction Xhenet Aliu’s debut fiction collection, Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories, was selected by Sherman Alexie as winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Her novel, Brass, is forthcoming from Random House in January 2018. Aliu’s work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Hobart, Necessary Fiction, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a fellowship from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She currently resides in Athens, Georgia. Lesley Arimah—Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Fiction Lesley Nneka Arimah is the author of the short story collection What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Riverhead Books, 2017. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, among others. She is the recipient of a Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and a MacDowell Fellowship. She lives in Minneapolis. Jericho Brown—Amanda Davis Returning Fellow in Poetry Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, New Republic, Buzzfeed, and Pushcart Prize Anthology. His first book, Please, won the American Book Award, and his second book, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Emory University. Mauro Javier Cardenas—John Farrar Fellow in Fiction Mauro Javier Cardenas is the author of The Revolutionaries Try Again. His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Antioch Review, Guernica, Witness, ZYZZYVA, and Bomb. He is the recipient of a Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and in 2017 the Hay Festival included him in Bogota 39, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists. Emma Cline—Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellow in Fiction Emma Cline is the author of The Girls, which was shortlisted for the First Novel Prize and the John Leonard Award from the National Book Critics Circle. She received the Plimpton Prize from Paris Review and was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, and Paris Review.
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Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017 Fellow, Scholar, and Rona Jaffe Biographies
FELLOWS
Xhenet Aliu—Alan Collins Fellow in Fiction Xhenet Aliu’s debut fiction collection, Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories, was selected by Sherman Alexie as winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Her novel, Brass, is forthcoming from Random House in January 2018. Aliu’s work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Hobart, Necessary Fiction, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a fellowship from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She currently resides in Athens, Georgia.
Lesley Arimah—Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Fiction Lesley Nneka Arimah is the author of the short story collection What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Riverhead Books, 2017. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, among others. She is the recipient of a Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and a MacDowell Fellowship. She lives in Minneapolis.
Jericho Brown—Amanda Davis Returning Fellow in Poetry Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, New Republic, Buzzfeed, and Pushcart Prize Anthology. His first book, Please, won the American Book Award, and his second book, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Emory University.
Mauro Javier Cardenas—John Farrar Fellow in Fiction Mauro Javier Cardenas is the author of The Revolutionaries Try Again. His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Antioch Review, Guernica, Witness, ZYZZYVA, and Bomb. He is the recipient of a Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and in 2017 the Hay Festival included him in Bogota 39, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists.
Emma Cline—Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellow in Fiction Emma Cline is the author of The Girls, which was shortlisted for the First Novel Prize and the John Leonard Award from the National Book Critics Circle. She received the Plimpton Prize from Paris Review and was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, and Paris Review.
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017 Fellow, Scholar, and Rona Jaffe Biographies
Kia Corthron—Shane Stevens Fellow in the Novel Kia Corthron’s The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter is the winner of the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. For her body of work as a playwright, she has received the Windham Campbell Prize, the US Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, and other awards. Her plays have premiered in New York, London, and across the U.S. She is the 2017 featured playwright for Chicago’s Eclipse Theatre, which will produce three of her plays, and her adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People will premiere in 2018 at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Bellagio Center, Bogliasco Foundation, and the Dora Maar House.
Natashia Deón—Shane Stevens Fellow in Fiction Natashia Deón is a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Grace, which was named a New York Times and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2016. A practicing attorney, law professor, and creator of the popular L.A.-based reading series Dirty Laundry Lit, Deón is the recipient of a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and other places.
Jennifer Foerster—Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry Jennifer Elise Foerster, the author of Leaving Tulsa and Bright Raft in the Afterweather (forthcoming 2018), is completing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. A Mvskoke citizen, she is an alumna of the Institute of American Indian Arts and Vermont College of the Fine Arts. She is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.
Matt Gallagher—John Gardner Fellow in Fiction Matt Gallagher is the author of the novel Youngblood, published by Atria/Simon & Schuster and a finalist for the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia and has written for the New York Times, Atlantic, Wired and Paris Review Daily, among others. A former U.S. Army captain, he's also the author of the Iraq memoir Kaboom and coeditor of, and contributor to, the short fiction collection Fire & Forget.
francine j. harris—Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Poetry francine j. harris is the author of Play Dead, winner of the 2017 Audre Lorde Award. Her first collection, Allegiance, was finalist for the 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery and PEN/Open Book Awards. Originally from Detroit, she has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, is a Cave Canem poet, and is currently Writer in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis.
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017 Fellow, Scholar, and Rona Jaffe Biographies
Gary Hawkins—John Ciardi Fellow in Poetry Gary Hawkins writes poems; writes on modern and contemporary poetry; draws in ink and washi tape; and prints on the letterpress. His debut poetry collection, Worker, was published by Main Street Rag in 2016. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review; Forklift, Ohio; Waxwing; Born Magazine; Emily Dickinson Journal; and Teaching Creative Writing in Higher Education, among other places. He co-edits and produces Croquet, an occasional letterpress broadside delivered as a postcard. He lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Vanessa Hua—Margaret Bridgman Fellow in Fiction Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of Deceit and Other Possibilities, which received the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature and is a finalist for the California Book Award. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, and honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists' Association. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Washington Post, and elsewhere. Her novel, A River of Stars, is forthcoming in 2018.
Allegra Hyde—Fletcher Pratt Fellow in Fiction Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection, Of This New World, which won the 2016 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, Threepenny Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, as well as fellowships and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, The Montalvo Arts Center, Jentel Arts, The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and the U.S. Fulbright Commission. Originally from rural New Hampshire, she is now based in Houston, Texas.
Jenny Johnson—Theodore Morrison Fellow in Poetry Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet. She is the recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award and a 2016-17 Hodder Fellowship in Poetry at Princeton University. Her poems have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, New England Review, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Waxwing. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program.
Maeve Kinkead—Alan Collins Fellow in Poetry Maeve Kinkead received her BA and MA in English and American Literature from Harvard University. She is an Emmy-winning actress who has worked widely in theatre, film and TV. In 2008, she received her MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Her poetry has appeared in Cortland Review, Provincetown Arts, Shadowgraph Magazine and elsewhere. A Dangling House, published by Barrow Street Press in April, 2017 is her first book of poems.
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017 Fellow, Scholar, and Rona Jaffe Biographies
Elena Passarello—Bernard de Voto Fellow in Nonfiction Elena Passarello is the author of two essay collections, Let Me Clear My Throat and Animals Strike Curious Poses, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and will be reprinted in Germany, Italy, and the UK. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world recently appeared in Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Paris Review Daily, and the New York Times, as well as in the anthologies After Montaigne, How We Speak to One Another, and Cat is Art Spelled Wrong. She is the recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award and she teaches at Oregon State University.
Kristen Radtke—Katharine Bakless Nason Fellow in Nonfiction Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book Imagine Wanting Only This, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. She is the managing editor of Sarabande Books and the film & video editor of TriQuarterly.. She lives in Brooklyn.
Mike Scalise—Axinn Foundation Fellow in Narrative Nonfiction* Mike Scalise’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Agni, Indiewire, Ninth Letter, Paris Review Daily, and other places. He is an 826DC advisory board member, has received fellowships and scholarshipsfrom Bread Loaf, Yaddo, and the Ucross Foundation, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. His memoir, The Brand New Catastrophe, was the recipient of The Center for Fiction’s 2014 Christopher Doheny Award.
Rion Scott—Theodore Morrison Fellow in Fiction Rion Amilcar Scott’s short story collection, Insurrections, was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Presently, he teaches English at Bowie State University.
Phillip B. Williams—Stanley P. Young Fellow in Poetry Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, IL native. He is author of Thief in the Interior, winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature (Poetry). He received a 2017 Whiting Award, 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and a Kenyon Review Writers Workshop fellowship. Phillip is the co-editor-in-chief of the online journal Vinyl. He is currently visiting professor in English at Bennington College.
*The Axinn Foundation Fellowship in Narrative Nonfiction was established in 2014 by The Axinn Foundation to support a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference fellowship in narrative nonfiction, awarded competitively. Donald Axinn was a modern version of what is often called a Renaissance man. While a successful real estate developer, he loved the life of a creative writer. Almost every day of his life, he awoke at 5:00 a.m. and went to a little private space he had built to write; he wrote with great enthusiasm and discipline. He loved Middlebury and Bread Loaf.
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017 Fellow, Scholar, and Rona Jaffe Biographies
TUITION SCHOLARS
A. H. Jerriod Avant—John Ciardi Scholar in Poetry A. H. Jerriod Avant hails from Longtown, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University, he’s since earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University. He is a graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and his poems have or will appear in Ecotone, Pinwheel, Mississippi Review, Boston Review, and Callaloo. He was a finalist for the 2015 Mississippi Review Prize and a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency. Jerriod has been awarded two poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Jennifer Hope Choi—B. Frank Vogel Scholar in Nonfiction Jennifer Hope Choi's writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, BuzzFeed, American Scholar, Lucky Peach, Atlantic, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the BuzzFeed Emerging Writer Fellowship and the Carson McCullers Center's Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship. This fall, she'll live in McCullers' childhood home while working on a memoir about her Korean mother's sudden relocation to the Alaska panhandle. Born in Los Angeles, she resides most days in Brooklyn.
Tiana Clark—Louis Untermeyer Scholar in Poetry Tiana Clark is the 2017-2018 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. She is the author of Equilibrium, selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Tiana is the winner of the 2017 Furious Flower’s Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize, 2016 Academy of American Poets University Prize, and 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She is a recent graduate of the Vanderbilt MFA program. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2015, and elsewhere.
Lydia Conklin—Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Fiction Lydia Conklin is the Creative Writing Fellow in fiction at Emory. She’s received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, Hedgebrook, the Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, Millay, Jentel, Lighthouse Works, Brush Creek, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Caldera, the Sitka Center, and Harvard, among others. Her fiction is forthcoming in Tin House and a compilation of the best of the last twenty-five years of the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. She has drawn graphic fiction for Lenny Letter and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.
Jaquira Díaz—William Raney Scholar in Nonfiction Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Best American Essays 2016, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Kenyon Review, The Sun, Brevity, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She teaches at Kenyon College, where she is the 2016-18 Kenyon Review Fellow in prose.
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017 Fellow, Scholar, and Rona Jaffe Biographies
Meghan Dunn—Theodore Morrison Scholar in Poetry Meghan Dunn lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches high school English. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and a BA in English from Boston College. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, Southern Humanities Review, and The Collagist, among others.
Edgar Kunz—Carol Houck Smith Scholar in Poetry Edgar Kunz is a poet from Massachusetts. A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, his poems appear in AGNI, Narrative, New England Review, Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, and Best New Poets 2015 (ed. Tracy K. Smith). He lives in Oakland, California.
Sonya Larson—Bernard O’Keefe Scholar in Fiction Sonya Larson's short fiction and essays have appeared in Best American Short Stories 2017, American Short Fiction, American Literary Review, Poets & Writers, Writer's Chronicle, Audible.com, West Branch, Salamander, Memorious, Del Sol Review, Red Mountain Review, and more. She has received honors and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Vermont Studio Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, St. Botolph Club Foundation, and more. She is studying fiction in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and is Assistant Director of GrubStreet’s Muse and the Marketplace conference.
Janice Obuchowski—Bernard O’Keefe Scholar in Fiction Janice Obuchowski’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Gettysburg Review, Passages North, Slice, Grist Journal, and Seattle Review. She has received a Special Mention in the 2017 Pushcart Prize anthology and was recently the recipient of an Emerging Artist Award in literature from the St. Botolph Club Foundation of Boston. She earned her MFA from UC Irvine and serves as a fiction editor for New England Review.
Alan Rossi—New England Review Scholar in Fiction Alan Rossi’s writing has appeared or will appear in New England Review, Granta, Atlantic, Missouri Review, Florida Review, Ninth Letter, and many other journals. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Prize. He lives in South Carolina with his wife and daughter.
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017 Fellow, Scholar, and Rona Jaffe Biographies
William Pei Shih—Carol Houck Smith Scholar in Fiction William Pei Shih teaches in New York City. His stories have been recognized by the John Steinbeck Award in Fiction, the Raymond Carver Short Story Award, Masters Review Short Story Award, the Alice Munro Short Story Competition, the AAWW North America Asian American Short Story Competition, Narrative, Glimmer Train, and others. His story collection was a finalist for the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Publications include Masters Review, Carve Magazine, Hyphen Magazine, Bridport Prize, Des Moines Register, Reed Magazine, Bath Short Story Award, and Winning Writers. He has been awarded fellowships to the Sun Valley Writer’s Conference and Kundiman. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Michael M. Weinstein—John Atherton Scholar in Poetry Michael M. Weinstein holds a BA from the Writing Program at Northwestern University and a PhD in English from Harvard. His poetry and nonfiction writing have appeared in the New Yorker, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. A former Fulbright scholar and fellow of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, he works as a translator of Russian poetry. Some of his translations are scheduled to appear in Found Life, forthcoming from Columbia University Press next year. He is scheduled to begin a lectureship in English and Slavic Studies at Yale University in the fall.
Jenny Xie—Bread Loaf Scholar in Fiction Jenny Xie's work has appeared in Ninth Letter Online, Pank Online, Necessary Fiction, Adroit Journal, Phoebe, Hyphen Magazine, and Gulf Coast Online, among others. She won the 2014 Driftless Prize in Fiction from Devil's Lake, the 2015 Narrative 30 Below Story Contest, and the 2017 Joyland Open Border Fiction Prize. One of her stories was chosen for the 2016 Best of the Net Anthology. A graduate of the MFA program at Johns Hopkins University, she now lives in Oakland and is at work on a novel.
BREAD LOAF RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION SCHOLARS
Jamie Figueroa—Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Fiction Jamie Figueroa holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Her poetry and prose have been published in various literary journals including Epoch, Catapult, Hinchas de Poesia, Yellow Medicine Review, Flash: International, Eleven Eleven, Sin Fronteras, and others. Jamie has taught students ranging from middle school to graduate school. She has been involved with the nonprofits Little Globe, El Otro Lado, The Cut+Paste Society, and the Identity Project, organizations where art and creative practice merge with social activism.
Aurvi Sharma—Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Nonfiction Aurvi Sharma has been awarded prizes from Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, and Wasafiri. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, New York Foundation for the Arts, AWP, Santa Fe Art Institute, Tin House, and Sarai. Her essay, Eleven Stories of Water and Stone was a notable in the 2016 Best American Essays. Her writing has also appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Fourth Genre, and Pleiades. A Publishing Associate at Guernica, she lives in New York City.
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017 Fellow, Scholar, and Rona Jaffe Biographies
Annie Woodford—Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Poetry Annie Woodford is a native of Henry County, Virginia and teaches at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, Virginia. She holds an MA in creative writing from Hollins University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chattahoochee Review, Normal School, Word Riot, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She was awarded Shenandoah literary magazine’s 2017 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. Her first book of poetry is forthcoming from Groundhog Poetry Press.
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