Dale Peck and Joshua Furst
Dale Peck is the author of the novels Martin and John, The Law of Enclosures, and Now it's Time to Say Goodbye. Publishers Weekly hailed his harrowing memoir What we Lost as, "reminiscent of Angela's Ashes both in scope and tone" and Booklist said it, "stuns the reader with its juxtapostition of hope, sadness and loss." His short fiction has appeared in Artforum, BOMB,The London Review of Books, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Village Voice.
James Michener Fellowship winnerJoshua Furst's acclaimed debut collection, Short People, explores childhood in ten exceptionally moving stories which Amazon wrote, "linger on, and the playground down the street will never seem the same." He is winner of the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award and the author of several plays that have been produced in New York.