Matthew Klam and Nam Le
Matthew Klam is the recipient of an O'Henry Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a PEN/Robert Bingham Award, and has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He is the author of the short story collection Sam The Cat, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year as well as a New York Times Notable Book. According to Esquire, "few short story writers are funnier than Klam. Few are so horribly true." He was also hailed as one of the Twenty Best Fiction Writers in America Under Forty by The New Yorker. He is a contributing writer to GQ Magazine and has taught creative writing in many places including University of Michigan and American University. He is a visiting professor at Southampton College in New York and he lives in Washington, DC.
Nam Le was born in Vietnam and raised in Australia. His debut collection of stories, The Boat, will be published by Knopf in 2008. He has received the Pushcart Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Phillips Exeter Academy. His fiction has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, Best Australian Stories 2007, Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space and One Story. He is currently the fiction editor at the Harvard Review.