MFA in - The New School
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Robert Antoni: Fiction writer <strong>in</strong>spired by his 200-yearlong<br />
family history <strong>in</strong> the West Indian island of Tr<strong>in</strong>idad.<br />
His novels <strong>in</strong>clude Div<strong>in</strong>a Trace (1991), Blessed is the<br />
Fruit (1997), and Carnival (2005), <strong>in</strong> addition to the story<br />
collection, My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales (2001).<br />
His forthcom<strong>in</strong>g historical novel, As Flies to Whatlers<br />
Boys, was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for<br />
2010. His work has been translated <strong>in</strong>to Spanish, French,<br />
F<strong>in</strong>nish, and Ch<strong>in</strong>ese. Antoni received the<br />
Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book <strong>in</strong> 1991, and<br />
was shortlisted for this prize <strong>in</strong> the Best Overall Book<br />
category <strong>in</strong> 2005. He is the recipient of a National<br />
Endowment for the Arts grant and James Michener and<br />
Orowitz fellowships. Antoni’s short fiction has appeared<br />
<strong>in</strong> Conjunctions, the Paris Review, Bomb, Plowshares,<br />
and other periodicals; it was selected as an Editor’s<br />
Choice, <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> <strong>The</strong> Oxford Book of Caribbean Short<br />
Stories, and chosen for the Aga Kahn Prize by the Paris<br />
Review. He is the editor of Archipelago (Conjunctions<br />
27), an anthology of <strong>in</strong>novative Caribbean writ<strong>in</strong>g. Antoni<br />
holds an MA from the Writ<strong>in</strong>g Sem<strong>in</strong>ars at Johns Hopk<strong>in</strong>s<br />
U., and an <strong>MFA</strong> and a PhD from the Writers Workshop at<br />
U. of Iowa. He taught fiction writ<strong>in</strong>g and literature <strong>in</strong> the<br />
<strong>MFA</strong> program at U. of Miami for n<strong>in</strong>e years, and more<br />
recently at Columbia University and <strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<br />
Cather<strong>in</strong>e Barnett: Recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim<br />
Fellowship, a 2004 Whit<strong>in</strong>g Award, the 2004 Glasgow<br />
Prize for Emerg<strong>in</strong>g Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. Her<br />
book, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won<br />
the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published <strong>in</strong><br />
spr<strong>in</strong>g 2004 by Alice James Books. Her poems have been<br />
published <strong>in</strong> Gulf Coast, Pleiades, <strong>The</strong> Wash<strong>in</strong>gton Post,<br />
Barrow Street, Shenandoah, <strong>The</strong> Massachusetts Review,<br />
and <strong>The</strong> Iowa Review. Barnett also teaches at NYU,<br />
where she was recently honored with an Outstand<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Service Award.<br />
Susan Bell: A former editor at Random House and<br />
Conjunctions magaz<strong>in</strong>e, Susan Bell has edited fiction and<br />
nonfiction professionally for over 20 years. Her books<br />
<strong>in</strong>clude <strong>The</strong> Artful Edit: On the Practice of Edit<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Yourself (W.W. Norton & Co., 2007) and, co-written with<br />
Mayor Jason West, Dare to Hope: Sav<strong>in</strong>g American<br />
Democracy. Her writ<strong>in</strong>g has appeared <strong>in</strong> various<br />
magaz<strong>in</strong>es, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g T<strong>in</strong> House and Vogue. She has<br />
taught at the <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong> graduate writ<strong>in</strong>g program s<strong>in</strong>ce<br />
2000, and, s<strong>in</strong>ce 2004, at the T<strong>in</strong> House Summer Writers<br />
Workshop.<br />
Mark Bibb<strong>in</strong>s: Recipient of the Lambda Literary Award<br />
for his first collection of poems, Sky Lounge (Graywolf<br />
Press, 2003). He co-founded LIT and is a <strong>New</strong> York<br />
Foundation for the Arts fellow <strong>in</strong> poetry. His work has<br />
appeared <strong>in</strong> Poetry, <strong>The</strong> Paris Review, Boston Review,<br />
and <strong>The</strong> Best American Poetry. His most recent book of<br />
poetry is entitled <strong>The</strong> Dance of No Hard Feel<strong>in</strong>gs.<br />
Peter Cameron: Graduated from Hamilton College <strong>in</strong><br />
1982. He sold his first short story to the <strong>New</strong> Yorker <strong>in</strong><br />
1983 and published 10 more stories <strong>in</strong> that magaz<strong>in</strong>e over<br />
the next few years. His first collection of stories was<br />
awarded a special citation by the PEN/Hem<strong>in</strong>gway Award<br />
for First Book of Fiction. S<strong>in</strong>ce 1990 he has published<br />
five novels, one of which (<strong>The</strong> City of Your F<strong>in</strong>al<br />
Dest<strong>in</strong>ation) was a f<strong>in</strong>alist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize.<br />
His latest novel, Someday This Pa<strong>in</strong> Will Be Useful to<br />
You, a com<strong>in</strong>g-of-age story, was selected by Publishers<br />
Weekly magaz<strong>in</strong>e as one of the best book of 2007. A new<br />
novel, Certa<strong>in</strong> Persons, will be published by Farrar,<br />
Straus & Giroux <strong>in</strong> 2011. Cameron, a recipient of grants<br />
from <strong>The</strong> National Endowment for the Arts and <strong>The</strong><br />
Guggenheim Foundation, has taught writ<strong>in</strong>g at Oberl<strong>in</strong><br />
College, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College,<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>School</strong>, and Yale University.<br />
Susan Cheever: Author of five novels, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Doctors & Women, and Elizabeth Cole; eight nonfiction<br />
books, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g her most recent memoir, Desire: Where<br />
Sex Meets Addiction; and the best-sell<strong>in</strong>g American<br />
Bloomsbury, Home Before Dark, and the biography My<br />
Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of<br />
Alcoholics Anonymous. She is currently work<strong>in</strong>g on a<br />
biography of Louisa May Alcott. Her work has been<br />
published <strong>in</strong> the <strong>New</strong> Yorker, the <strong>New</strong> York Times,<br />
<strong>New</strong>sweek, and many other places. Her numerous awards<br />
<strong>in</strong>clude a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Book<br />
Critics Circle Award nom<strong>in</strong>ation.<br />
Jonathan Dee: Author of five novels, <strong>The</strong> Privileges,<br />
Palladio, St. Famous, <strong>The</strong> Liberty Campaign, and <strong>The</strong><br />
Lover of History. His short fiction, nonfiction, and<br />
criticism have appeared <strong>in</strong> many periodicals, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Harper's, the <strong>New</strong> York Times Magaz<strong>in</strong>e, and Paris<br />
Review, where he was formerly senior editor. He also<br />
teaches <strong>in</strong> graduate writ<strong>in</strong>g programs at Columbia U. and<br />
Queens U. of Charlotte, NC.<br />
Ela<strong>in</strong>e Equi: Born <strong>in</strong> Oak Park, Ill<strong>in</strong>ois, Ela<strong>in</strong>e Equi<br />
earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at<br />
Columbia College of Chicago. Her latest book, Ripple<br />
Effect: <strong>New</strong> & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press,<br />
2007) was a f<strong>in</strong>alist for the L.A. Times Book Award and<br />
was on the short list for Canada’s prestigious Griff<strong>in</strong><br />
Poetry Prize. She has published many other collections of<br />
poetry, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g Surface Tension, Decoy, Voice-Over,<br />
which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award, and<br />
<strong>The</strong> Cloud of Knowable Th<strong>in</strong>gs. Her work is widely<br />
anthologized and appears <strong>in</strong> Postmodern American<br />
Poetry: a Norton Anthology and <strong>in</strong> several editions of <strong>The</strong><br />
Best American Poetry. Ela<strong>in</strong>e Equi teaches at NYU and <strong>in</strong><br />
the <strong>MFA</strong> program at CCNY <strong>in</strong> addition to <strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong>.<br />
David Gates: Author of Jernigan, Preston Falls, and,<br />
most recently, <strong>The</strong> Wonders of the Invisible World, a<br />
collection of short stories. His short stories have appeared<br />
<strong>in</strong> Esquire, GQ, Grand Street, the <strong>New</strong> Yorker,<br />
Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Best American Short Stories:<br />
1994, and Prize Stories 1995: <strong>The</strong> O'Henry Awards. He<br />
writes about books and popular music for <strong>New</strong>sweek, and<br />
his nonfiction has appeared <strong>in</strong> Esquire, the <strong>New</strong> York<br />
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