|
|
| Student Information | | Jen Beagin | |  Jen was born and raised for a time in Bakersfield, where her parents ran a motel called Little Sweden. The motel was surrounded by fruit farms on a forgotten highway, and the rooms were overrun with carpet beetles. It was in one of these rooms that she first learned to type. |
| | Alberto Gullaba | |  B.A. Government, University of Virginia, 2004 |
| | Gray Hilmerson | |  Gray has Bachelors and Masters degrees in English from Cal State University, Fullerton. His fiction has appeared in the family rooms and bathrooms of various friends and relatives. He lives in Irvine with his wife. |
| | Laura Hogan | |  Laura Hogan's short fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals including The Bryant Literary Review, Karamu, Lullwater Review, Red Rock Review, The South Carolina Review, The Fourth River, and others. She is currently working on her first novel in the UC Irvine MFA program. |
| | Ryan Hume | |  Ryan Hume grew up in Reno, Nevada. He lived in Portland, Oregon for a long time. He recently moved with his wife to Orange County, California, where he is a first year MFA candidate in Fiction here at UC Irvine. He is just starting to remember the sun. His journalism has appeared in the Willamette Week, his fiction in The Portland Review. He is also the guy in that photo. |
| | Ben Miller | |  Hometown: Moscow, Idaho
B.A., The Evergreen State College '06 |
| | Greg November | |  Hometown: Avon, Connecticut
BA, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 2002
Barbara Nelson Award in Creative Writing - 2002
Phi Beta Kappa
While living in Philadelphia, Greg co-founded Don Ron Books and co-edited the company's first book, Philly Fiction (Don Ron Books, 2006), a collection of nineteen stories, one of which was his. |
| | Janice Obuchowski | |  Hometown: Shelburne, VT
BA: Cornell University 1998
MA: University of Virginia 2000 |
| | Ryan Ridge | |  Hometown: Louisville, KY (The birthplace of the High-Five!)
B.A., University of Louisville, 2006. |
| | Tarah Scalzo | |  Hometown: Kenosha, Wisconsin
B.A. English, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2007 |
| | Kristen Schwarz | |  Hometown: Newhall, California
B.A., University of Southern California, 2005 |
| | James Zwerneman | |  Hometown: South Bend, IN
B.A., Johns Hopkins |
|
|
|
