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2007

Richard Shelton
A resident of Southern Arizona since 1956, Richard Shelton is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, and has been featured in hundreds of magazines and journals. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review and has been translated into several languages.
Shelton is a Regents Professor of English at the University of Arizona, where he helped establish the Poetry Center. He also continues to teach writing workshops, which he started in 1974, within the Arizona State Prison Complex. Books resulting from these workshops, along with the magazine Walking Rain Review, have been published, and Shelton’s own memoir of his experiences teaching inmates will be released this year. Shelton currently resides near Tucson with his wife, Lois.
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Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares graduated from Barnard College with a degree in Philosophy. After working as an editor in New York City for several years, she decided to start writing full-time. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, her first novel, became a bestseller when it was published in 2001. The book was adapted into a film, and three more Sisterhood books have followed, with the series remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 80 weeks. She currently resides in New York City with her husband, painter Jacob Collins and their three children.
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Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson is a former law enforcer who lives on a ranch near Ucross, Wyoming with his wife Judy, dogs Ivan and Lucy, and their horses. Johnson is the author of the short story Old Indian Trick which was awarded the Tony Hillerman Short Story Award. Johnson’s first novel, The Cold Dish (Viking 2005), introduced readers to Walt Longmire. It was re-released in 2006 by Penguin as a Paperback edition. Death Without Company (Viking 2006) was a finalist for the Mountains and Plains Bookseller’s Association’s Fiction Book of the Year, and was selected as the Wyoming Historical Society’s Fiction Book of the Year. Kindness Goes Unpunished (Viking 2007) it the third Walt Longmire mystery.
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Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and lived one year in Nigeria, West Africa. Inspired by her experience of Atlanta’s infamous child murders of 1979 to 1981, Jones wrote her first novel Leaving Atlanta (Warner 2003), which received the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction, “Novel of the Year” by Atlanta Magazine, “Best Southern Novel of the Year” by Creative Loafing Atlanta, and was listed as one of the best of 2002 by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Washington Post. Her second novel, The Untelling (Warner 2005) received the Lillian C. Smith Award for New Voices by the Southern Regional council and the University of Georgia Libraries. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, The University of Iowa, and Spelman College. She joins the faculty of Rutgers University, Newark as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2007.
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Alex Espinoza
Still Water Saints (Random House 2007) is Alex Espinoza’s debut novel. A Spanish language version of the book, Los santos de Agua Mansa, California: Una novela, was also published in 2007. As a graduate student at the University of California at Irvine, he served as the editor of the university’s literary magazine. He earned his B.A. from the University of California at Riverside, where he graduated with honors. The youngest of eleven children, Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in southern California. He currently teaches creative writing at his alma mater in Riverside.
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Pam Houston
Pam Houston is the author of two award-winning collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness, which has been translated into nine languages, and Waltzing the Cat.
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Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, holds the Draper Distinguished Lectureship at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, and The Paris Review.
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Diana Gabaldon
Acclaimed author Diana Gabaldon grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she continues to spend as much time as she can writing in the comforts of her family home. After working for a number of years as a laboratory technician, researcher, ecologist and freelance, nonfiction writer, Gabaldon pursued her creative writing passion and penned her first novel, Dragonfly in Amber. Since then, her Outlander Series books have been consistently listed on best-sellers' lists across the country.
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Mark Spragg
Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, and The Fruit of Stone, a novel.
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