Writing F(r)iction

Mateo Askaripour was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, Medium, and elsewhere. Black Buck is his debut novel.

Helen Phillips is a 2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. She is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel The Need, which was long-listed for the National Book Award.

Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His short story collection Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best debut work in any genre. His debut novel Missionaries is out now.

Idra Novey is an American novelist, poet, and translator. She is the author of the novels Those Who Knew and Ways to Disappear. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages and she’s written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, NPR’s All Things Con­sid­ered, New York Magazine, and The Paris Review.

Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and non-fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize among others.

Scott O’Connor is the author of A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories, the novels Zero Zone, Untouchable, and Half World and the novella Among Wolves.

Christine Schutt is an American novelist and short story writer. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and New York Foundation of the Arts grant. She has twice won the O.Henry Short Story Prize, and her stories have been anthologized.

Julia Phillips is an American author. Her book Disappearing Earth was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. A Fulbright fellow, Julia has written for The New York Times, ​The Atlantic, and The Paris Review.

Kimberly King Parsons is the author of the debut collection Black Light, which was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award and the Story Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, the Texas Institute of Letters Best Work of First Fiction, and the Oregon Book Award. Her story “Foxes” was among the trio that won The Paris Review the 2020 National Magazine Award for Fiction from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Parsons is a recipient of fellowships from Columbia University, Yaddo, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She lives with her partner and sons in Portland, OR, where she is completing a novel (forthcoming from Knopf) about Texas, motherhood, and LSD.

Janet Fitch is the author of the #1 national bestseller White Oleander, a novel translated into 24 languages, an Oprah Book Club book and the basis of a feature film, Paint It Black, also widely translated and made into a 2017 film, and her epic novels of the Russian Revolution, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral.

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