by Chamber Four
William Pierce (“American Subsidiary”). William Pierce’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Granta, The Cincinnati Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. He is senior editor of AGNI, where he contributes a series of essays called “Crucibles.”
Emily Ruskovich (“The Eskimo Keeps Her Promise”) grew up on a little farm in the mountains of the Idaho Panhandle. She graduated from the University of Montana and then from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, where she earned her MA in English. She is currently a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. “The Eskimo Keeps Her Promise” was her first published story. She is twenty-four years old.
Sarah Salway (“For the Sake of the Children”) is the author of three novels and two books of short stories. Her latest novel, Getting the Picture (Ballantine, 2010) is about love in a care home. She divides her time between Kent, England and London, where she is currently the RLF Fellow at the London School of Economics. Sarah’s website is at www.sarahsalway.net.
Andrea Uptmor (“Liz Phair and the Most Perfect Sentence”) is a fiction writer from Illinois. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. You can read her blog at andreauptmor.blogspot.com.
C. Dale Young (“The Affliction”) is the author of three books of poetry, The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern 2001), The Second Person (Four Way Books 2007), and TORN (Four Way Books 2011). He practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. A former recipient of the Grolier Prize and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts, “The Affliction” was his first published short story. He lives in San Francisco.
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