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Patricia Eakins is the author of The Hungry Girls and Other Stories and The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste (a novel), which won both the NYU Press Prize for Fiction and the Capricorn Fiction Award of the Writer’s Voice. She has also been awarded the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review.

Amy Holman is the author of the poetry collection, Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window, forthcoming in June from Somondoco Press, and the prize-winning chapbook, Wait For Me, I’m Gone, which was published with Dream Horse Press in 2005. Poetry and nonfiction have been nominated for Pushcarts. She is currently writing a novel.

Janice Eidus divides her time between Brooklyn and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  She has won numerous literary prizes, including two O. Henry Awards, and is widely published in leading journals and anthologies.  Her books include The War of the Rosens, Vito Loves Geraldine, and The Celibacy Club.  Her forthcoming novel is titled The Last Jewish Virgin.

Host Susan Tepper