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STEPHEN O’CONNOR is the author of Rescue, short fiction and poetry; Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, memoir and social criticism; Orphan Trains, narrative history. His fiction and poetry have been in Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, New England Review, Poetry Magazine, The Missouri Review, The Quarterly, Partisan Review, and many other places. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, DoubleTake, The Nation, AGNI, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and elsewhere.  He teaches in the MFA programs of Columbia and Sarah Lawrence.

Brian Morton is the author of the novels Breakable You (Harcourt, 2006); A Window Across the River (Harcourt, 2003), which was a Today Show Book Club selection; Starting Out in the Evening (Crown, 1998), which received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Foundation Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was made into a motion picture; and The Dylanist (HarperCollins, 1991). He teaches at New York University, Bennington College, and at Sarah Lawrence, where he is the director of the graduate program in fiction.

Melvin Jules Bukiet is the author of seven books of fiction and the editor of three anthologies. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and, in a previous lifetime, was a student at Sarah Lawrence College.

Adrienne Friedberg Meloni was born in Zambia to an English mother and South African father, lived in Zimbabwe, South Africa, England, and various American cities before settling in Manhattan in 1983. She has worked as a journalist, real estate broker, landlord, editor, and essayist and mother. Her work has appeared in the literary journal Ducts and she is the co-author (with her mother) of the children’s books Dear Sammy and Dear Jake. With a little bit of luck she will earn her MFA in creative nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence this May.

Durga Chew-Bose, a senior at Sarah Lawrence, a sister and daughter to her family at home in Montreal, is working on creating a more valid writer’s bio.  She has been an editor and writer at Oxford University’s Independent Student Magazine, ISIS, as well as their literary supplement, ETCETERA, and is currently an editor of SLC’s Lit Review. Her plans after graduation waver depending on the day, or the news, or a conversation, but never stray far from her impulse to write it all down.