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Host:
Terra Chalberg began her publishing career at Scribner in early 2002, where she worked with such critically praised authors as Reynolds Price, Barry Lopez, and Jennifer Vogel. At Simon & Schuster, she edited and acquired a wide range of works, including Without You, the New York Times-bestselling memoir by Anthony Rapp; 18 Seconds, a commercial thriller by George D. Shuman (nominated for Best First Novel by the International Thrillers Association and The Shamus Award); and The Tourists, a bestselling debut novel by Jeff Hobbs. She is currently an agent at the Susan Golomb Agency in New York.

Readers:
Andrew Porter is the author of the short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter, which won the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction and was published in Fall 2008 and will be republished in paperback by Vintage/Knopf in January 2010.  A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the 2004 W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts from Vassar College, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener/Copernicus Foundation, an Iowa Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee’ Writers’ Conference, a Residency Fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Artist Foundation of San Antonio Award, the Glenna Luschei Award and a Pushcart Prize. His fiction has appeared in One Story, Epoch, The Ontario Review, Prairie Schooner, The Antioch Review, StoryQuarterly, The Threepenny Review, Others Voices, Story and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, among others. He has also had his work broadcast NPR’s Selected Shorts and selected as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2007 by Best American Short Stories. Currently, he lives in San Antonio, where he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Trinity University.

Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story magazine. Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her first novel, The Good Thief, is published by The Dial Press and Headline. The Good Thief is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award and winner of the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. Hannah also recently won the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for her editorial work at One Story.