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Faculty in Fiction Faculty publications available online from the University of Southern Maine Bookstore
David Marshall Chan is the author of Goblin Fruit: Stories, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. He grew up in Los Angeles and is a graduate of Yale University and the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Irvine. David’s fiction has appeared in such publications as Conjunctions, BOMB Magazine, and Columbia and he has received writing fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has taught writing at Syracuse University. Writing in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Rick Moody called Goblin Fruit: Stories “probably the most stunning debut of the year, one that gives much promise of great things to come,” and in the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: “David Marshall Chan’s voice is haunting and original. Goblin Fruit is a fascinating cri de couer by a young writer of promise and substance.” David is currently completing a novel combining prose with illustrations. Joan Connor is a full professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Ohio University. She has published hundreds of stories and essays in an array of journals. Her first two collections of short stories, Here on Old Route 7, and We Who Live Apart, were published by the University of Missouri Press. Her third collection of short stories, History Lessons, (University of Massachusetts Press) won the AWP award for short fiction. Her collection of essays, The World Before Mirrors, (University of Nebraska Press) won the River Teeth award. She is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council fellowship, the John Gilgun award, the Ohio Writer award in fiction and nonfiction, a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Colony. Alan Davis is Senior Editor of New Rivers Press at Minnesota State University (MSUM); the press has published more than 320 books since it was founded by Bill Truesdale in 1968 and in Fall 2008 will publish the winner of the first Stonecoast Book Prize, Penelope Schwartz Robinson's Slippery Men. (Several Stonecoast students who chose the third semester "publishing" option have served as interns at the press.) Alan has published two collections of stories, Alone with the Owl and Rumors from the Lost World, which Tim O'Brien called "a magical collection of stories, one of the best I've encountered in years." (To read Dorothy Allison's New York Times review, go to http://www.mnstate.edu/davis/elvisis.htm).He also co-edited, with Michael C. White, ten volumes of the annual anthology American Fiction, which Writer's Digest chose in 1998 as one of the top fifteen short story publications in the country. He has received two Fulbright awards, one to Slovenia and one to Indonesia and his writing awards include a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in Creative Prose and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. He has recently completed a third collection of stories and a novel, and is working on a prose narrative about New Orleans (his hometown) both before and after Hurricane Katrina. Boman Desai Grew up in Mumbai, but has lived his adult life mostly in Chicago. After studying architecture and philosophy and getting degrees in psychology (Bachelor's) and English (Master's), he was set to become a market analyst when a chance encounter with Sir Edmund Hillary, his earliest hero, who had an office two floors above his own in the Sears Tower, brought him back to his vocation: writing novels. He took a number of jobs ranging from bartending to teaching to find time to write. He has published short stories and articles in the US, UK, and India. He won an Illinois Arts Council Award and the Stand Magazine Prize for fiction (an international competition). He has also published five novels: The Memory of Elephants; Asylum, USA; A Woman Madly in Love; Servant, Master, Mistress; and Trio.
Aaron Hamburger Was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome for his short story collection The View from Stalin's Head, published by Random House in March of 2004. The View from Stalin's Head was also nominated for a Violet Quill Award. His next book, a novel titled Faith for Beginners, was published (also by Random House) in October 2005, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Poets and Writers, Details, Nerve, Out, The Forward, and Time Out New York. He has won a fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, as well as first place in the David J. Dornstein Contest for Young Jewish Writers, and has taught creative writing at Columbia University. Currently he is working on a novel set in contemporary Berlin.
Ann Hood is the author of seven novels, including Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine and Ruby, and a new collection of stories, An Ornithologist’s Guide to Life (Norton). She has also published a nonfiction book, Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time; and a book on the craft of fiction, Creating Character Emotions. Ann’s short stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Glimmer Train, Double Take, The Missouri Review, the Washington Post, Traveler, Bon Appetit, and many other publications. Her awards include a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction. Lesléa Newman writes novels, short stories, poetry, nonfiction and children's books. Her fifty books include the novels In Every Laugh a Tear and Good Enough to Eat; the short story collections A Letter to Harvey Milk and Girls Will Be Girls; the poetry collections Still Life with Buddy and Signs of Love; the teen novel, Jailbait; the middle grade novels Fat Chance and Hachiko Waits; and the picture books The Boy Who Cried Fabulous and Heather Has Two Mommies, as well as a writing textbook, Write From the Heart. Her nonfiction articles have appeared in magazines including The Writer, The Advocate, Art & Understanding, and Lilith Magazine. Lesléa's literary awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, three Pushcart Prize nominations, a grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, a Parents' Choice Silver Medal and the Highlights for Children Fiction Writing Award. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award Finalists. Lewis Robinson is the author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories, winner of the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award. A graduate of Middlebury College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has published fiction in numerous journals including Tin House, Open City, The Missouri Review, and Sports Illustrated, and has broadcast his work on National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts.” Lewis received a Schaeffer Fellowship in 2002 and a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2003. He has taught fiction workshops at the University of Iowa and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. Elizabeth Searle is author of three books of fiction: Celebrities in Disgrace, a novella and short story collection; A Four-Sided Bed, a novel nominated for an American Library Association book award; and a story collection, My Body to You, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Prize. Elizabeth's opera based on the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding figure skating story has recently brought her national media attention. TONYA & NANCY: THE OPERA premiered in the American Repertory Theater's 'new space for new works' in 2006; a new expanded show, TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA, will premiere with Triangle Productions in 2008. Elizabeth has published stories in magazines such as Redbook, Ploughshares, and Kenyon Review and in anthologies such as DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME (Simon & Schuster, 2007), and she was the winner of the 2000 Lawrence Foundation Prize for fiction. Elizabeth has taught writing at Emerson College, Brown University, Bennington MFA, and UMass Lowell. She serves on the Literacy Committee and Executive Board of PEN/New England and runs the Erotic PEN readings. She is the 2007/2008 Visiting Writer at U Mass. Boston. Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of five novels: Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, Around Again, and Becoming Finola, published by Washington Square Press. She has also written two memoirs, Songs From a Lead-lined Room: Notes - High and Low - From My Journey Through Breast Cancer and Radiation, and Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama and Other Page-Turning Adventures From a Year in a Bookstore, published by Beacon Press. Her third memoir, Sundays in America, for which she spent a year attending services at Protestant churches nationwide, will be published by Beacon in March of 2008. Winner of the 2000 New England Book Award, which recognizes a literary body of works’ contribution to the region, Suzanne began writing while working as reporter for the Springfield (Massachusetts) Newspapers and the Providence Journal (Rhode Island). Her freelance work has appeared in Yankee magazine, The Bark Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Organic Style, and ESPN the Magazine. Michael C. White is the author of five novels: A Brother's Blood, The Blind Side of the Heart, A Dream of Wolves, and The Garden of Martyrs. His latest novel, Soul Catcher (William Morrow, ’07), was a Book Sense Selection and Historical Novels Review Editor’s Choice. He is also the author of the story collection, Marked Men. He has published fifty stories in national and literary magazines, and was the founding editor of the American Fiction series. He currently teaches at Fairfield University, where he is the fiction editor of Dogwood. Other faculty who teach Fiction include David Durham and Kelly Link (bios under Popular Fiction) and Kazim Ali and Carol Moldaw (bios under Poetry).
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