Steve Almond's short stories have appeared in Zoetrope, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Playboy. He has also taught creative writing at Emerson College and Boston College. Click here for more information.
Catharine Brosman is Professor Emerita at Tulane. She has published numerous articles and authored or edited eighteen volumes dealing with French literature. Click here for more information.
Wayne Chapman is Professor of English at Clemson University and a Literary Festival Organizer. He is the editor of The South Carolina Review. Please click here for more information.
Kim Chinquee teaches creative writing at Central Michigan University. Her works have been published in The South Carolina Review, Noon Conjunctions, Arkansas Review, and North Dakota Quarterly. Click here for more information.
Brock Clarke currently directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Cincinnati and is the 2000 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Click here for more information.
Frank Day is Professor Emeritus at Clemson University. He has written numerous articles, essays, and book contributions on authors as diverse as Melville, Balzac, DeLillo, and Naipaul. Click here.
Dungy is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in many publications including The Missouri Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Mid-American Review, and Poetry Daily. Click here.
Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000). The memoir reached the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list and made Eggers a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2001. In addition to having authored numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, Eggers is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house that shares its name with the literary journal it puts out. Please click here for more information.
Sterling “Skip” Eisiminger is a seasoned writer as well as a professor emeritus of English and Humanities at Clemson University. Please click here for more information.
John L. Idol is a fourth-generation native of the Blue Ridge region whose writing focuses on the work of Thomas Wolfe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, both as an editor and writer. Click here for more information.
Major Jackson is an established poet and a professor of English and Creative Writing. His poems have attracted national attention through favorable reviews from The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Parnassus, Philadelphia Inquirer, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Please click here for more information.
Bill Koon is a South Carolina native and a professor of English at Clemson University, where he teaches courses in American and Southern literature. He was a Fulbright Professor in southern studies to Austria, and he writes a weekly column for the The Greenville Journal. Click here.
Laurence Lieberman has published l4 books of poetry, three books of criticism, and his poetry was featured in the spring 2006 and fall 2007 issues of The South Carolina Review. Click here for more information.
Karon Luddy received her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University and earned a book contract for her first novel. In 2007, Simon and Schuster published Spelldown, Luddy’s first novel, which is based on the stories that originally appeared in The South Carolina Review. Click here.
Michelle Martin is a professor in the English Department at Clemson University and specialist in children’s literature and African American studies. Please click here for more information.
Kevin McIlvoy is the Editor in Chief of the literary magazine Puerto del Sol. He teaches in the English Department at New Mexico State University as well as in the creative writing program at Warren Wilson College. Click here for more information.
Richard Michelson has won the Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry, the New Letters Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize. His most recent collection of poetry, Battles & Lullabies, was selected by ForeWord as one of the twelve best books of poetry in 2006. Click here.
Ronald Moran has published nine books of poetry, including Sudden Fictions (1994), Getting the Body to Dance Again (1995) and Diagramming the Clear Sky (2006). His poems have appeared in The South Carolina Review ever since Volume 1 appeared in 1968. Click here.
Keith Morris is Professor of Creative Writing at Clemson University and a Literary Festival Organizer. He is fiction editor of The South Carolina Review. Please click here for more information.
Darlin’ Neal’s work has been published in The Southern Review, Puerto del Sol, Night Train, Shenandoah and many other literary journals. Her short story collection, Rattlesnakes and the Moon, was selected as a finalist for the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction. Click here.
Ron Rash is the author of three novels, One Foot in Eden (2002), Saints at the River (2004), and The World Made Straight (2006). He currently holds the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University. Click here for more information.
Tom Rash has written a variety of literary essays and book reviews, and he has worked as a professional proofreader. Presently, he is working on a documentary film, with Steve Agnew, on the influence and reputation of Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel. Click here.
Vivian Shipley is the editor of the Connecticut Review at Southern Connecticut State University and has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, first for When There Is No Shore (2002) and then for Gleanings: Old Poems, New Poems (2003). Click here for more information.
Elizabeth Stansell won the 2005-2006 Shilstone Memorial Award for her outstanding master’s thesis with her work entitled “Saintly Virgins, Demon Lovers, and Ideal Mothers: Representations of Women in Neo-Victorian Fiction.” Stansell currently teaches full-time at Clemson University. Click here for more information.
Mark Winchell currently directs Clemson’s program in the Great Works of Western Civilization. He has published over 120 essays and reviews in such periodicals and books as Modern Age, the Southern Review, the American Conservative, the Mississippi Quarterly, the book section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the History of Southern Literature. Click here for more information.