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O'Keeffe's collection of long stories, The Hill Road (Viking Penguin), received the 2005 Story Prize. He was a Barnes and Noble Discovery pick and received a Whiting Award for fiction writing. His work has appeared in the Irish Times, Doubletake, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. A novel, The Visitors (Viking Penguin), was published in 2013.

Casey Plett is the author of the books On Community, A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, the feature-length script So Rachel Might Leave the City, and the screen adaptation for Little Fish. She is the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers and the Publisher at LittlePuss Press. Her work has won the Amazon First Novel Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and the Firecracker Award for Fiction. Casey is originally from the Canadian Prairies, Treaty 1 Territory.

LeMay is the author of Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese, and The One in the Many. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Harvard Review, The Paris Review, Gastronomica, Poetry Daily, and the Best Food Writing series.

Halliday is the author of five books of poetry, including Keep this Forever, Jab, Selfwolf, and Tasker Street. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, Halliday has published numerous essays on contemporary poets.

Wanczyk is a graduate of µÛÍõ»áËù's Ph.D program in nonfiction and has published essays, poems, and reviews in several journals, including Alimentum, Brevity, and Quarter After Eight. He coordinates the department's special programs, including the Spring Literary Festival and visiting writers series.