Cyrus Cassells

(Stanford)
Poetry

The Mud Actor (Holt, 1982)

Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (Copper Canyon Press, 1994)

Beautiful Signor (Copper Canyon Press, 1997)

More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)

2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

National Poetry Series Prize-The Mud Actor

1994 William Carlos Williams Award and named one of the Best Books of 1994 by Publisher's Weekly- Soul Make a Path Through Shouting

1998 Lambda Literary Award- Beautiful Signor

Lannan Foundation Fellowship

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

Peter I.B.Lavan Younger Poet Award from the American Academy of Poets

Dagoberto Gilb

(MA University of California, Santa Barbara) Fiction

The Magic of Blood (University of New Mexico Press, 1993/Grove Press, 1994)

The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña (Grove Press, 1995)

Woodcuts of Women (Grove Press,2001)

Gritos (Grove Press, 2003).

Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of TexasMexican Literature (University of New Mexico Press, 2006).

The Flowers (Forthcoming).

National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1992

Whiting Writer's Award, 1993

Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1994, winner of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1994, and the Texas Institute of Letters' Jesse Jones Award for best book of fiction- The Magic of Blood

1994 New York Times Notable Book- The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995

2004 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Gritos

Tom Grimes

(MFA Iowa) Fiction

A Stone of the Heart (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990/SMU Press, 1997)

Spec (Iowa Review, Vol. 24:1), Full-length play, produced at The Met Theatre, Los Angeles

Season's End (Little, Brown, 1992/Nebraska, 1996)

City of God (Norton, 1995/Picador, 1996/Gallimard, 1998)

The Workshop (Hyperion, 1999)

New World (translated into Spanish for production in Spain), Full-length play, produced at The Met Theatre, Los Angeles, 2001

WILL@epicqwest.com (Ludlow Press/Gallimard, 2003).

1990 New York Times Notable Book- A Stone of the Heart

Los Angeles Dramalogue Award, 1991

James Michener Fellowship, 1991

1997 New York Times "New and Noteworthy" Paperback- A Stone of the Heart

Barnes & Noble Discover Award, 1999

BookSense "Pick" for July, 2003, WILL@epicqwest.com

Roger Jones

(PhD Oklahoma State)
Poetry

Remembering New London (Texas Review Press, 1981)

Strata (Texas Review Press, 1993)

Are We There Yet? (Texas Review Press, 2006)

Poems in various journals, including Southern Poetry Review, Hawaii Review, Poet Lore, Louisiana Literature, Baltimore Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, TexasReview, Arkansas Review, and others

Debra Monroe

(Ph.D. Utah) Fiction

The Source of Trouble (Georgia, 1990/Scribner's, 1995)

A Wild, Cold State(Simon & Schuster, 1995/Scribner's, 1996)

Newfangled (Simon & Schuster, 1998/Scribner's, 2000)

Shambles (SMU, 2004)

1990 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction- The Source of Trouble

The John Gardner Fellowship in 1992

1995 Best Ten Books selection in Elle- A Wild, Cold State

1998 Borders Bookstores' New Frontiers selection- Newfangled

Mercy (Pittsburgh,1991)

Divided Touch, Divided Color (Windhover, 1995)

The Oval Hour (Iowa, 1999)

The Ardors (Ausable Press, 2004)

Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007

2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry- Mercy

1993 Whiting Writer's Award

1998 Iowa Poetry Prize, Finalist for the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award- The Oval Hour

Steve Wilson

(MFA Wichita State)
Poetry

Allegory Dance (Black Tie, 1991)

Editor, The Anatomy of Water: A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry (Linwood, 1992)

The Singapore Express or Faith in the Knowing Hand of the Scientist (Black Tie, 1994)

Editor, The Prose Poem

His work has also appeared in the following:

American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement,

Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, and

Sierra Songs and Descants

Finding My Kerouac (Podcast)

Fulbright Fellowship, 1994

Fulbright Fellowship, Slovenia, 2002