Fall 2021

Kevin Canty’s eighth book is a novel, The Underworld (Norton, 2017). He is also the author of three previous collections of short stories (Where the Money Went [Nan A. Talese, 2009], Honeymoon [Nan A. Talese, 2001], and A Stranger In This World [Doubleday, 1994]) and four novels (Nine Below Zero [Nan A. Talese, 1999], Into the Great Wide Open [Nan A. Talese, 1996], Winslow in Love [Nan A. Talese, 2005], and Everything [Nan A. Talese, 2010]). His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Esquire, Tin House, GQ, Glimmer Train, Story, the New England Review, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.

Sally Wen Mao is the author of two collections of poetry: Oculus (Graywolf, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James, 2014). The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she was recently a Cullman fellow at the New York Public Library. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the Best American Poetry, the Paris Review, Poetry, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, the Kenyon Review, the Georgia Review, and Guernica, among others.

Lois Parshley’s reporting has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s, the Atlantic, Granta, National Geographic, and Businessweek, among others. A former Knight-Wallace fellow and National Geographic explorer, her work has won numerous awards.

Alicja Wróblewska is a visual artist and photographer. The focus of her work is anthropopressure, human impact on the environment and climate change, and the extinction of ecosystems. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has been featured in publications such as the British Journal of Photography, along with being recognized in the 2020 Siena Creative Photo Awards.