Spring 2016

Bronwen Dickey is a contributing editor to the Oxford American. Her work has also appeared in Best American Travel Writing 2009, the New York Times, Slate, Newsweek, Outside, and Popular Mechanics. She is the recipient of a first-place Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award and a MacDowell Colony residency grant. Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon (Knopf, 2016), from which “Dogs of Character” is adapted, is her first book.

Douglas Fox’s stories have appeared in Discover, Scientific American, Esquire, the Christian Science Monitor, and National Geographic. His work has been anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing and has garnered awards from the American Geophysical Union, National Association of Science Writers, American Society of Journalists and Authors, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Suji Kwock Kim is the author of two poetry collections, Notes from the North (Smith|Doorstop, 2022), a winner of the 2019 International Book & Pamphlet Competition, and Notes from the Divided Country(LSU, 2003), which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Kim has also received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Whiting Writers’ Award. Her other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Blakemore Foundation for Asian Studies, and the Korea Foundation.

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015), Finders Keepers (2015), Revival (2014), and Mr. Mercedes (2014), an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel, all published by Scribner. His novel 11/22/63 (Scribner, 2011) was named a top-ten book by the New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. King is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. 

Abby Rabinowitz’s work has appeared in Science, the New York Times, Nautilus, Guernica, and BuzzFeed. She teaches writing at Columbia University, where she earned her MFA in nonfiction writing. She is a Fulbright grant recipient and a founding member of NeuWrite, Columbia’s association for scientists and writers.