DOROTHY ALLISON's books include Bastard Out of Carolina; Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature; Two or Three Things I Know for Sure; Cavedweller; and Trash; as well as the poetry chapbook The Women Who Hate Me. Her most recent novel, She Who, is forthcoming from Penguin. She will be the McGee professor at Davidson College in the Fall of 2009. www.dorothyallison.net

LISA ALVAREZ's essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, OC Weekly, Santa Monica Review and in the anthologies Latinos in Lotusland and Geography of Rage. Together with Alan Cheuse, she edited Writers Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction. She is a professor of English at Irvine Valley College. With Louis B. Jones, she directs the Writers Workshops at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.

BILL BARICH's books include Laughing in the Hills, Carson Valley, Crazy for Rivers, and, most recently, A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change, and the Irish Pub. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, and his work has frequently appeared in The New Yorker and many other magazines and journals.

MAX BYRD is the author of a number of detective novels including California Thriller, which won the Shamus Award and, more recently, the historical novels Jefferson, Jackson, and Grant. Bantam published his most recent novel, Shooting the Sun. He has an essay in the anthology, Writers Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction.

RON CARLSON's most recent novel, The Signal, will be published by Viking in May 2009. His novel Five Skies was one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Books of 2007 and the One Book Choice of Rhode Island in 2009. His book on writing is Ron Carlson Writes a Story. With Michelle Latiolais, he directs the Graduate Program in Fiction at University of California, Irvine.

ALAN CHEUSE is the author of the novels The Bohemians, The Grandmothers' Club, The Light Possessed. He is also the author of three collections of short fiction, the novella The Fires, and three volumes of essays and autobiography. His latest novel, To Catch the Lightning, which won the Grub Street National Book Prize for Fiction for 2009. A regular contributor to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," he has co-edited three volumes of short stories, and one on fiction technique. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Antioch Review, and Ploughshares; his nonfiction in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times book reviews, New York Times Travel Section, The Nation, Boston Globe Magazine, and Gourmet. www.alancheuse.com

MARK CHILDRESS is the author of six novels: One Mississippi, Gone For Good, Crazy In Alabama, Tender, V For Victor, and A World Made of Fire. He has also written three picture books for children, and several screenplays, including the Columbia Pictures production of Crazy in Alabama. www.markchildress.com

LESLIE DANIELS is a writer and worked as a literary agent for a number of years before she opened her own agency, Daniels Books LLC. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, and The Santa Monica Review among others. The Shooting Gallery in New York City produced her one-act play. She has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and for the Best of the Associated Writing Programs. In 2005, she became the fiction editor for The Green Mountains Review.

GILL DENNIS, with Tom Rickman, was a founding Director of the Community of Writers Screenwriting Program. He wrote the movie Walk the Line with James Mangold and currently is adapting Hector Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier and, with the author, A.L. Kennedy’s Day for the screen. Forever, which he wrote with the director Tatia Pilieva, will be produced in 2009. He won the L.A. Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Distinguished Direction in Theatre.

CAROL EDGARIAN is the author of the novels Three Stages of Amazement (forthcoming in 2010), and Rise the Euphrates, which received the ANC Freedom Award and was a bestseller in the U.S. and in Europe. She edited, with Tom Jenks, The Writer's Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame from the Diaries of the World's Great Writers. She has written articles and essays for Vogue, Allure, and Travel & Leisure, among other magazines, newspapers and anthologies. A graduate of Stanford University, she teaches privately in San Francisco and throughout the U.S. She is the co-founder and editor of Narrative Magazine. www.narrativemagazine.com

JANET FITCH is the author of the novels Paint It Black and White Oleander, an Oprah book selection, adapted into a feature film in 2002. Her most recent short stories can be seen in Black Clock 7 and the anthology Los Angeles Noir. She teaches fiction writing in the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California, and blogs about writing at myspace.com/paintitblackbook. Her essay "Coming to our Senses" is included in the anthology, Writers Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction. literati.net/Fitch

KAREN JOY FOWLER is the author of two story collections and five novels, including Sarah Canary, the bestselling The Jane Austen Book Club which was made into a major motion picture, and, most recently, Wit's End. Her short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and a third collection is pending at Small Beer Press. She has taught creative writing at Stanford, Cleveland State, UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz. www.karenjoyfowler.com

LYNN FREED is the author of eight books: Reading, Writing & Leaving Home: Life on the Page (essays); The Curse of the Appropriate Man (stories); and the novels The Servants' Quarters, House of Women, The Mirror, The Bungalow, Home Ground, and Friends of the Family. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, among others. She is the recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received fellowships, grants, and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation, among others. www.lynnfreed.com

DAGOBERTO GILB is the author of the novel The Flowers, published by Grove Press in 2008. He is also the author of Gritos, an essay collection which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; Woodcuts of Women, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, and The Magic of Blood, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award. He is also the editor of Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature published by University of New Mexico Press. Gilb spent sixteen years working as a construction worker and was a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.

MOLLY GILES first came to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers on a fiction scholarship in 1973; she has been teaching at the Community off and on since 1985. She is the author of two prize-winning story collections, Rough Translations and Creek Walk, and the novel Iron Shoes. New stories are in Cimarron Review, Santa Monica Review, Green Mountains Review and Subtropics. She edits Amy Tan's fiction and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.

GLEN DAVID GOLD is the author of Carter Beats the Devil, a national bestseller currently translated into 14 languages. His fiction, essays and memoirs have appeared in Playboy, McSweeney's, The Independent UK and The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and he has written comic books for DC and Dark Horse. His novel Sunnyside is forthcoming from Knopf in May 2009. www.glendavidgold.com

SANDS HALL is the author of the novel Catching Heaven; recent stories have appeared in the Iowa Review and Green Mountains Review. Her work as a playwright includes a stage adaptation of Alcott’s Little Women and the comic drama Fair Use. She is also the author of a book of writing essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer’s Craft, and has an essay in the anthology Writers Workshop in a Book. Sands is currently Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. www.sandshall.com

JAMES D. HOUSTON passed away on April 16. Please see below.

MICHAEL JAIME-BECERRA is the author of the collection of interrelated short stories Every Night Is Ladies’ Night, winner of a 2005 California Book Award for a First Work of Fiction. He teaches in the Creative Writing Department at UC Riverside.

LOUIS B. JONES is the author of the novels Ordinary Money, Particles and Luck, and California's Over, all three New York Times Notable Books. His writing recently appeared in Santa Monica Review and The Threepenny Review, and in the 2009 Pushcart Prize collection. With Lisa Alvarez, he directs the Writers Workshops of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. www.louisbjones.com

JOANNE MESCHERY is the author of the novels In a High Place, A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier, which was nominated for a Pen/Faulkner Award, and Home and Away, recently reprinted by the University of California Press as part of its California Writers Series. Her work has been awarded two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as numerous other prizes. She taught creative writing at the University of Arkansas and now teaches English and creative writing at San Diego State University. She was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1999.

JASON ROBERTS's debut nonfiction work, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler (HarperCollins), was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the international Guardian First Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews and other publications. He is also the inaugural winner of the Van Zorn Prize for emerging fiction writers (sponsored by Michael Chabon), and a contributor to the Village Voice, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. Norton will publish his next book, Every Living Thing, in 2010. jasonroberts.net

SANDRA SCOFIELD is the author of seven novels; a memoir, Occasions of Sin; and a craft book for writers, The Scene Book (Penguin Books, 2007). She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and won a fiction prize from the Texas Institute of Letters. She teaches in the Pine Manor College MFA program. www.sandrascofield.com

GREGORY SPATZ's most recent novel is Fiddler's Dream. He is also the author of a short story collection, Wonderful Tricks (winner of the Washington State Book Award), and his stories have been published in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Iowa Review, Northwest Review, Epoch, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere. Most recently, his novella "Time Trials" appeared in The Santa Monica Review. He teaches in and directs the MFA program for creative writing at Eastern Washington University, The Inland Northwest Center for Writers, and moonlights as the fiddler in the Juno Award- and Canadian Folk Award-nominated bluegrass band, John Reischman and the Jaybirds, as well as in the world folk-alt stringband, Mighty Squirrel. www.gregoryspatz.com

RICK WARTZMAN is the author of Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (PublicAffairs, 2008), which was a Borders Original Voices selection, one of the Los Angeles Times' 25 favorite nonfiction books of the year and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. He is the co-author of The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire (PublicAffairs), named one of the 10 best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle and one of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. It also won, among other honors, a California Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. A former writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, Rick is the director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University and an online columnist for BusinessWeek.

AL YOUNG was California's poet laureate from 2005-2008. Heyday Books has just published Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills and Frames (The Jazz Photography of Charles L. Robinson), Poetic Takes & Riffs by Al Young. His other books include Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry; Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons; the reprint of The Sound of Dreams Remembered, which received the 2002 American Book Award; African-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology; and Mingus Mingus:Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman). His essay on scene and summary appears in the anthology Writers Workshop in a Book. Young's honors include Guggenheim, Fulbright and NEA Fellowships, the Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction, the PEN-USA Award for Nonfiction, the Stephen Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, Pacifica Radio's KPFA 2006 Peace Award, and the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement. Since 2001 he has traveled widely for the U.S. Department of State to lecture on American and African American literature and culture. www.alyoung.org

MICHAEL V. CARLISLE, a founder of InkWell Management, began his career at William Morris Agency. His authors have won Pulitzer Prizes, the Man Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the British Book Award, LA Times Book Award, and the PEN Award for first Nonfiction; one even has an asteroid named for her. He is a former director of the AAR, a not-for-profit organization of independent literary and dramatic agents, and a member of PEN.

LESLIE DANIELS is a writer and worked as a literary agent for a number of years before she opened her own agency, Daniels Books LLC. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, and The Santa Monica Review among others. The Shooting Gallery in New York City produced her one-act play. She has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and for the Best of the Associated Writing Programs. In 2005, she became the fiction editor for The Green Mountains Review.

SUSAN GOLOMB founded her own literary agency in 1990 and since then has represented numerous award-winning and bestselling books including Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, which won the National Book Award, was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and has been translated into over 40 languages; William T. Vollmann’s National Book Award-winning novel Europe Central; National Book Award finalist Telex From Cuba by Rachel Kushner; New York Times Bestsellers Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl and The Great Depression Ahead and The Roaring 2000s by Harry S. Dent, Jr. Other national bestsellers include Carter Beats The Devil by Glen David Gold; High Exposure by David Breashears; and USA Today Best Debut Novel of 2006 The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen.

BJ ROBBINS opened her Los Angeles-based literary agency in 1992 after a multifaceted book publishing career in New York at Simon & Schuster and Harcourt. Her clients include award-winning novelists James D. Houston, Max Byrd, Nafisa Haji, John Hough, Jr., Eduardo Santiago, and nonfiction writers J. Maarten Troost and James Donovan.

PETER STEINBERG worked for eleven years as a literary agent at a number of high profile boutique literary agencies before forming his own company, The Steinberg Agency, in the fall of 2007. Peter’s clients have been nominated for and awarded Edgars, Quills, The Pulitzer Prize, The Story Prize, The Paris Review Discovery Prize, Borders Original Voices and National Book Awards. Peter represents a broad range of novels and short story collections and the occasional YA title. His nonfiction interests include memoir, humor, biography, history, pop culture, fitness and narrative nonfiction. Peter began his career as a filmmaker and screenwriter with a B.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts film school. He is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives.

ANN CLOSE is a Senior Editor at Alfred A. Knopf. Her fiction authors include Sarah Bird, Jay Cantor, James D. Houston, Gish Jen, Brad Leithauser, Jane Mendelsohn, Alice Munro, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Norman Rush. She is the recipient of the Roger Klein Award for Editorial Excellence.

LESLIE DANIELS is a writer and worked as a literary agent for a number of years before she opened her own agency, Daniels Books LLC. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, and The Santa Monica Review among others. The Shooting Gallery in New York City produced her one-act play. She has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and for the Best of the Associated Writing Programs. In 2005, she became the fiction editor for The Green Mountains Review.

CAROL EDGARIAN is the author of the novels Three Stages of Amazement (forthcoming in 2010), and Rise the Euphrates, which received the ANC Freedom Award and was a bestseller in the U.S. and in Europe. She edited, with Tom Jenks, The Writer's Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame from the Diaries of the World's Great Writers. She has written articles and essays for Vogue, Allure, and Travel & Leisure, among other magazines, newspapers and anthologies. A graduate of Stanford University, she teaches privately in San Francisco and throughout the U.S. She is the co-founder and editor of Narrative Magazine. www.narrativemagazine.com

JOY JOHANNESSEN has been an editor at Chelsea House Publishers, Grove Press, and Oxford University Press, a senior editor at HarperCollins Publishers, and the executive editor of Delphinium Books. She has worked with hundreds of writers, among them Dorothy Allison, Amy Bloom, Harold Bloom, Michael Cunningham, Ursula Le Guin, and Arthur Miller. She currently freelances.

MICHAEL PIETSCH is Executive Vice President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company. Before joining Little, Brown in 1991 he worked as an editor at Scribner and at Harmony Books. Some of the writers he has worked with are the novelists Martin Amis, Michael Connelly, Tony Earley, Janet Fitch, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, George Pelecanos, Alice Sebold, Anita Shreve, Nick Tosches, David Foster Wallace, and Stephen Wright; the nonfiction writers John Feinstein, Peter Guralnick, and David Sedaris; and the cartoonist R. Crumb. A career highlight was editing Ernest Hemingway's posthumous memoir, The Dangerous Summer, when he was with Scribner in 1985. Recent acquisitions at Little, Brown have included new books from Tom Wolfe, Keith Richards, Donna Tartt, and Tina Fey.

JAY SCHAEFER is the San Francisco-based editor-at-large for Algonquin Books and Workman, acquiring literary fiction, memoirs, popular culture, business, sports, and and humor books. Until earlier this year, he had been an editor at Chronicle Books for more than 20 years, where he published Under the Tuscan Sun, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, and fiction by both new and established writers, including Robert Olen Butler, Craig Ferguson, John Nichols, and Senator Barbara Boxer. Two years ago at Chronicle he published Writers Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction.

JACK SHOEMAKER is one of our generation's most distinguished editors and publishers. He co-founded North Point Press in Berkeley in 1979. Prior to that, he had served for some years as panelist and later chairman of the Literature Panel of the NEA, and as the owner of several important literary bookshops and small fine presses. After North Point closed in 1991, His has served as West Coast editor of the Knopf Publishing Group, then left to co-found Counterpoint Press in 1994 in Washington, D.C. In 2003 he established Shoemaker & Hoard. In the past year, in Berkeley, he formed a partnership to purchase Counterpoint Press from the Perseus Books Group, as well as Soft Skull Press, and entered an operating agreement with Sierra Club Books. Together the partners' backlists include Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, MFK Fisher, Evan Connell, Robert Aitken and others, a few of whom are active partners in the new endeavor.

ANDREW TONKOVICH is the editor of the Santa Monica Review. His short stories, essays and commentaries have appeared in Faultline, OC Weekly, the Los Angeles Times and an anthology, Geography of Fear. An excerpt from his novel-in-progress, Being Mr. Right, appeared in Green Mountains Review. He has taught at UC Irvine, UC Irvine Extension, Santa Monica College, Irvine Valley College and University of Redlands. He hosts “Bibliocracy,” a weekly book culture program on Pacifica Radio affiliate KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, which focuses on literary fiction and Nonfiction. http://bibliocracyradio.blogspot.com

RICK WARTZMAN is the author of Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (PublicAffairs, 2008), which was a Borders Original Voices selection. He is the co-author of The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire (PublicAffairs), named one of the 10 best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and one of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. A former writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, Rick is the director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, an Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and a columnist for BusinessWeek.

RHODA HUFFEY is the author of the novel The Hallelujah Side. She has published stories in Tin House, Ploughshares, and Green Mountains Review.

DIANE JOHNSON is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction including the trilogy, Le Mariage, Le Divorce, and L’Affaire. Her essay appears in the anthology, Writers Workshop in a Book. She is a two-time finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her most recent novel, Lulu in Marrakech, was published by Dutton in 2008.

DAVID LUKAS is a naturalist and writer whose writings have appeared in Audubon, Orion, Sunset, and Wild Bird, and in a weekly column in the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of Watchable Birds of the Great Basin and Wild Birds of California. He revised the classic guidebook Sierra Nevada Natural History (UC Press). http://www.sierranaturalist.com

MALCOLM MARGOLIN is the founder of Heyday Books, established in 1974. The mission of Heyday Books is to deepen people’s appreciation and understanding of California’s cultural, natural, historic, literary, and artistic resources. In his role as publisher Mr. Margolin has supported the revitalization of Native American language, dance, basketweaving, storytelling, and religious practice. Mr. Margolin is the author of four books, the best known of them being The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area.

AMY TAN’s novels are The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, and Saving Fish from Drowning, all New York Times bestsellers. An opera based on The Bonesetter's Daughter, for which she furnished the libretto, premiered in San Francisco in 2008. She has also published a memoir, The Opposite of Fate; two children’s books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa; and numerous articles for magazines including The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, and National Geographic. Tan's work has been widely anthologized and translated into 35 languages. www.redroom.com

KEM NUNN is a product of the Irvine Writer's Program. He has published five novels: Tapping the Source, Unassigned Territory, Pomona Queen, The Dogs of Winter, and Tijuana Straits. He worked for a season on the HBO show Deadwood. He co-created and co-produced the HBO show John from Cincinnati together with David Milch. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, and other periodicals. He is currently in development with Peter Berg on new project for HBO.

JANE VANDENBURGH is the author of two novels, Failure to Zigzag, and The Physics of Sunset. Her memoir, A Pocket History of Sex in the 20th Century, was published by Counterpoint in 2009. She has taught literature and writing at U.C. Davis, at Georgetown and at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and will be next year’s Writer in Residence at St. Mary’s in Moraga, California. Her book, The Architecture of the Novel, will also be published in 2009.

JEANNE WAKATSUKI HOUSTON is the co-author of Farewell to Manzanar, the true story of her family's experience during and after the World War II internment. Now in a 70th printing, it is a standard work in schools and colleges across the country. She is also the author of a novel, The Legend of Firehorse Woman. Her stories and essays on Asian American womanhood have been widely anthologized.

Each summer, recently published alumni are invited to return to Squaw Valley to read from their books and talk about their journey from unpublished writers to published authors.

Recent alumni who have been part of this reading series include Anita Amirrezvani, Aimee Bender, David Corbett, Charmaine Craig, Cai Emmons, Alex Espinoza, Joshua Ferris, Glen David Gold, Judith Hendricks, Rhoda Huffey, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Regina Louise, Christina Meldrum, Janis Cooke Newman, Frederick Reiken, Robin Romm, Elizabeth Rosner, Adrienne Sharp, Alice Sebold, Julia Flynn Siler, Jordan Fisher Smith, Ellen Sussman, Lisa Tucker, Brenda Rickman Vantrease, and Andrew Winer among others.

2009 ALUMNI READERS

DAVID BAJO has worked as a journalist and translator and has published stories in The Cimarron Review, Zyzzyva and The Sun. Viking published his first novel, The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri, in 2008. He has a story in the current Issue of Five Chapters. He attended the Community of Writers on a UC Irvine MFA Program Scholarship in 1987 and 1988. www.davidbajo.com

FRANCES DINKELSPIEL is the author of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, which was published by St. Martin’s Press in November 2008. A former reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, her freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and People magazine. She also writes the literary blog "Ghost Word." She attended the Community of Writers in 2003 and 2004. www.francesdinkelspiel.com

JAMIE FORD is the author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Ballantine) an IndieBound NEXT List Selection for February 2009. Jamie is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer, Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China to San Francisco in 1865—where he adopted the Western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. He attended the Community of Writers in 2006. www.jamieford.com

VICKI FORMAN is the author of the forthcoming book This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Her work has appeared in the Seneca Review and the Santa Monica Review, as well as the anthologies, Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child With Special Needs, This Day: Dairies From American Women, and Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined. www.vickiforman.com

TANYA EGAN GIBSON is the author of the novel How To Buy a Love of Reading, which will be published in May 2009 by Dutton. She attended the Community of Writers in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004.
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