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Emily Fragos

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Binnie Kirshenbaum

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Sam Lipsyte

Richard Locke

Ben Marcus

Idra Novey

Jenny Offill

Patty O'Toole

Cecily Parks

David Plante

Mark Rozzo

Michael Scammell

Sadia Shepard

Gary Shteyngart

Wells Tower

Alan Ziegler

Wells Tower

Lecturer

Wells Tower is the author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), a collection of short fiction.  He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. from Columbia University.  The recipient of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Henfield Foundation award, Tower’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Times of London Sunday Magazine and elsewhere.