Faculty

Ai is the author of seven books, Vice, Greed, Fate, Sin, Killing Floor, Cruelty, and Dread. She has won many awards for her poetry, including the 1999 National Book Award, the 200 Henry Blakely Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA grants, and the 1979 Lamont Award. She has published her work in many magazines and anthologies, including the Iowa Review, the Paris Review, and the LA Times Book Review. Her work has also been performed by the Royal Scottish Academy of Dramatic Art, the Basement Workshop in New York City, and by the late Ben Hazard. She holds an M.F.A. from UC-Irvine and a BA in Japanese from the University of Arizona.

Jon Billman received his MFA from Eastern Washington University and has been a visiting writer at New Mexico State University, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Iowa State University. He has published fiction in such magazines as Esquire, Zoetrope, and The Paris Review and is a contributing writer for Outside, Skiing, and Mountain Bike magazines. He is the author of the story collection When We Were Wolves.

Toni Graham took both her MA in English and her MFA. in creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her collection of short stories, The Daiquiri Girls, won the AWP Award for Short Fiction and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 1998. She has also been the winner of the California Short Story Award and the Herbert Wilner Award for Short Fiction, and has received a Pushcart Prize citation.. Her newest book of short stories, Waiting for Elvis, was published in 2005 by Leapfrog Press and won the John Gardner Book Award in 2006.

Lisa Lewis (program director) was educated at the Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A.) and the University of Houston (PhD). She has received awards from the American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, and the Missouri Review. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best American Poetry and My Business Is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery. Her books are The Unbeliever (Brittingham Prize, 1994) and Silent Treatment (National Poetry Series, 1998), and she has recently completed a third collection.

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