Adam Johnson, Ph.D. 2001 - His work has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Harper's, and The Missouri Review, as well as Best New American Voices a record four years running. He is the author of a collection of stories, Emporium, and a novel, Parasites Like Us. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he currently teaches creative writing at Stanford University.
Matt Bondurant, Ph.D. 2003 - The short fiction of two-time Bread Loaf scholarship winner and Sewanee Fellow Matt Bondurant has appeared in journals such as Glimmer Train, The New England Review, and Prairie Schooner. His novel The Third Translation was published by Hyperion in April 2005 and it has been translated into 14 languages worldwide. His second novel The Wettest County in the World will be released by Scribners in October 2008. Film rights were recently purchased by Columbia Pictures. He recently accepted a tenure-track Fiction Writer job at SUNY Plattsburgh.