Kevin Adler (PhD/Fiction)

Laura Beasley (MFA/Poetry)

Jesse Bishop (MFA/Poetry)

Matthew Byers (PhD/Poetry)

Judith Carson (MFA/Poetry)

Sara Cheshire (MFA/Poetry)

Bradley Denton (PhD/Poetry)

Julie Douglas (MFA/Fiction)

Kara Eidsvik (MFA/Fiction)

Kathleen Fesuk (PhD/Poetry)

Jeanne Finelli (MA/Fiction)

Marc Fitten (PhD/Fiction)

Peter Fontaine (PhD/Fiction) is a Master of the Arts in English Literature from UNLV who has recently turned his ambitions toward becoming a professional liar. A native of California and a former resident of Las Vegas, he recently made Atlanta his home to pursue his PhD in Creative Writing. His work has been published in Rainbow Curve and Vagus Nerve. He lives with his fiancee Cara and her cat Bella.

Before returning to graduate school, Amanda C. Gable (MFA/Fiction) worked for a number of years at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her short stories have appeared in The North American Review, The Crescent Review, Other Voices, Sinister Wisdom, Kalliope, and elsewhere. Two of her stories have been nominated for a Pushcart and she has been awarded residency fellowships at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Hambidge Center. Her first novel, The Confederate General Rides North, will be published in the summer of 2009 by Scribner. In addition to writing new fiction, she is working on a non-fiction book about independent bookstores in the U.S., both past and present.

Karen Gentry's (MFA/Fiction) stories have appeared in New Delta Review, Southeast Review, American Short Fiction, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the World's Best Short Short Story Contest and the American Short Fiction Short Story Contest.

Kristin Goddard (PhD/Poetry)

Jessica Hand (MFA/Poetry)

Benjamin Hanna (MFA/Fiction)

Shelley Helms-Fleishman (MFA/Poetry)

Sara Hughes (PhD/Poetry)

Dionne Irving (PhD/Fiction)

Robert Ivey (MA/Poetry)

Robin Kemp (PhD/Poetry) holds a BA from GSU, an MFA from the University of New Orleans, and the CELTA (ESL) teaching certificate for the University of Cambridge. Her poetry has been anthologized in Letters to the World: Poems from the WOM-PO Listserv (Red Hen Press), Maple Leaf Rag III (Portals Press), and Rites of Spring: A Miscellaney of Verse (Pecan Grove Press), and has appeared in New Orleans Review, Texas Poetry Journal, Texas Review, Amethyst, Able Muse, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily (twice) and other venues, and drawn praise in Salon. A former TV, radio and print journalist, she's also written the Letter of the Month in the March 2006 issue of Poetry, as well as entries on Elizabeth Bishop in LGBTQ America Today (2009), Atlanta poet Turner Cassity and New Formalism in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (2006), and Kate Chopin and William Stafford in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (2004). Robin owns the Formalista listserv, which brings together experts on versification, translators, and women poets writing in or curious about form and meter.

Katherine Kincer (PhD/Poetry)

Monica Magnan (MA/Poetry)

James Davis May (PhD/Poetry)

James Thomas Miller (PhD/Poetry)

Carissa Morris (PhD/Fiction)

Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry)

Candace Nadon (PhD/Fiction)

Derek Nikitas (PhD/Fiction) was raised in Manchester, NH and Rochester, NY. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2000, then sought adventure in the Czech Republic, England, and Costa Rica. Before coming to GSU, he taught for four years in Delta College, and innovative interdisciplinary program at the State University of New York at Brockport. He has published stories in The Ontario Review, Chelsea, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Traffic East and The Pedestal Magazine. Joyce Carol Oates nominated him for a Pushcart Prize in ’05. His first novel, Pyres, was released by St. Martin’s Minotaur in October 2007 and was a finalist for the Edgar Award. His second novel,The Long Division was published in October of 2009. He is assistant professor of English and creative writing at Eastern Kentucky University.

Robert Renn Pfeiffer (PhD/Poetry)

Calaya Michelle Reid (PhD/Fiction) is a native of Westbury, NY. She's a graduate of New York University and the University of Georgia (BA, MA). Her novels (written as Grace Octavia) are Take Her Man, His First Wife, and Something She Can Feel (Kensington Books, 2007, 2008, 2009). She lives in Atlanta and has another Grace Octavia novel forthcoming from Kensington Books.

Michele Rozga (PhD/Poetry) is the winner of the 2007 Southeast Review Poetry Contest, and the 2003 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Poetry. Her work has appeared in GSU Review and the Southeast Review. Her chapbook manuscript The Switchback Path was a finalist for the Spring Garden Press 2007 Robert Watson poetry award.

Jenny Sadre-Orafi (MFA/Poetry)

Matthew Sailor (MFA/Fiction)

Emily Schulten (PhD/Poetry)

Benjamin Solomon (MFA/Fiction) is coeditor of The Open Face Sandwich.

Cheryl Stiles (PhD/Poetry)

Christine Needham Swint (MFA/Poetry)

William Taft (MFA/Fiction)

Sarah Winterfield (MFA/Fiction)