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• Steve Almond
• David Benioff
• Jill Bialosky
• Terrence Cheng
• Jill A. Davis
• Stella Pope Duarte
• Anahita Firouz
• Masha Hamilton
• Ad Hudler
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Fiction Debut Author Roundtable
 AuthorsOnTheWeb has assembled a roundtable featuring a diverse group of 17 up-and-coming fiction writers who discuss the writing process, publishing/marketing support for debut authors, and their responses to first-time reviews from readers and critics.
While many of the guests are first-time published authors, some participants have recently made their debut on the American publishing scene after being published overseas. Others have written short stories or poetry and are now debut novelists. The participants are Steve Almond, David Benioff, Jill Bialosky, Terrence Cheng, Jill A. Davis, Stella Pope Duarte, Anahita Firouz, Ad Hudler, Masha Hamilton, Kate Manning, Jay Nussbaum, Arthur Phillips, Michael Redhill, David Rosenfelt, Gary Shteyngart, Karen V. Siplin, and Ali Smith.
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| Steve Almond |
Steve Almond spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, in El Paso, Phoenix and Miami. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals including Playboy, Zoetrope: All Story, Ploughshares, and Tin House. Steve lives in Boston where he teaches creative writing at Boston College. He is also a regular contributor/correspondent on Boston's local National Public Radio station, WBUR.
Steve Almond's Website
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| David Benioff |
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| Jill Bialosky |
Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She studied at Ohio University and received an M.A. in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, as well as an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her first book of poetry, The End of Desire, was published in 1997 by Knopf, and her second book of poetry, Subterranean, also published by Knopf, recently came out in November of 2001. Her poems and essays appear regularly in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and Redbook, among others. She is currently an editor at W.W. Norton and lives in New York with her husband and son.
Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
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| Terrence Cheng |
Terrence Cheng's grandmother was a senator in the Chinese Nationalist Party, and his grandfather was a prisoner-of-war captured by the Japanese during World War II. Both survived and moved their family to Taiwan after the Communists came to power in 1949.
Cheng was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1972, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1973. He earned his MFA in Fiction at the University of Miami, FL, where he was a James Michener Fellow. Director of Corporate Website Marketing for Random House Inc., he also teaches fiction at Lehman College-CUNY. He has lived most of his life in New York.
Author Talk
Reader comments on Sons of Heaven
Terrence Cheng's Website
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| Jill A. Davis |
Jill Davis was a writer for Late Show with David Letterman, where she received five Emmy nominations. She has also written several network pilots, screenplays, and short stories. Before moving to New York City, she wrote a humor column for a small metropolitan newspaper.
Girl's Poker Night Review
Jill A. Davis's Website
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| Stella Pope Duarte |
Stella Pope Duarte was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship in 1998 from the Arizona Arts Commission for her first book, Fragile Night, a collection of short stories. She was recently awarded a second fellowship for Let Their Spirits Dance. A Pushcart Prize in Literature Finalist, she is also a university instructor and high school counselor. Ms. Pope Duarte lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Photo (c) Tom Story
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| Anahita Firouz |
Anahita Firouz was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up there. She now lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and two children. This is her first novel.
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| Masha Hamilton |
For nearly ten years, Masha Hamilton worked for the Associated Press as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and then as Moscow correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She also wrote a newspaper column from Moscow and reported for NBC/Mutual Radio. Hamilton now lives in the Arizona desert.
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| Ad Hudler |
Five years ago, when I was thirty-three and at home with our four-year-old daughter, I decided I had to find an adult activity or go crazy. A former newspaper journalist, I began to write and publish short stories in literary journals.
When we moved to Macon, Georgia, where my wife was publisher of the newspaper, I grew enamored with the Deep South and began forming in my mind a novel about this unique and relatively innocent place. This book, which I actually started writing before HOUSEHUSBAND, will be my second novel.
I have always written, having been raised in a four-generation newspaper family on the high plains of eastern Colorado. My first job at the paper was janitor, and I still clean better than anyone I know. I graduated to writing obituaries and the police blotter and high-school sports stories, then started writing hard news and feature articles.
Upon graduating from the University of Nebraska, I took a job at the Fort Myers News-Press in Florida, where I met my wife, Carol, who was the advertising director at the same newspaper. We were married on the coldest day in Florida history. Soon, daughter Haley Joy was born, and we began moving around the country in Carol's quest to become a publisher by the time she was forty. (We made it by one month!)
When I'm not grocery shopping or writing or being a polite corporate spouse at a black-tie event, I enjoy kayaking, gardening, cooking, reading, tennis and browsing through Target and Home Depot with no particular purchase in mind.
© Copyright 2002, Ad Hudler. Used with permission of the author. All rights reserved.
Ad Hudler's Website
Househusband Review and Excerpt
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