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Sheri Joseph

BOOK:Stray

PRESENTING:Saturday 4:30 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 12:45 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B

www.sherijoseph.com

Sheri Joseph’s novel Stray (MacAdam/Cage, 2007), which has just been reprinted in paperback, was awarded the Grub Street National Book Prize. Her cycle of stories, Bear Me Safely Over (Grove/Atlantic Press, 2002), was a Book Sense 76 selection in both hardcover and paperback. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and she has received summer fellowships to Yaddo, MacDowell, and other artist retreats. She teaches in the creative writing program at Georgia State University, where she also serves as fiction editor of Five Points literary magazine.

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CATEGORIES: Fiction Literary Literary Magazine or Review Editor

Carol Ann Davis

BOOK:Psalm

PRESENTING:Saturday 4:30 p.m. Congaree Meeting Room A&B; Sunday 12:45 p.m. Carolina Meeting Room

http://www.cofc.edu/~english/people/davis.html

Carol Ann Davis holds an M.F.A. in Poetry Writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She taught at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Stonehill College, and Endicott College before moving to Charleston in 2000 to begin teaching at The College of Charleston. She teaches courses in poetry writing at all levels and in literary publishing, with occasional forays into the teaching of contemporary poetry. She edits the literary journal Crazyhorse and directs the creative writing concentration within the English major. Her first book of poetry, Psalm, was released in the Fall of 2007 by Tupelo Press. READ MORE

CATEGORIES: Poetry Literary Magazine or Review Editor

Caroline Lord

BOOK:Short Story

www.shortstoryreview.org

Caroline Lord is the editor of Short Story, a semiannual literary review. Short Story includes short stories, interviews and visual arts. Caroline is a native of Columbia, South Carolina. READ MORE

CATEGORIES: Literary Magazine or Review Editor

Ann VanderMeer

BOOK:The New Weird

PRESENTING:Saturday 12:40 p.m. Richland Meeting Room A&B

www.weirdtalesmagazine.com

Ann VanderMeer (nee Kennedy) is an American publisher and editor. She is the founder of the award-winning Buzzcity Press. Work from her press and related periodicals has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, and appeared in several year's best anthologies. Ann was also the founder of The Silver Web magazine, a periodical devoted to experimental and avant-garde fantasy literature. A Best of the Silver Web is forthcoming from Prime Books. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award winning Leviathan series and the Hugo Finalist The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. She is the fiction editor for Weird Tales magazine and is also serving as one of the guest editors for the new Best American Fantasy series from Prime Books. She is co-editing the following anthologies as well: The New Weird (Tachyon Publications), Fast Ships, Black Sails (Nightshade Books), Last Drink Bird Head, and Love-Drunk Book Heads. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer live in Tallahassee, Florida.

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CATEGORIES: SF - Science Fiction Editor

Matthew J. Bruccoli

Matthew J. Bruccoli, the Emily Brown Jefferies Emeritus Professor of English at USC, is the author or editor of nearly seventy books. He is the editorial director of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (300+ volumes) and editor for the USC Press series Understanding Contemporary American Literature and Understanding Contemporary British Literature (approaching 100 volumes). He is the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and also has published important biographical, bibliographical, and textual studies of Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and James Gould Cozzens. Bruccoli has produced distinguished work on detective/crime/espionage writers, including Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, George V. Higgins, and John le Carre. READ MORE

CATEGORIES: Nonfiction Biography Literary Magazine or Review Editor

Buzzy Porter

PRESENTING:Saturday 4:30 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C; Sunday 12:45 p.m. Richland Meeting Room C

Buzzy Porter is a publicist with William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins Publishers. Prior to joining HarperCollins, he managed bookstores for 20 years, most recently opening the Barnes & Noble in Mount Pleasant, SC, before moving to New York City in 2005. A native of Raleigh, NC, Buzzy attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington back when it was a quiet school in a sleepy town, and a “beautiful sunny day” would earn you an excused absence from certain classes. He currently spends all of his free time reading and attending Theatre in New York.

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CATEGORIES: Editor