Emerging Writers 2010
Jason Schossler
Jason Schossler’s first book of poetry, Mud Cakes, is due out from Bona Fide Books in 2011. He is the inaugural recipient of Bona Fide’s Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, and the 2009 winner of Reed Magazine’s Edwin Markham Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in The Sun, North American Review, and The Antioch Review.
Cheri Johnson
Cheri Johnson was raised in Lake of the Woods County in northern Minnesota, and has since lived in Virginia, Texas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Minneapolis. She studied writing at Augsburg College, Hollins University, and the University of Minnesota, and her fiction, poetry, plays, and reviews have been published in magazines such as Phantasmagoria, The Rio Grande Review, Glimmer Train Stories, New South, Cerise Press, The Emprise Review, Pleiades, and Puerto Del Sol. Her chapbook of poems, Fun & Games, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2009, and she has won fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Loft Literary Center, as well as the Glimmer Train Stories Fiction Open and the Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature at Yaddo. A fiction reader for the magazine Our Stories, Cheri is currently a second-year fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA
Emerging Writers 2009
Adam O. Davis
Adam O. Davis was born in Tucson, Arizona. His work has appeared in several journals, including Boston Review, Fourteen Hills, The Paris Review, Raritan, The Southern Review, and Western Humanities Review. He earned his MFA from Columbia University and he is the co-founder and director of Mystery Bench Press. He currently works as a freelance writer and teaches English literature and composition in San Diego. His writing and other curiosities can be found at www.adamodavis.com.
Lysley Tenorio
Lysley Tenorio has published stories in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Manoa, Best New American Voices, and The Pushcart Prize. A former Stegner fellow, he has been awarded fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, San Jose State, The Macdowell Colony, and Yaddo. He teaches at Saint Mary’s College in Morago.
