Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here and a memoir, Pagan Time. She has published short stories in ZYZZYVA, Massachusetts Review, The Best Underground Fiction and many others. Her stories have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she has been the recipient of a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Grant, three Blue Mountain Center Residencies and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

Melissa Sanders-Self has published fiction with New Rivers Press, New Brighton Books, and Doubleday. Her first novel, All That Lives, was published by Warner Books. She is currently working on a new novel and is a lecturer in creative writing at UC Santa Cruz and at Western Connecticut State University’s MFA program.

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.