About the Faculty

James Brown

James Brown is the author of several novels, including Lucky Town and Final Performance, and of The Los Angeles Diaries: A Memoir. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction Writing, a Chesterfield Film Writing Fellowship, and the Nelson Algren Award in Short Fiction. His stories and personal essays have appeared in GQ, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Sports Writing. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine.

Juan Delgado

Juan Delgado has published a couple of chapbooks, Working on It and A Change of Worlds, the last of which received first place in the Embers Press Poetry Contest. His collection of poetry, Green Web, received the Contemporary Poetry Series Award and was published by the University of Georgia Press. El Campo was published by Capra Press, and A Rush of Hands is in its second printing with the University of Arizona Press. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine where he was also a Regent's Fellow.

Glen Hirshberg

Glen Hirshberg's first two story collections, American Morons and The Two Sams, won the International Horror Guild Award. He is also the author of a novel, The Snowman's Children, and a five-time World Fantasy Award finalist. Glen co-founded the Rolling Darkness Revue and created and oversaw the launch of Surrounded, the national journal of outstanding high school creative writing. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Montana.

Kevin Moffett

Kevin Moffett's stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, A Public Space, the Believer, The Chicago Tribune, and Best American Short Stories. He has received the Nelson Algren Award in Short Fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction Writing. His collection of stories, Permanent Visitors, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. He holds an M.F.A from the University of Iowa .

Julie Paegle

Julie Paegle’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, and Best New Poets. She has received two Academy of American Poets Awards, the Utah Arts Council Award, and nomination for a Pushcart Prize. Her collection of poems, torch song tango choir, is forthcoming from University of Arizona Press. Paegle holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah.