Jay Hopler (2009) was the recipient of a 2010-2011 Rome Fellowship in Literature (The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a Gift from the Drue Heinz Trust) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome.
Adam Johnson (2009) has a new book forthcoming from Random House in Jan 2012 called The Orphan Master’s Son.
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/212862/the-orphan-masters-son-by-adam-johnson
Rajiv Joseph’s (2009) play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was nominated for 3 Tony Awards in 2011.
Yiyun Li (2006) was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.
http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.6241255/k.D965/Yiyun_Li.htm
Rosemary Mahoney (1994) was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011.
Brighde Mullins (2001) was awarded a 2010 United States Artists Fellowship in Literature.
http://uscnews.usc.edu/arts/brighde_mullins_awarded_literature_fellowship.html
Benjamin Percy (2008) has sold his new novel, Red Moon, to Grand Central/Hachette to be published in 2012. His novel, The Wilding, won the 2011 Society of Midlands Authors Award for Fiction.
Mark Richard (1990): Nan A. Talese Books published his memoir in February 2011 entitled House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer’s Journey Home.
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-02-09/mark-richard-house-prayer-no-2
John Jeremiah Sullivan (2004) published a collection of essays, Pulphead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in October 2011.
Melanie Rae Thon(1997) published two new books in 2011:
In This Light: New & Selected Stories, June (Graywolf Press)
The Voice Of The River, a novel, September (University of Alabama Press, FC2)
And an essay in Glimmertrain.
Peter Trachtenberg (2007) was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2010. More Information
William T. Vollman’s Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan (2011) was published as an eBook.
D.J. Waldie (1998) has two new blogs as of 2011. Read a selection
Colson Whitehead (2000) brought out a new novel, Zone One, with Doubleday in October 2011. http://harpers.org/archive/2011/07/hbc-90008136
C.D. Wright (1989) was awarded the 2011 Lenore Marshall Prize for the most outstanding book of poetry published in the previous year for her book, One With Others (Copper Canyon Press), which was also the winner of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award.
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I aspire to expressing sorts of feelings, of mental states or experiences that are just on the border of the expressible. Making something that is actually quite beautiful— that’s my deep drive. Also to make something that’s extremely accurate to these very, very subtle states of mind. I think that fiction has a capacity for truthfulness that, really, no other prose form has.
Deborah Eisenberg
Whiting Writers’ Award Winner 1987