Fiction Fellow TOM MACHER attended Baton Rouge Community College, Riverside City College, San Francisco State, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is working on a novel.

Second-year poetry fellow SARAH ROSE NORDGREN grew up in North Carolina. She is a graduate of Lawrence College and the Poetry MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she held the Fred Chappell Fellowship. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Hayden's Ferry Review, Cincinnati Review, La Petite Zine, The Collagist, and others.

Fiction Fellow MATTHEW NEILL NULL, a native of West Virginia, is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a winner of the O. Henry Award. His short fiction has appeared in Oxford American, Shenandoah, and PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 — in that volume, his story "Something You Can't Live Without" was selected as a juror favorite. He was also the 2010-2011 Provost's Postgraduate Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa.

HANNA PYLVÄINEN is from suburban Detroit. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was also a Postgraduate Zell Fellow. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony residency. Her first book, We Sinners, is due out from Henry Holt in August 2012.

Poetry Fellow SOLMAZ SHARIF holds a BA in Sociology and Women of Color Writers from UC Berkeley and an MFA in poetry from New York University. A 2011 winner of the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in jubilat, DIAGRAM, Boston Review, Witness, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. From 2002 to 2006, Sharif studied and taught with June Jordan's Poetry for the People. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, she is currently working on a poetic rewrite of the U.S. Department of Defense dictionary.

Poetry Fellow BRANDON SOM lives in Los Angeles where he is currently a PhD student in the Creative Writing and Literature program at the University of Southern California. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was published in the anthology Best New Poets 2007, edited by Natasha Trethewey. His chapbook Babel's Moon won the Snowbound Prize from Tupelo Press and will be out in the fall of 2011. His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Octopus Magazine.

Fiction Fellow VINNIE WILHELM was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the recipient of a 2010 Literary Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His fiction has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia.

Second-year Fellow GOLNAR ADILI was born in Virginia and moved to Iran when she was four. She returned to the United States to pursue a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Michigan, where she received the Thesis Award and the Booth Traveling Fellowship to Tehran, in 2006. She has attended residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation for the Arts, Soltanstall Foundation for the Arts, PS122, BRIC Media Arts Residency, and the Lower East Side Printshop. Golnar’s work has most recently been included in group shows at the LES Printshop, the International Print Center and Collette Blanchard Gallery. In 2011 she presented a solo show at Aun gallery in Tehran. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, in addition to an Urban Artists Initiative grant. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

JARROD BECK is an artist with a background in architecture and printmaking. Raised by handbag makers in upstate New York, he earned a Master of Architecture degree from Tulane University and a MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2011, Beck built installations with Instituto Cervantes in New York; BackroomNY in New York and Madrid, Spain; Generator Projects in Albuquerque, New Mexico and beta pictoris gallery in Birmingham, Alabama. He recently began a permanent ground-drawing on 5 acres of desert near Terlingua, Texas. He has been a resident artist at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Lower East Side Printshop, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, and Robert Blackburn Print Workshop. Beck’s work has been reviewed in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Village Voice; his work is included in the Judith Rothschild collection of contemporary drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

NICHOLAS DES COGNETS was raised in western Massachusetts and received a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After living in Brooklyn for eight years, he recently moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he received his MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has shown work extensively in both a solo and group shows, including recent shows in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

JONATHAN EHRENBERG's videos feature surreal narratives, stylized characters, and sets that resemble three-dimensional, habitable paintings. Ehrenberg received a BA in Art Semiotics from Brown University and an MFA in Painting from Yale. He has exhibited work at venues including MoMA PS1, Horton Gallery, Earl McGrath Gallery, Futura Center in Prague, and Espacio Minimo in Madrid. He is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Art in America, and The L Magazine. He has participated in residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Harvestworks, the Islip Museum and Skowhegan. He has taught at Parsons School of Design, Pace University, and Brown University. He lives in New York City.

CANDICE LIN received her MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and her BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics from Brown University in 2001. Lin's work has been performed, screened, and exhibited at the Armand Hammer Museum, Luckman Gallery at Cal State, and China Art Objects in Los Angeles. Her solo exhibitions include Francois Ghebaly Gallery and Chung King Project, both in Los Angeles; and Lisa Dent Gallery and Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco. Lin has received a Department of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs CEI grant and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. She has been an artist in residence at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Sacatar Foundation, Banff Centre, and the Cultural Exchange Station in Tabor, Czeck Republic. She performs with Gawdafful Theatre and co-founded and co-directs the artist space Monte Vista.

Second-year Fellow ANDY NESS received a BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, and Denniston Hill. He teaches sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and with Studio in a School, in New York City. His studio is in Harlem.

JACOLBY SATTERWHITE, a multimedia artist, was born in Columbia, South Carolina. His work threads across themes of ritual, desire, memory, and heroism. Jacolby received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. He's participated in residencies at Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Harvestworks, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. His work has been included in group exhibitions and performances at Exit Art, Rush Arts Gallery, The Kitchen, MoMA PS1, and the Smithsonian Institution. Jacolby is a recipient of the Van Lier Grant, the Experimental TV Center NYSCA Grant, and the Toby Devan Lewis Award.

JEANNIE SIMMS works in photography, cinema, and performance. Her work has recently been shown or screened at the Currier Museum, the Nara International Film Festival, the Stan Brakhage Symposium, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, MoMA, and San Francisco Camerawork. She received an Art Matters grant in 2008 for her project Readymaids, about migrant domestic workers. She holds an MFA from UC Irvine and is on the graduate and photography faculties at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She lives in Brooklyn and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SARAH SOHN was born in Seoul, South Korea. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the 2011 recipient of the Clare Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize and has exhibited her work in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

ROB SWAINSTON'S work crosses from print and paper into sculpture, installation, and video in an attempt to uncover social processes and reveal the contemporary status of the image. Rob received his BA from Hampshire College in 1997 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2006. He attended Skowhegan in 2007 and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program from 2009 to 2010. Rob co-founded and runs Prints of Darkness, an experimental fine art collaborative print shop in Brooklyn, New York.