She has shown her work in group shows in New York at Collette Blanchard Gallery, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Lyons Wier Gallery, Brooklyn Artists Gym, and the Lower East Side Printshop. As a designer and an architect, she has worked for Pompei AD, designing Anthropologie stores; and for Kaikai Kiki and Tina Manis, making a model for Murakami's White Plant in New York. She was an artist assistant for Ellen Driscoll for two years. She received her BA in studio art from the University of Virginia and holds a master's degree in architecture from the University of Michigan, where she received the Thesis Award and was the recipient of the Booth Traveling Fellowship to Tehran, in 2006. In 2009 she received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, in addition to the Urban Artist Initiative grant. She has an upcoming solo show in 2011 at Aun Gallery in Tehran. She grew up in Tehran and lives in Brooklyn.

GAL KINAN received a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, in Jerusalem, in 1996. She has since received a four-year stipend, as well as a commission prize, from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design, and Architecture. From 2005 to 2007, she was a visual arts resident at the Rijks Academie van beeldende Kunsten, in Amsterdam. Over the last five years, she has participated in shows and projects in The Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe. In 2007, she took part in the project "L'enfer, c'est les autres," presented in the Stedelijk Museum Bureau, in Amsterdam; and in "Frauhaus," at The Agency Gallery in London. In 2009 she had a solo exhibition in the Gallery Moira Expositieruimte, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In 2010, she was a visual arts resident at EKWC, in s'-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Later this year, she will present her work in a solo exhibition in the Air Taipei exhibition residency, in Taipei, Taiwan. She lives in Amsterdam.

JONGGEON LEE was born in Seoul, Korea, and works in sculpture and installation. He received an MFA in sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 and a BFA at Seoul National University in 2004. He has received grants and awards including the Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park, and the KyungGi Cultural Foundation Grant. He has attended residencies such as the International Studio & Curatorial Program, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Chang-Dong National Art Studio. He has exhibited his work in New York, Boston, Providence, and Seoul.

BRIDGET MULLEN was born in Winona, Minnesota, and lives in Brooklyn. She received a bachelor's degree from Drake University in 1999, and in 2004 was awarded two grants from the Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Fund to pursue a master's degree from Massachusetts College of Art. She has exhibited in Iowa, Georgia, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts. Most recently her work was included in "The Brucennial 2010: Miseducation." Her current work combines images from dreams painted immediately upon waking in the morning, with materials collected over the years. She reworks cardboard scraps, brown paper bags, nails, bricks, plexiglass shards, house paint, fabric, wood, loved ones' hair, styrofoam, beach rocks, shingles, tar paper, and her own previously completed artworks, transforming them into installations of otherworldly characters.

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.

Second-year Fellow KIRSTEN ULLRICH was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She holds a BFA from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art. She has shown at Local Project, in Long Island City, New York; Michael Rosenthal Gallery, in San Francisco; Vox Populi, the Main Line Art Center, and Temple Gallery, all in Philadelphia; ArtSpace at Plant Zero in Richmond, Virginia; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, in Wilmington; the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Hudson D. Walker Gallery, and artSTRAND, all in Provincetown; and has an upcoming solo show at the Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, New York.

Second-year poetry Fellow KIRSTEN ANDERSEN's poetry appears most recently in Tin House, Dossier, and Crab Orchard Review. A recent finalist for the Ruth Lilly Prize, she is a former Wallace Stegner fellow and the recipient of grants and awards from the Edward Albee Foundation and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Poetry Fellow MALACHI BLACK's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Boston Review, Southwest Review, The Iowa Review, AGNI Online, Gulf Coast, Columbia, Pleiades, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. His poem "Traveling by Train" was selected by Mark Strand for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2008 anthology. The recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, he has also received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and the University of Texas at Austin's Michener Center for Writers. He was a John Atherton Scholar at the 2010 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Fiction Fellow BORIS FISHMAN is at work on A Replacement Life, a novel about an unsuccessful writer who starts forging Holocaust restitution claims for old Soviet Jews in New York. He recently received his MFA in fiction from New York University. He was born in the former Soviet Union, and his family emigrated to the United States when he was nine. He has worked on the editorial staff of the New Yorker; edited the U.S. Senate report on Hurricane Katrina; served as the founding editorial director of a tech start-up; shoveled manure as a farm laborer; and led wilderness trips as a guide for Outdoor Bound. His reporting, criticism, and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, the London Review of Books, the New Republic, and other publications.

Poetry Fellow REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL is a native of Kentucky. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Connotation Press, The Great River Review, and The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Her documentary work has been collected in Plundering Appalachia (EarthWise) and This is Home Now: Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak (University Press of Kentucky). She has taught creative writing at the University of Kentucky and Morehead State University, and is a former director of The Women Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Drew University.

Second-year fiction Fellow CHERI JOHNSON was raised in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. She studied writing at Augsburg College, Hollins University, and the University of Minnesota. Her fiction, poetry, plays, and reviews have been published in Phantasmagoria, The Rio Grande Review, Glimmer Train Stories, New South, Cerise Press, Pleiades, and Puerto Del Sol. Her chapbook of poems, Fun & Games, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2009. 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. She is a fiction reader for the online literary magazine Our Stories, and writes grants for musicians and other artists.

Fiction Fellow ANDREW MEREDITH grew up in Philadelphia and has lived most of his life there. He holds a BA from Temple University and an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He's working on a novel and a non-fiction project.

Fiction Fellow JACKIE THOMAS-KENNEDY is the winner of Narrative Magazine's Fall Fiction Contest; her story "You Cannot Lie About a Mountain" appeared in the magazine. Her story "Lake of the Meek" was named a Narrative Story of the Week. She corresponded with Ann Beattie in Narrative's "Letters to a Young Writer" series. Her stories have appeared in Narrative, Georgetown Review, The L Magazine, and StoryQuarterly. Her story "The Bridge is Moving" will appear in a forthcoming issue of Glimmer Train. Jackie has been a finalist for the Narrative Winter Fiction Contest, the Narrative 30 Below Contest, The L Magazine Literary Upstart Contest, the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, and the Iowa Review Award in Fiction. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University and a BA in English from Vassar.

Poetry Fellow JACOB SHORES-ARGÜELLO received his MFA from the University of Arkansas, where he was the Walton Fellow in poetry. In 2004 he received a Fulbright fellowship to Ukraine. He grew up in Costa Rica and Oklahoma City.

Fiction Fellow CHRISTOPHER SHORTSLEEVE received his MFA from New York University. He is at work on a novel about gangs, sex trafficking, and the legacy of Black Power in Newark, New Jersey.

Poetry Fellow MARCUS WICKER's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Harpur Palate, Rattle, Ninth Letter, Sou'Wester, DIAGRAM, and cream city review, among other journals. He is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has held fellowships from Cave Canem and Indiana University, where he received his MFA. His manuscript Maybe the Saddest Thing was a finalist for the 2010 Beatrice Hawley First Book Award from Alice James Books.