Second-year Fellow LESLIE MURRAY received a BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2008 and has returned there as a visiting critic. She has interned at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, worked as a studio assistant for Michael Mazur, and exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, the Hudson D. Walker Gallery at FAWC, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
www.leslieclairemurray.com

SARAH PETERS graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2003, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and a Certificate in sculpture from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1995. In 2008, she completed a year-long Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Fellowship. She has exhibited nationally, and her 2007 solo exhibition, Being American, at Winkleman Gallery in New York, was reviewed in the New York Times by Roberta Smith, among others. Sarah Peters is the recipient of three John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residencies, the Emerging Artist Residency from Pilchuck Glass School, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant.
www.sarahpetersart.com

MARTIN SMICK was born in 1977 in Beverly, Massachusetts. He earned his bachelor's degree in painting from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000. He has spent extended periods living in Paris studying both at the Sorbonne in 1997 and as a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in 2000. Since 2001, he has earned his living as a muralist and decorative painter, in Los Angeles and New York, working for the architectural restoration firm Evergreene Painting Studios. Notable projects he has participated in include a Richard Haas mural in Brooklyn completed in 2006 and murals for the Atlantis Hotel and Resort in Dubai. Last June, Martin completed his MFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.

KIRSTEN ULLRICH was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and has received degrees in painting from the University of Cincinnati and Temple University's Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia. Her work acts as a record of her free associations, with subject matter that is mischievous, irreverent, and absurd. Impulsivity and humor inform her material choices as well. Her body of work includes drawing, painting on large and small scale, and, to a smaller extent, sculpture.
www.kirstenullrich.com

BRIAN BOOKER is a fiction writer living in Brooklyn. His short stories have been published in Conjunctions, Epoch, One Story, Shenandoah, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and other magazines, and his story collection was a finalist in the Iowa Short Fiction Awards. He holds a Ph.D. in English from New York University, where he taught literature and writing. Brian's texts and artwork can be found at www.brianbooker.com.

SARA ELIZABETH JOHNSON is a graduate of Cornell University and the MFA program at the University of Oregon. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Shenandoah, Cutthroat, Willow Springs, Tampa Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2009. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Project Award and was a finalist for the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.

SAMUEL LEADER grew up in England, studied philosophy at Oxford University, then moved to Orange County and got an MFA from UC Irvine, where he teaches writing and literature. He is working on a novel about French resisters and collaborators during and after the Second World War.

REBECCA LINDENBERG's poetry appears in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, POOL, Barrow Street, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a generous Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers Conference, among other honors and awards. She is currently completing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah.

SARA MAJKA grew up along the Northeast coast and spent many of those years on Cape Cod. Her stories are published or forthcoming in A Public Space, The Massachusetts Review, PEN America, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Second-year Fellow SOPHIE MCMANUS is a graduate of Vassar College and the fiction MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she works as an editor and teaches creative writing. She is a recent recipient of fellowships from the Saltonstall and Jentel Foundations, and is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

Second-year Fellow MICHAEL MORSE lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is on leave from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, where he teaches English. A recipient of degrees from Oberlin College and the University of Iowa, he has published poems in various journals--including A Public Space, Agni, Field, Ploughshares, The Canary, The Hat, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Tin House, and Spinning Jenny--and in the anthologies Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (New York University Press, 2007) and Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (University of Iowa Press, 2010).

MARGARET REGES is from Michigan. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Shenandoah and cream city review. She is a frequent contributor to All Music Guide, where she once worked as an assistant editor in the pop department.

GREG SCHUTZ received his MFA from the University of Michigan, where he has also taught English and served as a Zell Postgraduate Fellow in Creative Writing. His first published story recently won the Juked Fiction Prize.

MELISSA TUCKEY is most recently from Washington, D.C. She's here in Provincetown with her husband, Dave Phillips and dog, Jack. She's a graduate of George Mason University's MFA program and holds an MA from Ohio University. Her chapbook, Rope as Witness, was published by Pudding House Press. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Verse Daily, and other journals, and most recently anthologized in Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing. Past awards include fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, and a residency at Blue Mountain Center. Melissa is a co-founder of Split This Rock Poetry Festival, www.splitthisrock.org.