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2001-2002:

MAJOR JACKSON Awards: 1. The Frost Place in Franconia, NH., Resident Poet, Summer 2004 (www.frostplace.org) 2. Whiting Writers Award, Artist Fellowship, November 2003 (www.whitingfoundation.org/whiting_2003_bios.html) Poems forthcoming in the following publications: 1. Grand Street 73: Deception (Spring, 2004) 2. Triquarterly 3. Green Mountain Quarterly 4. Third Coast Anthologies: 1. Best American Poetry 2004, edited by Lyn Heijinian and David Lehman, Scribners, 2004: "Urban Renewal XVII."

ADA LIMON Ada Limon recently received a grant for Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry and was an Editor's Prize Finalist for the Spoon River Poetry Review. Her work recently appears or is forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast,Another Chicago Magazine, Spoon River Poetry Review and others.

1999-2000:

PAULETTE BEETE Paulette Beete received an Associated Writing Programs Intro Award for her short story "Mighty Tight Woman." Her nonfiction essay, "My Borrowed Eye," appeared in the 2003 Provincetown Arts and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The forthcoming issue of Beyond Baroque will feature her poem, "Figures." In addition, she has a travel piece on Provincetown in the November issue of American Spirit. e-mail: mouthflowers@hotmail.com

1997-1998:

SUSAN CHOI Second novel, American Woman, published in September 2003 by HarperCollins. Links: www.susanchoi.com

JHUMPA LAHIRI My novel, THE NAMESAKE, was published by Houghton Mifflin in September 2003. An excerpt from the book appeared in the June 16 & 23 issue of THE NEW YORKER.

1996-97:

JOHN DALTON (Second Year Fellow, also 1993-94 Fellow) First novel, "Heaven Lake" published by Scribner in April, 2004 "Heaven Lake" chosen by Barnes and Noble for their Discover great New Writers progam e-mail: daltonchang@msn.com Links: www.daltonnovel.com

MARY JANE NEALON (Second Year Fellow, also 1995-96 Fellow) 2nd collection: Immaculate Fuel, forthcoming Four Way Books, Spring 2004. Recipient, Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship 2004-2005. Nominated, Pushcart Prize for work published in 2003.

1995-1996:

MARY JANE NEALON (see 1996-1997)

1994-1995:

MELANIE SUMNER (Second Year Fellow, also 1993-94 Fellow) Short story, "Marriage", in Harpers, Oct. 2003 Short story, "The Guide", anthologized in After O'Connor 2003 e-mail: msumnerm@bellsouth.net

1993-1994:

E. M. SCHORB

A Fable & Other Prose Poems, The Argonne House Press, 2002. (cover drawing by author) e-mail: paschorb@aol.com Links: www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C050401 www.emschorb.com

ADRIENNE SU

Poems in these forthcoming anthologies: 'Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation' (University of Illinois Press) and 'A Treasury of City Poems from Around the World' (Random House). Poem featured on Verse Daily (www.versedaily.org) in October, 2003. Poetry reading: Alice James Books 30th Anniversary Celebration, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, Oct. 4, 2003.

MELANIE SUMNER (see 1994-1995)

1990-1991:

MICHAEL KLEIN A new memoir, "The End of Being Known" (University of Wisconsin Press) was published in October, 2003. New poems appear in the first issue of BLOOM, a new gay and lesbian quarterly; teaching graduate writing students at City College, for the year, 2004. e-mail: mdklein@debevoise.com

GARY SHORT Gary Short's third collection of poems, 10 Moons and 13 horses, will be published by University of Nevada Press in February, 2004. This fall (2003), Gary will be travelling to Albania for six weeks, where his work is being translated by Luljeta Lleshanaku, an Albanian poet who is the author of Fresco (New Directions). e-mail: frame_blue@hotmail.com

1984-1985:

MICHELLE CARTER Michelle Carter's most recent play, "Ted Kaczynski Killed People with Bombs," won the 2003 PEN Award for Drama. She's at work on a play about sex workers in San Francisco, commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. e-mail: mcarter@sfsu.edu

1982-1983:

CYRUS CASSELLS Copper Canyon will publish my fourth volume of poems, More Than Peace and Cypresses, in September of 2004. From December 5-21 I will appear as Eugene (and several others) in Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman at the Hyde Park Theater in Austin. The play was a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist. I was a finalist this season for the B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Drama for my role as Fielding in an Austin production of August Wilson's Jitney. e-mail: cc37@txstate.edu

ALICE FULTON Alice Fulton's _Felt_ was awarded the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, was chosen by the _Los Angeles Times_ as one of the Best Books of 2001, and was a finalist for the _Los Angeles Times_ Book Award. The world premiere of Enid Sutherland's operatic "Daphne and Apollo Remade," a scoring of the complete text of Fulton's "Give" from _Sensual Math_, took place at the Mendelssohn Theater in Ann Arbor in October 2003. Alice Fulton's _Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems_ will be published by W. W. Norton in 2004. She teaches at Cornell University and will be the Holloway poet at UC Berkeley in Fall 2004. Links: http://people.cornell.edu/pages/af89

1979-1980:

JOHN MORGANS Copper River Stories Expedition: joined a dozen writers and artists on a raft trip down Alaska's Copper River, July 5-14, 2003. Talked about craft, caught and ate salmon, saw bears, seals, glaciers, gave readings in Chitina and Cordova. I've had poems recently in Rattle (Summer, 03), The Southern Review (Spring, 03), Compass Rose (Spring 03), Salt River Review (online, Spring 03) and the anthology MERCY OF TIDES (Saltmarsh Pottery Press, 2003). Son Jeff Morgan, who turned 4 in Provincetown, now has MFA, poems in LIT, gumballpoetry.com, etc. e-mail: ffjwm@uaf.edu Links: http://capa.conncoll.edu

1975-1976:

ELLEN WITTLINGER (Second Year Fellow, also 1974-1975) My young adult novel, ZigZag, came out in July from Simon and Schuster and has been nominated for the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults list. My previous novel, The Long Night of Leo and Bree, is now in paper. I look forward to the publication of Heart On My Sleeve in summer, 2004. e-mail: ritchwitt@aol.com Links: www.ellenwittlinger.com

1974-1975:

ELLEN WITTLINGER (see 1975-1976)

1971-1972:

MIRIAM GOODMAN (Second Year Fellow, also 1970-1971) Miriam Goodman will speak at Wheaton College November 4th for Sue Standing's class in Word and Image This is a benefit for Alice James Books. With David Hilliard, Miriam Goodman will present word and image work and poems on December 3rd for the Photographic Resource Center at BU, and the New England School of Photography in the Word and Image lecture series. At the College of Communications, 640 Commonwealth Ave, Boston 7PM. Miriam Goodman's new Work will appear in the photographyatelier.org web site in May 2004. Her current work,"After A Certain Age" appears now. e-mail: mirgoodman@comcast.net Links: www.photographyatelier.org

1970-1971:

MIRIAM GOODMAN (see 1971-1972)

Writing Fellows | Visual Arts Fellows | Senior Fellows VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS

2002-2003:

MICHAEL JONES MCKEAN Residencies: The Stephen L. Barstow Visiting Artist, Central Michigan University, fall 2003 The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, January-April 2004 Sculpture Space, Utica, New York, summer, 2004 Solo Exhibitions: "The Ghost Whale Circuit," Central Michigan University, November 2003 "Daredevils of the Speedway," Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware, January-Feb 2004 "breeze, whale, gala," Gallery HQ, Kansas City, Missouri, May 2003 Group Exhibitions: "Biomimicry," The Herron School of Art, University of Indiana, Feb-March 2004 e-mail: mjonesmckean@hotmail.com

1999-2000:

MALA IQBAL (Second Year Fellow, also 1998-99 Fellow) Solo shows: Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 14 - December 22, 2003 Group shows: "Superheroes," curated by Joseph Whitt, Ruby Green Contemporary Art Center, Nashville, TN, October 24 - November 29, 2003 "Escape from New York," curated by Jason Murison, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, September 7-November 2, 2003 "Sustain: Project at Renewable Brooklyn," curated by Sarah Sockit, Prospect Park Tennis House, Brooklyn, NY, September 18 - October 11, 2003 "Better Homes & Gardens," curated by Heather Darcy and Ann Tarantino, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, PA, September 2 - 26, 2003 "Through Customs: South Asian Women's Creative Collective 6th Annual Visual Arts Show," Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, NY "Out of Place: Mala Iqbal, Nicole Henning, Markus Weiss, " Staub (g*fzk!) - Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland, April 25 - June 6, 2003 Collection: Altoids Curiously Strong Collection Links: www.bellwethergallery.com/iqbal.html

HANS VAN MEEUWEN Group Shows: 2003:"Arche Noah",(Gabrielle Rivet Gallery, Cologne Germany),"Art Frankfurt"(Deschler Gallery) Frankfurt Germany, "Curious"(Deschler Gallery, Berlin Germany), "Ace Invitational"(Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA),"5x5 Skulptur"(Im Pfefferberg, Berlin Germany), "Art Fair"(Deschler Gallery),Cologne Germany. Solo Exhibitions: 2004: Ace Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Seippel Gallery (Cologne, Germany) Events: spring 2004: a large outdoor sculpture will be installed in a park in the city of Zeist in the Netherlands e-mail: Hans.van.Meeuwen@gmx.de

1998-1999:

MALA IQBAL (see 1999-2000)

1996-1997:

LARRY MULLINS October 10 - November 10, 2003 "Oral Moral", Bellwether Gallery. Brooklyn, NY 2002 Andre Zarre,"Integrated Sensibilities", New York, NY Marie Waslsh Sharpe Foundation Grant Alumni, Ace Gallery, New York, NY Selections-1, Made in Brooklyn, Wythe Studio, Brooklyn, NY, ( curatored by Phong Bui) e-mail: lmullins@surfglobal.net Links: www.bellwethergallery.com

1993-1994:

MICHELLE WEINBERG Solo exhibitions: 2004 Rocket Projects, Miami, FL 2003 Roadside Meditation, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA Stories and Geometries, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Funny Car, The Hood Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Pith and Polish, RC Gallery, San Antonio, TX Kut Paper, OniGallery, Boston, MA Group exhibitions: 2004 Soo Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2003 SET, PS 742, Miami, FL Tasty Buds, The Work Space, NYC Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH $99 Show, Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC Grants/Residencies: 2004 Fundacion Valparaiso, residency, Mojacar Playa, Spain 2003 Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions Writing reviews on art for Tema Celeste magazine Publishing editor of CIRCULAR Millay Colony residency e-mail: mwpinkblue@aol.com Links: http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpinkblue

1985-1986:

QUENTIN WALTER Group Shows: INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS: Mercedes Devereau, BUZZ X, Outre watercolor paintings by Ms. Quentin Walter is scheduled for September 4-October 31, 2004 in the Schumann Florida Gallery of the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Vero Beach, Florida. The exhibit will feature 22 of Walter's small scale paintings. The artist is working on being able to install the paintings on a gray wrap so the work can also be viewed as a continuous piece. Quentin has designed an exhibition catalogue and is actively seeking underwriters who unknown to her have excitement about her work and her quest and would like to help with this project. e-mail: weldons@gate.net Links: www.artforthebride.com

1980-1981:

JOHN BENVENUTO Chosen to build an outdoor site-specific sculpture at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, N.Y. July 4-August 9, 2004. Theme: "Light and the Landscape" Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH, "ARTwork" a 3-person exhibition around the theme of work and self-image. May 14- June 25, 2004

1979-1980:

KAREN SCHIFANO One person exhibition, opening Jan 8, 2004 at Tobey Fine Arts, 580 Broadway, #902, N.Y., N.Y. 10012 Links: www.tobeyfinearts.com

1975-1976:

DAVID WHEELER Group show, New York State Museum, spring, 2004 Solo show, Grosvenor Gallery, State University of New York at Cobleskill, Feb., 2004

1972-1973:

BECKY HOWLAND Currently: 1) The Curiously Strong Altoids Collection, traveling to: Consolidated Works, Seattle, Washington, Soo Visual Arts in Minneapolis, MN, Art Center/SouthFlorida in Miami Beach, FL, Atlanta College of Art, Altanta, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City 2) Paradise Now,Picturing the Genetic Revolution, traveling to: Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Don't know yet about 2004!

Writing Fellows | Visual Arts Fellows | Senior Fellows SENIOR FELLOWS

1999:

TOM FILER (Senior Writing Fellow) A story,"Some Birds are Born in Boxcars:" in the spring issue of Chariton Review. Fiction due out in late 2003 or early 2004 in Witness and Palo Alto Review. "Falling," part of a collection-in-work called "Civilization" was a fnalist in Quarterly West's 2003 novella contest.

1997:

LESLEE BECKER (Senior Writing Fellow) My story, "No Such Place," has been accepted by EPOCH for the Summer 2004 issue. e-mail: leslee@lamar.colostate.edu

1995:

CAROLINE KNOX (Senior Writing Fellow) Caroline Knox's fifth collection, He Paves the Road with Iron Bars, was published by Verse Press in May 2004; the collection was completed during a Harvard University Visiting Fellowship in 2002-2003. Verse Press had published her collection A Beaker: New and Selected Poems in 2002. Recently she read in the Blacksmith House series and at the New School. Links: http://www.versepress.org

PETER MEINKE (Senior Writing Fellow) Peter Meinke has "semi-unretired," appointed to the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA. He will be in residence each fall semester. He has had poems recently in "Poetry," "Margie," and other magazines and anthologies, including CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY: BEHIND THE SCENES (Longman, pub.) e-mail: meinkep@eckerd.edu