James Huang born in Oswego, NY. Degree of Bachelor of Science in Art and Design from MIT in 1989. Worked in London, UK as an architectural designer 1989-1990. MFA in sculpture from the Parsons School of Design in 1993. Attended Skowhegan in 1997. Awarded an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park in 1998. Resident of Yaddo, the Millay Colony, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studios.

Elliott Hundley received a BFA in Printmaking from RISD in 1997. He was recently awarded a Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. His work has been exhibited in Providence, Philadelphia, and Rome and has also been featured in numerous projects for Virgin Records Italy. He currently lives in Greensboro, NC.

Ji Yun-Fei is a painter from Beijing, China living in Brooklyn, New York. He recently showed at the Drawing Center, Jack Tilton and Pierogi Gallery. Currently his work is on view at Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in the "Best of Season" show and in "Brooklyn!" at Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. He has received NYFA grant, Joan Mitchel Foundation grant and a Pollock-Krasner.

Second year Fellow Victoria Neel is originally from New York City. She received her BA in Visual Arts from the College of Wooster in 1996 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Her work has been exhibited in Providence, RI, and was included in a drawing show at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Born in Florida, first-year Fellow Lamar Peterson received his BS from Florida ASM University. He earned his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001.

MiYoung Sohn received her MFA in sculpture from Yale in 1998 and her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1996. Her work has been exhibited at PS 1 Contemporary Art Center; CRG Gallery, New York and the Hudson River Museum, in Yonkers. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Born in Washington, DC, Bethany Springer received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Georgia, Athens and has been awarded a 2002 residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE. Active in filmmaking which originates from her sculpture, she has presented short films at Piccolo Spoleto, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the 2000 Colossal Film Craw.

FICTION FELLOWS

Victoria Häggblom was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden and moved to the United States in 1994. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has received awards from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the National Arts Club, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, the Witter-Bynner Foundation for poetry, and Columbia University. Her work has been published in Shenandoah, The Oakland Review, Cutbank, and elsewhere.

Thomas O'Malley was raised in Ireland and England. He is a graduate of UMass Boston, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Salvatore Scibona was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John's College (Santa Fe) and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a James Michener/ Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize.

Chris Stuck is originally from Falls Church, Virginia. He is a recent MFA graduate of the George Mason University writing program in Fairfax, Virginia, and is a Mary Roberts Rinehart award winner.

Second year fellow Jennifer Tseng is a lecturer in Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Green Mountains Review and Hawaii Review and is forthcoming in Grand Street, Indiana Review, Massachusetts Review and Texas Review. She is currently at work on a novel.

POETRY FELLOWS

Caroline Crumpacker is a poet and lives in Manhattan. She is poetry editor for Fence magazine and a contributing editor to Double Change (doublechange.com), an online magazine of French and American poetry in translation. She has translated work by Josee Lapeyrere and Vannina Maestri. Her work has appeared in the Germ, the Boston Review, the Chicago Review, Volt, Provincetown Arts, and elsewhere.

Regan Good received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She works as a freelance journalist and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, California where she was raised in a community of artists and writers, including her mother Stacia Brady and her stepfather Brady T. Brady. She received her MFA at New York University and has been teaching poetry to elementary school students in the Bronx for the past two years. Her work appears most recently in the Crab Orchard Review, the Painted Bride Quarterly and the Brooklyn Review.

Jon Loomis' first book, Vanitas Motel (Oberlin College Press, 1998), won the 1997 FIELD poetry prize. Twice a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Loomis has also served as the Halls Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin, and has been the recipient of grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Loomis has taught writing at the University of Virginia, the Rhode Island School of Design, Emory University in Atlanta, and elsewhere. His second book of poems, The Pleasure Principle, is due out from Oberlin College Press in November, 2001.

Jason Zuzga graduated from Brown University and is New Media Coordinator for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. He has poetry published or forthcoming in The Yale Review, Nerve, and Lit.