Second-year Fellow Deborah Bernhardt grew up in New York. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Wisconsin Arts Board (Literary Arts Grant), Penn State Altoona (Writer-in-Residence), Writers@Work, Fishtrap, the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Hessen Literary Society, Germany. Her poetry collection Echolalia was published by Four Way Books in 2006 as winner of the Intro Prize for Poetry.

Charles Conley, born and raised on Long Island, is working on a collection of short stories. He received his MFA from the University of Minnesota and his work has appeared in the Southern Review and the Harvard Review. He has been a resident at the Blue Mountain Center, the Anderson Center, Can Serrat International Artist Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.

Fiction Fellow Amanda Coplin grew up in the Pacific Northwest. In 2006 she received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, and has since worked and lived in Minneapolis, and Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published in Third Coast, the Blue Mesa Review, and the Minnesota Monthly. She is currently working on a novel.

E.A. Durden grew up in North Carolina. She attended Princeton University, and later moved to New York City.  She holds an MA in Humanities as well as an MFA in Creative Writing, both from New York University, where, as Language Lecturer, she teaches in the Expository Writing Program.  An excerpt from her first novel, Cold Light, won her passage to the Prague Summer Program as the 2007 Ivan Klima Fellow. Her story "Mr. Dabydeen," about a man from Guyana struggling to raise his teenage daughter in Brooklyn, won Glimmer Train's 2007 Short-Story Award for New Writers, and will be published this fall. Here in Provincetown, she looks forward to working on a second novel, also inspired by where she lives in Brooklyn, and on more short stories.

Erica Ehrenberg is a graduate of Amherst College and the Poetry MFA program at New York University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Republic, jubilat, Octopus, the St. Ann's Review, Goodfoot; and in the anthologies Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems (Crown, 2007) and Everyman's Library Pocket Poetry Series:Horse Poems (Knopf, 2009). She is currently at work on completing her first manuscript of poetry, and on a graphic novel loosely based on the gangs of 19th-century New York.

Second-year Fellow Nadia Kalman of Brooklyn, New York, has published short stories in journals such as the Gettysburg Review and The Walrus, and won an SLS Fellowship to St. Petersburg. She is currently working on a novel about immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

Sophie McManus is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College's MFA program and a recent recipient of fellowships from the Saltonstall and Jentel Foundations. She is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she works as an editor and teaches creative writing.

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 journals including A Public Space, Agni, Field, Ploughshares, The Canary, The Hat, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Tin House, and Spinning Jenny.

Sarah Rose Nordgren of Durham, North Carolina, received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina–Greensboro, where she held the Fred Chappell Fellowship and served as Poetry Editor for The Greensboro Review. Her poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Hayden's Ferry Review, Lumina, Terminus, as well as other journals, and at versedaily.org. She is currently working on her first manuscript of poems.

Sam Reed graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow. His poems have recently appeared in Crazyhorse and Orion.