Ann Beattie –
Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections, in
John Updike's The Best American Short Stories of the Century, and in
Jennifer Egan's The Best American Short Stories 2014. In 2000, she
received the PEN/Malamud Award. Ann has an MA in Literature
from the University of Connecticut. She was the Edgar Allan Poe
Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of
Virginia (Emerita).
She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and
of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her
husband, painter and sculptor, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine and Key
West, Florida.
EJ Swift - 'The Spiders of Stockholm'
EJ Swift is the author of The Osiris Project trilogy (Del Rey UK,
Penguin Random House), a speculative fiction series set in a world
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