Creative Writing: 2002-2003 Competition Judges
ANN CUMMINS
Short Story
Ann Cummins, M.F.A. , M.A. (University of Arizona 1989, Johns Hopkins 1987) has published stories in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Antioch Review, and elsewhere; her fiction has been anthologized in a variety of series including The Best American Short Stories, 2002, and The Prentice Hall Anthology of Women's Literature. A 2002 recipient of a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, her short story collection, Red Ant House, will be published by Houghton Mifflin, spring 2003. She divides her time between Oakland, California, where she lives with her husband, and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.
GUILLERMO REYES
One-Act Play
Guillermo Reyes heads the playwriting program at Arizona State University. His plays have been produced off-Broadway and across the country, including Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown, Mother Lolita, Chilean Holidayand others. He is the Artistic Director of Teatro Bravo in Phoenix. He recently won the Arizona Award 2002 for Best Original Script for Miss Consuelo.
GAIL SIEGEL
Creative Non-Fiction
Gail Siegel's fiction and literary non-fiction has won a variety of awards and has appeared in Zoetrope All-Story Extra, Brevity, 3am Magazine, The Salt River Review, Flashquake, Outsider Ink, FictionFix and is upcoming in Literary Potpourri and other on-line and print publications. A non-fiction piece, published in Flashquake,was recently nominated for The Pushcart Prize. In addition, she has dozens of public policy reports to her credit, and her editorials have appeared in newspapers across the Midwest. While Gail completes her M.F.A. at the Bennington Writing Seminars (expected June, 2003), she continues to direct a public interest group, teach writing workshops and sit on literary critique panels. She also holds a M. S. in Natural Resources.
BRIAN TEARE
Poetry
A native of Georgia, Brian Teare grew up in the Black Warrior River Valley of west central Alabama. He received his B.A. from the University of Alabama, and his M. F. A. from Indiana University, where he was a Lily Fellow in Poetry and poetry editor for Indiana Review. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has poetry appearing or forthcoming in Ploughshares, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and VOLT, among other journals. Though usually home in the San Francisco Bay Area, he will be, this spring, the 2003 Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University.
