Kim Addonizio is the author of four books of poetry (The Philosopher's Club, Jimmy & Rita, Tell Me (2000 National Book Award Finalist), and What Is This Thing Called Love) and two novels, Little Beauties and My Dreams Out in the Street.

In addition, she has published a book of stories, In the Box Called Pleasure, and is also co-author, with Dorianne Laux, of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. With Cheryl Dumesnil she co-edited Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.

Her awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal, and the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award. A book signing will follow the reading.

Richard Bausch is one of the premier fiction writers in America today. He is the author of ten highly acclaimed novels and seven volumes of short stories. His most recent novel is Thanksgiving Night (HarperCollins 2006) and in 1996 The Modern Library published an edition entitled The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch.

He also is the editor of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, GQ, and other publications, and has been featured in numerous best-of collections, including the O. Henry Awards, The Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and New Stories from the South. Two of Mr. Bausch’s novels were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and in 2004 he won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

He taught for many years at George Mason University in Virginia and currently holds the Moss Chair of Excellence in English at the University of Memphis.