photo: Pierce Backes
Daisy Fried, winner of the Pew Fellowship in Poetry in 1998, has been widely published in journals, including American Poetry Review, Indiana Review, The Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Ploughshares and Threepenny Review.
Her first book of poetry, She Didn't Mean to Do It, won the 1999 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and was published as part of the Pitt Poetry Series, which was founded in 1968 by the University of Pittsburgh Press to publish the best in contemporary American poetry. Alicia Ostriker says of her work, "Fried knows her people, their nerves, their moves, their languages. She is right there. " Eleanor Wilner says, "Wise to the pity and humor of what goes on... (she) handles the most serious stuff with an easy dexterity, like a juggler working with hand grenades."
She works as a freelance journalist, teaches creative writing at Haverford College, and lives in South Philadelphia.
Bette Pesetsky is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. She is the author of two short story collections, Stories Up to A Point and Confessions of a Bad Girl. Her stories have appeared in Paris Review, The New Yorker, Vogue, Ontario Review, and other magazines. She is also the author of five novels: Author from a Savage People, Digs, Midnight Sweets, The Late Night Muse, and Cast a Spell. The New York Times listed all of her books as Notable Books of their respective years. Midnight Sweets was also listed by the Los Angeles Times as one of the five best novels of 1987.
She has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, University of California, Wichita University, St. Lawrence University, and most recently was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Miami. She is currently working on a novel about women's suffrage in New York at the turn of the century. She lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
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