Visiting Writers Information

Jake Adam York

Jake Adam York is the author of three books of poems—Murder Ballads (2005, winner of the Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), co-winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition and winner of the Colorado Book Award; and Persons Unknown (2010), published by Southern Illinois University press as an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.

His work has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, New South, Ninth Letter, Shenandoah, The Northwest Review, and Poetry Daily.

An associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, York co-edited Copper Nickel. In 2009, York was the University of Mississippi's Summer Poet in Residence, and in 2011, he was the Richard Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. He was a 2011-2012 Visiting Faculty Fellow at the James Weldom Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University.

Originally from Alabama, York was educated at Auburn and Cornell. He is also the author of a work of literary criticism, The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry, published by Routledge in 2005.

Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson is the author of four novels, including Bound (Bloomsbury, 2010) and six short story collections, including Nothing Right (Bloomsbury, 2009). Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, Redbook, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.

She is the recipient of a USA Artists Award in 2009, the 2003 Rea Award for Short Fiction, as well as NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program, as well as in the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program.

She lives in Telluride Colorado, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Houston, Texas.