He presently shows Innovative Writing and Tenth Quality English at Leader Senior High School in Ann Arbor MI and guides the Literary Arts Program at Ann Arbor's Teen Facility, The Neutral Area, where he started and continues to guide many verse programs.

Her debut story collection PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE released with McSweeney's Books on October 26th, and includes new tales and some previously released in VQR, Shenandoah, The Arkansas International, MQR, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Copper Nickel, and others.

He has actually offered workshops and readings at colleges and creating seminars around the united state, consisting of AWP, Lake Woodland's & Currently collection, the National Creating Job at Colorado State College, and the Bankhead Going To Writers Collection at the University of Alabama.

The AWP Author to Author Mentorship Program matches emerging authors with established writers for a three-month collection of components on subjects such as craft, revision, publishing, and the composing life. The Dzanc Creative Writing Mentorship is an one-of-a-kind online writing mentorship for authors program made for authors to work one-on-one with published editors and writers to form their short story, unique, poem, or essay.

Jeff Kass is the author of Knuckleheads, a finalist for Foreword Reviews Ideal Brief Fiction Collection of 2011, and a number of chapbooks. Meissner matured in Iowa and Wisconsin and was the supervisor of creative composing at St. Cloud State College in Minnesota. She went back to the U.S. to participate in Stanford College, and when the Islamic Revolution started making shortly after she graduated, she moved back to Iran and plopped herself down in it. She later got an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston College.