Interview: Lisa M. Steinman

Lisa M. Steinman's fifth volume of poetry is Carslaw's Sequences, from the University of Tampa Press. Steinman teaches at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, and for twenty years has co-edited the poetry magazine Hubbub. She has received NEA and Rockefeller fellowships and has also published two books about poetry, Made in America (1987), and Masters of Repetition (1998). Her poems have been published in The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Notre Dame Review, The Women's Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Steinman read from her work on February 26, 2009, in Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

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Interview: Helen Schulman

Helen Schulman is the author of the novels A Day At The Beach, P.S., The Revisionist and Out Of Time, and the short story collection Not A Free Show. P.S. was also made into a feature film starring Laura Linney, with a script co-written by Schulman. She co-edited, along with Jill Bialosky, the anthology Wanting A Child, and her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in such places as Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, GQ, The New York Times Book Review and The Paris Review.  She is presently the Fiction Coordinator at The Writing Program at The New School, and she lives in New York.

Schulman read from her work on February 26, 2009, in Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

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Interview: Julie Schumacher

Julie Schumacher is the author of many works of fiction, novels and stories for adults young and old; these include The Body is Water, An Explanation for Chaos, Grass Angel, and her newest novel, Black Box. Her stories have appeared in both the O. Henry Awards anthology and Best American Short Stories. She's a graduate of Oberlin College and of Cornell's MFA program, and currently lives in St. Paul, where she is the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor of English at the University of Minnesota.

Schumacher read from her work on February 20, in Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

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Interview: Melissa Bank

Melissa Bank is the author of the international bestseller The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (1999) and The Wonder Spot (2005). Her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Epoch, Glamour, The Guardian, O: The Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, Seventeen, and The Washington Post, and has been broadcast on NPR, PRI and the BBC. She is the 1993 recipient of the Nelson Algren Award for the Short Story, and her work has been translated into 30 languages. Bank is a graduate of Cornell's MFA program in creative writing, and is also Visiting Writer in that program during the spring semester of 2009.

Bank read from her work on February 20, in Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place the previous week.

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