Confirmed panelists for June 3 at the New School Summer Intensive Workshop

And done! Our prose publishing panel will be speaking to 22 undergraduates from all over the country.



R.M. BERRY is the author of Dictionary of Modern Anguish (short stories), a New York Times Notable Book Leonardo's Horse (a novel), and Plane Geometry and Other Affairs of the Heart (short stories). He is the Publisher of Fiction Collective Two (FC2), a publishing collective that has published such authors as Brian Evenson, Leslie Scalapino, Kim Addonizio, Elisabeth Sheffield, and the Chick-Lit anthologies. He teaches literature, critical theory, and creative writing at Florida State University.



SHANNA COMPTON is the editor of LIT at the New School and the Associate Publisher of Soft Skull Press. She is currently editing a nonfiction collection on video games called GAMERS: Writers, Artists & Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels, to be released this fall. Her poetry has been published in Gastronomica, McSweeney's, Nerve, Painted Bride Quarterly Print Annual, and elsewhere. She is the author of three chapbooks, Down Spooky (2004), Big Confetti (with Shafer Hall, 2004), and Opal Memos Nonchalant (with Shannon Holman and Jeffrey Salane, 2002).



AMBER QURESHI is an editor at Picador acquiring literary fiction, works-in-translation, and narrative nonfiction for Picador, Farrar Straus and Giroux, St. Martin's Press, and Henry Holt Publishers. Before coming to Picador, she worked at Alfred A. Knopf for several years; before that, she was an editor at a translation house in Tokyo, also for a number of years. In these capacities, she has worked with such authors as Richard Ford, Richard Russo, Donna Tartt, Tobias Wolff, Haruki Murakami, Michel Houellebecq, Jim Shepard, Joy Williams, Tom McGuane, Michel Foucault, Nadine Gordimer, Zoe Heller, Ian Thomson, and Peter Carey.



HANNAH TINTI is the author of Animal Crackers (short stories) and Resurrection Men (forthcoming novel). Her fiction has appeared in Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, Sonora Review, Story Quarterly, Another Magazine and Best American Mystery Stories 2003. She is also the editor of One Story magazine.