The FC2 Writer's Edge Faculty

Alexandra Chasin received her PhD in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University in 1993, and went on to teach literary and cultural studies (with special interests in gender, sex and sexuality, race, and popular culture) at Boston College, Yale University, the University of Geneva, and Columbia University. In 2002, Chasin completed an MFA in Fiction Writing at Vermont College. Kissed By is her first book of fiction. Chasin's creative work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, AGNI, Chain, sleepingfish, West Branch, Phoebe,The Capilano Review, Exquisite Corpse, DIAGRAM, and elimae. A past recipient of a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe and a Whiting Fellowship, Chasin is still in recovery from scholarship. She now teaches in the Writing Department at Lang College, The New School.

Jeffrey DeShell, novelist, literary critic, is the author of three novels, S & M and In Heaven Everything is Fine (FC2), Peter: An (A)Historical Romance (Starcherone) and a critical book, The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction. He has co-edited two collections of fiction by American women, Chick-Lit I: Postfeminist Fiction and Chick-Lit II: No Chick Vics (FC2), and was a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Budapest, Hungary, 1999-2000. Currently DeShell is an assistant professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Stephen Graham Jones' first novel, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong (FC2, 2000), won the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction. His second novel was All the Beautiful Sinners (Rugged Land, 2003). He was awarded a 2002 NEA Fellowship for The Bird Is Gone and his fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Open City, Meridian, Pleiades, Cutbank and Alaska Quarterly Review. He's thirty-one, Blackfeet, and is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech.

Lance Olsen is author of nine novels, one new-media text, four critical studies, four short-story collections, and a textbook about fiction writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Conjunctions, McSweeney's, and Best American Non-Required Reading. Olsen is an N.E.A. Fellowship and Pushcart Prize recipient, a Fulbright Scholar, and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His work has been translated into Italian, Polish, Turkish, and Finnish. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two, Associate Editor at The American Book Review, and Fiction Editor at Western Humanities Review. He teaches at the University of Utah.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of three collections of short fictions: Her Other Mouths (House of Bones Press, 1997) Liberty's Excess (FC2, 2000) and Real to Reel (FC2, 2001). Her writing has appeared in Postmodern Culture, Fiction International, Another Chicago Magazine, Zyzzyva, Critical Matrix, Other Voices, and elsewhere. She teaches fiction writing and literature in Oregon.