Wordsmiths - Stephanie Powell Watts

Stephanie Powell Watts' short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in many publications, including the 2008 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and New Stories from the South: Best of the Year, 2007. Her first short-story collection, We Are Taking Only What We Need, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Gardner Fiction Award, the USA Book News Award, and the ForeWord Reviews Award. She teaches writing at Lehigh University.

Bob Watts’ poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, New York Quarterly, and other journals. His first collection, Past Providence, won the 2004 Stanzas Prize from David Robert Brooks. He teaches creative writing at Lehigh University