Wordstock Festival 2011

Clark Blaise, a dual citizen of Canada and the US, was born in North Dakota and raised everywhere on the continent. He has published 20 books, including 3 novels, 10 story collections and 7 works of nonfiction. He is a graduate of Denison University and the Iowa Writers Workshop, has taught in Canada and the US, and has been honored in both countries. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and the recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to...
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Eduardo Halfon, currently a Guggenheim Fellow, was born in 1971 in Guatemala City. He moved to the US with his family in 1981, went to school in Florida, and then studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University. Later, back in Guatemala, he was a literature professor for eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Although bilingual, Halfon chooses to write in Spanish. He has published ten books of fiction, and in 2007 was named one of the 39 best young Latin American...
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Rahul Mehta is the author of the short story collection QUARANTINE, portions of which are already a runaway success in India, and have appeared in New Stories from the South, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, Epoch, NOON, Fourteen Hills and Storyville. His essays have appeared most recently in the New York Times Magazine, Out Magazine, and Marie Claire India. Mehta earned his MFA from Syracuse University and is now working on a novel. Born and raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia, he now lives...
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Bharati Mukherjee is the author of eight novels, most recently, MISS NEW INDIA, DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS and THE TREE BRIDE; two collections of short stories, DARKNESS and THE MIDDLEMAN & OTHER STORIES; and the co-author, with Clark Blaise, of two books of nonfiction, DAYS AND NIGHTS IN CALCUTTA and THE SORROW AND THE TERROR: THE HAUNTING LEGACY OF THE AIR INDIA TRAGEDY; and author of numerous essays on immigration and American culture. She is the first naturalized US citizen to have won the...
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