BIRDS OF PARADISE author Diana Abu-Jaber has also published, most recently, ORIGIN and
THE LANGUAGE OF BAKLAVA. She was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and has
won the American Book Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award and other prizes. Her
writing appears in Good Housekeeping, Ms., Salon, Vogue, Gourmet, the New York Times,
The Nation, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She is frequently featured on
National Public Radio. She divides her time between Coral Gables... Read More →
Julia Glass is the author of THREE JUNES, which won the 2002 National Book Award for
Fiction; THE WHOLE WORLD OVER; and I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE, winner of the 2009
Binghamton University John Gardner Book Award. She has received fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her short fiction has won several prizes, and her
personal essays have been widely anthologized. She lives in Massachusetts with... Read More →