Josh Weil is the author of The New Valley, a New York Times Editors Choice and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; the New Writers Award from the GLCA; and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation. He has received fellowships from the Gilman School, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and the Fulbright Foundation. At the James Merrill House he will be working on a new novel.
Jedediah Berry has been selected for the Spring 2011 Residency.
Jedediah Berry’s debut novel, The Manual of Detection
(Penguin Press), received the William L. Crawford Award and is a
finalist for the Dashiell Hammett Prize, a Strand Critics Award, and the
NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Jedediah’s short stories have appeared
in journals and anthologies including Conjunctions, Chicago Review,
Fairy Tale Review, Best New American Voices, and Best American
Fantasy. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and works as an
editor at Small Beer Press.