Fiction: Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of Minor Robberies (McSweeney’s, 2007), Vacation (McSweeney’s, 2008), and Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War (Henry Holt, 2011). Her stories have appeared in Harper’s, Guernica, Fence, Gigantic, and other magazines, including Noon, to which she is a frequent contributor. She is the recipient of the Cabell First Novelist Award and a Pushcart Prize. She previously taught at the University of Kansas, where Beecher’s is based; she now teaches at Wesleyan University.

Praise for Deb Olin Unferth’s Vacation:

“Wonderful, addictive prose. Ms. Unferth sure knows how to turn a phrase and it’s a delight to follow her across the American landscape.”
—Gary Shteyngart

“Part mystery, part sonata. Unferth writes like a musician plays, weaving images and themes and melodies with these beautifully rhythmic, funny, heartbreaking sentences. The whole novel should be read aloud and relished.”
—Aimee Bender

“Deb Olin Unferth is, I believe, one of the crucial literary artists of her generation. Her fictions give evidence of an artist determined to speak about the remarkable, who manages with exactitude all elements necessary to produce the well-made, eccentric object. Her vision evokes high comedy and the violence of tragedy heard through voices exquisitely particular to her mind.”
—Diane Williams

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Poetry: Adam Robinson

Adam Robinson is the editor of Publishing Genius and Everyday Genius. He is the author of Adam Robison and Other Poems (Narrow House, 2010) and Say, Poem (Awesome Machine, 2010). You can read about him Publisher’s Weekly and in Poets & Writers.

Praise for Adam Robison and Other Poems:

[Adam Robinson's] mix of classical and mundane references imbues lines like “There would be a pronounced lack/ Of throwing Nerf balls to paralytics/ In the basement” with more meaning than they have any right to have.
- Baltimore City Paper

This book is marvelous, genius fun.
- CA Conrad

Not only my favorite title of the year, but this is also a book I have been waiting to hold in my hands with great anticipation for quite some time – as a friend, yes, but more so in language glee. Adam can truly speak it in a way I have never heard anyone else speak. This is going to be one to drink milk in bed with
- Blake Butler, htmlgiant

My happiest purchase of the year. And I just bought a really cool new bicycle.
- Arthur Q. Bryan