Joshua Henkin is the author of the novel MATRIMONY (Pantheon, 2007, Vintage, 2008),
which was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Book Sense Highlight
Pick of the Year, and a Borders Original Voices Selection. He is also
the author of the novel SWIMMING ACROSS THE HUDSON, which was named a
Los Angeles Times notable book. His short stories have been widely
published. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two small
daughters and teaches in the creative writing programs at Sarah Lawrence
College and Brooklyn College, and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the
92nd Street Y.
Joanna Hershon is the author of Swimming, The Outside of August, and a third novel, The German Bride (March 08). Her writing has appeared in One Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Post Road, the literary anthology Brooklyn Was Mine, and was shortlisted for the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories.
She teaches in the Undergraduate Creative Writing department at
Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the painter
Derek Buckner, and their twin sons.
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