Jonathan Baumbach's short fiction has been widely anthologized in such publications as Best American Short Stories; O. Henry Prize Stories; All Our Secrets Are the Same: New Fiction from Esquire; The Best of TriQuarterly; On the Couch: Great American Stories about Therapy; Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction; and Show Me a Hero: Great Contemporary Stories about Sports. His fifteenth book, the novel You, will be published in October 2007. Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia; the children's novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery; and the story collections Things that Fall from the Sky and the forthcoming The View from the Seventh Layer. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised. Ethan Coen has written a story collection, Gates of Eden, and has made—with his brother, Joel—a dozen movies. The latest is an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, which will be released in November 2007. Francis Ford Coppola is a five-time Academy Award winning writer, director, and producer. He won his first Oscar in 1970 at age thirty-one for the screenplay Patton, which he co-wrote with Edmund H. North. His work includes screenwriting credits for more than twenty films—among them epics such as the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. His new film, Tetro, debuted at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the United States on June 11. Andrew Malan Milward is studying at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His story "The Burning of Lawrence" is part of a just-finished story collection about his home state of Kansas, and he is at work on a novel.
Guest Designer: Tim Roth is an Academy Award–nominated actor who debuted as a director with the 1999 film The War Zone. He lives in Los Angeles.
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