Beth Bachmann received a fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission and will be the John Atherton Scholar in Poetry at this summer’s Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference.

David Baker, KR's poetry editor, has a new book forthcoming in August from Arc Publications (UK): Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems.

Nicky Beer was named one of the 2006 Discovery/The Nation award winners, and her manuscript The Diminishing House was a finalist for Sarabande’s 2006 Kathryn A. Morton Prize. Her work appears in the latest issue of Bat City Review; her poem “Stumphumper” is also currently featured on their website. Nicky served as nonfiction editor for the the latest issue of Center (published by the University of Missouri-Columbia), featuring essays by Debra Anne Davis and Arthur Saltzman, interviews with Alan Shapiro and Naeem Murr, and poetry by Robert Wrigley.

Carol Cosman's translation of Albert Camus' short story "The Adulterous Wife," which appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of KR, is now available in the volume Exile and the Kingdom, published by Penguin UK.

Matt Donovan's book of poetry, Vellum, was selected by Mark Doty for the 2006 Bakeless Poetry Prize. It will be published by Houghton Mifflin next spring. He has work forthcoming in KR's Fall 2006 issue.

Clare Dunsford tells us that her nonfiction book (working title: Spelling Love With an X: A Mother, A Son, and the Gene that Binds Them) will be published by Beacon Press sometime in 2008. The book features the essay she contributed to KR's special Human Genome issue, which is also receiving recognition on a Nature Genetics blog.

Robin Ekiss' poems are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review and TriQuarterly. She'll be in residency at MacDowell this fall. A broadside of her poems can also be found at Broadsided Press (more about Broadsided in this newsletter's "Exchanging Words" column).

Randy Fertel has a new essay on Katrina appearing in Gourmet this November, titled "Katrina in the Deep Delta." "Katrina Five Ways" appears in the current issue of KR and can be found as a featured online selection.

Bret Fetzer's new play for young audiences, Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like (based on the picture book by Jay Williams), will be produced by Seattle Children's Theatre in March 2007. "Avalanche," a play co-written by Fetzer and Juliet Waller, will appear in the Fall 2006 issue of KR.

Steve Gehrke accepted a tenure-track position at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, where he will teach English and Creative Writing. His poem "Gassed," originally published in Michigan Quarterly Review, was awarded a Puschart Prize.

Susan Hahn's next poetry book, The Scarlet Ibis, will be published in Spring 2007. She has been busy working on her first novel (the beginning of which, she tells us, was her story in KR Summer 2005—"Yom Kippur Night Dance"). Another part will appear in a few weeks in Michigan Quarterly Review.

Alice Hoffman has two books forthcoming: Incantation, a teen novel about the Spanish Inquisition, will be published by Little Brown in October, and Skylight Confessions, a novel, will also be published by Little Brown in January of 2007.

Garrett Hongo, who is on vacation in Hawaii [we're not jealous, really], has poems forthcoming in KR (Fall 2006), Virginia Quarterly Review, and Georgia Review. He just finished a book of poems entitled The North Shore, and is starting a new, nonfiction book called Tubeworld: A Cultural History of the 300B Vacuum Tube.

Roy Kesey could qualify as the hardest working writer in the business these days with stories forthcoming in journals and anthologies, including Other Voices, Ninth Letter, 2006 Sudden Fiction Anthology (W.W. Norton), Backwards City Review, and more. His story "Wait" will be featured in the Fall 2006 issue of KR. He's gearing up for a second press run of his first book—a novella called Nothing in the World. In the meantime, check out Roy's new blog "for anyone who's interested in tapirs, and corn, and contemporary fiction." A taste of book learnin': "One way to incur a fatal overdose of Vitamin A is by eating a big old honking plate of polar bear liver." He's got way more stuff going on but we don't have enough room.

Randy Mann has recent or forthcoming poems in Court Green, Salmagundi, Pleiades, Cimarron Review, and Western Humanities Review.

Jynne Martin has a folio of poems forthcoming in the Boston Review (September issue), as well as a few poems in TriQuarterly (spring issue).

Sandra Meek recently received the 2006 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry (her second such award) for her second book of poetry, Burn. The opening poem in Burn, "Reentering Atmosphere," was first published in KR.

Chad Parmenter was awarded a creative writing fellowship at University of Missouri-Columbia's Creative Writing-Poetry Ph.D. program. He has poems forthcoming in Harvard Review.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez was awarded a work-study scholarship to Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

Michael Pettit's Riding for the Brand, published in February 2006 (University of Oklahoma Press), went into a second printing even before the official publication date. It’s a nonfiction account of one ranching family in New Mexico and Texas over the past 150 years. He's now starting work with ceramic sculptor Joe Bova on a book combining pottery/ceramic art and poetry. They would love to hear from poets with work related to ceramics, or anyone with recommendations. You can reach Michael or Joe through their respective web sites.

Ron Rash has a book of stories coming out from Picador in April 2007. Two of the stories were first published in KR, including the O. Henry Prize-winning "Speckle Trout." The World Made Straight: A Novel (Henry Holt and Co.) was published this spring.

Andrea Seigel's new novel To Feel Stuff (Harcourt) will be
out August 1st. She also has a story appearing in KR's Fall 2006 issue. Can't wait for either? Check out her hilarious web site, replete with medicine cabinet in which to snoop.

Reginald Shepherd's new book of poems, Fata Morgana, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press next spring.

Tom Sleigh's book of essays, Interview With a Ghost, was published this spring by Graywolf Press. Spring 2007 will see a new book of poems—Space Walk—from Houghton Mifflin.

Willard Spiegelman has spent the past year giving talks around the country on the life and work of the poet Amy Clampitt, whose letters he edited in Love, Amy (Columbia UP, 2005). Willard also contributes one of two reviews (the other by Susan McCabe) on poet Jorie Graham's Overlord for KR's Fall 2006 issue.

Daniel Stern, novelist, teacher, and cellist, is celebrated with a well-deserved Festschrift—A Book For Daniel Stern—this fall (Sheep Meadow Press). The book includes contributions from Edward Albee, Elie Wiesel, Frank Kermode and other literary hotshots.

C. Dale Young's new book of poems, The Second Person, will be published by Four Way Books in March 2007.