Glenn Ciotti, What I Know Now
Glenn Ciotti, a writer and practicing attorney, wrote this short story for Rachel Kadish's Intermediate Fiction. He lives in Winchester with his wife. His story Traffic Parable was published in the spring 1999 edition of the Brattler.

Julie Carrick Dalton, The Wardrobe
Julie Carrick Dalton wrote this story in Maxine Rodburg's The Craft of Fiction--in part in response to class discussions of time and place in fiction. She is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Inc. Magazine, CFO Magazine, Business Week, Baby Talk, and the Hollywood Reporter. She holds a bachelor's in journalism and political science from the University of Delaware and is currently taking her third creative writing course at the Extension School.

Yann Danilovich, Acquiring English
When asked to write an essay about an aspect of his education for Elizabeth Hewitt's Fundamentals of Grammar, Yann Danilovich decided to reflect on how the process of learning English had changed his life. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and works as a software developer.

Anne Farma, Train Journal
Anne Farma works at Harvard and runs the Redline Press, a small publishing house in Cambridge. She wrote "Train Journal" in Grace Dane Mazur's Master's Class in Literature and Creative Writing. The piece, she says, "is fiction in the true sense. Don't trust a word of it."

Tracy Miller Geary, Living under Shakespeare
Tracy Geary wrote "Living under Shakespeare" in Grace Dane Mazur's Master's Class in Literature and Creative Writing. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from Moravian College and is currently at work on her master's thesis at Extension. Her fiction has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines, including, most recently, the Seattle Review and the Hawaii Review. She is also the fiction editor of this publication.

John Harper, You, Anyone You Know
John Harper grew up in Mississippi and attended the University of Mississippi and (briefly) a Presbyterian seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. His story "You, Anyone You Know" grew out of a one-page character description written for Wayne Wilson's Introduction to Fiction.

Seth Harwood, When They Were Calling You in for Dinner
Seth Harwood wrote this short story in Brad Watson's Advanced Fiction. He was born and raised in Boston and received his bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University. He works at the Houghton Library, cataloging the library of Elizabeth Bishop, and as a bartender at the West Side Lounge.

Christopher Jones, Saint Regis Mountain
Chris Jones holds bachelor's degrees in music and in anthropology. He wrote this poem in Janet Sylvester's Introduction to Creative Writing--the first creative writing course he's taken. He lives in Somerville and is the Disability Services Coordinator at the Extension School.

Deirdre Kelly, The King of Baseball
Dierdre Kelly wrote "The King of Baseball" in Jane Brox's Introduction to Memoir. Writing about her brother for the first time was difficult, but she derived satisfaction, she says, from "capturing the joy that often accompanies sorrow." She holds a bachelor's from Wesleyan University; this is her first semester at the Extension School.

E. B. Moore, Thanksgiving
E. B. Moore wrote this poem in response to a free-writing assignment in Susan Carlisle's Introduction to Poetry Writing. A retired metal sculptor and graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the author considers this poem "a straightforward piece that speaks for itself."

Kimberly Parke, Pigeons Peck Holes
Kimberly Parke wrote this story in Grace Dane Mazur's Master's Class in Literature and Creative Writing; it is part of a larger work, Love and Other Natural Disasters: Contradiction in California Literature. She is currently a candidate for a master's degree at the Extension School; she is also the Assistant Director of the Undergraduate Degree Program at the Extension School. She received her BA in English from Rutgers University.

Janet Wu, Identity Crisis
Janet Wu is a reporter for WHDH-TV in Boston. She received her BA in philosophy and psychology from Yale and an MS in journalism and international relations from Columbia; she is now pursuing a master's in literature and creative writing at the Extension School. She wrote "Identity Crisis" in Myra McLarey's Writing about Place.

Ben Yanes, Pour Leurs Excellents Cigares
Ben Yanes lives in Somerville and works at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. In this piece, written for Janet Sylvester's Introduction to Creative Writing, he describes a trip to the tobacco shop with his father.

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