Tom Franklin
	Tom Franklin is the author of the novels Smonk and Hell at the Breech as well as the collection of short stories, Poachers, the title story of which won an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1999, while a second story, “Grit,” was selected for Best American Mystery Stories, 2000. October 4, 7:30pm - Isaacs Auditorium
Carolyn Forché
	Carolyn Forché’s first collection of poems, Gathering the Tribes, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1976.  Her second collection, The Country Between Us, was the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets.  Her subsequent books have been published to widespread praise and national honors. November 1, 7:30pm - Degenstein Center Theatre
James Harms
	James Harms is the author of several well-received collections of poetry from Carnegie-Mellon University Press, including The Joy Addict, Quarters, and most recently, Freeways & Aqueducts.  He directs the graduate program in creative writing at West Virginia University. February 7, 7:30pm - Isaacs Auditorim, Seibert Hall
Bernard Cooper
	Bernard Cooper is a widely acclaimed author of both nonfiction and fiction, including The Bill from my Father, Truth Serums, and Maps to Anywhere (nonfiction), as well as Guess Again (stories).  Art critic for the Los Angeles Times, he has won the PEN/Hemingway Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an O. Henry Prize.  The Bill from my Father is being made into a Warner Brothers film. February 18, 4:45pm - Stretansky Hall in Cunningham Center
Steve Yarbrough
	Steve Yarbrough is a well-known novelist—The Oxygen Man, Visible Sprits-- whose most recent book is The End of California (Knopf, 2006).  An earlier novel, Prisoners of War, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize. February 26, 7:30pm - Isaacs Auditorium
Enid Shomer
	Enid Shomer is both the respected editor of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series and the author of a number of books of poetry and short fiction, including Black Drum (poems), Tourist Season (stories) and Imaginary Men, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. April 21 , 7:30pm - Isaacs Auditorium, Seibert Hall