Didden’s first book, The Glacier’s Wake, won the
Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleiades Press and was published earlier this
year. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Bat City Review, The
Kenyon Review, Image, Smartish Pace, and Poetry.
During her fellowship, Didden plans to complete a chapbook of poems, The
Lava on Iceland, and to continue writing poems for a new book.
Ross's debut
novel Mr. Peanut, a 2010 New York Times Notable Book, was
also named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The
Philadelphia Inquirer, The New Republic, and The Economist.
Ladies and Gentlemen, his story collection, was one of Kirkus
Reviews Best Books of 2011 and included "In the Basement," a
finalist for the BBC's International Story Award. During his fellowship
year, Ross will be working on a new novel about a very bad year in the life of
a child actor.
