Austin Bunn

Austin Bunn is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop in both fiction and playwriting, where he was the Iowa Arts Fellow. Most recently, he was the Axton Fellow in fiction at the University of Louisville. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the Pushcart Prize, Zoetrope, Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Fantasy, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, New York Magazine, Salon, The Advocate, One Story, American Short Fiction, West Branch, The Sun, and elsewhere. A former columnist at The Village Voice newspaper, he is the co-author, with film producer Christine Vachon, of the book "A Killer Life: How an Independent Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond" (Simon and Schuster). His plays have been developed at The New Harmony Project, The Lark, The Playwrights' Theatre of New Jersey, The Playwrights' Center, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing, fiction, playwriting.

Caitlin Horrocks

Caitlin Horrocks was most recently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Writing Department at Grand Valley State University. She was previously a Theresa A. Wilhoit Fellow at Arizona State University and the prose editor of Hayden's Ferry Review. She teaches courses in fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing and composition. She is a writer of short stories and essays, with work appearing in publications such as Tin House, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Creative Nonfiction, and Epoch. Her work has been recognized by the Atlantic Monthly, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and elsewhere.

Christopher Toth

Christopher Toth comes to Grand Valley from Iowa State University where he earned his doctorate in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. He also holds a Master's Degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. His latest research endeavor investigates the effectiveness of toy safety recall notices. Other research interests include visual rhetoric, professional communication pedagogy, technology issues, and negative news messages. His writing has appeared in Business Communication Quarterly and the Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Christopher is also an active contributor to the textbook, Business and Administrative Communication, as well as its ancillary materials. When not teaching writing, Christopher is a die-hard college football fan.

Keith Rhodes

Keith Rhodes has been an assistant professor and composition director at Northwest Missouri State University and Missouri Western State University, where he taught writing classes and secondary education methods classes. Most recently he has practiced law, specializing in real estate development. Keith's main research interests are writing pedagogy, focusing on teaching written style, and writing program administration. His administrative research focuses on program design informed by assessment, marketing theories and American pragmatist philosophy. This year he will teach Strategies in Writing, Writing with Style and Introduction to Professional Writing. He plays electric bass in the Composition Blues Band, whose satiric shows add much-needed humor at academic conferences.

Sean Prentiss

Before coming to GVSU, Sean Prentiss taught at the University of Idaho and at Western State College in Colorado. Sean has published creative writing in nonfiction, poetry, and fiction at literary journals such as Pacific Review, Ascent, Sycamore Review, River Styx, Nimrod, High Desert, ISLE. He was also recognized for his nonfiction by the Atlantic Monthly, has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and won the Plainsongs Award for his poetry.

Sean is a former Peace Corps volunteer and served in Jamaica. He has also spent many summers building trails in the Pacific Northwest and the desert Southwest. He spends his summers in Colorado skiing into June and working on his cabin deep in the mountains.

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