Douglas Bauer and Deirdre McNamer

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Douglas Bauer’s novels are The Book of Famous Iowans; The Very Air; and Dexterity. His nonfiction includes: Prairie City, Iowa; The Stuff of Fiction; and What Happens Next?: Matters of Life and Death, which won the 2014 PEN/New England Book Award in Nonfiction. He has received fellowships in both fiction and creative nonfiction from the National Endowment for the Arts and has taught at Bennington since 2005.

Deirdre McNamer is the author of four novels: Rima in the Weeds (HarperCollins, 1991), One Sweet Quarrel (HarperCollins, 1994), My Russian (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), and Red Rover (Viking,
2007), which was named to the Best Books of 2007 lists of Artforum, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and won the Montana Book Award. She received a 2015 Artist’s Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council, chaired the fiction panel of the National Book Awards in 2011, and was a judge for the 2015 PEN/Faulkner award.