Judges

Rebecca Beegle's stories have appeared in Hobart, 5_Trope, Elimae, The Austin Chronicle, and the forthcoming A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years (Fence Books). Her plays include Have You Ever Been Assassinated?, Don't Drown, and American Women and Their Hatchets. Rebecca holds a Master of Fine Arts in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Trustee Fellowship) and a Bachelor of Arts in writing from Northwestern University (Edwin L. Shuman Award for Fiction). She is a company member of Rude Mechanicals theatre collective in Austin, and with Austin-based Rubber Repertory received a Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund grant to develop a new work called The Casket of Passing Fancy, which premiered in October 2008.

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Bonnie Brzozowski is a reference librarian at Austin Public Library and has been residing in Austin most of her life. She received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology and history from UT-Austin and her Master of Science in Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She runs a graphic-novels book club that meets at Halcyon on the third Wednesday of every month from 7 to 8pm. She loves to read, be outdoors, and listen to music. She keeps a blog about her librarian experiences, called Liblicious (www.bonniesue.wordpress.com).

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Doug Dorst is the author of the novel Alive in Necropolis (Riverhead, 2008). His first collection of short stories, The Surf Guru, will be published later this year. He lives in Austin and teaches creative writing at St. Edward's University.

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Greg Koehler studied law at the University of Texas and was a Michener fellow in poetry at the James A. Michener Center for Writers. He is an editor for Richmond-based magazine Makeout Creek and a recent recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His writing has appeared in Ninth Letter, 580 Split, Kenyon Review Online, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among other journals. In 2008, his story "Black as Your Lungs, Black as Pitch" won first prize in The Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest.