Keith Lee Morris is the author of the novel The Greyhound God (2003) and the fiction collection The Best Seats in the House (2004), both published by The University of Nevada Press. His stories have appeared in The Georgia Review, New England Review, The Cincinnati Review, and The Sun. He teaches creative writing at Clemson University. This year The Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction is funded by Enzo Rocchigiani and Michael Robinson.

Mary Michael Wagner’s writing, which has appeared in The Cream City Review and The Spoon River Quarterly (now called The Spoon River Poetry Review), among other places, has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Award. Her plays have been produced in New York, Louisville, and San Francisco, and she has taught creative writing to prison parolees and at San Francisco State University. She also instructs women and at-risk teens in full-force self-defense. The Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry is funded by Dr. Thomas Payne.

Michael Griffith’s books of fiction are Bibliophilia (2004) and Spikes (2002), both from Arcade. He is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and editor of the Yellow Shoe Fiction Series for Louisiana State University Press. From 1994 to 2002 he was Associate Editor of The Southern Review. The Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction is funded by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.