Darcey Steinke, Fiction and Nonfiction Writer
Darcey Steinke’s most recent highly acclaimed novel, Sister Golden Hair, was published in 2014 by Tin House press. Steinke is the author of the memoir Easter Everywhere (Bloomsbury 2007, a New York Times Notable book), and the novels Milk (Bloomsbury 2005), Jesus Saves (Grove/Atlantic, 1997), Suicide Blonde (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992), and Up Through the Water (Doubleday, 1989, A New York Times Notable book). With Rick Moody, she edited Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited (Little, Brown 1997). Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian. Her web-story “Blindspot” was a part of the 2000 Whitney Biennial. She has been both a Henry Hoyns and a Stegner Fellow and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, and has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts, Barnard, AUP, and Princeton.
Siân Melangell Dafydd, Fiction Writer, Poet and Translator
AUP professor Siân Melangell Dafydd is a fiction writer, poet, editor, and translator. Her first published novel, Y Trydydd Peth (The Third Thing; Gomer, 2009) won her the coveted 2009 National Eisteddfod Literature Medal. She writes in both Welsh and English and often collaborates with artists of other disciplines, translating between languages and creative practices (dancer Sioned Huws’ Aomori Project; the book Ancestral Houses: the Lost Mansions of Wales/Tai Mawr a Mieri: Plastai Coll Cymru with poet Damian Walford Davies and artist Paul White [Gomer 2012]). She has been the co-editor of the iconic Welsh literary review Taliesin for the last six years and launched yneuadd.com as an online literary magazine and mentoring site for new voices. Her writing has been selected for Best British Short Stories and Best British Poetry Anthologies among others. A collection of hybrid literature in English and her second Welsh language novel is forthcoming from Gomer.