NYU Emerging Writers Series: Jane Shore, Jessica Flynn, Austin LaGrone, Rachel Somerstein, and Eileen Sutton

Jane Shore is the author of four previous volumes of poetry: Happy Family; Music Minus One, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The Minute Hand, which was a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and Eye Level, winner of the Juniper Prize. She has received numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two NEA fellowships. She was a Radcliffe Institute fellow and a Hodder Fellow at Princeton. She teaches at the George Washington University. Her new book of poems, A Yes-or-No Answer, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in March.

Jessica Flynn's poems have appeared in Sonora Review and Phoebe. In 2003, she participated in the Folger Shakespeare Library's Lannan Fellows Program. She is currently the International Editor of Washington Square.

Born and raised in Louisiana, Austin LaGrone put himself through college bolting 450 transmissions a day to Chevy S-10 engine blocks. He hiked the Annapurna Circuit in flip-flops before earning his master's degree in Liberal Arts at St. John's College in Annapolis. These days he lives in Brooklyn.

Rachel Somerstein is a second-year student in the M.F.A. in fiction. Her writing has appeared in ART news, n+1 and on PBS.org. She grew up in New York.

Eileen Sutton believes life in the early 21st century is already pure fiction. As a writer, she makes a Herculean effort to pin down reality.