Paragraph: Douglas Danoff and Amy Brill

Douglas Danoff's writing has appeared in The Threepenny Review, AGNI, Tampa Review, The New York Times, Wine Spectator, ARTnews, Men¹s Health, New York Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, La Stampa, and many other publications. Winner of the 2007 Danahy Fiction Prize, Doug was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize in nonfiction and shortlisted for the Fish International Short Story Prize, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, the BOMB Fiction Prize, the H.E. Francis Short Fiction Award, and the William Van Wert Memorial Fiction Award. He has received a grant from the Jerome Foundation and fellowships for residencies at the Anderson Center, Hall Farm Center, and the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Not long ago, Doug learned how to drive a John Deere tractor, but his proudestv ehicular moment came a few years earlier when he parallel parked ane ighteen-wheeler on West 14th Street down the block from Paragraph.

Amy Brill's articles, essays and short stories have appeared in Salon, Time Out New York, Premiere, Ballyhoo Stories, and the anthology Before and After: Stories from New York, among other publications. She's written and/or produced numerous documentaries for MTV about health, education, and civics,and in 2003 was honored with a George Foster Peabody Award for The Social History of HIV. Amy has been awarded fiction fellowships by the Edward Albee Foundation, the Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Fundacion Valparaiso, Jentel and The American Antiquarian Society. In 2006, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction. She's currently working on her first novel.