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Aaron Garretson’s short fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Opium, Night Train, and HermanoCerdo (in translation), among others. He was shortlisted for the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.

Fayre Makeig’s poetry has been published in the Western Humanities Review. In 2009 she won a Pen Translation Fund Grant for the free-verse work of contemporary Iranian poet H. E. Sayeh. Fayre has lived in Washington, DC; northern Arizona; and Maharashtra, India. To pay the bills, she rewrites bad political science books about Asian markets and African railways.

Kalpana Narayanan was born in New Delhi, India, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.  She lives in Brooklyn and is currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories.

What is Faculty Selects?  The first Thursday of each month the Columbia MFA program hosts a reading series with writers selected by the faculty. These fresh talents have finished their coursework and are finished with or near to finished with their first books, but do not yet have a book contract and/or an agent. In recent years, many of our featured writers have achieved critical and commercial success; this is your chance to glimpse who you’ll be reading in 2011!

Faculty Selects is curated by Bryan VanDyke and Emily Austin.