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Nina Schloesser was born and grew up in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She lives in Brooklyn and is currently at work on a novel. Starting this fall she will be a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University.

Alexander Landfair was recently a finalist for Poetry Magazine’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and the Spoon River Poetry Review’s Editors Prize. He was awarded a Fulbright in 2008 to study Swahili in East Africa. 

James Yeh was born in 1982 in Anderson, South Carolina. His fiction has appeared in PEN America, elimae, the film 60 Writers / 60 Places (Little Burn Films, 2009) and is forthcoming in the anthology 30 Under 30 (Starcherone Books, 2011). Currently he is working on a novel, entitled I Love and Understand You and Would Be Perfect to You Now. He is a founding editor of Gigantic and lives and bikes in Brooklyn.

What is Faculty Selects?  The first Thursday of each month from September through April, 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 2012!

Faculty Selects is curated by Bryan VanDyke and Emily Austin.