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Rozalia Jovanovic is a founding editor of Gigantic, a magazine of short prose and art. A former fellow at MacDowell, her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, Elimae and Esquire.com and is forthcoming in The Believer. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories, and a collaborative Twitter project with choreographer Yanira Castro.

Joseph Fasano’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Western Humanities Review, and other publications. He won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is at work on a book-length poem in the voice of Vince Li, a man on trial for killing and decapitating a fellow bus passenger in the summer of 2007.

Jeff Bender was born and raised in Philadelphia. His work has appeared in Guernica and the compilation 101 Things Every Man Should Know How to Do. In 2008, Glimmer Train selected two of his stories as finalists, and he spent the summer writing at the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Wyoming.
The Weight, his first novel, features an ex-wrestler battling a leftover strain of vocational anorexia.

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. This is an opportunity to showcase some of our best writers to you.

Faculty Selects is curated by Bryan VanDyke and Emily Austin.