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Ron Hansen -- Reading
Ron Hansen is a contributor to Image and the author of Mariette in Ecstasy, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (adapted for the 2007 film starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck), Hitler's Niece, Atticus (a finalist for the National Book Award) and other books.
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Mary Kenagy Mitchell -- Reading
Managing editor of Image, Mary Kenagy Mitchell explores the nooks and crannies of individual faith within family boundaries, shedding light on the different ways we understand God but never stooping to easy caricatures.
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Melissa Pritchard -- Reading
Melissa Pritchard’s stories often cross an invisible line—between normality, as we usually define it, and, well, the not-normal. The line might be on the border between the erotic and the holy, between wisdom and folly, perhaps even between reality and fiction. In short, Pritchard has a way of knocking the reader off balance.
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Gina Ochsner — Reading
Gina Ochsner's stories make distant things present and real, never exotic or gimmicky; this is the real stuff, about likeable, wounded, resilient people who feel as if they could live next door to you, though they live in the Czech Republic, or Siberia, or Texas, or Alaska.
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Bret Lott — Reading
Bret Lott's fiction explores the beauty and dignity of ordinary things and ordinary people. His characters embody the old-fashioned virtues of modesty, hard work, and staying in it for the long haul.







