Laura Browder's book Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America, called "an engaging and readable history" by BUST, was released in October 2006 by University of North Carolina Press. Her edition of Susan Stern's memoir With the Weathermen: The Journal of a Revolutionary Woman comes out in September 2007 from Rutgers University Press. Outtakes from her documentary film-in-progress, "Gone to Texas," can be found in the current issue of Blackbird.

Susann Cokal's novel, Mirabilis, just came out in Spanish. ¡Compre el libro hoy! For those English-only readers, her stories have and/or will soon appear in issues of Coal City Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Los Angeles Review. In the meantime, you can also read her reviews in the New York Times Book Review.

Tom De Haven is finishing work on a nonfiction book about Superman (Superman Matters) for Yale University Press as well as working on a book of linked novellas titled Standard Six. Over the summer he was just elected chairman of the board of directors of the Norton Island Artists Residency Program.

Gregory Donovan was poet-in-residence at the Chatauqua Institution in upstate New York last summer and gave a week-long poetry workshop there; following that, he was a guest lecturer at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont. This summer he was once again a faculty member in the VCU summer program in Peru, “Literary and Visual Arts in the Highlands,” and he survived the four-day hike on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Clint McCown's novel, War Memorials, was optioned by River One Films, and they asked him to work with them on the screenplay. Two of his poems were accepted by The Southern Review and appeared in the summer issue. His poetry manuscript, Dead Languages, was accepted by Anhinga Press and will appear this February.

 David Wojahn was the recipient of the 2007 O.B.  Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize. The prize includes $10,000  and a reading at the Folger in October. Wojahn was also  a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his collection,  Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems,  1982- 2004. Poetry magazine said that Wojahn "writes
               with as much formal and emotional strength as
               any poet alive."