Madison Smartt Bell, Fiction, Goucher College
Caron Ann Cioffi, Literary Criticism, Northern Illinois University
William Henry Galperin, Literary Criticism, Rutgers University
Elissa S. Guralnick, Literary Criticism, University of Colorado
Christopher James Looby, Literary Criticism, University of Chicago
George O'Brien, Fiction, Georgetown University
Jeffrey Thomas Skinner, Poetry, University of Louisville
Arthur Sze, Poetry, Independent