Participant(s) Bio
Sue Miller is the best selling author of the novels Lost in the Forest, The World Below, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, and The Good Mother; the story collection Inventing the Abbots; and the memoir The Story of My Father. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Michelle Huneven started writing fiction in 1969, her first year in college. There, her first creative writing instructor wrote, "Although Ms. Huneven's writing improved over the course of the semester, she has no talent and should not be encouraged." Michelle received and M.F.A. at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and her first published story won a G.E. Younger Writers Award and re-publication in Harper's magazine. Her first novel, Round Rock (Knopf 1997), was a New York Times notable book of the year, one of the LA Times best 100 books of the year, and a Finalist for the LA Times First Fiction Award. Her second novel, Jamesland (Knopf 2003) was also a New York Times notable book, a Book Sense pick, a finalist for the LA Times Fiction Prize, and a winner of the Southern California Booksellers Award for Fiction. Her short fiction has been published in Harpers, Redbook, and literary magazines. She received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2002. Until recently, she worked as a restaurant critic and food writer for the LA Weekly and the LA Times. Her journalism has also been published in the New York Times, O, Gourmet, Food and Wine and other publications. Essays have appeared in the following anthologies: Horse People, Dog is My Co-Pilot, The Knitter's Gift, Death by Pad Thai, and Mr. Wrong. Her food writing has earned a James Beard Award and several American Food Journalists awards. Michelle is presently teaching creative writing at UCLA. She lives with her husband and multiple pets in the town she grew up in, Altadena, CA, where she is at work on her next novel
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