Christopher John Adamson
Christopher John Adamson is a second-year MFA student in poetry. He was born near the foothills of Salt Lake City, Utah. A former student of the undergraduate poetry program at Northwestern University, Christopher is poetically preoccupied with rendering the intersections of myth, the wild, and the sacred. His awards include an Academy of American Poets prize and a scholarship from the New York State Summer Writers Institute. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Town Creek Poetry, Grey Sparrow, and Foothill, among others. He is joint head editor of poetry for Nashville Review.
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Ricardo Zamorano Baez
Ricardo Zamorano Baez is a second-year MFA student in poetry. He earned a B.A. in Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside. His work appears or is forthcoming in Verdad Literary Magazine, The Packinghouse Review, and The American Poetry Review. In 2008, he received the Ann Gregor Poetry Prize.
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Anne Charlton 
Anne Charlton is a first-year MFA student in poetry. Born in Lafayette, Indiana, she grew up in Versailles, a small town in central Kentucky. She earned a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Purdue University and worked as a copy editor for Purdue’s daily student newspaper. Her work appears in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place and is forthcoming in Toad the Journal.
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Lee Conell
Lee Conell is a first-year MFA student in fiction. She attended the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she won the Tomaseli Award for Creative Writing. Since then she has taught and freelanced as an editor and ghostwriter. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Chronogram, and on the Teachers & Writers Collaborative blog. She is a fiction editor and nonfiction editor for Nashville Review.
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Cara Dees
Cara Dees is a second-year MFA student in poetry. She studied English, Creative Writing, and French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize and the Helen C. White Outstanding Senior Award. She has worked as an English teacher in southern France, as well as a farmhand and pony trainer in Wisconsin. Currently, she is editor of comics and joint head editor of poetry for Nashville Review and the MFA coordinator of the Writers-in-Residence Program at the Vanderbilt Commons.
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Reid Douglass
Reid Douglass is a first-year MFA student in fiction. He grew up in Round Rock, Texas, and earned a BA in English from Texas A&M University. After that, he lived in Austin and worked for a non-profit military and veterans’ organization. He is a fiction editor of Nashville Review.
Claire Jimenez
Claire Jimenez is a second-year MFA student in fiction. She was a Posse scholar at Colby College, from which she received her BA in English in 2006. After graduation, she returned to her home town, New York City, where she spent several years teaching and coordinating activities for youth development agencies. She received a District of Cultural Affairs’ artist grant from the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island in 2010 and 2011; with that funding, she established a youth arts council to map arts opportunities on the island and to host an open mic series for teenagers at the local library.
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Edgar Kunz
Edgar Kunz is a first-year MFA student in poetry. He earned a BA in English from Goucher College where he won the L. W. Reese Award and a Kratz Center fellowship. His work can be found in Potomac Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the music editor of Nashville Review.
Marysa LaRowe
Marysa LaRowe is a second-year MFA student in fiction. She grew up outside Chicago, and studied Journalism at Boston University before completing her B.A. in English and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Marysa has worked as a health benefits counselor, and has also taught creative writing in a Wisconsin men’s prison. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southeast Review, Matchbook, Wisconsin People and Ideas, and Valparaiso Fiction Review. She is a fiction editor of Nashville Review.
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Sara Strong
Sara Strong is a first-year MFA candidate in poetry. Born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks, she earned a BA from the University of Missouri, where she studied creative writing, linguistics, and history. While there, she also worked as an editorial assistant at The Missouri Review. She is currently a poetry editor of Nashville Review.
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Janet Thielke
Janet Thielke is a second-year MFA student in fiction. She received a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and has worked in an editorial capacity for LA Stage Times, Anthem Press, The Paris Review, and Narrative Magazine. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Roanoke Review, and Southern Humantities Review, among others; her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. She is currently head editor of Nashville Review.
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Magdalena Zebracka
Magdalena Zebracka is a first-year MFA student in fiction. Born in southeastern Poland, she grew up in Chicago and completed her B.A. in Psychology at Wellesley College in 2012.
