2016 Fugue Contest

2016 Judges

Rose McLarney's second book, Its Day Being Gone, won the National Poetry Series award and was published by Penguin in May 2014. Her first book, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, was published by Four Way Books.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including The  Kenyon Review, Orion,  Slate, The New England Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, and Mudlark. McLarney earned her MFA from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers and has taught writing at the college. She is currently Assistant Poetry Professor at Auburn University.

Megan Kruse grew up in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Seattle. She studied creative writing at Oberlin College and earned her MFA at the University of Montana. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and her debut novel, “Call Me Home,” was released from Hawthorne Books in March 2015, with an introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert. She teaches fiction at Eastern Oregon University’s Low-Residency MFA program, Hugo House, and Gotham Writers Workshop. She was one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for 2015. Find her at www.megannicolekruse.com.