Cassie Pruyn

Cassie Pruyn is a New Orleans poet, originally hailing from Portland, Maine. Her poem, TwoPlaces, was second runner-up in the 2013 William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, and one of her prose poems was a finalist for the 2013 Indiana Review1/2K Prize.

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Gary Krist

Gary Krist wrote three novels—Bad Chemistry, Chaos Theory, and Extravagance—and two short story collections—The Garden State and Bone by Bone—before turning to narrative nonfiction before turning to narrative nonfiction with The White Cascade and his latest book, the New York Times Bestseller, City of Scoundrels, the city in this case being Chicago, that most American of American cities.

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W. Kenneth Holditch

W. Kenneth Holditch, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Literature and Writing at the University of New Orleans, is a co-founder of The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society and was one of the founders of the Tennessee Williams Festivals in New Orleans, Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Columbus, MS.

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Lee Froehlich

Leopold (Lee) Froehlich is managing editor of Playboy, and has worked with everyone from T.C. Boyle to Liesl Schillinger over the years. Froehlich recently completed editing the six-volume 3,600-page Hugh Hefner’s Playboy for Taschen. Among his feature stories about New Orleans for the magazine is Venus on the Half Shell on the inimitable Louisiana oyster.

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