MARJORIE SANDOR and TRACY DAUGHTERY

Featured February 18, 2006
 
Marjorie Sandor is the author of an essay collection, The Night
Gardener and the story collections: Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed
Nude in Wartime. and A Night of Music . Her work has appeared in The
New York Times Magazine, The Georgia Review, and Shenandoah, and has
been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1985 and 1988,
Best of Beacon 1999, The Pushcart Prize, and elsewhere. In 1998 she
received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for fiction, and in 2000, the
Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction. She lives in Corvallis,
Oregon, is a member of the MFA. faculty at Oregon State University,
and married to Tracy Daughtery.
 
Tracy Daughtery
 
is the author of four novels, most recently Axeman's Jazz, two short
story collections, and a volume of personal essays, Five Shadesof
Shadow. His story collection, Late in the Standoff, was published in
2005 by Southern Methodist University Press. His work has appeared in
The New Yorker, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Chelsea and many
other journals. Daugherty has twice won the Oregon Book Award and in
1998 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He
directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Oregon State
University and is a member of the MFA faculty in the Warren Wilson
Program for Writers.