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Faculty in Fiction Faculty publications available online from the University of Southern Maine Bookstore
Please see the following Stonecoast faculty who also teach fiction:Kazim Ali (bio under Poetry)David Durham (bio under Popular Fiction)Richard Hoffman (bio under Creative Nonfiction)David Mura (bio under Creative Nonfiction)Elizabeth Searle (bio under Popular Fiction) Boman Desai is the author of four novels: The Memory of Elephants (Andre Deutsch/UK, 1988; Sceptre Books/UK, 1990; Penguin India, 1992; HarperCollins/India, 2000; University of Chicago Press, 2000); Asylum, USA (HarperCollins/India, 2000); A Woman Madly in Love (Roli Books, 2004); and Servant, Master, Mistress (Roli Books, 2005). His short fiction, articles, and essays have been published widely in the US, UK, and India in such periodicals as Another Chicago Magazine, Stand Magazine, Gay Chicago Magazine, Sonora Review, The Atlantic Literary Review, Fezana Journal, The Times of India, and The Chicago Tribune. He has also published a nonfiction novel in two volumes, Trio and Trio 2, grounded in the lives of the Schumanns and Brahms (AuthorHouse, 2004/2006). His awards include an Illinois Arts Council Award, an American Songwriter Festival award, and the Stand Magazine Prize for fiction; The Memory of Elephants was nominated by Andre Deutsch for the Booker Prize. Boman spent his early years in Mumbai, has taught at Truman College and Roosevelt University in Chicago, and was recently invited to be Artist-in-Residence at the Seaside Institute, but chose instead to attend the residency at Stonecoast. He is a Brahms scholar and once settled a dispute about Brahms’s boyhood between two other scholars in an article published in 19th Century Music (University of California at Davis).
Aaron Hamburger was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome for his short story collection The View from Stalin's Head, published by Random House in March of 2004. The View from Stalin's Head was also nominated for a Violet Quill Award. His next book, the novel Faith for Beginners, was published by Random House in October 2005, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Poets and Writers, Details, Nerve, Out, The Forward, and Time Out New York. He has won a fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, as well as first place in the David J. Dornstein Contest for Young Jewish Writers, and has taught creative writing at Columbia University. Currently he is working on a novel set in contemporary Berlin.
Lewis Robinson is the author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories, winner of the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award. A graduate of Middlebury College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has published fiction in numerous journals including Tin House, Open City, The Missouri Review, and Sports Illustrated, and has broadcast his work on National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts.” Lewis received a Schaeffer Fellowship in 2002 and a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2003. He has taught fiction workshops at the University of Iowa and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.
Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of five novels: Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, Around Again, and Becoming Finola, published by Washington Square Press. She has also written three memoirs: Songs From a Lead-lined Room: Notes - High and Low - From My Journey Through Breast Cancer and Radiation, and Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama and Other Page-Turning Adventures From a Year in a Bookstore, published by Beacon Press; and Sundays in America, for which she spent a year attending services at Protestant churches nationwide. Winner of the 2000 New England Book Award, which recognizes a literary body of works’ contribution to the region, Suzanne began writing while working as reporter for the Springfield (Massachusetts) Newspapers and the Providence Journal (Rhode Island). Her freelance work has appeared in Yankee magazine, The Bark Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Organic Style, and ESPN the Magazine.
Other faculty who teach Fiction include David Durham and Elizabeth Searle (bios under Popular Fiction), Richard Hoffman and David Mura (bios under Creative Nonfiction) and Kazim Ali (bio under Poetry).
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