Zombie Round

Matthew Baldwin runs the website defective yeti, loves to play board games, and once convinced 30 sober adults to run the 100-meter dash with their pants around their ankles.

Rosecrans Baldwin is a founding editor of The Morning News. His first novel, You Lost Me There (Riverhead), was named an editors’ choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of 2010 by NPR. His next book, Paris I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Anthony Doerr is currently a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His most recent book is Memory Wall.

TMN Reader Judge Contest Winner Catherine George was born and raised in British Columbia, where she first got started with books when her mother took a job at the local library and assigned the book stacks to be her babysitter. Despite currently being a law student, she continues to believe she’ll finish writing the Great Canadian Novel.

Jessica Francis Kane is the author of a story collection, Bending Heaven (Counterpoint), and a novel, The Report (Graywolf Press), which was a finalist for the 2010 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and a Barnes & Noble “Discover” pick. A new story collection is forthcoming from Graywolf next year.

Sarah Manguso’s most recent books include The Two Kinds of Decay and Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape. Honors for her writing include a Hodder Fellowship, the Rome Prize, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. Her next book, The Guardians, a prose elegy, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Jennifer Weiner is the author of eight books, including Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, Best Friends Forever, and Fly Away Home. She is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Philadelphia with her family.

Andrew Womack is a founding editor of The Morning News and the publisher of The Staff Recommends.

Elif Batuman lives in Istanbul, where she is writer-in-residence at Koç University, and writes for the New Yorker. Her first book, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, was published in 2010.

Matt Dellinger is the author of Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway.

Kate Ortega is—most days—an assistant news editor for the website of the Wall Street Journal.

John Williams is the founder and editor of The Second Pass, an online book review. His work as a freelance writer has appeared in Slate, Stop Smiling, the Barnes & Noble Review, and other publications.

Hamilton Leithauser is the lead singer of the band The Walkmen.

John Roderick is currently the lead singer and guitarist in the band The Long Winters. His first book of extremely short prose, Electric Aphorisms, was published in November 2009.

Michele Filgate is the Events Coordinator at RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, N.H. She’s a writer, book critic, and freelance producer for NHPR’s Word of Mouth.

Radhika Jones is an assistant managing editor at Time, supervising coverage of culture and society. Previously, Jones was the managing editor of The Paris Review. Her writing has appeared in Time, The Paris Review, the New York Times Book Review, and Bookforum.

C. Max Magee created and edits The Millions. He is co-editor of the forthcoming collection of essays, The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books.

Kevin Guilfoile is the author of two acclaimed novels, Cast of Shadows and The Thousand, which have been translated into more than 20 languages.

John Warner’s novel, The Funny Man, will be released late September of this year by Soho Press. For the time being, he teaches at Clemson University.