Gulf Coast Reading Series

 

 

 

Sara C. Rolater is a graduate of Rice University and an MFA candidate at the University of Houston, where she is an assistant editor in fiction for Gulf Coast. She has written for offcite.org and been a fellow at the Writing Immersion Retreat in Bali. Her fiction has appeared in Ghost Town, and her Facebook status collage poetry is available at plagiarizemyface.com.

Claire Fuqua Anderson is an assistant editor of nonfiction for Gulf Coast and an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Houston. She received her B.A. in English and Linguistics at Rice University, where she won the George Guion Williams Prize for fiction. Claire has been a contributing writer for Shelf Awareness and Spoonmagazine, and she has a thing for India Pale Ales and hot, hot sauce.

Martin Rock is the author of two chapbooks, most recently Dear Mark, an epistolary response to the work of Mark Rothko (Brooklyn Arts Press). His poems have appeared widely in publications such as Black Warrior Review, Conduit, Third Coast, Salamander, and Best New Poets 2012. He has worked as a cheesemonger, web designer, and editor, and lived for four years in Japan where he taught both young and old the idiosyncrasies of the English language.