Authors Vol. 2 No. 1

  • Dennis Fiser

    Dennis Fiser is a second year in the college. He does photography here and there. Though he is a relative newcomer to photography, with not even two years of real experience, it doesn’t compromise his enthusiasm for the medium or his belief in its enunciative potential. One of his recent projects is a series of photographs from the campus rooftops, currently on display at the Regenstein library from now through Spring quarter. More of his work can be found at http://home.uchicago.edu/~dennisf/.

  • Sarah Adair Frank

    Sarah Frank is only in the MAPH program. She hopes one day to live in a freezing climate and write novels.

  • Alison Macdonald

    Alison Macdonald is a graduate student at the University of Chicago with a background in Folklore and Mythology.

  • Bayo Ojikutu

    Bayo Ojikutu was born, raised, and currently resides in greater Chicago. He is the son of folks who migrated to the city from West Africa (Lagos, Nigeria) and the Deep South (Shreveport, Louisiana). Ojikutu graduated the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and from DePaul University’s Master’s of Arts in Writing program. His first novel, 47th Street Black (Random House/Three Rivers Press), appeared commercially in January 2003 after winning the Washington Prize for Fiction and the Great American Book Award. His second novel, Free Burning—from which the posted chapters are excerpted—will be published by Random House/Three Rivers Press in 2006. Currently, Ojikutu is a full-time faculty member within the Department of English at DePaul University, Chicago.

  • Emina Tuzlak

    Emina Tuzlak was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and spent the first 13 years of her life in her native country. But nine months after the war in Bosnia began, Emina and her mother left the country in a convoy of women and children that ultimately ended in the Czech Republic. Emina spent almost four years in a refugee camp in the Czech Republic, attempting to live a “normal” life through the act of reading, writing, and perfecting her knowledge of other languages. She eventually mmigrated to the States in May of 1996 because the situation in Bosnia was not improving, settling in Buffalo, New York. She received her B.A. in English, German, and Art History from Canisius College and is currently in the process of receiving an M.A. in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she is working on ethical aspects of fiction in the work of Flannery O’Connor. Emina is also working on her creative writing and is hoping to find the courage and patience to work on a collection of short stories that deal with her experience returning to Bosnia after an eleven year absence.

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