JULIE SCHUMACHER

Julie Schumacher is the author of Dear Committee Members, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, as well as nine other books, including The Shakespeare Requirement. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and in The Best American Short Stories and O.Henry Awards anthologies. Schumacher is a Regents Professor of Creative Writing and English at the University of Minnesota, where she directed the MFA program for a dozen years. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.