Fred Chappell has written six novels, including Dagon, which won the Best Foreign Novel Prize form the French Academy, I Am One of You Forever, and Brighten the Corner Where You Are, which has been optioned by a Hollywood producer. He has also published ten books of poetry, including Midquest, which won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry from Yale University, and which provides the poems for the Literary Arts Festival's staged reading. His newest book is a collection of short stories titled More Shapes Than One. Mr. Chappell teaches at the University of North Carolina. [extracted from 1992 brochure]