Rute Beirante has a Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, an M.A. in Biotechnology and Renewable Natural Resources, and a Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Lisbon, where she is a researcher at ULICES (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies). She is presently preparing a Ph.D. on American Literature and has been teaching at the University. She has published articles, chapters in books, poems, and short stories.
Robert Olen Butler has written nineteen novels and six volumes of short stories, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and has appeared four times in The Best American Short Stories and eight times in New Stories from the South. He was also the seventeenth recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. His works have been translated into twenty-one languages. His latest novel, Twice Around a Marriage, is soon forthcoming from TCU Press. Butler teaches creative writing at Florida State University and lives in Capps, Florida.
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