A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of non- fiction The Devil’s Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea is the best-selling author of the novels The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, Queen of America, and most recently, The House of Broken Angels, as well as the story collection The Water Museum, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors.
Javier Muñoz is known for his performances on Broadway in the roles of Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton and Usnavi in In The Heights. Recent theater credits include The New Englanders at Manhattan Theater Club and Stephen Lloyd Helper’s A Sign of the Times. On screen, he has been seen in Monuments and Shadowhunters, among others. His forthcoming projects include Three Months, Love … Reconsidered, and he will lend his voice to the Disney Jr. animated series Eureka! Muñoz is a Global Ambassador for (RED), which fights to end HIV/AIDS. He was honored with OUT100’s Breakout of the Year Award in 2016, as well as the Howard Ashman Award by the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and now serves on the Board of GMHC.
Susan Perabo is the author of the short-story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do and the novels The Broken Places and The Fall of Lisa Bellow. Her fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and New Stories from the South and has appeared in numerous magazines, including One Story, Glimmer Train, the Iowa Review, the Missouri Review, and the Sun. She is Writer in Residence and Professor of Creative Writing at Dickinson College and on the faculty at Queens University.
Michael Shannon has earned accolades for his performances on screen, stage, and television. He is known for his roles in Revolutionary Road and Nocturnal Animals, for which he was nominated for Academy Awards, Boardwalk Empire, for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards, Take Shelter (Saturn Award), Elvis & Nixon, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Loving, The Shape of Water, Waco, Fahrenheit 451, Knives Out, The Little Drummer Girl, The Quarry, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Echo Boomers, Heart of Champions, Nine Perfect Strangers, and George and Tammy, among others. Shannon can be seen in the forthcoming films Shriver, Night’s End, Bullet Train, The Flash, Abandoned, and McCarthy.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published books for young readers, most recently a picture book, Millions of Maxes. Wolitzer is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel. She is excited to be the new host of the literary radio show and podcast Selected Shorts.
CREDITS
The stories that were performed at Wall to Wall Selected Shorts were commissioned by Symphony Space for the collection Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories, edited by Hannah Tinti, published by Algonquin Books. © 2022 by Symphony Space.
