Born and raised in Wisconsin, Christine Schutt came to New York over thirty years ago to write, first as an MFA student at Columbia and then on her own. She met Diane Williams in a Gordon Lish class, from which they emerged the best of friends. They talked NOON into existence. Schutt gave the literary annual its name, the word being one of Emily Dickinson’s favorites, and Dickinson, the poet, one of Schutt’s favorites.

Schutt is the author of two books of stories, A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer and Nightwork, and two novels, the recently published All Souls and Florida, a finalist for a National Book Award in a controversial year: five novels by largely unknown women writers, all from New York, and only one in her thirties.