Tis the season to be grading, so here's a quiz for you. What do the following four books have in common?

Stiltsville by SUSANNA DANIEL

The Flight Cage by REBECCA DUNHAM

We Don't Know We Don't Know by NICK LANTZ

The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbor's House by NICK LANTZ

(a) The Isthmus has named them the four best Wisconsin-related fiction and poetry titles of 2010

(b) Each one was written by a former Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing fellow

(c) One of those former fellows also received his MFA from our program

(d) All of the above.

This is definitely an open-book test. As in buy the above books. Open them.