Gordon Burn (16 January 1948 – 17 July 2009) was an English writer born in Newcastle upon Tyne and the author of four novels and several works of non-fiction.
Peter Robinson (born March 17, 1950) is a Canadian crime writer born in Britain.
 He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks.
 He has also published a number of other novels and short stories as well as some poems and two articles on writing.
Atticus Lish (born 1972, age 43) is an American novelist.
 His debut, "Preparation for the Next Life" (New York: Tyrant, 2014), caught its independent publisher “off guard” by becoming a surprise success, winning a number of awards including the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
 Lish lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with his wife.
 He is the son of influential literary editor Gordon Lish.
Gordon Lish (born February 11, 1934 in Hewlett, New York) is an American writer.
 As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Rick Bass, and Richard Ford.
 He is the father of the novelist Atticus Lish.
Dietrich Wersich (born 1964) is a German politician of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and physician.
 Since March 7, 2011 he is chairman of the CDU parliamentary Group in the Hamburg state legislature (Hamburgische Bürgerschaft), the largest opposition party.
 From May 7, 2008 to March 7, 2011 he was Hamburg State Minister of Social Affairs, Family Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection.
 From November 29, 2010 to March 7, 2011 he was also Deputy Mayor of Hamburg.
Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA (born 14 November 1948 in Simcoe, Ontario.
 Canada) is a Canadian writer.
 He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario.
 He has published five short story collections, four novels (including "Elle" which won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction), two books of essays, "Notes Home from a Prodigal Son" and "Attack of the Copula Spiders", and "The Enamoured Knight", a book-length meditation on "Don Quixote" and novel form.
 His 1993 novel, "The Life and Times of Captain N.", was edited by Gordon Lish and released by Alfred A. Knopf.
 His most recent book is a story collection, "Savage Love" (Goose Lane Editions, 2013).
Josip Pejaković (born March 5, 1948) is a Bosnian actor and writer born in Travnik, Yugoslavia.
 At one time he was the lead singer for the Travnik-based rock group Veziri.
 He was also an antiwar activist at the start of the Bosnian war.
 He is a member of the Advisory Board of the left-wing magazine "Novi Plamen".
 He also hosts a show on Bosnian television called "Josip Pejaković - U ime naroda" (Josip Pejaković - In the name of the people).
Michael Daniel Ambatchew is an Ethiopian children's book writer born March 7, 1967.
 He has written "Sidama Tales" and "Alemayehu".
 Although an admirer of Western stories like Puss in Boots, he has been active in improving the publishing of a more native Ethiopian children's literature, and has also written on literature in general.
Greg Mulcahy is an American novelist and short story writer.
 He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1958.
 His collection,"Out of Work," was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1993.
 His novel, "Constellation," was published by Avisson Press in 1996.
 His short fiction appeared frequently in Gordon Lish's "The Quarterly".
 His work has also appeared in Diane Williams's NOON Coop Renner's "elimae," Kathryn Rantala's publications,"The New York Tyrant", "Caliban", "The Gettysburg Review", "Juked", "Alice Blue Review", "Sidebrow", "five_trope", "Word Riot," and other journals.
Rick Bass (born March 7, 1958) is an American writer and an environmental activist.

Question: This writer born March 7, 1958, was championed by Gordon Lish?
Answer: Rick Bass