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Faculty
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Staff:
- Film RAINING RAINBOWS optioned (Marlee Matlin’s Solo One Production Company), SNIPER (1996 Sundance Film Development Program finalist)
- Plays include SNIPER (NJ Arts Council Perry Award/Richard and Betty Burdick Reading Series)
- Poetry: TOO BAD IT'S POETRY (Paper Kite Press), IN THE ARMS OF WORDS (anthology: Sherman/Asher Press)
- 2007 Noris Church Mailer Award Winner
- Host: AWP Conference Poetry Slam (2007-08)
Faculty:
Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr
Poet, Playwright
- Chapbooks: CANTATA FOR JIMMY (Africa World Press) MISSING IN ACTION AND PRESUMED DEAD (Africa World Press)
- Participated in POETS AND WRITERS OF AFRICA ND THE DIASPORA
Literary Agent
- Founder: Anderson Literary Management LLC
- Leading Clients include: Emma Donoghue, Charles Bowden, Molly Peacock, George Packer, and more
- Former Senior Editor at Poseidon, a division of Simon & Schuster
- Recipient of Tony Godwin Award (Outstanding America editor under 35)
Biographer, Editor, Fiction Writer
- Has published 7 books of fiction/non fiction including STONEWALL JACKSON: PORTRAIT OF A SOLDIER and THE COLONY
- Has published over 200 articles, essays, and stories in such magazines as PLAYBOY, ESQUIRE, VILLAGE VOICE, NEW YORK TIMES, and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
- His latest novel, LOVE IN TENNESSEE, will be published by Red Hen Press in fall, 2009
Fiction Writer, Essayist, Editor
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- Editor: IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDWEST: LITERARY NONFICTION FROM THE HEARTLAND (Indiana UP)
- Liteary Essay Collection: PINK HOUSES AND FAMILY TAVERNS (IUP)
- Textbook: CREATING CREATIVE NONFICTION (Bedford/St. Martin's)
- Fiction and creative nonfiction has appeared in POST ROAD, SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, NINTH LETTER, AND HOTEL AMERIKA
Philip Brady
- Poetry: WEAL (Ashland Poetry Press—winner of 1999 Snyder Prize), FORGED CORRESPONDENCES (New Myths)
- Memoir: TO PROVE MY BLOOD: A TALE OF EMIGRATIONS & THE AFTERLIFE (Ashland).
- Co-founder: Etruscan Press
- Poetry Editor of ARTFUL DODGE
Poet, Editor, Essayist
- Founding Editor: PROVINCETOWN ARTS
- Interviews and profiles have appeared in such magazines as ARTS, GARDEN DESIGN, PARIS REVIEW, PARTISAN REVIEW
Editor, Poet, Essayist, Biographer, Short Story Writer
- book reviews have appeared in THE WASHINGTON POST, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, BALTIMORE NEWS-AMERICAN
- Former Executive Editor: ANTIETAM REVIEW
- David Carren
- Producer, Screenwriter, Novelist
- Film: MR. HELL, MY MONSTER, SHORT BLUE TEARS, THE RED QUEEN, BLACK, EXPATS
- Novels: NO POWER ON EARTH (Medallion), I'VE KILLED MY MOTHER (Stonelock Pictures)
Dr. Agnes A. Cardoni
- Teaching credits include: more than three decades in the classrooms of the Wilkes-Barre Area School District
- Served as a University Associate in Rehtoric at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beverly Donofrio
Memorist, Essayist, Screenwriter
- Memoirs include: RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS and LOOKING FOR MARY
- First picture book, MARY AND THE MOUSE, THE MOUSE AND MARY, published in 2007
- Essays have appeared in the LA TIMES, COSMOPOLITAN and SPIRTUALITY AND HEALTH
Seth Fishman
Agent
- Has worked with Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. since 2005
Gregory Fletcher
Freelance playwright and director
- Winner of the 2005 Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting
- Winner of the 2004 National Ten-Minute Play Award
- Plays have been produced Off-Broadway in NYC and regionally, including in Boston, Miami, Provincetown and elsewhere
Christine Gelineau
Poet, Essayist, Reviewer
- Poetry: REMORSELESS LOYALTY (Ashland Press—Snyder Prize Winner), IN THE GREENWOOD WORLD, NORTH AMERICAN SONG LINE (both Foothills)
- Articles and reviews include: AWP CHRONICLE, EQUUS, THE MORGAN HORSE
Tim Gleason
Actor, Director
- Founding member and Artistic Director of KNOW Theater in Binghamton, NY
- Has performed in over 60 plays, including Off-Broadway in NYC
Lenore Hart
Novelist
- Novels include: BECKY, THE TREASURE OF SAVAGE ISLAND, ORDINARY SPRINGS, WATERWOMAN
- Her latest novel, NEVERMORE, will be published by St. Martin's press in early 2010.
- Received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Florida Fine Arts Council, and Old Dominion University
Kaylie Jones
Creative Nonfiction Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter
- Novels include: QUITE THE OTHER WAY (Doubleday), A SOLDIER’S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES (Bantam—winner NY Public Library YA Fiction Award), CELESTE ASCENDING (Harper Collins), SPEAK NOW (Akashic Books)
- Screenplays: ANOR OF AQUATAIN (winner Houston Film Festival), LIMBO (winner-NY Women in Film Screenwriting Award)
- Chair, James Jones First Novel Fellowship
Jean Klein
Playwright, Technical Writer, Editor
- Plays include: THE PINCH HITTER, HOW DO YOU DO, THE THREE THIEVES, INSIDE AND OUT, LIMBO IN OHIO, The REFRACTION of LIGHT IN BERKLEY, VIRGINIA and SNAPSHOTS
- Founder: HAVESCRIPTS.COM and Tidewater Playwrights Guild
Michael Lindgren
Editor, Essayist, Bookseller
- Fmr. managing editor: Zoland Books and GOT VERSE-VALLEY POETRY ANTHOLOGY
- Articles appeared in RAIN TAXI and THE L MAGAZINE
Michael Mailer
Producer, Screenwriter
- Film Credits include: LOVERBOY (2005), WHEN WILL I BE LOVED (2004), LOST JUNCTION (2003), HARVARD MAN (2001), EMPIRE (2002), THE FINAL HIT (2000), BLACK AND WHITE (1999), and TWO GIRLS AND A GUY (1997)
Nancy McKinley
Fiction Writer, Essayist, Creative Nonfiction Writer
- Short stories published in COLORADO REVIEW, NEW VOICES, THE ROCKY REVIEW, and others
- Novel: TRAVELING WITH A NUCLEAR WHORE (finalist for Thayer Fellowship in Fiction)
Robert Mooney
Short Story Writer, Novelist, Editor
- Short stories credits include: ARTFUL DODGE, MSS, TIMBUKTU, and PATERSON LITERARY REVIEW
- Novel: FATHER OF THE MAN (Pantheon/Random House)
- Co-Founder: Etruscan Press
Tony Morris
Poet, Freelance Writer, Editor
- Editor: SOUTHERN POETRY REVIEW
- Poetry: BACK TO CAIN (Olive Press), FUGUE’S END (Birch Brook Press)
- Poety has appeared in THE SPOON RIVER POETRY REVIEW, SOUTHERN POETRY REVIEW, RIVER STYX, PUERO DEL SOL, NIMROD, SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW, MERIDIAN, POTOMAC REVIEW, CONNECTICUT REVIEW, SOUTH DAKOTA REVIEW
Kevin Oderman
Creative Nonfiction Writer
- Essay credits include: NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, NORTHWEST REVIEW, SHENANDOAH
- Nonfiction: HOW THINGS FIT TOGETHER (winner—Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Prize in Nonfiction)
- Fiction: GOING (Vandalia Press)
David Poyer
Novelist
- Some of his Novels include: TOMAHAWK, THE COMMAND, THAT ANVIL OF OUR SOULS, THE THREAT (St. Martin's Press)
- Has appeared on Writer to Writer (NPR-PBS) and Voice of America
Sara Pritchard
Fiction Writer
- Short stories credits include: ARTS AND LETTERS, BELLINGHAM REVIEW, CHATTAHOOCEE REVIEW
- Novel: CRACKPOTS (Houghton Mifflin—New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2003), LATELY (Mariner Books)
Jan Quackenbush
Playwright, Screenwriter, Editor, Poet, Prose Writer
- Plays include: STILL FIRES, STRAW DOG, OPFER (VICTIMS, published in Austria), and IM KREIS DRAUSSSEN (Inside Out, published in Austria)
- Currently working on a documentary film chronicling the military touring shows (soldier-actor shows) that toured Vietnam
M. Kilburg Reedy
Entertainment Lawyer, Producer, Playwright
- Practices all aspects of entertainment law
- Award-winning theatrical producer
Juanita Rockwell
Playwright, Director, Dramaturge, Producer, Performer
- Co-founder: MFA in Theatre, Towson University
- Directing credits include: Charles Borkhuis’s play FOREIGN BODIES (for National Public Radio) and more
Neil Shepard
Poet, Essayist
- Poetry books include: SCAVENGING THE COUNTRY FOR A HEARTBEAT, I'M HERE BECAUSE I LOST MY WAY and THIS FAR FROM THE SOURCE
- Essays and poetry have appeared in AWP CHRONICLE, GREEN MOUNTAINS REVIEW and SMALL PRESS REVIEWS
Nina Solomon
Novelist
- Author of the novel SINGLE WIFE, which has been optioned for a film by Warner Brother
Jeff Talarigo
Novelist
- Author of THE PEARL DIVER and THE GINSENG HUNGER
- Winner of the American Academy Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award
Johnny Temple
Editor, Publisher
- Editor and publisher of AKASCHIC BOOKS, an award-winning Brooklyn-based company that publishes urban literary fiction and political nonfiction.
- Winner of the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS' MIRIAM BASS AWARD for CREATIVITY in INDEPENDANT PUBLISHING
- Bass player in the band Girls Against Boys
Christine Tomasino
Agent
- Clients have included: Civil War historian and novelist Shelby Foote and New York Yankees manager Joe Torre
Richard Uhlig
Screenwriter, Producer
- Film credits include: VIVA LAS NOWHERE (Franchise Pictures), KEPT (Columbia/TriStar)
- Written/produced/directed documentaries for PBS
- Fiction: LAST DANCE AT THE FROSTY QUEEN (Knopf)
Ken Vose
Screenwriter, Playwright, Freelance Writer, Film Editor
- Film credits include: GREASED LIGHTNING (Warner Bros.), THE WONDERS OF LIFE (EDKO PRO),
- Television credits include: THUNDERCATS, THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY QUEST, SPIES, and SILVERHAWKS
- Editing credits: WORLD WAR ONE (CBS series), TRIAL AT NUREMBERG (Wolper Productions, Emmy nominee)
- Nonfiction credits include: MONSTER NATION and the MONSTER GARAGE book series
Thom Ward
Poet, editor
- Poetry books include: SMALL BOAT WITH OARS OF DIFFERENT SIZE, TUMBLEKID and THE MATTER OF THE CASKET
- Winner of the 1998 Devil's Millhopper Poetry Contest
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