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Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

Semester Faculty

Kathleen Alcala

MA, University of Washington, 1984; BA, Stanford, 1976.

Kathleen Alcala is the author of five books: three novels, one collection of short stories, and most recently a collection of essays, The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing. Her work has won the Western States Book Award, the Governor's Writers Award, the Washington State Book Award, and the Northwest Booksellers Association Award.

Bonny Becker, Children/Young Adult

MA, San Francisco State University

Bonny Becker is the author of ten children's books including picture books and novels. Her books have been featured in the New York Times Book Review, read on National Public Radio and selected for the Junior Literary Guild and Children's Book of the Month Club. She's an instructor for the Institute of Children's Literature and a freelance editor and writing consultant with an expertise in story structure.

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, Children/Young Adult

MS, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand is the author of six books for children and young adults. Her books include a biography in poems and one in prose, an anthology of Puerto Rican folk-tales and a second book of four illustrated folk-tales, and a novel. Her CESAR: Yes, We Can! ¡Sí, Se Puede! won Pura Belpré Honors for her poems and David Diaz's illustrations. Her book FRIDA: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life! appeared in the summer of 2007. DIEGO: Bigger Than Life, illustrated by David Diaz, will be out in 2008.

Lawrence W. Cheek, Nonfiction

Lawrence W. Cheek (Larry) has published 15 nonfiction books on travel, nature, North American prehistory, architecture, and a memoir about building a sailboat. He is currently architecture critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and has written on architecture and environment for many other newspapers and magazines, including Preservation, Interior Design, Sunset, and Arizona Highways. He teaches in the University of Arizona Writers Program and the Whidbey Island Writers Association MFA Creative Writing program.

Christopher Howell, Poetry

MFA, University of Massachusetts, 1973; MA, Portland State University, 1971; BS, Oregon State University, 1968

Christopher Howell's eight collections of poetry include The Crime of Luck; Though Silence: The Ling Wei Poems; and Light's Ladder, latest in the University of Washington Press' Northwest Poets series. His poetry has won two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Washington State Governor's Award, and the Vachel Lindsay and Helen Bullis prizes, along with three Pushcart Prizes.

Bruce Holland Rogers, Fiction

MA, Colorado University, 1987; BA, Colorado State University, 1982

Bruce Holland Rogers' short fiction collections include Flaming Arrows, Wind Over Heaven, and Thirteen Ways to Water. He is also the author of Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer. His stories have appeared in North American Review and Quarterly West and have won Nebula, Hugo, and Pushcart awards. Bruce won the 2006 World Fantasy Award for his collection The Keyhole Opera.

Wayne Ude, Program Director and Fiction

MFA, University of Massachusetts, 1974; BA, University of Montana, 1969

Wayne Ude's books include Becoming Coyote, a novel; Buffalo and other stories; and Maybe I Will Do Something: Seven Tales of Coyote, for ages ten and up. His stories have appeared in North American Review and Ploughshares.

David Wagoner, Poetry.

MA, Indiana University

David Wagoner is the author of eighteen collections of poems, including A Map of the Night (2008), The House of Song, Good Morning and Good Night and Traveling Light, as well as ten novels. He has received numerous honors and awards, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fels Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Carolyne L. Wright, Poetry

Ph.D, English and Creative Writing, Syracuse University, 1979; MA, English and Creative Writing, Syracuse, 1975; BA, Humanities, Seattle University, 1971

Carolyne Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali, and a collection of essays. Her new collection is A Change of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006), finalist for the Idaho Prize and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her previous book, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (Eastern Washington UP / Lynx House Books), which won the Blue Lynx Prize and an American Book Award, appeared in a second edition in 2005. Wright's investigative memoir in progress of her experiences in Chile on a Fulbright Study Grant during the presidency of Salvador Allende, The Road to Isla Negra, received the PEN/Jerard Fund and the Crossing Boundaries Awards. She spent four years on fellowships in Kolkata, India, and Dhaka, Bangladesh, translating the work of Bengali women poets and writers. Wright is Translation Editor for Artful Dodge, and on the Board of Directors of the AWP for 2004-2008.

Susan Zwinger, Nonfiction

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1975; MFA, Iowa Writers Workshop, 1971; BA, Cornell College, 1969

Susan Zwinger's books of non-fiction include 2004's The Hanford Reach; The Last Wild Edge; Stalking the Ice Dragon; and Still Wild, Always Wild. Her essays and non-fiction regularly appear in magazines and journals around the country. She co-authored Women In Wilderness with her mother, Ann Haymond Zwinger.

Additional faculty will be added prior to the first residency, and visiting faculty will participate in Residencies.

Visiting Faculty, Spring 2008 Residency
(semester faculty will also participate in residencies)

Anjali Banerjee

Anjali Banerjee was born in India, raised in Canada and California and received degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written four novels for youngsters and two novels for adults. The Philadelphia Inquirer called her young adult novel, Maya Running (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House) "beautiful and complex" and "pleasingly accessible." The Seattle Times praised Anjali's novel for adults, Imaginary Men (Downtown Press/Pocket Books) as "a romantic comedy equal to Bend it Like Beckham." Anjali lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, three cats and a rabbit named Friday. Visit her web site: http://www.anjalibanerjee.com.

Gary Ferguson

Gary Ferguson has written for dozens of national publications - including Vanity Fair, the Los Angeles Times, and Outside Magazine - and is also the author of sixteen books on nature and science. His recent title Decade of the Wolf was chosen as the 2006 Montana Book of the Year. Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone, was the first nonfiction work in history to win both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Nonfiction. Ferguson was the 2002 Seigle Scholar at Washington University, St. Louis, as well as the 2007 William Kittredge Distinguished Writer at the University of Montana.

Elizabeth George

Elizabeth George is a New York Times best-selling author whose novels have also been filmed for PBS. Most of all, she's a risk-taker: in Write Now, her book about writing, George says that whenever she hears of a rule, she sits right down to break it. That certainly shows in her latest two, With No One As Witness, in which a major series character dies (a sure rule-break) and the follow-up, What Came Before He Shot Her, of which she says, "I wanted to back up in time and turn the prism of [the character's] death so that the reader could see the events that led up to it... . I also wanted to challenge the reader to care as much about Joel Campbell as ... about [the character] in whose killing Joel was a participant." This interest in character and risk taking has made her a literary writer who happens to work within the mystery tradition.

John Jacobsen

John Jacobsen's career has encompassed direction, writing and production of feature films, films for television, short films, commercials, television shows and documentaries. He has worked with such stars as Bill Pullman, Sandra Bullock, Eli Wallach, Marcia Gay Harden, Scott Bakula, Peter Boyle, among others. Around the Fire, which he directed, won top prize at the Giffoni Film Festival, and his short films also have received awards at the Aspen Film Festival and the Houston International Film Festival. Jacobsen has also directed more than 20 stage productions regionally and in New York, worked as an assistant on Broadway to legendary director Hal Prince and sold seven screenplays. He is the President of TheFilmSchool in Seattle, a school he co-founded with Tom Skerritt.

Susan Zwinger

Susan Zwinger's books of non-fiction include 2004's The Hanford Reach; The Last Wild Edge; Stalking the Ice Dragon; and Still Wild, Always Wild. Her essays and non-fiction regularly appear in magazines and journals around the country. She co-authored Women In Wilderness with her mother, Ann Haymond Zwinger.

Past Residency Faculty

Alice Acheson

Alice B. Acheson is equipped with 35 years experience in publishing. Beginning at McGraw-Hill (as an editor for six years, then publicist for two), Alice moved on to Simon & Schuster as Associate Publicity Director, and ended her corporate life at Crown Publishing.

Her publicity efforts have included four simultaneous New York Times bestsellers.* Others have included The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel and Simon Bond's 101 Uses for a Dead Cat.

Alice established her independent marketing and publicity organization in New York City in July 1981 (with moves to San Francisco in 1988, and the Pacific Northwest in April 1996). Her company provides a full range of services for publishers, authors, illustrators and photographers of fiction and non-fiction on a national, regional and/or local basis. These services include marketing (from book contract through publication date), publicity (including author tours), special sales, and subsidiary rights (especially magazines and book clubs).

She is particularly proud of her efforts for Old Turtle by Douglas Wood, which won the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year. Quite a feat considering it was the author's first book, Pfeifer-Hamilton had never published a children's book, and they had never marketed any of their books nationally. Old Turtle has now sold more than 800,000 copies and Alice was rewarded with the Literary Market Place Outside Services Award for Advertising, Promotion, and Publicity.

Marvin Bell

Poet Marvin Bell's 19th book, Mars Being Red, much of it wartime, appears in July of this year. He is the creator of what are known as the "Dead Man" poems, for which he is both famous and infamous. He and his wife, Dorothy, live in Iowa City, Iowa, and Port Townsend, Washington. Mr. Bell has collaborated with composers, musicians and dancers and often performs with bassist Glen Moore of the jazz group Oregon.

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Bernier-Grand is the author of six books for children and young adults. Her CESAR: Yes, We Can! ¡Sí, Se Puede! won Pura Belpré Honors for her poems and David Diaz's illustrations. Her book FRIDA: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life! will be out this summer. DIEGO: Bigger Than Life, illustrated by David Diaz, will be out in 2008.

David Bischoff

After graduating from University of Maryland in 1973 with a degree in Radio, Television and Film, David Bischoff worked for NBC Washington until 1980, when he left to devote himself to writing and teaching. Bischoff's major novels include Nightworld, Mandala, Star Fall, Tin Woodman and the Gaming Magi trilogy -- all science fiction and fantasy. His mainstream work includes The Selkie and The Judas Cross. He has published over a hundred short stories in various magazines and collections, has extensive non-fiction credits and has worked as a ghost writer. His story Tin Woodman was a finalist for the NEBULA AWARD. Subsequently it became the basis for an episode of Star Trek. He has written scripts for ABC, Walt Disney, Dic, Marvel Entertainment and Paramount Pictures. His credits include two filmed scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation. For many years in the 1980s he taught for The Writer's Center in Glen Echo Park in the D.C. area. He presently works with Seton Hill University on a Popular Fiction MA program. He presently lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he helps raise his five year old son, Bernie.

Christopher Howell

Christopher Howell's eight collections of poetry include The Crime of Luck; Though Silence: The Ling Wei Poems; and Light's Ladder, latest in the University of Washington Press' Northwest Poets series. His poetry has won two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Washington State Governor's Award, and the Vachel Lindsay and Helen Bullis prizes, along with three Pushcart Prizes.

Andrea Hurst

Andrea Hurst is the author of two books including the newly released Lazy Dog's Guide to Enlightenment published by New World Library. Her first published book, Everybody's Natural Foods Cookbook, helped launch her 25 year career in the publishing industry. She is the president of Andrea Hurst Literary Management, and has worked as a professional ghostwriter and developmental editor for many authors in the areas of self-help and spirituality, including best-selling author Dr. Bernie Siegel.

www.lazydogsguide.com www.andreahurst.com

Christina Katz

Christina Katz balances writing with motherhood in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. She is the author of the recently released Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids (Writer's Digest Books). She has written over two hundred articles for magazines, newspapers, and online publications and has appeared on Good Morning America. Editor and publisher of the online zines Writers on the Rise and The Writer Mama, Christina teaches and speaks at bookstores, MFA programs, writing associations, and writing conferences. She also teaches eight e-mail classes each year to over one hundred students. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Christina earned her MFA in Fiction from Columbia College, Chicago. She lives in Wilsonville, Oregon with her husband, Jason, daughter Samantha, and a menagerie of pets.

Kirby Larson

Kirby Larson is the author of five books for children. Second Grade Pig Pals was named a Seattle Times' Best Book for 1st and 2nd Graders; Cody and Quinn Sitting in a Tree was nominated for a Missouri Young Reader's Choice Award; The Magic Kerchief has won numerous awards, including the Oppenheim Platinum Award, Banks Street Best Books and International Story Tellers Award. She is also the winner of an International Reading Association Excellence in Literacy Award.

Holly MacArthur

Holly MacArthur is managing editor of Tin House, a literary magazine she founded in 1999 with publisher and editor Win McCormack. She is a former senior editor of EcoTraveler magazine and of TravelAge magazine. She has written for the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, Rocky Mountain News, Dirt magazine, The Nose, and other publications.

Michael Wiegers

Michael Wiegers is the Executive Editor of Copper Canyon Press and has worked in Literary publishing for two decades. He has edited books by Ted Kooser, Ben Lerner, W.S. Merwin, Taha Muhammad Ali, Ruth Stone, C.D. Wright, Alberto Ríos, and many others. His anthologies include Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry and This Art.

Regina Brooks

Regina Brooks is the founder and president of Serendipity Literary Agency LLC, a full service agency in Brooklyn, NY. The agency has established a diverse base of award-winning clients in adult and young adult fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature. A member of the AAR, Brooks was hailed by Writer's Digest Magazine as one of the top 25 literary agencies in 2004. She has edited numerous published books and is the author of the children's book Never Finished! Never Done! Brooks is interested in a variety of nonfiction subjects including psychology and self-help, pop culture, health, women's issues, parenting, politics, current events, design crafts, alternative spirituality, business, science/technology, and she is always interested in new and emerging writers. www.serendipitylit.com.

John Calderazzo

John Calderazzo is the author of Writing From Scratch: Freelancing; 101 Questions About Volcanoes; and Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives (Lyons Press, 2004). He writes about a wide variety of topics, including the nature of the personal essay, natural history, Asia, Buddhism, and the interrelationships of science and culture. His work has been cited in Best American Stories and Best American Essays and has appeared in Coastal Living, Georgia Review, Audubon, Orion, Witness, and many other magazines. His nonfiction students in recent years have gone on to editing or staff writer positions at NY Times Magazine, Times Science Section, Popular Science, Discover, Archeology, Utne Reader, as well as publishing in a wide range of literary magazines. One former student, Jim Sheeler, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for newspaper feature writing.

Brian Doyle

Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, in Oregon - "the finest spiritual magazine in the United States," says Annie Dillard.
Portland Magazine has won five national gold medals as the finest small-circulation university magazine in America (from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education), and won the 2005 Robert Sibley Award as the finest American university magazine of any size (from the editors of Newsweek).
Doyle is the author of seven books, most recently The Grail: a year ambling & shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir wine in the whole wild world (May 2006, by Oregon State University Press, and October 2006, by One Day Hill Publishers in Australia). Among his other books are The Wet Engine (Paraclete Press), about "the muddle & mangle & miracle & music" of hearts; Spirited Men, essays about writers and musicians, and Leaping, essays about everything else. Both latter collections were finalists for the Oregon Book Award. His first collection of poems, Epiphanies & Elegies, will be published in 2007 by Sheed & Ward.
Doyle's essays have appeared in The Best American Essays collections of 1998, 1999, 2003, and 2005, and in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion, The American Scholar, and magazines and newspapers in Australia, Ireland, France, England, and New Zealand. His work has also appeared in Best Spiritual Writing, Best Essays Northwest, and many anthologies. He is a columnist for The Age newspaper and Eureka Street magazine, both in Melbourne, Australia.

Deborah Grandinetti

Deborah Grandinetti is a former journalist turned magazine senior editor turned book publishing senior editor who still thinks of herself primarily as a writer. During her five-year tenure acquiring books for Running Press Book Publishers, she learned a lot about how publishing houses make decisions on manuscripts - things every aspiring author should know. She has been involved in the writing, rewriting, editing, or conceptualization of over 90 books. Her first book, which she co-authored for Rodale Press, sold over 200,000 copies. She was also a staff writer for five other Rodale books, including The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies, which sold over 17 million copies worldwide. She is the author of Sex on the Beach, Instant Meditations and the upcoming alphabet primer, A is for Angels.

Rita Rosenkranz

Rita Rosenkranz founded the Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency inn New York City in 1990. The agency focuses on adult nonfiction and represents various authors, including Pat Solley and Jason Blume. She specializes in adult non-fiction, including biography, history, business, self-help, popular reference, parenting, cookbooks, health, spirituality, music and general interest titles. She works with major publishing houses, as well as regional publishers that handle niche markets. She previously was an editor at various major trade publishing houses. She looks for projects that present familiar subjects freshly or less-known subjects presented commercially.

Elizabeth Wales

Elizabeth Wales heads the Seattle-based Wales Literary Agency, which represents an eclectic list of narrative nonfiction, and mainstream and literary fiction. The Agency's first interest is in compelling and well-crafted stories, whether in fiction or nonfiction - with a special interest in writers from the West, Northwest, and Alaska. Elizabeth Wales has been with the Agency since it was established in 1990. She is a native of the New York metropolitan area, worked in publishing in New York City and moved to Seattle in 1983. She is a member of the Association of Authors Representatives (AAR). The Agency works with both major commercial and independent presses. Agency titles have appeared on the NY Times, Publishers Weekly and other national bestseller lists. www.waleslit.com

Doris Booth

Doris Booth is the manager of Authorlink Literary Group, a division of Authorlink.com. The agency represents true crime, romance, thrillers, mysteries, women's fiction, and a wide range of nonfiction. Among recent sales have been hardcover rights to Barnes & Noble Publishing for The Only Living Witness and Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer, by New York Times best-selling authors Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth. The agency is actively seeking women's fiction, young adult fiction, and a variety of nonfiction projects. As the CEO of Authorlink.com, Doris has facilitated the sale of 87 fiction and nonfiction properties within the past five years, including a recent six-figure deal to HarperCollins. She has overseen direct sales to Simon & Schuster, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, Barnes & Noble Publishing and others. In her dual role as Authorlink CEO and as manager of the Literary Group, Doris has close ties with a broad range of editors and publishers, primarily in New York. Authorlink.com is the news, information, and marketing site for editors, agents and writers, attracting nearly one million visitors per year. Ms. Booth serves as the site's editor-in-chief.

Kate Gale, Ph.D.

Kate Gale received her Ph.D. in American Literature from Claremont Graduate University. She is the managing editor of Red Hen Press, editor of the Los Angeles Review and president of PEN USA. She has five books of poetry, a novel and a bilingual children's book. Kate won first place in the 1998 Allen Ginsberg Award for poetry. She and composer Don Davis co-authored the libretto Rio De Sangre, which was recently presented at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Visit www.redhen.org

Brent Hartinger

Brent Hartinger has sold nine novels - seven to HarperCollins and two to Tor Books. The first four books to be published are Geography Club, a novel about a secret high school gay-straight alliance; The Last Chance Texaco, a mystery about a girl in a "last chance" group home; The Order of the Poison Oak, the sequel to Geography Club; and Grand & Humble, a psychological thriller about the intersecting lives of two kids, one popular and one a geek (coming in January 2006!). His second great love is the theatre. His plays have been performed at dozens of theaters across the country. And he was recently asked to adapt Geography Club into a stage play, which premiered (very successfully!) in Seattle in April 2004. Learn more about Brent Hartinger at www.brenthartinger.com.

Andrea Hurst

Andrea Hurst & Associates offers representation in the areas of nonfiction and fiction. The agency represents both nationally acclaimed authors and emerging new voices. Currently we are seeking motivated authors with unique ideas in the following genres: Nonfiction including personal growth, self-help, health and beauty, parenting, business, cookbooks, spirituality, women's issues, and gift books. Experienced fiction authors may submit in the following areas: commercial and mainstream fiction, literary and women's fiction. Andrea works with both major and regional publishing houses, and her client list includes several authors from the Pacific Northwest.

Jane Kurtz

Since 1994, Jane Kurtz has published 22 books: early readers, nonfiction books, professional books for teachers, picture books, and novels that draw on her own childhood memories of growing up in Ethiopia, on living through the Red River flood of 1997, on her great grandmother's adventures traveling the Oregon Trail, and on the minor crises of her children's lives--from a friendship gone sour to the grouchiness of a rainy day. Her work has been highly honored, including the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Learn more about Jane Kurtz at www.janekurtz.com

Richard Jesse Watson

Richard Jesse Watson's illustrations have won the Golden Kite Award for illustration from SCBWI, as well as the Parents' Choice Gold Award for illustration. Connoisseur has called children's book his art "breathtaking", New York Times, "Enchanting and inspiring...", LA Times Magazine said the award winning artist "echoes the realism of Durer." Learn more about Richard Jesse Watson at www.richardjessewatson.com

Kathleen Alcala, Fiction. August 15-17 2005

MA, University of Washington

Winner of the Western States Book Award, the Governor's Writers Award, a Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award, and a Washington State Book Award, her books include the novels Treasures in Heaven, The Flower in the Skull, and Spirits of the Ordinary, and the short story collection, Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist.

Anjali Banerjee, Fiction. January 14-16 2006

Anjali Banerjee's first four books have appeared or will appear in 2005: her young adult novel Maya Running appeared in February; a middle level novel, The Silver Spell, appeared in August; Imaginary Men, described as "chick lit for adults," appeared in October; and Rani and the Fashion Divas, another middle grade novel, will appear in November. Born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, she grew up in Canada and California, graduating from the University of California at Berkeley.

Marvin Bell, poetry. August 18-22 2005

MFA, Iowa Writers Workshop; MA, University of Chicago; BA, Alfred University

Marvin Bell's books include Rampant; Nightworks: poems 1962-2000; Ardor; The Book of the Dead Man, Volume 2; A Marviin Bell Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose; The Book of the Dead Man.

Sheila Bender, Nonfiction, poetry, The Profession of Writing. August 15-17 2005

MA, University of Washington; MAT, Kean College; BA, University of Wisconsin

Sheila Bender's books on writing include Writing and Publishing Personal Essays (forthcoming); A Year in the Life: Journaling for Self-Discovery; The Writers Journal: 40 Contemporary Writers and Their Journals. Her books of poems include Sustenance: New And Selected Poems; and Love From the Coastal Route

Gary Ferguson, Creative Non-Fiction. January 9-12 2006

Gary Ferguson's nature articles have appeared in dozens of national magazines, including Outside, Sierra, Vanity Fair, American Forests, Big Sky Journal, Modern Maturity, Travel Holiday, and productions of New York's Children's Television Workshop. He's also the author of fourteen books on nature and science. His 1997 title, Through the Woods: A Journey Through America's Forests, was a starred selection in Kirkus Review, as well as a winner of the prestigious Lowell Thomas Awards. Spirits of the Wild: The World's Great Nature Myths was selected by the New York City Public Library as one of the best books of 1996.

Jill Johnson, Storytelling. August 14-16 2005

MS, University of Oregon; BS, Northwestern University; Certificat in French, Institut de Francias.

Jill Johnson has performed and given workshops in South Africa as part of the 2004 National Storytelling Network storytelling delegation; she has performed (in English and French) in Cameroon, Central West Africa; her one woman show, "Little, But Oh My!" was selected as part of the 2004-2005 "Inquiring Mind" program series of Humanities Washington

Frances McCue, Poetry, The Profession of Writing. August 19-21 2005

MFA, University of Washington; Ed.D. Columbia; Ed.M Columbia; BA University of New Hampshire

Co-Founder and Executive/Artistic Director of Seattle's Richard Hugo House, she is the author of The Stenographer's Breakfast. Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review, MS Magazine, and Poetry Northwest, among others.

Randy Powell, Children's Literature. August 14-18 2005

MA, University of Washington; BA, University of Washington

Formerly a faculty member in the MFA in Writing for Children at Vermont College, Randy Powell's books for young adults include Swiss Miss (forthcoming), Three Clams and an Oyster; Run if You Dare, and Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star.

Peggy Shumaker, Poetry and Nonfiction. August 20-22 2005

MFA, University of Arizona; BA, University of Arizona

Peggy Shumaker's books include Underground Rivers; Wings Moist from the Other World; Braided River (chapbook); The Circle of Totems; and Esperanza's Hair

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