> Baruth, Philip
>Beattie, Ann
> Bliss, Harry
> Bonino, Cinse
> Brookes, Tim
> Carkeet, David
> Clinch, Jon
> Cooper, Wyn
> Crooker, Barbara
> Dennett, Charlotte
> Ellefson, Jim
> Esckilsen, Erik
> Estrin, Marc
> Heinrichs, Jay
> Hempel, Amy
> Hood, Ann
> Jackson, Major
> Galbraith, Peter
> Kinnell, Galway
> Kumin, Maxine
> Kunin, Madeline
> Lange, Willem
> Lea, Creston
> Lesser, Ellen
> Mayo, Tim
> Mazur, Joseph
> Moody, Rick
> Mosher, Howard Frank
> Norman, Howard
> Noyes, Deborah
> Resmer, Cathy
> Steinzor, Seth
> Stone, Linl
> Sturm, James
> Wisch, Ali
Philip Baruth is a novelist, and an award-winning commentator for Vermont Public Radio. His most recent novel, The Brothers Boswell (Soho, 2009), is a literary thriller tracing the famous literary friendship between James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, author of the first modern dictionary. Parenthetically, Philip is now running for the State Senate from Chittenden County. More info at Baruth2010.com.
Born 9/8/47, Washington, D.C.
Novels: Chilly
Scenes of Winter (
Doubleday, 1976); Falling in Place
(Random House,
1980); Love Always
( Random House, 1985); Picturing Will
(Random House,
1990); Another You
(Knopf, 1995); My Life, Starring Dara
Falcon (Knopf,
1997) The Doctor’s
House (Scribner 2002).
Story collections: Distortions (Doubleday, 1976); Secrets and Surprises
(Random House, 1979); The Burning House (Random House, 1982); Where
You'll Find Me (Linden Press, 1986); What Was Mine (Random House, 1991);
Park City: New and Selected Stories (Knopf, 1998); Perfect Recall
(Scribner, 2001); Follies: New Stories(Scribner), May 2005; “Walks With
Men,” (novella, Scribner, 2010); “Ann Beattie: The New Yorker Stories,”
(48 of my stories from the magazine, to be published by Scribner Nov.
2010).
Awards: Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and
Letters (1980). Guggenheim Fellowship (1977). Inducted as member of
The American Academy of Arts and Letters (1992). PEN/Malamud Award for
Excellence in the Short Story (2000). Included in John Updike’s “Best
American Short Stories of the Century.” Stories included in four volumes
of O. Henry Award collections. Rea Award for the short story, 2005.
Degrees: B.A. American University,1969; M.A. The University of
Connecticut,1970.
Honorary degrees: Doctor of Humane Letters, American University 1983;
Doctor of Letters, Colby College 1991.
Teaching: University of Virginia, 1975-1976 + Spring 1994; Rea Visiting
Writer, University of Virginia, 1988. Harvard, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer
on English, 1977; Visiting writer, Northwestern Univ., Fall 1994. Edgar
Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, University of
Virginia, Fall 2001 --
(I have also done brief residencies at Rice, U. of Houston, U. of
Idaho, + summer workshops at Santa Monica Writers Conference, Writers at
Work, Ropewalk, The New York State Writers Institute,etc.).
Committees and Professional Memberships: Author's Guild; P.E.N.;
Literature Awards Committee, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1992-
1994; Chairperson Lit. Awards Committee 2002; Strauss Living Award
committee 1997; Committee for award of Gold Medal in Belle Lettres
1998. Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004.
Other publications include: magazine articles for Preservation; Esquire;
Architectural Digest; European Travel and Life; Life; Travel and
Leisure, Elle, Allure, etc. Abrams published my monograph, Alex Katz/
Ann Beattie (1987) and I've edited the Houghton-Mifflin anthology, The
Best American Short Stories 1987. I've also written the introduction to
At Twelve, photographs by Sally Mann (Aperture 1988), the introduction
to Flesh and Blood (Picture Project 1992), and have completed work
on an introduction for a book of photographs by Bob Adelman, as well
as an introduction for a collection of photographs by Mary Motley
Kalergis,(”With This Ring,” 1996). My work appears regularly in 21st:
The Journal of Contemporary Photography. I have written the afterword
to A Portrait of Southern Writers by Curt Richter (Hill Street Press,
2001). An article on the photographs of Holly Wright, along with
an interview with her, appeared in 21st: a Journal of Contemporary
Photography, Culture and Criticism (volume 1, 1998).
My article on
Andrea Modica’s photographs appears in the July 2002 issue, vol.5.
An article on Jayne Hinds Bidaut has just been published in vol.
6. I’ve written the introduction to a collection of my husband’s
paintings, “Lincoln Perry’s Charlottesville,” (U. of Va. Press, 2005)
and the introduction to “As I See It,” the photographs of John Loengard
(Vendome, 2005).
I live in Maine, Key West, and in Charlottesville, Virginia. My
husband, Lincoln Perry, is a painter. My writing has been translated
into many languages, including book publications in France, Italy,
Holland, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Japan, etc.
Harry Bliss is a children’s book illustrator, an internationally syndicated cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine. His most recently published titles are Louise: The Adventure of a Chicken, a picture book written by Kate deCamillo, Death by Laughter, a cartoon collection for adults and Luke on the Loose, his debut comic book for children.
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Cinse Bonino is the Director of the Center for Instructional Practice (CIP) at Champlain College and currently teaches a class on Creativity and Conceptual Development for students. She designed and taught the college's first course on creative non-fiction. Cinse was Editor in Chief of girlzone.com, an online magazine for adolescent girls for several years, and has worked and volunteered as a creative brain-stormer and concept developer for businesses and organizations. Cinse's background is in Education with a concentration in the Psychology of Human Learning.
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Tim Brookes is Director of the Professional Writing Program at Champlain College. He was a regular essayist on NPR for twenty years is the author of twelve books, some of which he barely remembers writing. Now he comes to think of it, much of his life seems highly improbable, and though he mainly writes non-fiction he suspects he may be the fictional invention of another writer altogether. His collected blatherings can be found at www.timbrookesinc.com.
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David Carkeet’s newest novel, From Away, is a comic mystery set in Vermont. He is the author of five other novels, three of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year: Double Negative, The Full Catastrophe, and The Error of Our Ways. His honors include an O. Henry Award and the Creative Nonfiction Award given by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. His short stories and essays have appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, The North American Review, The Oxford American, New York Stories, The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, and The Village Voice. He grew up in northern California and attended college there and graduate school in the Midwest. For many years he taught linguistics and writing in St. Louis, where he and his wife raised three daughters. He lives in Middlesex, Vermont.
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Born and raised in the remote heart of upstate New York, Jon Clinch been an English teacher, a
metalworker, a folksinger, an illustrator, a typeface designer, a housepainter, a copywriter, and
an advertising executive. Teaching and advertising took him south to the suburbs of Philadelphia
for many years, and only with the publication of Finn, his first novel, was he able to return
to the kind of rural surroundings he'd loved from the start: This time, in the Green Mountains
of Vermont. He is married to the novelist Wendy Clinch, and they have one daughter.
Finn was named an American Library Association Notable Book and was chosen as one of
the year's ten best books by the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science
Monitor. It also won the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award and was shortlisted for the
Sargent First Novel Prize.
His second novel, Kings of the Earth, is set in upstate New York and concerns a
mysterious death in a farming family. It was inspired by the tragedy of the Ward brothers.
Wyn Cooper’s fourth book of poems, Chaos is the New Calm, will be published by BOA Editions in May 2010. His poems appear in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry. He has written songs with Sheryl Crow, David Broza, Jody Redhage, and David Baerwald. His second CD with Madison Smartt Bell, Postcards Out of the Blue, came out in 2008. Their songs can be heard on six television shows. He lives in Vermont and works for the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, a think tank run by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. www.wyncooper.com
Barbara Crooker’s work has appeared in magazines as diverse as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Highlights for Children, and The Journal of American Medicine (JAMA). She is the recipient of the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, and three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships. Her books are Radiance, which won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize; Line Dance, (Word Press 2008), which won the 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence; and More (C & R Press, 2010).
Author and attorney Charlotte Dennett has been practicing law since 1997, with an emphasis on personal injury litigation and suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act. She's also been a reporter in the Middle East and is the coauthor with her husband, Gerard Colby, of Thy Will Be Done-The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Vermont.
Jim Ellefson has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Before coming to Champlain, he taught writing and literature at Shanghai International Studies University and the Universidade Dos Acores. He has well over one hundred poems published throughout the United States, and others in Canada, Great Britain, France, and Japan. He has also published short fiction, reviews and a chapter of a children's novel. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he received an International Merit Award from the Atlanta Review for his poem "Walt Whitman Shows Up for Dinner."
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Burlington, Vermont, native Erik E. Esckilsen is the author of three novels for young readers: The Last Mall Rat (2003), Offsides (2004), and The Outside Groove (2006). He is a faculty member at Champlain College, where he teaches a range of writing courses, including Interactive Storytelling for electronic game designers. His articles on various arts topics have appeared in such publications as the Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and Seven Days.
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Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist and activist from Burlington, VT, and author of the novels Insect Dreams, The Half Life of Gregor Samsa; The Education of Arnold Hitler; Golem Song; The Lamentations of Julius Marantz; Skulk; The Annotated Nose; The Good Doctor Guillotin; and an award-winning memoir of his decades-long work with the Bread & Puppet Theater, Rehearsing With Gods: Photographs and Essays on the Bread & Puppet Theater (with Ron Simon, photographer) His latest novel, Tsim-Tsum, has just appeared from Spuyten Duyvil.
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Amy Hempel is the author of four collections of short stories which were published as THE COLLECTED STORIES in 2006. This book was named one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the Ambassador Book Award for Best Fiction of the year. She has also won, in the last two years, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award, and a United States Artists Fellowship, as well as an earlier Guggenheim Fellowship. Her stories have been published in Harper's, The Quarterly, The Yale Review, GQ, Playboy, and many other places, and have been anthologized in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, THE PUSHCART PRIZE, and THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION. She guest-edited the 2010 edition of BEST STORIES FROM THE SOUTH. Amy Hempel teaches at Harvard and at Bennington, and lives in New York City.
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Ann Hood is the author of nine books, including the novel The Knitting Circle. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry, Hoops (Norton, 2006), a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Holding Company, published this year by Norton.Poems by Major Jackson have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Callaloo, Post Road, Triquarterly, The New Yorker, among other literary journals and anthologies. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has received critical attention in The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Parnassus, Philadelphia Inquirer, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.Jackson is an associate professor of english at the University of Vermont and a faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. In 2006-2007, he was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
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Peter W. Galbraith has served in senior positions in the US Government and the United Nations. Most recently, he was Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Afghanistan and an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN. He was recalled on October 1, 2009, after he urged the UN take more forceful action to deal with fraud in Afghanistan’s presidential elections.
From 1993 to 1998, Peter Galbraith was the first US Ambassador to Croatia where he mediated 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the Croatia War. From 2000 to 2001, Galbraith was Director for Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs for the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and a Cabinet Member in the First Transitional Government of East Timor. He designed the territory’s first interim government and the process to write East Timor’s permanent constitution. He also negotiated two treaties on East Timor’s behalf with Australia that effectively quadrupled East Timor’s share of oil and gas in the Timor Sea.
Ambassador Galbraith is one of America’s foremost experts on Iraq, having been a regular visitor to the country since the early 1980s. As a staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he uncovered Saddam Hussein’s murderous “al-anfal” campaign against the Iraqi Kurds, documenting chemical weapons attacks on Kurdish villagers and the depopulation of rural Kurdistan. During the 1991 uprising, Galbraith was in rebel-held northern Iraq, narrowly escaping across the Tigris as Iraqi forces recaptured the area. His written and televised accounts provided early warning of the catastrophe overtaking the civilian population and contributed to the decision to create a safe haven in northern Iraq. In 1992, Galbraith brought out of northern Iraq 14 tons of captured Iraqi secret police documents detailing the atrocities against the Kurds.
Galbraith is a principal of the Windham Resources Group LLC, a Townshend, Vermont-based firm that specializes in international negotiations for government and corporate clients. His most recent books are The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (2006) and Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America’s Enemies (2008).
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Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1927. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and took a Master’s Degree in English at the University of Rochester. During his career in poetry that spans five decades and twelve collections, Kinnell has received the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Frost Medal, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In the nomination for the 2003 National Book Award, the judges called Kinnell “America's preeminent visionary” whose work “greets each new age with rapture and abundance [and] sets him at the table with his mentors: Rilke, Whitman, Frost.”
Kinnell’s volumes of poetry include Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); A New Selected Poems; Imperfect Thirst; When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone; Selected Poems ; The Past; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words; The Book of Nightmares; Body Rags; Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock; and What a Kingdom It Was . He is the editor of The Essential Whitman. He has also published translations of works by Yves Bonnefoy, Yvan Goll, and François Villon, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
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Maxine Kumin's 17th poetry collection is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010. She also has a new essay collection, The Roots of Things, and a children’s book about a black-and-white dog with an identity crisis, What Color Is Caesar? Her awards include the Pulitzer and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes, the Poets’ Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost Medals. She and her husband live on a farm in central New Hampshire with three rescued dogs and two very old horses.
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Madeleine May Kunin was the fourth woman to be elected Governorin her own right and the first woman to beelected for three terms. She immigrated to the United States as a child with her mother andbrother from Switzerland at the outbreak of World War II in fear of the Holocaust.
She served on a three-person Vice Presidential search committee which recommended Al Gore. She first served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, and then returned to her birthplace when President Clinton appointed her ambassador to Switzerland from 1996-99. During her tenure she worked to retrieve dormant accounts for Jews who had deposited funds in Swiss banks.
She was elected to the Vermont legislature in 1972 and served three terms. She was the first woman to be elected to a leadership position and to chair the House Appropriations committee. She was elected lieutenant Governor in 1978 and served two terms.
She came to Vermont to work as a journalist after graduating from Columbia University School of Journalism. She has a B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Vermont.
After leaving the governorship,she formed a non-governmental organization, The Institute for Sustainable Communities, which partners with local organizations in the U.S. and around the world to create stronger democratic communities.
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has had appointments at Harvard, Dartmouth, Middlebury and St. Michael’s College. Presently she is a Marsh professor at the University of Vermont, a commentator on Vermont Public Radio, and a blogger on the Huffington Post and serves on several non-profit boards.
She is the author of the recentlypublished book, “Pearls, Politics and Power, How Women Can Win and Lead,” “Living a Political Life,” and “The Big Green Book.” She frequently lectures on issues regarding women, the environment and education. Her most recent award was the Eleanor Roosevelt medal received in 2009.
She resides in Burlington, Vermont with her husband John Hennessey and together they have six children and eight grandchildren.
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Willem Lange was born in 1935. A child of deaf parents, he grew up speaking sign language and first came to New England to prep school in 1950 as an alternative to reform school in his native New York State.
During a few absences from New England, Will earned a degree in only nine years at the College of Wooster in Ohio. In between those scattered semesters, he worked as a ranch hand, Adirondack guide, preacher, construction laborer, bobsled run announcer, assembly line worker, cab driver, bookkeeper, and bartender. After graduating in 1962, he taught high school English in northern New York, filling in summers as an Outward Bound instructor.
From 1968 to 1972 Will directed the Dartmouth Outward Bound Center. Since 1972 he’s been a building and remodeling contractor in Hanover. He’s an adopted member of the Dartmouth Class of 1957.
In 1981 he began writing a weekly column, “A Yankee Notebook,” which appears in several New England newspapers. He’s a commentator for Vermont Public Radio and the host of New Hampshire Public Television’s weekly show Windows to the Wild. His annual readings of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol began in 1975 and continue unabated. He’s published several audiocassette tapes and six books and received an Emmy nomination for one of his pieces on Vermont Public Television.
In 1973 Will founded the Geriatric Adventure Society, a group of outdoor enthusiasts whose members have skied the 200-mile Alaska Marathon, climbed in Alaska, the Andes, and Himalayas, bushwhacked on skis through northern New England and paddled rivers north of the Arctic Circle.
He and his wife, Ida, who is the proprietor of a kitchen design business, have been married since 1959. They recently moved to Vermont, and live in East Montpelier.
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Creston Lea was born in New Hampshire in 1971, grew up in Lyme and
attended Hanover High School. He attended Skidmore College and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’
Workshop at the University of Iowa.
In 1996, he moved to Burlington, Vermont with his wife, Kerrie. They have a
2-year-old daughter.
He builds electric guitars under the name Creston Electric Instruments,
shipping them all over the world.
He plays guitar and bass in working bands, playing fifty shows a year.
He is chair of the board of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
(VT, NH, ME).
Wild Punch, published by Turtle Point Press in April of 2010, is his book-
length publication. His stories have appeared in DoubleTake, Open City,
Hunger Mountain, and in a WW Norton collection of young fiction writers
called 25&Under: Fiction
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Ellen Lesser is the author of two novels, The Other Woman (Simon & Schuster) and The Blue Streak (Grove), and the short story collection, The Shoplifter's Apprentice (Simon & Schuster). Her fiction and essays on the craft of writing have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, most recently in The Antioch and North American Reviews, and Words Overflown by Stars: Creative Writing Instruction and Insight from the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA. Program. Ellen has taught on the VCFA faculty for over two decades, and directs the College’s annual summer Postgraduate Writers’ Conference. She lives in East Montpelier.
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Tim Mayo holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars. His poems and reviews have appeared (or will) in Atlanta Review, Babel Fruit, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Tygerburning Literary Journal, The Worcester Review, Verse Wisconsin, Verse Daily and The Writer’s Almanac among many other places. His chapbook The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House Publications) was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook Challenge in Ontario, Canada and his first full length collection The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press, 2009) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award. Recently he was chosen as a top finalist for the Paumanok Award. He is a former member of the Brattleboro Literary Festival author committee and an amateur trapeze artist. He lives in Brattleboro where he substitute teaches in the public school system.
Joseph Mazur, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Marlboro College, is the author of four books. Euclid in the Rainforest was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/America Martha Albright Award. PEN reviewed it as “a stylish and seductive book that convinces the mind even as it delights the soul.” Choice called it “a treasure of human experience and intellectual excitement.” The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space was published in 2008. New Scientist: “This is one of the most fascinating science books I have ever read.” Those books have been translated into a half-dozen languages. His most recent book, What’s Luck Got to Do with It? (Princeton University Press, 2010), for which he received a Rockefeller Bellagio Residency, explores the question of luck through the history, mathematics and psychology of gambling. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and the editor of the recently republished classic, Number: The Language of Science. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Jennifer.
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Rick Moody's first novel, Garden State, was the winner of the 1991 Editor's Choice Award from the Pushcart Press and was published in 1992. The Ice Storm was published in May 1994 by Little, Brown & Co. Foreign editions have been published in twenty countries; and a film version, directed by Ang Lee, was released by Fox Searchlight in 1997. His newest book of fiction, The Four Fingers of Death was recently released by Little, Brown. Right Livelihoods, a book of three novellas, was published in 2007. Other novels include The Diviners and Purple America, published in April 1997, for which foreign editions have appeared widely. A collection of short fiction, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven, was also published by Little, Brown & Co. in August 1995. The title story was the winner of the 1994 Aga Khan Award from The Paris Review. An anthology, edited with Darcey Steinke, Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited, also appeared in November 1997.
In 1998, Moody received the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2000, he received a Guggenheim fellowship. In 2001, he published a collection of short fiction, Demonology, also published in Spain, France, Brazil, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. In May of 2002, Little, Brown & Co issued The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions, which was a winner of the NAMI/Ken Book Award, and the PEN Martha Albrand prize for excellence in the memoir. His short fiction and journalism have been anthologized in Best American Stories 2001, Best American Essays 2004, Year's Best Science Fiction #9, and, multiply, in the Pushcart Prize anthology. His radio pieces have appeared on The Next Big Thing and at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. His album Rick Moody and One Ring Zero was released in 2004, and an album by The Wingdale Community Singers was released in 2005. A second album, "Spirit Duplicator", will be released in the fall of 2009.
Moody is a member of the board of directors of the Corporation of Yaddo. He is the secretary of the PEN American Center, and he co-founded the Young Lions Book Award at the New York Public Library. He has taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, the Bennington College Writing Seminars, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the New School for Social Research. Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia Universities. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Howard Frank Mosher is the author of ten novels and a travel memoir. Born in the Catskill Mountains in 1942, Mosher has lived in Vermont’s fabled Northeast Kingdom since 1964. He has won many awards for his fiction, including Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the American Civil Liberties Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the New England Book Award. Three of his novels, Disappearances, A Stranger in the Kingdom and Where the Rivers Flow North, have been made into acclaimed feature movies by the Vermont independent filmmaker Jay Craven. Mosher and his wife of forty-four years, Phillis, have a grown son and daughter. His Civil War-era novel, Walking to Gatlinburg, was released in March and chronicles the nightmarish odyssey of 17-year-old Morgan Kinneson from northern Vermont to Tennessee during 1864.
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Howard Norman is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His 1987 novel, The Northern Lights, was nominated for a National Book Award, as was his 1994 novel The Bird Artist. He is also author of the novels The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, and Devotion. His books have been translated into twelve languages. Norman teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and daughter.
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Deborah Noyes is the author of the novels Angel and Apostle and Captivity, as well any many books for younger readers. She is also an editor and photographer. Visit www.deborahnoyes.com for more information.
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Cathy Resmer is the web editor and an associate publisher at Seven Days, Vermont's alternative newsweekly. She started writing for the paper as a freelancer in 2001, after co-founding the Burlington Poetry Slam, and publishing chapbooks and one-page "little books" through the Minimal Press, a guerilla publishing cooperative. She also helped create and stock poetry vending machines stationed in venues throughout the Northeast. Today she spends less time at Kinko's, and more time blogging, Tweeting and coding email newsletters. Cathy lives with her partner and their two children in Winooski.
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Seth Steinzor, born to a Jewish academic family in California in 1952, grew up in the environs of Buffalo, New York. He has been writing poetry nonstop since his teens. His first significant educational experience was at the Farm and Wilderness Camps in Vermont, from 1964 through 1968. Graduating from Middlebury College in 1974, he attended the University of Maine School of Law. The early 1980s found him in Boston, working with a Native American advocacy and service organization and as a bicycle courier. There he met the woman he was to marry, and moved to Vermont in 1983 to be with her. They had two children before divorcing in 2004. Steinzor has worked for the State of Vermont since 1985, as a civil rights investigator and lawyer, criminal prosecutor, and in social services. He is the author of To Join the Lost and numerous other poems. For more information, visit http://www.antrimhousebooks.com/steinzor.
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Lin Stone is the Director and Managing Editor of the Partnership Book Publishing program for Wind Ridge Publishing in Shelburne, Vermont. She is also the copy editor and a contributing writer for the organization’s newspapers and magazines. She studied and lived in London with her husband for many years and received her degree from Friends World College in London and the State University of New York.
Lin has enjoyed the part-time pleasures of reading well-written prose and poetry for more than fifty years and now has the additional pleasure of close reading and writing every day.
James Sturm is the cartoonist of James Sturm’s America, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, Adventures in Cartooning, The Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules and the acclaimed graphic novel Market Day, released this spring. He is also editor of “The Center for Cartoon Studies Presents,” a series of historical graphic novels about the lives of notable Americans. His comics, writing, and illustrations have appeared in scores of national and regional publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Onion, The New York Times and on the cover of The New Yorker.
As the director and co-founder of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), a two-year MFA program in cartooning in White River Junction, Vermont, James is also a noted educator. CCS brings together top-tier faculty and the country’s most talented cartoonists to work with the field’s up-and-coming artists and is the only higher educational institution of its kind in North America. Sturm started his educational career at the Savannah College of Art & Design, where he worked for five years in its sequential art program and started the National Association of Comics Art Educators (NACAE), an organization committed to helping facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education.
Born in 1965 in New York City, James became a big fan of comics as a child, starting with Peanuts. Around first grade, James saw an interview with Stan Lee on television, and the next day went out and bought a Fantastic Four Marvel comic book becoming hooked on superhero comics. At the tender age of 18, James gave up comics for the “real world” and enrolled in the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was lured back into comics a mere two years later though a chance encounter with a neighbor’s box of underground comics and a copy of Mark Alan Stamaty's Macdoodle Street.
A year after graduating from college, James self-published Down and Out Dawg, a book collecting his college newspaper strips, and Commix, an anthology featuring some of the first nationally published works of Chris Ware and Scott Dikkers (of The Onion). James became a production assistant on Art Spiegelman’s groundbreaking RAW magazine and was published in Drawn & Quarterly when the anthology was still a magazine. James went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York, moved to Seattle and co-founded the alternative weekly, The Stranger, where he was the paper’s first art director.
Fantagraphics Books published the first issue of James’ Eisner Award-nominated comic book, The Cereal Killings. He was also the publisher of Bear Bones Press, which published two comics by the advice columnist and writer Dan Savage, and his own Xeric Award-winning The Revival, the first in a trilogy of American historical fiction pieces, the second of which, Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight, was published as a comic by D+Q as well as the last installment, the best-selling and award-winning graphic novel The Golem's Mighty Swing. This novel was printed in five languages, earned praise from The Sunday Observer, Entertainment Weekly, and Washington Post, among others, and was chosen as the Best Graphic Novel of 2001 by Time. These three stories were collected and comprise the book, James Sturm’s America. He is also the author of the Eisner Award-winning Unstable Molecules, based on the Fantastic Four and published by Marvel Comics. His graphic novel, Satchel Paige, just received the prestigious Eisner Award.
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Ali Wisch is currently trucking her way through her undergraduate degree as Professional Writing major at Champlain College. She began her journey in 2004 and after switching major twice, moving to Barcelona and back, and numerous battles with her inner student, she hopes to finish her journey this spring.
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