FACULTY 2006
NONFICTION
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Ted Conover's Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Conover is also the author of Whiteout, Coyotes, and Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes. He contributes to the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and many other publications. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is Distinguished Writer-in- Residence in the Department of Journalism at New York University. |
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William Kittredge farmed on the MC Ranch in southeastern Oregon until he was thirty-five, then taught creative writing at the University of Montana, where he retired as a Regents Professor in 1997. His most recent books are The Nature of Generosity, Southwestern Homelands, and The Best Stories of William Kittredge. At present, he is trying to get another novel started while he awaits the publication of two books—an environmental book on an island in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta in Central California and a novel. |
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David Shields is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages, winner of the Governor's Writers Award. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, the Yale Review, the Village Voice, Utne Reader, Tin House, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and the Believer. A senior editor at Conjunctions and a current Guggenheim Fellow, he has also received two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation award, a Ludwig Vogelstein award, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Shields teaches at the University of Washington. |
POETRY
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David Baker has published ten books, including Midwest Eclogue (poems) and Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (criticism). He has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Poetry Society of America, and the Society of Midland Authors, and has taught at Kenyon College, Ohio State University, and University of Michigan. Currently he is a professor of English at Denison University where he holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing; he is also poetry editor of the Kenyon Review. A new book of essays, The Radiant Lyre: Forms of Lyric Poetry, is forthcoming. |
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Linda Bierds has published seven books of poetry: Flights of the Harvest-Mare; The Stillness, the Dancing; Heart and Perimeter; The Ghost Trio (a 1994 Notable Book selection of the American Library Association); The Profile Makers (winner of the Pen West Poetry Prize); The Seconds; and First Hand. Her awards include four Pushcart Prizes, the Virginia Quarterly Review's 2005 Emily Clark Balch Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill, the Guggenheim, and MacArthur foundations, and twice from the NEA. She is a professor of English at the University of Washington, in Seattle. |
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Michael Collier, director of the Conference, is the author of five books of poems: The Clasp and Other Poems; The Folded Heart; The Neighbor; The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and most recently, Dark Wild Realm. He is also co-editor, along with Charles Baxter and Edward Hirsch, of A William Maxwell Portrait. Collier has received Guggenheim and Thomas Watson fellowships, two NEA fellowships, a "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Pushcart Prize. Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2001–2004, he teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland. |
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Toi Derricotte, a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, has published four books of poems: The Empress of the Death House; Natural Birth; Captivity; and Tender, winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her memoir, The Black Notebooks, was a recipient of the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Nonfiction Award, and was nominated for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. It was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has won numerous awards, including Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and Pushcart Prizes. She is the co-founder of Cave Canem, the first writing workshop and retreat for African-American poets. |
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Mark Doty's seventh book of poems, School of the Arts, was published in 2005. He has also published three volumes of nonfiction prose, including Heaven's Coast, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill foundations. He teaches in the graduate program at the University of Houston. A new prose book, Dog Years, is forthcoming. |
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Linda Gregerson is the author of Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, and Fire in the Conservatory, as well as two books of criticism, The Reformation of the Subject and Negative Capability. Waterborne was the winner of the 2003 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep was a finalist for both the Poets Prize and the Lenore Marshall Award. Gregerson has also received awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Poetry Society of America, Poetry magazine, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation, and two from the NEA. Gregerson is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English at the University of Michigan. |
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Carl Phillips is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Riding Westward and The Rest of Love, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Other books include Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry and a translation of Sophocles's Philoctetes. His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress. Phillips teaches at Washington University, in St. Louis. |
FICTION
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Robert Boswell is the author of five novels, Century's Son, Crooked Hearts, The Geography of Desire, Mystery Ride, and American Owned Love; two story collections, Living to Be 100 and Dancing in the Movies; a play, Tongues; and a pseudonymous sci-fi novel. His stories have appeared in Esquire, the New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, he teaches at New Mexico State University, the University of Houston, and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program. |
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Percival Everett is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction. Among these are American Desert, Erasure, Glyph, and Damned If I Do. He has received the American Academy Award for Literature, the Hurston/ Wright LEGACY Award, and the Hillsdale Award for Fiction. He is a professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives outside of Los Angeles and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. |
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Ursula Hegi is the author of six novels: Sacred Time, The Vision of Emma Blau, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, and Intrusions. She has also written a book of nonfiction, Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America; a children's book, Trudi & Pia; and two collections of stories, Hotel of the Saints and Unearned Pleasures. Her books have been translated into many languages. Awards include NEA and Artist Trust fellowships. Stones from the River was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has served as a juror for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Awards. |
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Randall Kenan's books include Walking on Water, A Visitation of Spirits, and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, a collection of stories. The latter was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; it was selected as one of the New York Times Notable Books of 1992. The recipient of many awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1997 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kenan has also written a young adult biography of James Baldwin. He currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Kevin McIlvoy is the author of four novels, A Waltz, The Fifth Station, Little Peg, and Hyssop. His story collection, The Complete History of New Mexico, was published in 2005. His work has recently appeared in Harper's Magazine, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and the Southern Review. He teaches in the MFA Program at New Mexico State University, where he is editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol magazine. He is also a faculty member of the Warren Wilson MFA Program. |
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Antonya Nelson is the author of three novels: Talking in Bed, Nobody's Girl, and Living to Tell; and four short story collections: The Expendables, In the Land of Men, Family Terrorists, and Female Trouble. A new book of stories, Some Fun, is due out in March. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, TriQuarterly, and Story, and in anthologies, including The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rea Award for the Short Story, she teaches at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program. |
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Josip Novakovich, born in Croatia, moved to the United States at the age of twenty. He has published a novel, April Fool's Day, which appeared in translation in ten countries; three story collections, Infidelities, Yolk, and Salvation and Other Disasters; two collections of narrative essays, Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl; and a textbook, Fiction Writer's Workshop, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. His work was been anthologized in The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim and two NEA fellowships, the Ingram Merrill Award, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and he has been a writing fellow of the New York City Public Library. His work has appeared in many journals, including the Paris Review, Tin House, DoubleTake, and the New York Times Magazine. He teaches in the MFA program at Penn State University. |
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Sigrid Nunez has published four novels: A Feather on the Breath of God, Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, and For Rouenna. Her fifth novel, The Last of Her Kind, will be published in January 2006. Nunez's work has been included in several anthologies, including two Pushcart Prize volumes. Among her other awards are a Whiting Writers' Award, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. Nunez has taught at Amherst College, Smith College, Columbia University, and the New School. |
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Helen Schulman is the author of the novels P.S., The Revisionist, and Out Of Time; and the short story collection Not A Free Show. The novel P.S. was made into a feature film starring Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Marcia Gay Harden, and Gabriel Byrne; the screenplay was written by Helen Schulman & Dylan Kidd. Ms. Schulman co-edited, along with Jill Bialosky, the anthology Wanting A Child. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, GQ, Elle, Self, the New York Times Book Review, Style Sections, Ploughshares, the Paris Review, and Tin House, among others. Presently the fiction coordinator at the Writing Program at The New School, she has taught at Emory, NYU, Bennington, Bard, and Columbia. Her new novel, A Day at the Beach, is forthcoming in 2007. |
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Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories; Under the Feet of Jesus, a novel; and the co-editor, with María Herrera-Sobek, of two essay collections: Chicana (W)rites: On Word and Film and Chicana Creativity and Criticism. Her latest novel, Their Dogs Came With Them, will be published in 2007. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, her short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and her writings have been adopted for classroom use and university study. A community organizer and former coordinator of the Los Angeles Latino Writers Association, she is a frequent reader and lecturer in the U.S. and internationally. Born and raised in East L.A., Viramontes now lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is associate professor in the Department of English at Cornell University. |
SPECIAL GUESTS
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Paul Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy and Famous Builder. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Short Takes, Open House, Boulevard, Flash Fiction, and in many other anthologies and magazines. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he's the recipient of awards from the NEA, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Henfield Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a fellow. He lives in New York City, and teaches in the graduate and undergraduate writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College. He recently completed a new novel, Lumina Avenue. |
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Linda Pastan has published eleven volumes of poetry, including PM/AM and Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, both finalists for the National Book Award. Her most recent book is The Last Uncle and Queen of a Rainy Country is forthcoming in the fall of 2006. Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1995, Pastan won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2003. Linda Pastan was a member of the Bread Loaf faculty for 20 years. |
ADMINISTRATION
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Jennifer Grotz, assistant director of the Conference, is the author of Cusp, which won the Katharine Nason Bakeless Prize and the Natalie Ornish Best First Book of Poetry Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poems, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including the Boston Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, the New England Review, and The Best American Poetry. She has recently completed her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she also serves as the administrative director of the Krakow Poetry Seminar, a biennial international gathering of American and Polish poets. |
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Noreen Cargill is administrative manager of the Conference. She has worked with readers and writers in several venues, from library to bookstore to publishing house. Before coming to Bread Loaf in 2000, she directed Writers at the Champlain Mill, a community writing center offered by the The Book Rack & Children's Pages, an independent bookstore now located in Williston, Vermont. |
Visiting agents and editors in 2006 will include:
Miriam Altshuler, President,
Miriam Altshuler Literary Agency
David Barber, Poetry Editor, Atlantic
Julie Barer, President, Barer Literary
André Bernard, Editor-in-Chief, Harcourt Brace
Stuart Bernstein, Literary Agent,
Stuart Bernstein Representation for Artists
Jill Bialosky, Executive Editor and Vice President,
W.W. Norton
H. Emerson Blake, Editor-in-Chief, Orion
Gary Clark, Development Director,
Vermont Studio Center
Peter Conners, Fiction Editor, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Gregory Donovan, Senior Editor, Blackbird
Ted Genoways, Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review
M.M.M. Hayes, Editor and Publisher, StoryQuarterly
Amy Holman, Literary Consultant
Dorian Karchmar, Literary Agent,
William Morris Agency
Carolyn Kuebler, Managing Editor,
New England Review
Meg Lemke, Editor, Seven Stories Press
Alane Salierno Mason, Senior Editor, W.W. Norton
Fiona McCrae, Editor-in-Chief, Graywolf Press
Colleen Mohyde, Literary Agent,
Doe Coover Literary Agency
Martha Rhodes, Director, Four Way Books
Charles H. Rowell, Founder and Editor, Callaloo
Elizabeth Sheinkman, Senior Agent, Curtis Brown
Anjali Singh, Senior Editor, Houghton Mifflin
Carol Houck Smith, Editor-at-Large, W.W. Norton
Thom Ward, Editor, BOA Editions, Ltd.
C. Dale Young, Poetry Editor, New England Review