NONFICTION
PATRICIA HAMPL is the author of A Romantic Education, Woman before an Aquarium, Resort and Other Poems, Spillville, and, most recently, Virgin Time. Her short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Antaeus, American Poetry Review, and The New York Times Book Review. She has received MacArthur, Guggenheim, Bush, Ingram Merrill, and NEA fellowships. Ms. Hampl was a resident fellow at the Bellagio Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, and she was a Fulbright Fellow in Prague in 1995. She teaches at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. (Photo: Rhett J. Arens (c) 1992)
WILLIAM KITTREDGE is the author of Hole in the Sky , a memoir, and two collections of essays, Owning It All and Who Owns the West. He has also published two books of short fiction, The Van Gogh Field and Other Stories and We Are Not In This Together. Mr. Kittredge has held Stegner and NEA fellowships, and in 1994 was the co-winner of the NEH Charles Frankel Prize for service to the humanities. He grew up on the MC Ranch in southeastern Oregon, and farmed until he was 35. Presently he teaches at the University of Montana.(Photo: (c) Marion Ettlinger)
POETRY
DEBORAH DIGGES' first book of poems, Vesper Sparrows, won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Prize from New York University. She is the author of two other collections of poetry, Late in the Millennium and Rough Music, as well as Fugitive Spring, a memoir. With Mairym Cruz-Bernal, Ms. Digges has translated and edited the forthcoming Ballad of the Blood, a collection of poems by the Cuban poet Maria Elena Cruz Varela. She has received fellowships from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim foundations and the NEA. She has taught at New York, Boston, Iowa, and Columbia Universities, and in the Vermont College Program. Presently she teaches at Tufts University.(Photo: Star Black)
MARK DOTY has published four books of poetry, including Atlantis and My Alexandria, which was chosen for the National Poetry Series and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, and other magazines. Mr. Doty has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, and Rockefeller foundations, and from the NEA. He has taught at Brandeis, Columbia, Sarah Lawrence, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. A prose memoir, Heaven's Coast, is forthcoming.(Photo: Renate Ponsold)
GARRETT HONGO is the author of two poetry collections: Yellow Light and The River of Heaven; the latter was the 1988 Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets. A recipient of fellowships from the Thomas Watson and Guggenheim foundations and the NEA, he has edited Under Western Eyes: Personal Essays from Asian America; Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Memoir and Plays by Wakaako Yamauci; and The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America. His latest book is Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Oregon.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems; for this collection, he also received the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award from the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. He is also the author of Magic City, Dien Cai Dau, Copacetic, and I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head. He teaches at Indiana University and was recently Holloway Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.(Photo: Mandy Sayer)
HEATHER McHUGH has been Milliman writer-in-residence at the University of Washington in Seattle for the past decade, and a visiting faculty member at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since its inception. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Program. She has translated the work of Jean Follain and, with Niko Boris McHugh, collections of poems by Blaga Dimitrova and Paul Celan. She has published five books of poems, the latest of which is Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993, and a book of essays, Broken English: Poetry and Partiality.(Photo: Sandy Dyas)
ALAN SHAPIRO is the author of five volumes of poetry: After the Digging, The Courtesy, Happy Hour, Covenant, and Mixed Company. He is also the author of the critical study In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination and a forthcoming collection of essays on art and everyday life. Among his awards and honors are the Stegner Fellowship, NEA grants, and a Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award. He teaches English and creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
CHASE TWICHELL has published four books of poems: The Ghost of Eden, Perdido, The Odds, and Northern Spy. She is co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Antaeus, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Nation. Ms. Twichell has received fellowships from the NEA, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A lecturer in creative writing at Princeton, she has also taught at Hampshire College and the University of Alabama.(Photo: Marion Ettlinger)
FICTION
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ANDREA BARRETT is the author of four novels, the most recent of which is The Forms of Water, and a collection of short fiction, Ship Fever and Other Stories. Her stories have appeared in Mademoiselle, Story, and many other magazines, as well as in the anthologies American Voices: Best Short Fiction by Contemporary Authors and Best American Short Stories, 1995. She has received a fellowship from the NEA and currently teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
RICHARD BAUSCH is the author of six novels and three collections of stories, including the novels Rebel Powers and Violence, and the story collections The Fireman's Wife and Rare & Endangered Species. His novel The Last Good Time was recently made into a motion picture. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, and The New Yorker, and has been widely anthologized. Mr. Bausch has won two National Magazine Awards, NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, The Lila-Wallace Reader's/Digest Fund Writer's Award, and the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His seventh novel, Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea, is forthcoming. He is Heritage Professor in Writing at George Mason University.
Unfortunately, Ethan Canin will not be attending. See Andrea Barrett above.
ETHAN CANIN is the author of three books of fiction:Emperor of the Air, Blue River, and The Palace Thief. He has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, The University of Michigan, The University of California at Irvine, and San Francisco State University. He lives in California.
ANITA DESAI was born in Mussoorie, India, and is the author of short stories, childrens' books, and nine novels, including Clear Light of Day and In Custody, both of which were short-listed for Britain's Booker Prize. She wrote the screenplay for In Custody for Merchant Ivory. She has received numerous awards in England and India, and has taught at Cambridge University, Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Barnard colleges. She is presently teaching in the writing program at MIT. Her most recent novel, Journey to Ithaca, was published last year.(Photo: Jerry Bauer)
MAUREEN HOWARD has published six novels, including Bridgeport Bus, Expensive Habits, and Natural History. She has also published poems and a memoir called Facts of Life. She has received NEA, Guggenheim, and Ingram Merrill awards, a Bunting Fellowship, and an award from the National Book Critics Circle. She has taught at Yale and is currently on the faculty of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.(Photo: David Baumbach)
ANNE LAMOTT is the author of Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, and All New People (novels) and two nonfiction books: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year and Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing & Life. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she has been the book review columnist for Mademoiselle and restaurant critic for California magazine, and has taught writing at UC Davis. She lives in northern California.(Photo: Mimi Jacobs)
MARGOT LIVESEY is the author of a collection of stories, Learning By Heart, and two novels, Homework and, most recently, Criminals. Her work has appeared in The North American Review, Triquarterly, and The Atlantic. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and Boston University.(Photo: Marion Ettlinger)
REGINALD McKNIGHT is the author of two collections of stories, Moustapha's Eclipse, which was awarded the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. He has also published a novel, I Get on the Bus. He has received an O'Henry and the Kenyon Review New Fiction Prize, and has received fellowships from the Thomas Watson Foundation and the NEA. Mr. McKnight has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University, and in the Bennington College MFA program. He currently teaches at the University of Maryland at College Park.(Photo: Michael Collier)
THOMAS MALLON is the author of Henry and Clara, Aurora 7, Arts and Sciences (novels) and Rockets and Rodeos, Stolen Words: Forays Into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism, and A Book of One's Own (nonfiction). He has taught at Vassar and served as the Literary Editor of Gentlemen's Quarterly. His essays and reviews have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, The American Scholar, Yale Review, and The Washington Post. Henry and Clara was named one of the Best Books of 1994 by Publishers Weekly and one of the Notable Books of 1994 by The New York Times Book Review. Mr. Mallon received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1986.(Photo: William Bodenschatz)
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS is the author of two short story collections, Black Tickets and Fast Lanes, and two novels, Machine Dreams and Shelter. She has received NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, a Fels Award in Fiction, and the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and Granta. She has taught at NYU, Brandeis, Boston University, and the Prague Summer Writing Workshop. She is currently teaching at Harvard.
SCOTT SPENCER is the author of Preservation Hall, Endless Love, and Waking the Dead. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone. He has taught at Columbia University and Bard College. His most recent novel is Men in Black.(Photo: Jill Krementz)
SPECIAL GUEST READERS
MAXINE KUMIN, poet, novelist, and essayist, is the author of Connecting the Dots, Looking for Luck, Nurture, The Long Approach (all collections of poetry); Women, Animals, and Vegetables: Essays and Stories; and In Deep: Country Essays. She has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the NEA, a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and a Borestone Mountain Award. Ms. Kumin was Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress in 1981-82, and was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1995.
GRACE PALEY is the author of several short story collections, including The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and Later the Same Day, and a collection of poems and prose pieces, Long Walks and Intimate Talks. She has taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, Dartmouth, and City College. She received the 1994 Jewish Cultural Achievement Award, Literary Arts; the 1993 Vermont Award for Excellence in the Arts; an REA Award for Short Stories; and an Edith Wharton Award. In 1989 Governor Mario Cuomo declared her the first official New York State Writer. Her most recent book, The Collected Stories, was published in 1994.(Photo: Gentl & Hyers/Arts Counsel (c) 1994)
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS
Guest speakers and panelists will include: Alane Mason (W. W. Norton), Daniel Frank (Pantheon), Richard Todd (Houghton Mifflin), John Elder (Middlebury College, Environmental Studies/English), Amy Holman (Poets & Writers), Bill Wadsworth (Academy of American Poets).
ADMINISTRATION
MICHAEL COLLIER, director of the Conference, is the author of The Clasp and Other Poems and The Folded Heart, and has edited The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. He 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. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Antaeus, The Nation, The New Republic, and Poetry. Mr. Collier has taught at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College; he is currently on the English and writing faculty at the University of Maryland. A new book of poems, The Neighbor, was published in 1995.(Photo: Alan Jakubek)
DEVON JERSILD is administrative director of the Conference. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and North American Review. One of her stories was selected for inclusion in Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards. She has reviewed for The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New York Times Book Review.
CAROL KNAUSS is the administrative assistant to the directors and admissions coordinator for the Writers' Conference.