2005 Faculty

2005 Faculty

NONFICTION

Patricia Hampl's most recent book, I Could Tell You Stories, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction in 2000. Her prose works include the memoirs A Romantic Education and Virgin Time. Besides Resort, she has also published another collection of poems, Woman before an Aquarium, and a prose meditation on Antonin Dvorak's 1893 visit to Iowa titled Spillville. A MacArthur Fellow in 1990, she has also received awards and fellowships from the NEA, and the Guggenheim and Bush foundations. She is Regents' Professor at the University of Minnesota and a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Seminars. In 2004 she co-edited and wrote the introduction for The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Susan Orlean's books include My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Ordinary People, Saturday Night, Red Sox and Blue Fish, and The Orchid Thief. The Orchid Thief has been made into the movie Adaptation, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze.  Orlean has written for a variety of publications, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Spy, the New York Times, Vogue, Outside, and the New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 1992. Orlean lives in Manhattan and Boston with her husband.

poetry

	Michael Collier, director of the Conference, is the author of four books of poems: The Clasp and Other Poems; The Folded Heart; The Neighbor; and The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also co-editor, along with Charles Baxter and Edward Hirsch, of A William Maxwell Portrait.  Mr. 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.
	Edward Hirsch, a 1998 MacArthur Fellow, has published six books of poems: For the Sleepwalkers; Wild Gratitude, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Night Parade; Earthly Measures; On Love; and, most recently, Lay Back the Darkness. He has also published three prose books: How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, a national bestseller; Responsive Reading; and The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration. He is the editor of Transforming Vison: Writers on Art and co-editor of A William Maxwell Portrait. He writes a weekly column on poetry for the Washington Post Book World and serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
	Brigit Pegeen Kelly teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her poetry collections are The Orchard; Song, the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the 1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and To the Place of Trumpets, selected by James Merrill for the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.
	Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, 1977–1989, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Thieves of Paradise, a finalist for the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award. His books include Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews & Commentaries; Talking Dirty to the Gods; Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, 1975– 1999; and, most recently, Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1. He is a professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing Program at Princeton University and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
	Tom Sleigh is the author of After One; Waking, a New York Times Notable Book; The Chain, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize; The Dreamhouse, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and a translation of Euripides's Heracles. He has won the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America. He has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the New York University Graduate Writing Program. Presently, he teaches at Dartmouth College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	Arthur Sze has published eight books of poetry, including Quipu, forthcoming in September 2005. His other books include The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 and The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese. He is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, a Lannan Literary Award, an American Book Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and currently teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
	Ellen Bryant Voigt has published six books of poetry: Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, The Lotus Flowers, Two Trees, Kyrie (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and Teasdale Prize winner), and most recently, Shadow of Heaven, a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award. She also co-edited Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World, a selection of craft essays by faculty in the Warren Wilson MFA Program, where she teaches.  Her own essays are collected in The Flexible Lyric. She has been a Guggenheim, Lila-Wallace, and NEA fellow. In 2002, she was inducted in the Fellowship of Southern Writers and received the Merrill Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and the O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library.  She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

fiction

	Andrea Barrett is the author of five novels, most recently The Voyage of the Narwhal, and two collections of short fiction: Ship Fever, which received the National Book Award, and Servants of the Map. A MacArthur Fellow, she has also been a fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and has received Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. She lives in western Massachusetts and teaches at Williams College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.
	Charles Baxter is the author of four novels: First Light, Shadow Play, The Feast of Love, and Saul and Patsy. He has also written four books of stories, including Believers and A Relative Stranger; a book of essays about fiction, Burning Down the House; and a volume of poetry, Imaginary Paintings. He co-edited A William Maxwell Portrait. He has received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his work has been translated into many languages. The Feast of Love was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has taught at the University of Michigan and the Warren Wilson MFA Program. He now lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota.
	Vikram Chandra's novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain and his story collection Love and Longing in Bombay won Commonwealth Writers' Prizes for Best First Book and Best Book (Eurasia region), respectively. Love and Longing in Bombay was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize; it was included in "Notable Books of 1997" by the New York Times Book Review, "Best Books of the Year" by the Independent (London), and "Best Books of the Year" by the Guardian (London). His work has been published in the Paris Review and the New Yorker and has been translated into eleven languages. He currently divides his time between Bombay and Washington, DC, where he teaches creative writing at George Washington University.
	Lan Samantha Chang is the author of a novel, Inheritance, and a collection of short fiction, Hunger, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award. Her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Chang is the recipient of support from Princeton University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the NEA. She teaches at Harvard University and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.
	Percival Everett is the author more than fifteen books of fiction. Among these are American Desert, Erasure, Glyph, and Damned If I Do. He has received the Academy Award for Literature, the Hurston/ Wright LEGACY Award, and the Hillsdale Award for Fiction. He is professor of English at the University of Southern California. He lives outside Los Angeles and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
	Lynn Freed's books include The Curse of the Appropriate Man, a collection of stories, and, just this year, Reading, Writing & Leaving Home, a collection of essays. Her novels include House of Women, The Mirror, The Bungalow, Home Ground, and Friends of the Family. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, among others, and are widely anthologized. In 2002, she received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award for fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.  She is also the recipient of fellowships and grants from the NEA and The Guggenheim Foundation.
	Amy Hempel is the author of four collections of stories, most recently The Dog of the Marriage. Her fiction has been published in Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, the Yale Review, the Quarterly, and many other places. Her stories have been widely anthologized here and abroad, including The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, O, Elle, BOMB, Interview, Vogue, and many others.  She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches in the graduate writing program at Bennington College.
	Thomas Mallon's six novels include Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, Two Moons, and Bandbox. He has written nonfiction books about plagiarism (Stolen Words), diaries (A Book of One's Own), and the Kennedy assassination (Mrs. Paine's Garage), as well as two volumes of essays (Rockets and Rodeos and In Fact).  His work appears in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Book Review, and other publications. The recipient of Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships, as well as the National Book Critics Circle award for reviewing, he is a member of the National Council on the Humanities and lives in Washington, DC.
	Claire Messud's most recent work of fiction is The Hunters, a collection of two novellas. Her two previous novels are When the World Was Steady and The Last Life. Messud's work has been recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with both an Addison Metcalf Award and a Strauss Living Award and has been nominated twice for the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2002, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship; she is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2004–2005). Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, and the Kenyon Review. She has published reviews and essays in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the London Daily Telegraph, and the New York Review of Books.
	Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. He has published six novels, including The Apprentice Lover, The Last Station, and Benjamin's Crossing; four collections of poetry, including Anthracite Country and House of Days; biographies of Steinbeck, Frost, and Faulkner; a critical study of Theodore Roethke; and a volume of essays, Some Necessary Angels. He edited the Columbia Anthology of American Poetry, the Norton Anthology of American Autobiography, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize.

2005 special guests

	John Elder teaches English and environmental studies at Middlebury College and lives in the nearby village of Bristol with his wife Rita. His two most recent books, Reading the Mountains of Home and The Frog Run, explore the meaning of Vermont's landscape and environmental history for him as a teacher, writer, and householder.  He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Nature Writing.
	Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. She was named the U.S. poet laureate in August 2003. Her most recent book is The Seven Ages, and a chapbook, October, was published in 2003. A new collection is forthcoming in the spring of 2006. Louise Glück teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	Francine Prose's fiction, reviews, cultural criticism, and essays have appeared in such publications as Harpers' Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review. She is the author of twelve novels, among them Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award. Recent books include The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired and A Changed Man.
	Barry Sanders is professor of the History of Ideas at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges in California.  His most recent book, Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 16l9-2000, written with Francis Adams, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
	Gerald Stern, the first poet-laureate of New Jersey, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925, the son of Polish and Ukrainian immigrant parents.  He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award in 1998, and American Sonnets.  His book of essays, What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life, was published in 2003.
	James Wood, born in Durham, England, in 1965, has been a full-time literary critic since leaving Cambridge University.  He is the author of The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel, Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief, and a novel, The Book Against God.  His essays and reviews have appeared in a number of publications, including the Guardian in London, the New Republic, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books.

 administration

	Devon Jersild is associate director of the Conference. She is the author of Happy Hours: Alcohol in a Woman's Life. Her short fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review and Ploughshares, and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards. She has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times Book Review, and the Chicago Tribune. She is also a doctoral student in clinical psychology.
	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.

2005 visiting agents and editors will include:

Richard Abate, Literary Agent, International Creative Management

Miriam Altshuler, President, Miriam Altshuler Literary Agency
Jill Bialosky, Executive Editor and Vice President, W.W. Norton
André Bernard, Editor-in-Chief of Harcourt Brace
Judy Clain, Senior Editor, Little, Brown and Company
Charis Conn, Contributing Editor, Harper's Magazine
John Donatich, Director, Yale University Press

Ted Genoways, Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review
Esmond Harmsworth, Literary Agent, Zachary Shuster
Harmsworth Agency

M.M.M. Hayes, Editor and Publisher, StoryQuarterly
Amy Holman, Literary Consultant

T.R. Hummer, Editor, The Georgia Review

Carolyn Kuebler, Managing Editor, New England Review 

Betsy Lerner, Literary Agent, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner
Literary Agency
Fiona McCrae, Editor-in-Chief, Graywolf Press

April Ossmann, Executive Director, Alice James Books
Heidi Pitlor, Editor, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Martha Rhodes, Director, Four Way Books 

Denise Roy, Senior Editor, Simon & Schuster

Janet Silver, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief,
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Carol Houck Smith, Editor-at-Large, W.W. Norton
Christina Ward, Literary Agent, Christina Ward Literary Agency
C. Dale Young, Poetry Editor, New England Review