JULIA ALVAREZ was raised in the Dominican Republic and emigrated to the United States in 1960. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and writing, she taught poetry for many years and published her first collection of poems, Homecoming, in 1984. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Ingram Merrill Foundation. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents was the winner of the 1991 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Book Award for works which present a multicultural viewpoint. Ms. Alvarez occasionally teaches writing at Middlebury College.
ELIZABETH ARTHUR is the author of two memoirs, Island Sojourn and Looking For the Klondike Stone, and three novels, Beyond the Mountain, Bad Guys and Binding Spell. She has received grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts, the Ossabaw Foundation and the Indiana Arts Commission, and her work has twice been recognized with fellowships from the National Endowment for the ARts. In 1980, she was the William Sloane Fellow at Bread Loaf. She currently directs the creative writing program at Indiana University in Indianapolis. In 1990, she was the first novelist selected for participation in the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Her latest novel, Antarctic Navigation, was published in 1994.
ANDREA BARRETT is the author of the novels Lucid Stars, Secret Harmonies, The Middle Kingdom and, most recently, The Forms of Water. Her stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Mademoiselle, Story and other magazines, as well as in the anthology American Voices: Best Short Fiction by Contemporary Authors. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and has taught at the Mount Holyoke Writers' Conference and the Warren Wilson MFA Program.
MARVIN BELL's twelfth and thirteenth books, both published in 1994, are The Book of the Dead Man (poems) and A Marvin Bell Reader (selected poems, journals, memoirs, essays). Mr. Bell is a longtime faculty member at the Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa, where he is Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters. He has taught also at Goddard College, the University of Hawaii and the University of Washington. Born and raised on the East Coast, he lives in Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington.
PINCKNEY BENEDICT has published two collections of short stories, Town Smokes and The Wrecking Yard. His fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Ontario Review, Story and The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. He has received a Nelson Algren Award from the Chicago Tribune, a Michener Fellowship from the Writers' Workshop at the University Of Iowa and two Transatlantic Review Awards. A novel, Dogs of God, was published early in 1994.
LARRY BROWN is a short story writer, novelist, nonfiction writer and playwright. His books are Facing the Music and Big Bad Love (stories); Joe and Dirty Work (novels); and On Fire, a memoir of his years in the fire service. He has adapted the novel Dirty Work into a play in collaboration with the director Richard Corley for The Arena Stage in Washington. D. C. Mr. Brown was the Shane Stevens Fellow in the Novel at Bread Loaf in 1990.
ROSELLEN BROWN has published eight books: the novels Before and After, Civil Wars, Tender Mercies and The Autobiography of My Mother; two collections of poetry, Cora Fry and Some Deaths in the Delta, a book of stories, Street Games and A Rosellen Brown Reader. She has had two grants from the NEA, and awards from the Guggenheim and the Ingram-Merrill Foundations, the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and she was one of Ms. Magazine's 12 "Women of the Year" in 1985 for her writing. Civil Wars won the Janet Kafka Prize for the best novel of the year by an American woman. She teaches at the University of Houston.
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER is the author of a novel, The Line of the Sun, Silent Dancing, a collection of essays and poetry, and two books of poetry, Terms of Survival and Reaching for the Mainland. Her work has appeared in Glamour, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, and other journals. A PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation in non-fiction was awarded to her for Silent Dancing. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She is on the English and writing faculty at the University of Georgia. Her most recent work is The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry.
MICHAEL COLLIER has published three collections of poetry: The Clasp and Other Poems and The Folded Heart , and The Neighbor (1995), and has edited The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. He has received Thomas Watson and 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 Atlantic, Antaeus, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker and Poetry. He has taught at Yale University, The Johns Hopkins University, in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and is currently on the English and writing faculty at the University of Maryland.
CAROL FROST's books include The Salt Lesson; Liar's Dice, which won sole honorable mention for the Elliston Award; The Fearful Child, Day of the Body and Chimera, which was runner-up for the Poetry Prize in 1991. She has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work has appeared in APR, The Atlantic, The Georgia Review, The New England Review and in the 1992-93 Pushcart Anthology. Ms. Frost is the Director of the Catskill Poetry Workshop at Hartwick College, where she is writer-in-residence. She has also taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her latest collection of poems, Pure, was published in 1994.
THOMAS GAVIN's most recent novel is Breathing Water. His first novel, Kingkill, was named one of the Notable Books of 1977 by the American Library Association and list as an Editor's Choice" by Time magazine. His second novel, The Last Film of Emile Vico, was published in 1986. His essay, "The Truth Beyond Facts," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and listed among "notable Essays of 1991" in Best American Essays of 1991. An associate professor of English at the University of Rochester, Gavin has also taught at Middlebury College and Delta College. He has receive fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
PHILIP GERARD holds an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. A former newspaperman and freelance journalist, he has published fiction and nonfiction in numerous magazines, including New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly and The World & I. He is the author of three novels: Hatteras Light, Cape Fear Rising, Desert Kill; and Brilliant Passage. . . a schooning memoir. Some of his weekly radio essays have been broadcast on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." He directs the Professional and Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
RON HANSEN'S fiction includes Desperadoes, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a children's book, The Shadowmaker, and the short story collection Nebraska, for which he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institutes of Arts and Letters. His novel, Mariette in Ecstasy, won the Gold Medal in Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California and the Award in Fiction from the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Association. He is the recipient of Guggenheim NEA and Lyndhurst Foundation fellowships, and was the Shane Stevens Fellow in the Novel at Bread Loaf in 1979.
RICHARD HAWLEY has written a variety of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Headmaster's Papers and Shining Still (novels); The Big Issues and Seeing Things (nonfiction); and St. Julian, an opera libretto. His poems have appeared in America and Commonweal, and he has published essays and articles in American Film, The Atlantic Monthly, and Anglican Theological Review. His new collection of essays, Behold The Man, was issued in 1994. Mr. Hawley is Headmaster of University School in Cleveland, Ohio.
AMY HEMPEL is the author of two collections of stories: Reasons to Live and At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom. Her stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and have appeared, with her nonfiction, in Harper's, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine and Esquire.
ANN HOOD is the author of five novels, including Somewhere Off the Coast Of Maine, Waiting to Vanish and Something Blue. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Mademoiselle, Redbook, Glamour, Fiction Network and The Washington Post. Her most recent work is Places to Stay The Night, (1994).
DAVID HUDDLE'S books include Stopping by Home, The High Spirits, Only the Little Bone, Paper Boy, The Nature of Yearning, Intimates, The Writing Habit and A David Huddle Reader. He has held two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and fellowships from Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Huddle teaches at the University of Vermont and at the Bread Loaf School of English. Huddle's poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Hudson Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Gettysburgh Review. He is Acting Editor of New England Review.
RICHARD JACKSON is the author of five books including Part of the Story, Worlds Apart and Alive All Day (poems); Dismantling Time (criticism) and Acts of Mind (interviews). He teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he has won several teaching awards, and edits The Poetry Miscellany. He has won awards for his writing from the NEA, NEH, and was a Fulbright exchange poet to Yugoslavia in 1986 and 1987. He has been twice anthologized in the Pushcart Anthology, Keener Sounds: Selections from the Georgia Review, and others. Mr. Jackson has two volumes published in Central Europe, Selected Poems (Rumania) and Double Vision: Four Young Slovene Poets (Slovenia).
MARK JARMAN is the author of five books of poetry: North Sea, The Rote Walker, Far and Away, The Black Riviera, and Iris, a book-length poem. He has also written a libretto for an opera based on The Mayor of Casterbridge. For his work he has received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, the Poets' Prize, grants from the NEA and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Vanderbilt University. His latest collection of poetry, Questions for Ecclesiastes, was issued in 1995.
DONALD JUSTICE is the author of The Summer Anniversaries, Night Light, Departures and Selected Poems (all poetry); Platonic Scripts (criticism); and The Sunset Maker (poems, stories and memoir). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and he received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Mr. Justice has taught at Princeton University, The University of Iowa, the University of Virginia and the University of Florida. He was the 1988 Fellow of the Academy of American Poets, and was a co-winner, in 1991, of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. His latest book, A Donald Justice Reader, was published in 1992.
MARGOT LIVESEY has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Williams College and, most recently, the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. Her fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Dalhousie Review, California Quarterly, and The Kenyon Review. She is the author of Learning by Heart (short stories) and Homework (a novel).
GARY MARGOLIS has published two books of poetry: The Day We Still Stand Here and Falling Awake. He has received fellowship support from the Vermont Council of the Arts, The Millay Colony and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.His clinical essays have appeared in the Journal of American College Health, Adolescence, Family Magazine and Runner's World. He is Director of the Center for Counseling and Human Relations at Middlebury College. Mr. Margolis has completed a new volume of poems, Still Ours to Say and a book of nonfiction, Journey to Ecuador: Shamanism, Ceremony and the Rainforest.
PAUL MARIANI is the author of Timing Devices, Crossing Cocytus, Prime Mover, and Salvage Operations: New & Selected Poems; three books of criticism (including one on Hopkins, another on Williams, and a collection of essays, A Usable Past: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetry; and three biographies: William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman, and Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell, He has taught at Hunter, Lehmann, John Jay and the Bread Loaf School of English, and is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. Among his awards are several NEH grants, an NEA and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
ANTONYA NELSON has published three books of short stories: The Expendables, which won the 1989 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, In the Land of Men and Family Terrorists. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Redbook, Mademoiselle, TriQuarterly, Antioch Review, Story, The Kenyon Review, and in anthologies such as Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is currently a professor in the English Department at New Mexico State University, teaching literature and creative writing.
JEAN NORDHAUS's second books of poems, My Life in Hiding, won a 1991 Calladay Award and was published in Quarterly Review of Literature, Vol. XXX. For the past five years, she has served as President of Washington Writers' Publishing House, a cooperative press which published her first book, A Bracelet of Lies. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Hudson Review, Poetry and Prairie Schooner. She has taught at the University of Maryland and George Mason University and directed the Poetry Programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
CAROLE SIMMONS OLES has published five books of poetry: the Loneliness Factor, Quarry, Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell, The Deed and Stunts. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and other magazines. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, a Writer's Choice Award, the Virginia Prize for Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize. Ms. Oles has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Hollins College, and Sweet Briar College, where she was Banister Writer-in-Residence. She currently teaches at California State University at Chico.
ROBERT PACK, Director of the Conference (1973-1994), teaches at Middlebury College. A Fulbright Fellow, recipient of National Institute of Arts and Letters and Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, his books of poetry are The Irony of Joy, A Stranger's Privilege, Guarded by Women, Nothing but Light, Home from the Cemetery, Keeping Watch, Waking to My Name: New and Selected Poems, Faces in a Single Tree: A Cycle of Monologues, Clayfield Rejoices, Clayfield Laments, Before It Vanishes , and, most recently, Fathering the Map: New and Selected Later Poems. He has published four books of poetry for children, a critical study of the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and Affirming Limits, a collection of essays. A new book of essays, The Long View, was published in 1991.
LINDA PASTAN'S newest book of poetry is Heroes in Disguise, published in 1991. Her other books are A Perfect Circle of Sun, Aspects of Eve, The Five Stages of Grief, Waiting For My Life, PM/AM: New and Selected Poems, A Fraction of Darkness and The Imperfect Paradise. Her poems and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The American Poetry Review and Antaeus. She has received grants from the NEW and from the Maryland Arts Council, and she won the Poetry Society of America's di Castagnola Award and Poetry Magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. PM/AM was nominated for an American Book Award, and A Fraction of Darkness won the Maurice English Award. Ms. Pastan has been named Poet Laureate of Maryland.
RON POWERS is a novelist, nonfiction writer and media critic; he is a columnist and contributing editor of GQ Magazine. In 1973 he received a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and in 1985 he won an Emmy for his commentaries on the CBS news show, Sunday Morning. His books include: Face Value, Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Goodbye (novels); The Newscasters, Super Tube, White Town Drowsing and The Beast, The Eunuch and The Glass-Eyed Child (nonfiction). His most recent work is Far From Home: Life and Loss in Two American Towns, published in 1991, and The Cruel Radiance: Essays About Television (1995).
LAWRENCE RAAB's most recent collection of poems, What We Don't Know About Each Other, was a winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the 1993 National Book Award. His other books include Mysteries of the Horizon, The Collector of Cold Weather and Other Children. He has received the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, A Junior Fellowship from the University of Michigan Society of Fellows, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. He teaches literature and writing at Williams College.
BOB REISS is the author of six novels, the latest being The Last Spy. He has also published several nonfiction books, most recently Frequent Flyer. He is a correspondent for Outside Magazine, and has published articles in Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, GQ and The Washington Post Magazine.
DINITIA SMITH is the author of two novels: The Hard Rain and Remember This. Her short fiction has been widely published. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and is a contributing editor at New York Magazine.
ELIZABETH DEWBERRY VAUGHN has published two novels, Many Things Have Happened Since He Died and Bread the Heart of Me. Her essays have appeared in Southern Living, Modern Fiction Studies, The Hemingway Review and other periodicals. She teaches fiction writing and American literature in the M.F.A. program at Ohio State, and has held visiting appointments at the University of Southern California, Emory University and Stamford University. She is the recipient of grants from the Georgia Council for the Arts, The Alabama State Council for the Arts and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, and she was a Bread Loaf Fellows in Fiction in 1993.
NANCY WILLARD is the author of Angel in the Parlour (short stories and Bread Loaf lectures); Things Invisible to See (novel); Testimony of the Invisible Man (criticism); Household Tales of Moon and Water, 19 Masks for the Naked Poet and Carpenter of the Sun (poetry), and A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, which won the Newbery Award in 1982. Ms. Willard's other books for children include The Mountain of Quilt, Firebrat, The Octopus Who Wanted to Juggle (with Robert Pack), and Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch. Her most recent books are A Nancy Willard Reader, published in 1992; a novel, Sister Water, a book for children, A Starlit Somersault Downhill and a book of essays on writing, Telling Time: Angels, Ancestors, and Stories.
HILMA WOLITZER is the author of Ending, In the Flesh, Hearts, In the Palomar Arms, Silver and four novels for young readers. Her short fiction has appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, New American Review, Ms., and Prairie Schooner, and her reviews have appeared in major newspapers. Ms. Wolitzer has taught in the graduate writing programs of the University of Iowa, Columbia University and New York University. She is a recipient of Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, and she was the William Raney Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1974. In 1982 she received an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. A new novel, Tunnel of Love, appeared in 1994.
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
STANLEY BATES, Administrative Director of the Conference (through 1994) and a Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College. He has taught previously at Harvard and the University of Chicago, and has served as Middlebury's Dean of Arts and Humanities. His articles and reviews on ethics, aesthetics and the philosophy of law have appeared in the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, The Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophy and Literature.
CAROL KNAUSS is the Administrative Assistant to the Directors and Admissions Coordinator for the Writers' Conference.
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