Bread Loaf - Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholars

Donna Miscolta's fiction has appeared in Raven Chronicles, The Americas Review, Seattle Magazine, New Millennium Writings, and Calyx, and has been aired on public radio.  Miscolta lives in Seattle, Washington, where she has received writing awards from local and state arts organizations, including an Artist Trust Fellowship, and literary grants from 4Culture and Seattle City Artists. She’s been a resident at Hedgebrook, and recently was selected as the 2009 curator for the Jack Straw Writers Program, which showcases the work of Pacific Northwest writers. She makes her living as a project manager for a local government agency.

Lynne Anderson worked as a professional chef for nearly a decade before obtaining a Master's Degree in Applied Linguistics.  She has been teaching English as a second language in various adult education programs and colleges in Boston.  Currently, she is working on her first book, Breaking Bread: Stories and Recipes from Immigrant Kitchens, which will be published in 2010.  She is also working on a collection of essays about her experiences teaching immigrants.  She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children.

Jill Bergkamp’s poetry has appeared most recently in Lumina, Coastlines, and 2River View.  She was the recipient of the Editor’s Choice Award for Poetry from Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression, and has work anthologized in Best of Relief, Volume 1.  Bergkamp holds a degree from Florida Atlantic University, and is a graduate student in FAU’s Creative Writing program.  A native of California, she lives with her husband and sons in Florida, where she is the Director of Children’s Ministries at UMC of the Palm Beaches.