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Faculty
Kathleen Alcalá, Fiction
- MFA, University of New Orleans, 2011
- MA, University of Washington, 1985
- BA, Stanford University, 1976
Kathleen Alcalá is the author of three novels set in 19th Century Mexico, a collection of short stories, and a collection of essays, The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing. Her work has received the Western States Book Award, the Governor's Writers Award, the Washington State Book Award and the Northwest Booksellers Association Award. She is fiction editor for The Raven Chronicles.
Bonny Becker, Children/Young Adult
- MA, San Diego State University, 1980
- BA, Scripps College, 1972
Bonny Becker is the author of 12 books for children and young adults, most recently the award-winning and best-selling books: A Visitor for Bear; A Birthday for Bear; and A Bedtime for Bear. Her chapter book, The Magical Mrs. Plum, won the 2010 Washington State Children's Book Award. Three more Mouse and Bear books are in the works, including The Sniffles for Bear to be released Fall 2011.
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, Children/Young Adult
- MS, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus, 1972
- B.S, Catholic University of Puerto Rico, 1968
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand is the author of seven books for children and young adults. They include three biographies in poems and one in prose, an anthology of Puerto Rican folklore, a book of four illustrated folk-tales and a novel. Her CESAR: Yes, We Can! ˇSí, Se Puede!, FRIDA: ˇViva la vida! Long Live Life! and DIEGO: Bigger Than Life won Pura Belpré Honors. Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court Justice, illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez, appeared in 2010. Carmen is also the recipient of the 2008 Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award for her significant contribution to Oregon in the field of children's literature.
Lawrence W. Cheek, Nonfiction
- BA, Texas Tech University, 1970
- Graduate study in architecture history, University of Arizona, 1976-78
Lawrence W. Cheek has published 15 nonfiction books on travel, nature, North American prehistory, architecture, and a memoir about building a sailboat. He has been architecture critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Indianapolis Star, and the Tucson Citizen. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Orion, American Heritage, Sunset, WoodenBoat, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Times.
Bruce Holland Rogers, Fiction
- MA, Colorado University, 1987
- BA, Colorado State University, 1982
Bruce Holland Rogers' short fiction collections include Flaming Arrows, Wind Over Heaven, and Thirteen Ways to Water. He is also the author of Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer. His stories have appeared in North American Review and Quarterly West and have won Nebula, Hugo, Micro, and Pushcart awards. Bruce won the 2006 World Fantasy Award for his collection The Keyhole Opera and has read his fiction aloud in German translation for audiences in Vienna, in Portuguese in Lisbon, and in Finnish in Jyväskylä, and in Hungarian in Budapest where he taught under a 2009-2010 Fulbright.
Ana Maria Spagna, Nonfiction
- MA, Northern Arizona University, 1996
- BA, University of Oregon, 1989
Ana Maria Spagna is the author of Potluck: Community of the Edge of Wilderness; Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey, winner of the 2009 River Teeth nonfiction prize; and Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, named a Seattle Times Best Book of 2004. Her work has appeared in Orion, Matter, North American Review, Oregon Quarterly and High Country News, and in anthologies such as Telling it Real, Wild Moments, A Mile in Her Boots, and Best Essays NW. She is also an associate editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative.
Wayne Ude, Program Director and Fiction MFA
- MNPL, Seattle University, 2005
- MFA, University of Massachusetts, 1974
- BA, University of Montana, 1969
Wayne Ude's books include Becoming Coyote, a novel; Buffalo and other stories; and Maybe I Will Do Something: Seven Tales of Coyote, for ages ten and up. His stories have appeared in North American Review and Ploughshares, among others.
David Wagoner, Poetry. August 13-14
- MA, Indiana University, 1949
- BA, Pennsylvania State University, 1947
David Wagoner is the author of eighteen books of poems, most recently A Map of the Night (U. of Illinois Press, 2008) and Good Morning and Good Night (U. of Illinois Press, 2005) which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He's also written ten novels, one of which, The Escape Artist, was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. Wagoner won the Lilly Prize in 1991 and has won six prizes from Poetry, which has published 127 of his poems, more than any other individual. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets for 23 years and edited Poetry Northwest until its closure in 2002.
Carolyne L. Wright, Poetry
- Doctor of Arts, Syracuse University, 1979
- MA, Syracuse, 1975
- BA (Summa Cum Laude), Seattle University, 1971
Carolyne Wright has published 9 books and chapbooks of poetry, 4 collections of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali, and a collection of essays. Her most recent book is Mania Klepto: the Book of Eulene (Turning Point Books, 2011). Her previous collection, A Change of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006), finalist for the Idaho Prize and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, was nominated for the LA Times Book Award and won the 2007 IPPY Bronze Award for Poetry. Her earlier book, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (Carnegie Mellon UP / EWU Books, 2nd edition 2005), won the Blue Lynx Prize and an American Book Award.
Associate Faculty
Andrea Brown, Profession of Writing
Andrea Brown is President of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc. with offices in California, New York and Chicago. For the last five years, the agency has been rated number one in juvenile sales with bestselling authors such as Ellen Hopkins, Jay Asher, Maggie Stiefvater, Neal Shusterman, Daniel Pinkwater, Calef Brown, Tom Angleberger and many others. Andrea is also the Executive Director of the Big Sur Writing Workshops and the author of WRITERS' AND ARTISTS' HIDEOUTS: Great Getaways for Seducing t he Muse. Andrea was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House before starting her agency in 1981. She also worked at Dell Publishing Company and Random House Books for Young Readers. She has been interviewed by GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, CNN, Forbes.com and the NEW YORK TIMES. Andrea has taught publishing classes at Stanford University, UCLA, Mills College and Dominican College. She was president of the San Francisco chapter of the Women's National Book Association for 6 years and is a founding member of the Association of Author's Representatives. Andrea also was host of a cable television show in New York City entitled, "Sunday Afternoon with Children's Books," and published articles in many magazines and newspapers including WRITER'S DIGEST MAGAZINE.
Additional visiting faculty will participate in Residencies.
Kate Gale, Poetry, Profession of Writing
- Ph.D., Clremont Graduate University
- MA, California State University, Northridge
- BA, Arizona State University
Kate Gale is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review and President of the American Composers Forum, LA. She serves on the boards of A Room of Her Own Foundation, the School of Arts and Humanities of Claremont Graduate University, and Poetry Society of America. She is author of five books of poetry (her most recent, Mating Season, Tupelo Press), a novel Lake of Fire, and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. Her current projects include a co-written nonfiction book entitled Tameka vs. Susie Q, a creative nonfiction book Wild Horses, two new poetry collections, a co-written libretto, Paradises Lost with Ursula K. LeGuin and composer Stephen Taylor, and a libretto adapted from Kindred by Octavia Butler with composer Billy Childs, a libretto based on The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle, based on Dr. Kinsey’s life, with composer Daniel Felsenfeld, and a libretto, After the Opera with composer Veronika Krauses. Articles, poems and fiction have appeared in various literary journals and magazines, including: Gargoyle, Oberon, Cimarron Review, Rattle,The Brownstone Review, Georgia Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Black Clock, Northeast Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Quarterly West, Poems & Plays and Eclipse.
Andrea Hurst, Profession of Writing
- BA, Expres Sonoma State University, 1978
Andrea Hurst has over 25 years of experience as a published author, developmental editor, and skilled literary agent. She is the founder of Andrea Hurst Literary Management and her client list includes emerging new voices and New York Times bestselling authors such as Dr. Bernie Siegel, Penny Warner and Jean Michel Cousteau, and Chef John Ash. Her passion for books drives her quest to find stories that have the power to change; stories that will take her on a journey to another place, and leave her with an unforgettable impression. She is the co-author with Dr. Bernie Siegel of A Book of Miracles, and The Lazy Dog's Guide to Enlightenment.
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