Speakers

2012 Speakers

	Harold Augenbraum is Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. He has published seven books on Latino literature of the United States, including Growing Up Latino (1993, with Ilan Stavans), The Latino Reader (1997, with Margarite Fernández-Olmos), U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers (2000, with Margarite Fernández-Olmos), the Encyclopedia Latina (2006, with Ilan Stavans), Lengua Fresca (2006, with Ilan Stavans) and, with five colleagues, the Norton Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (2010). He translated Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition (2002), the Filipino novelist José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (2006) for Penguin Classics, and Rizal’s second novel, El Filibusterismo (2011). In 2012, Penguin will also publish his edition of The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust and the University of Texas Press his co-translation of The Plain in Flames by Juan Rulfo. Augenbraum has been awarded ten grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, received a Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America for distinguished service to the mystery field, founded the Proust Society of America, and co-directed the national celebration of the centennial of the birth of John Steinbeck. He has taught U.S. Latino literature at Amherst College and often writes on the future of literary reading and publishing. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	John Berendt‘s first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994), spent a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list and, to date, has sold five million copies worldwide. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for general nonfiction, it was made into a movie directed by Clint Eastwood in 1997. The book has been credited with putting Savannah, Georgia on the map. Berendt’s second book, The City of Falling Angels (2005), centered on the fire that destroyed the Fenice opera house in Venice in 1996, offers a penetrating look at the private lives behind the storied Venetian façades. It was also, like Midnight, a number-one New York Times bestseller. A children’s book, My Baby Blue Jays, consisting of Berendt’s photographs and text, was published by Viking in 2012. Born in Syracuse, New York in 1939, Berendt graduated from Harvard College, where he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon. Before turning to the writing of books, he served as an editor and monthly columnist for Esquire magazine. He has also been a television writer and producer, and the editor of New York magazine. [Event] [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Alexander Chee was born in Rhode Island, and raised in South Korea, Guam and Maine. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony , the VCCA, Ledig House, the Hermitage and Civitella Ranieri . His first novel, Edinburgh (Picador, 2002), is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and was a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year and a Booksense 76 selection. In 2003, Out Magazine honored him as one of their 100 Most Influential People of the Year. His essays and stories have appeared in Granta.com, Out,The Man I Might Become, Loss Within Loss, Men On Men 2000, His 3 and Boys Like Us. He has taught fiction and nonfiction writing at the New School University, Wesleyan, Amherst College, and in spring 2011 will teach in the Fiction program at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in New York City and blogs at Koreanish. His second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Gerald Elias is an acclaimed author and musician. A former violinist with the Boston Symphony and associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, he has concertized on five continents as violinist and conductor, and his compositions have been performed throughout the United States. Since 2004 he has been music director of the Vivaldi Virtuosi in Salt Lake City, and since 1989 a faculty member of the University of Utah. His award-winning Daniel Jacobus mystery series, based upon experiences gleaned from his lifelong musical career, takes place in the dark corners of the classical music world and have won extensive critical praise. [Event] [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. During his tenure at the magazine, he has written fiction and humor pieces, book reviews, profiles, reporting pieces, and more than a hundred stories for “The Talk of the Town” and “Comment.” His books, ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children’s novels, include Paris to the Moon (2000), The King in the Window (2005), Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York (2006), Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009), The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011), and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011). Gopnik has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism three times, and also the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. He is an active lecturer, and delivered the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations Massey Lectures in 2011. Gopnik lives in New York. [Event] [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Angeline Goreau is biographer, essayist and critic who has written often about the complicated relation between literature and history, life and art. Her essays have been published in many collections and she has written for the New York Times, TLS, American Scholar, Washington Post, and the New Statesman. Her books include Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn, 1640-1689, which tells the story of the first woman to become a professional writer, and The Whole Duty of a Woman: Female Writers in Seventeenth-Century England. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Belgian Ministry of Culture and has been Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Francine du Plessix Gray is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman; Them: A Memoir of Parents; Simone Weil; At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life; Rage and Fire, Lovers and Tyrants; and Soviet Women. She is most recently the author of the novel The Queen’s Lover. She lives in Connecticut. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Heidi Julavits is the author of four novels, The Mineral Palace, The Effect of Living Backwards, The Uses of Enchantment, and, most recently, The Vanishers, as well as a collaborative book, Hotel Andromeda, with the artist Jenny Gage. She is a founding editor of The Believer. She lives in Manhattan and Maine. (Photo by Jill Goldman Photography)[Event] [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Alison Larkin was adopted at birth and raised in England and Africa. She trained as a classical actress and playwright in London. Then she found her birth mother in Tennessee, moved to New York and became a stand-up comic, because what else do you do? Her one-woman show, which combined stand-up comedy and theatre, was a hit in London’s West End. She has appeared on and off Broadway. Her bestselling autobiographical novel The English American was a Vogue most powerful book of the season and is being turned into a movie, with Alison writing the screenplay. Alison won an Audiofile Earphones award for her narration of the audiobook of The English American. She moved to Great Barrington two years ago with her family. For more info go to www.alisonlarkin.com. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of ‘Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,’ which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and CondÃ© Nast Traveler, and has been featured on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’.Mehta is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. He is currently working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship. He has also written an original screenplay for ‘The Goddess,’ a Merchant-Ivory film starring Tina Turner, and ‘Mission Kashmir’, a Bollywood movie. Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York. He is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Claire Messud is the author, most recently, of The Emperor’s Children, an international bestseller that was one of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the Year (2006) and was long-listed for Britain’s Man/Booker Prize. She has published two other novels, When the World Was Steady (1995) and The Last (1999), as well as a book of novellas, The Hunters(2001). Twice a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, Messud has received various awards for her work, including the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters (2003-2008); a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2003), a Radcliffe Fellowship (2004-5) and a fellowship to the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany (2010-11).Messud’s journalism and reviews have appeared in numerous publications both in the US and Europe, including the New York Times, Bookforum, Newsweek, The London Times and The Times Literary Supplement. She reviews regularly for The New York Review of Books.Her new novel, The Woman Upstairs, will be published by Knopf in the spring of 2013. She lives in Cambridge, MA, with her husband and children. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Mary Morris – Born in Chicago in 1947, Morris moved East to go to college. Though she never returned to the Middle West, she often writes about the region and its tug. Morris’s stories frequently deal with the tension between home and away. Travel is an important theme in many of the stories in her three collections, including Vanishing Animals, The Bus of Dreams, and The Lifeguard Stories. It is also a recurrent theme in her trilogy of travel memoirs, including the acclaimed Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, Wall to Wall: from Beijing to Berlin by Rail, and Angels & Aliens: A Journey West. In her five novels, including Revenge, Acts of God, The Waiting Room, The Night Sky and House Arrest, Morris writes of family, its difficulties and disappointments, its iron grip and necessity, and ultimately the comfort family can bring. Her many novels and story collections have been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Nancy Novogrod is the editor in chief of Travel + Leisure, and also serves as editorial director of American Express Publishing Corporation. In addition, Nancy is responsible for Travel + Leisure‘s network of five international editions, which include magazines in Mexico, Turkey, China, and Southeast and South Asia, as well as travelandleisure.com and the brand’s book series. During Nancy’s tenure at Travel + Leisure, the magazine has solidified its place as the world’s most widely read travel publication, extending its reach internationally and through other media. Nancy is the recipient of numerous editorial awards in the U.S. and abroad, and Travel + Leisure has established many significant editorial platforms under her direction. Before joining Travel + Leisure in 1993, Nancy was editor in chief of House & Garden. Previously, she was executive editor at Clarkson Potter, now a division of Random House. She began her publishing career in the fiction department of The New Yorker. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Kevin O’Hara, proud winner of the 2012 John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Award, has read his homespun stories on numerous TV and radio stations, in addition to appearing at countless libraries, colleges, and Irish pubs throughout New England. He is the author of A Lucky Irish Lad and Last of the Donkey Pilgrims. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Matthew Pearl is the author of the novels The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, and his newest work, The Technologists. His books have been New York Times bestsellers and international bestsellers translated into more than 30 languages. His nonfiction writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and Slate.com. He has been heard on shows including NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Weekend Edition Sunday,” and his books have been featured on Good Morning America and CBS Sunday Morning. Matthew Pearl grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School. He has also taught literature and creative writing at Harvard University and Emerson College, and has been a Visiting Lecturer in law and literature at Harvard Law School. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Event] [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Roxana Robinson is the author of eight books – four novels: Summer Light, This Is My Daughter, Sweetwater and Cost; three collections of short stories: A Glimpse of Scarlet, Asking for Love, and A Perfect Stranger; and the biography Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Daedalus, One-Story, The American Scholar, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologised, and her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Holland and Spain. Robinson was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Cost won the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Fiction Award for 2009, and was named one of the Five Best Fiction Books of the Year by the Washington Post. Ms. Robinson has served on the Board of the National Humanities Council. She was an officer of the board of PEN, and she serves on the Councils of the Authors’ Guild and the Maine Coast Heritage Trust. She has taught at the University of Houston, Wesleyan University and the New School. She lives in New York City and in Maine. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Mary Jo Salter is the author of six books of poetry, all published by Knopf, mostly recently A Phone Call to the Future (2008). A frequent reviewer and essayist, she is also a lyricist whose song cycle “Rooms of Light,” with music by Fred Hersch, premiered at Lincoln Center in 2007. Her children’s book The Moon Comes Home appeared in 1989; her play Falling Bodies premiered in 2004. She is the editor of The Selected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Knopf, 2011), and is co-editor, with Margaret Ferguson and Jon Stallworthy, of The Norton Anthology of Poetry(4th edition, 1996; 5th edition, 2005). Salter became a permanent member of the Writing Seminars faculty at the Johns Hopkins University in 2007, after 23 years of teaching at Mount Holyoke College. She is presently serving as co-chair of the department. (Photo by Michael Malyszko) [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Jonathan Santlofer is the author of 5 bestselling novels, including Anatomy of Fear, which won the Nero Wolfe Award for best crime novel of 2008. He is co-editor, contributor and illustrator of the anthology, The Dark End of the Street, and editor/contributor of LA NOIRE: The Collected Stories. His most stories have appeared in The Rich & the Dead, edited by Nelson De Mille, New Jersey Noir, edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Ellery Queen Magazine. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy In Rome, the Vermont Studio Center, and serves on the board of Yaddo, the oldest arts community in the U.S. Also a well-known artist, Santlofer’s work is in such collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Tokyo’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Santlofer lives and works in Manhattan where he is currently completing a new novel. (Photo by Drew Reilly) [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Elissa Schappell is the author of two books of fiction, most recently Blueprints for Building Better Girls, which was chosen as one of the “Best Books of the 2011” by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and O Magazine, and Use Me, which was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway award, and a New York Times ”Notable Book” and a Los Angeles Times, “Best Book of the Year”. She is co-editor with Jenny Offill of two anthologies, The Friend Who Got Away and Money Changes Everything. Currently, she is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, and a founding editor, now Editor-at-Large of Tin House magazine and formerly Senior Editor of The Paris Review. Her short stories, non-fiction, book reviews and essays have appeared in such places as The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, BOMB, Vogue, SPIN, One Story, GQ, The Literarian, and anthologies, including the KGB Bar Reader, The Bitch in the House, Sex and Sensibility, Cooking and Stealing, The Future Dictionary of America, and The Mrs. Dalloway Reader. She lives in Brooklyn. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Devotion and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from The New Yorker to Vogue, and she is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, The New School and Wesleyan University, and she is co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. She is a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure. Her new book, Still Writing: The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life will be published in 2013. She lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Noreen Tomassi became Director of The Center for Fiction in December 2004. She came to the Center from Arts International. Prior to that she directed the Literature and Theater programs at NJSCA and she began her career in Play Development at McCarter Theatre in Princeton. Her books include American Visions/Visiones de las Americas: Artistic & Cultural Identity in the Americas and she was co-creator, with Jane Alexander and Birgitta Trommler, of What of the Night, a play based on the life and work of Djuna Barnes that was premiered by MCC at the Lucille Lortel in 2005. She earned her BA at Skidmore College. [Event] [Full Schedule]

Interviewers

Kate Bolick is a contributing editor for The Atlantic and freelance writer based in New York. Her recent Atlantic cover story, “All the Single Ladies,” drew more than 1 million readers to the magazine’s web site and was optioned by Sony for a TV series. Formerly executive editor of Domino and a columnist for The Boston Globe Ideas Section, she is currently working on her first book, Among the Suitors: Single Women I Have Loved, forthcoming from Crown/Random House. [Event] [Event] [Full Schedule]

Joe Donahue talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human “gets” – he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book. [Event] [Full Schedule]

Berkshire Poets and Writers

	James Arthur‘s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, an Amy Clampitt Residency, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. During 2012-2013, Arthur will be a Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts in Princeton. His first book, Charms against Lightning, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in October 2012. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Richard M. Berlin is a physician and poet. The winner of numerous poetry awards, his first collection of poems How JFK Killed My Father won the Pearl Poetry Prize and was published by Pearl Editions. His second collection of poetry, Secret Wounds won the 2010 John Ciardi Poetry Prize from the University of Missouri – Kansas City and was published by BkMk Press. In addition, Secret Wounds was chosen as the best poetry book of 2011in the USA Book News Awards. He is also the author of two poetry chapbooks, Code Blue and The Prophecy. Berlin’s poetry has been published in a broad array of anthologies, literary journals, and medical journals including his column “Poetry of the Times,” which has been featured for more than eleven years in Psychiatric Times. He practices psychiatry in a small town in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Karen Chase is the author of two collections of poetry, Kazimierz Square and Bear, and the award-winning non-fiction book, Land of Stone. Her most recent book, a homoerotic book-length poem, Jamali-Kamali: A Tale of Passion in Mughal India, was released last summer. She lives in Lenox with her husband, the painter Paul Graubard. Website. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Cassandra Cleghorn has taught English and American Studies at Williams College since 1990. She received her BA in Greek from University of California, Santa Cruz and her PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Her work has appeared in journals including The Paris Review, Yale Review, New Orleans Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, Southwest Review and Tin House. In 2000 she was a finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council poetry award. With the quartet, Merge, she has performed her poems at venues including the Bowery Poetry Club and Naropa Institute; their debut CD was issued in 2007 and the second is in production. She is Associate Editor for Nonfiction for Tupelo Press in North Adams, MA. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Amy Dryansky’s first book, How I Got Lost So Close To Home, was published by Alice James Books and her second, Grass Whistle, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2013. Individual poems have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals, including Orion, The New England Review and Harvard Reviewand she’s received awards/fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.Amy Dryansky writes about what it’s like to navigate the territory of mother/poet/worker at her blog, Pokey Mama http://amydryansky.wordpress.com. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Gerald Elias is an acclaimed author and musician. A former violinist with the Boston Symphony and associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, he has concertized on five continents as violinist and conductor, and his compositions have been performed throughout the United States. Since 2004 he has been music director of the Vivaldi Virtuosi in Salt Lake City, and since 1989 a faculty member of the University of Utah. His award-winning Daniel Jacobus mystery series, based upon experiences gleaned from his lifelong musical career, takes place in the dark corners of the classical music world and have won extensive critical praise. [Event] [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Peter Filkins is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The View We’re Granted. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Partisan Review, The American Scholar, The Iowa Review, and The New Republic. He teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and, along with Michelle Gillett, is co-coordinator of the Wordfest poetry readings.Photo credit – Joanna Eldredge Morrissey. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Cynthia Read Gardner‘s poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Bridge, and various anthologies such as CROSSING PATHS: An Anthology of Poems by Women (Mad River Press, 2002). A chapbook, How Will They Find Me, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. She has been employed as a clinical social worker in the Berkshires for many years. She and her husband live in Pittsfield, Mass., and have two grown sons. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Marie Gauthier’s (Hunger All Inside, Finishing Line Press, 2009) new poems can be read or are forthcoming in The Common, Cave Wall, Poetry Northwest, Crab Creek Review, and elsewhere. She won a 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in addition to Honorable Mention in 2010. She lives with her family in Shelburne Falls, MA where she works for Tupelo Press and co-curates the Collected Poets Series (http://collectedpoets.com). [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Michelle Gillett has won poetry fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and published work in numerous literary magazines. She is the author of Blinding the Goldfinches, winner of the Backwaters Press Poetry Prize and published in 2005; a chapbook, Rock &Spindle (Mad River Press), and The Green Cottage, winner of The Ledge 2010 Poetry Chapbook competition, published in 2011. She received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. A regular op ed columnist for The Berkshire Eagle, writing workshop teacher and partner in g + r editing writing and book development, she lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Jessica Greenbaum’s first book, Inventing Difficulty (Silverfish Review Press, 1998), won the Gerald Cable Prize. Her second book, The Two Yvonnes (2012), was chosen by Paul Muldoon for Princeton’s Series of Contemporary Poets. She is the poetry editor for upstreet and lives in Brooklyn. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Daniel Hall is the author of three volumes of poetry, Hermit with Landscape, Strange Relation, and Under Sleep. He has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship, as well as awards from the Guggenheim and Whiting Foundations. He is currently Writer in Residence at Amherst College. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Joshua Henkin is the author of the novels Matrimony, a New York Times Notable Book, and Swimming Across the Hudson, a Los Angeles Times Notable Book. His new novel, The World Without You, has just been published by Pantheon. His short stories have been published widely, cited for distinction in Best American Short Stories, and broadcast on NPR’s “Selected Shorts.” He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and directs the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	John Hennessy is the author of Bridge and Tunnel (Turning Point Books/Word Press 2007), a collection of poems, and his work appears in many journals and anthologies, including The New Republic, Poetry, The Yale Review, New Letters, The Antioch Review, The Sewanee Review, Jacket (Australia), Salt (UK), Harvard Review, What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey, Poetry Daily, and Best New Poets 2005. Hennessy is a contributing editor to Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, and he is the poetry editor of The Common, a new print magazine based at Amherst College. In 2007-2008 he held the Resident Fellowship in Poetry at the Amy Clampitt House. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts and lives in Amherst. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Susan Kinsolving‘s books of poems are The White Eyelash, Dailies & Rushes, a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award, and Among Flowers. Forthcoming is her new collection, My Glass Eye. She has taught in The Bennington Writing Seminars, University of Connecticut, Southampton College, Chautauqua Institute, Willard-Cybulski Men’s Prison, California Institute of the Arts, and The Hotchkiss School. As a librettist, she has enjoyed performances with the Marin Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera America Songbook, and Baroque Choral Guild in New York, The Netherlands, Italy, and California. She has received poetry fellowships from France, Italy, Scotland, Switzerland, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, and Wyoming. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Kevin O’Hara, proud winner of the 2012 John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Award, has read his homespun stories on numerous TV and radio stations, in addition to appearing at countless libraries, colleges, and Irish pubs throughout New England. He is the author of A Lucky Irish Lad and Last of the Donkey Pilgrims. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Lisken Van Pelt Dus is a poet, teacher, and martial artist, raised in England, the US, and Mexico, and now living in Massachusetts. Her work can be found in such journals as Conduit, The South Carolina Review, qarrtsiluni, and upstreet, and has earned awards and honors from The Comstock Review, The Atlanta Review, and Cider Press Review. Her chapbook, Everywhere at Once, was published by Pudding House Press in 2009. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Irene Willis has published three books of poetry: They Tell Me You Danced; At the Fortune Café (winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize from Snake Nation Press) and Those Flames. Twice nominated for Pushcart Prizes, her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including, most recently, Ploughshares, Women’s Review of Books and Eating Her Wedding Dress: An Anthology of Clothing Poems. Currently, she is Poetry Editor for the online publication, International Psychoanalysis. [Event] [Full Schedule]
	Mark Wunderlich is the author of The Anchorage, which receive the Lambda Literary Award, Voluntary Servitude (Graywolf Press, 2004) and The Earth Avails, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2013. He is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford, and others. He teaches literature and writing at Bennington College and is a member of the faculty of the graduate writing program at Columbia University. He lives in Catskill, NY. [Event] [Full Schedule]