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Fred Arroyo Pope Brock Charlene Donaghy Richard Duggin Charles Fort Kate Gale Teri Youmans Grimm Amy Hassinger Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Patricia Henley Art Homer Michael Kinghorn Steve Langan Patricia Lear Michael Oatman Jim Peterson Elizabeth Powell Lee Ann Roripaugh Zachary Schomburg Karen Gettert Shoemaker Mary Helen Stefaniak Catherine Texier William Trowbridge Charles Wyatt
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Jan Beatty Sherwin Bitsui Joy Castro Rachel Cohn Mark E. Cull Gabriel Jason Dean Natalie Diaz David Allan Evans D. Scott Glasser Benjamin Graber, Playwright in Residence Stephanie Elizondo Griest James Jay Allan Kornblum Greg Kosmicki Ann Patty Katherine Russell Rich Victoria Skurnick Miles Waggener
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Recent Faculty Mentors and Visiting Faculty Include: Candace Black David Carkeet Megan Daum Richard Dooling Beth Ann Fennelly Mark Haskell Smith William Kloefkorn Ted Kooser Tom Franklin Anna Monardo John Price Richard Robbins Catie Rosemurgy Brent Spencer Sue William Silverman Lee Allison Wilson Nance Van Winckel
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(Fiction/CNF) FRED ARROYO is the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions (U of Arizona P, 2012) and the novel The Region of Lost Names (U of Arizona P, 2008), a finalist for the 2008 Premio Aztlán Literary Prize. Fred is a recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission, and in 2009 he was
"Had it not been for the mentors who respected my writing, who nurtured my beginning vision and voice, who affirmed (through conversation, experience, knowledge, and books) my background and memories, as well as my emerging passion and attention for literature, I might not be the writer I am today. I strive to honor the patience and care these mentors offered in my own mentoring and teaching. As a mentor I’ll read your work very carefully, listen closely to its shape and intent, and I’ll consider what seem your deliberate and inadvertent decisions. I’ll focus on how your writing is much more than a description of reality—rather, how you are imagining and creating a possible world. I’ll offer questions and suggestions that help you to revise, reinvent, and realize your best writing. Together, we’ll focus on the art and craft of fiction writing; we’ll read and critically engage beautiful works in order to gain influence, inspiration, and learning. To this end, you’ll hopefully begin to develop a particular, special, and aesthetically sensitive way of reading and writing. You’ll discover, in your own language, a poetics for crafting the stories you need to write. "When nothing else seemed to matter in my life, I received a great mysterious pleasure from writing, I learned its power for discovering new, astonishing things, and I felt a deep longing to form—through evocative images, closely observed details, the moment-to-moment sensations of experience, and the precise weaving of words—a sensuous, compelling, and credible world. What was essential, first and still, is a hunger and love for language. I often return to writers whose words are alive on the page, who create awe and wonder on every page, and who offer insight and knowledge into the pages I’m writing. Because a love for language is not enough, I’ve had to learn how fiction dramatizes the elimination and deepening of mystery, and why the writers I admire struggle with real losses and imaginary gains. My hope is that by the end of the semester you’ll have a much better appreciation for how you can eliminate and deepen mystery in your writing, how you can make the most of your real losses and imaginary gains. You’ll have, therefore, attentive insight into the art and craft of your writing, you’ll critically recognize those writers who help you make the most of your writing, and you’ll write those peoples, regions, and dreams that matter."
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| (CNF/Fiction) POPE BROCK received his BA in English from Harvard University and his MFA in Drama from New York University School of the Arts. He is author of the New York Times bestseller Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam (Crown, 2008), an account of the improbable career of John Brinkley, the most successful quack in U.S. history. (More information, including audi
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(Playwriting) CHARLENE A. DONAGHY is a National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Award nominee with numerous plays produced in New York City and around the United States, and plays recognized in Canada and Great Britain. She is published in The Best American Short Plays, Estrogenius 2010, and Estrogenius 2011. She has been a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award, Phoenix Theatre’s New Work "Every student is on a voyage and my joy as an educator is to encourage you to find your own voice, muse, self, bliss, fun, and fulfillment in your art and craft. I’m devoted to that voyage: opening minds, developing and fostering competency, and gaining understand where you say, with a smile, “I am a writer!” and know that you are. I believe teaching is collaboration between student and mentor so I teach in a manner that allows students to actively contribute. We awaken your mind together by encouraging discussion, questions, performance, and imagination coupled with superior writing and reading skills that speak to who you are as a writer. My real-world experiences in theatre production add invaluable levels of education and writing development for my students. As a playwright and theatre professional I write every day, cultivate my place in theatre, and I love every second – even the times when the muse tries to hide behind daily life – because, eventually, everything comes together and the voyage is as wondrous as the destination. I want you to find fulfillment in your own art so you also “love every second”, where individuality explodes into something both rewarding to you as student and writer, and also relatable to readers and audiences. Finally, I hope that as my student you always recognize my enthusiasm for this voyage that we attempt together: there’s nothing else!"
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(Program Director/Fiction) RICHARD DUGGIN was raised in New England and received his bachelor’s degree in literature and writing from the University of New Hampshire. He received his MFA degree in fiction writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and he has taught fiction writing at "Stories live inside yourself. The craft of fiction gives a story existence outside, so others may know it too. What shapes any tale is language. Before all else, students need to love language in all its possibilities and recognize when it is used well by others. The job of the writer is to make the reader believe in the world of the story—that it lies beyond where he sits reading—and what discrepancies exist between his external realities and those of the internal world of the story become integrated in his imagination. To accomplish this in his work, a writer must pay attention to the smallest matters of craft with the same attention to the details of construction that any artisan pays toward wedding form with functionality. The rudiments of craft can be learned in a group, but to master it you are better served working one on one with a mentor: a book by a writer you admire, a friend whose judgments you trust, a teacher whose experience you absorb. I see my job as the latter. My approach to teaching fiction is to determine where each student is, then goad him to go where he wants to be. It has always been my approach with students to persist in reminding them that a story, a poem, an essay are made objects. They have their own existence outside their authors. Find the right form and the subject takes on life and substance of its own. Find the proper voice—the most advantageous point of view—and the lives of the characters are illuminated, so that even their most mystical, magical moments become real as flesh."
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(Poetry) CHARLES FORT's books include: We Did
Not Fear The Father: New and Selected Poems by Red Hen Press (2010) and Mrs.
Belladonna's Supper Club Waltz, New
and Selected Prose Poems, Volumes 1
and 2, by
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named one of the Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch (and Read) by LatinoStories.com. As a young man he worked a range of jobs that shaped his memory and imagination, and his sense of place and migration. Eventually he attended a local community college in Michigan, and subsequently received an MA in creative writing from Purdue University and an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, as well a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Currently, he is working on a book of essays, Close as Pages in a Book, in which he lyrically meditates on work, reading and writing, migration and place. He is also writing a novel set primarily in the Caribbean. His short stories have appeared in literary journals such as The Platte Valley Review, Grasslands Review, Quercus Review, Pinyon, and Crab Orchard Review: A Journal of Creative Works; and essays, poems, reviews, and interviews published in a variety of journals. His essay “Working in a Region of Lost Names” appeared in The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World (2nd ed., Milkweed Editions, 2011). Fred lives in Vermillion, SD, and is an Assistant Professor of English with a specialization in fiction writing at the University of South Dakota. 
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s Festival, Houston’s Wordsmythe Theatre Company’s New Play Series, Seattle’s Double XX Festival, twice for the Kennedy Center John Cauble Short Play Award, as well as a two-time encore production winner at Estrogenius in New York City. Her produced/published/recognized plays include Gift of an Orange, inspired by Tennessee Williams short story “Gift of an Apple,” Who You Got to Believe, Another August, The Quadroon and the Dove, Bones of Home, Everything Has a Season, Proverbs, and Sliding which was commissioned by New York’s Three Tattoos. Charlene’s poems have been recognized by the Louisiana Literary Journal and The Writers’ Workshop of Asheville, North Carolina. Her creative non-fiction piece, Wearing Silk, is published in “In the Eye: A Collection of Writings.” Charlene was an advanced participant in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. She holds an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University, Cambridge, Mass. She is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild of America, Association of Writing Professionals, Association for Theater in Higher Education, International Association of Women Playwrights, and The Playwright’s Center. Charlene is Director of Production of the Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. She teaches at the University of Nebraska and, Lesley University. Charlene is Co-Producer of the Association for Theater in Higher Education’s New Play Development Workshop. New Orleans is her part-time home and forever muse. Charlene is a breast cancer survivor and holds true to these words from Tennessee Williams in Camino Real: “Make Voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else.” 
the University of Nebraska at Omaha for the past forty years. He is the founder of the UNO Writer’s Workshop, a BFA degree program in creative writing, and the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing Program. Duggin’s published work includes the novel The Music Box Treaty and numerous short stories which have appeared in such periodicals as American Literary Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Laurel Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Sun, Playboy, and elsewhere. His work has been cited by Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Playboy Magazine Best Fiction. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Merit Awards, and he has been awarded several artist’s residencies at Ragdale, Yaddo and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He has recently finished his third novel and is currently at work on a stage play.
Backwaters Press (2010), with
elements of poetry, fiction, creative
non-fiction, and memoir. Fort's poems have appeared in The Best American
Poetry 2003, The Best American
Poetry 2000, Best of Prose Poem International, The American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry, and other places, including twenty-one anthologies. Carnegie Mellon University
Press reprinted his first book, The
Town Clock Burning, under its Classic
Contemporary Series. His other books include Darvil, St. Andrews Press, and Frankenstein Was A Negro, Loganhouse Press. A MacDowell Fellow, Fort attended the Breadloaf Writers' Conference in 1972 and 1974, and the Cranbrook Writers' Conference in 1971, 1972, and 1973. He holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University, and he has taught on both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Creative Writing in Poetry and Fiction, Harlem Renaissance, Twentieth Century British and American Literature, Contemporary Poetics, and Seminar in Prosody. He is also the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and awards from the Poetry Society of America, Writer's Voice: Open Poetry Award, the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, and The Mary Carolyn Davis Memorial Award. Fort held the Paul W and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair in Poetry at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (1997-2007).
