The Writer's Center Instructors
Writer's Center co-founder Sarah Stewart Taylor has written four mystery novels, all published by St. Martin's Press, as well as other works of fiction. Her journalism has been published in the Washington Post, The Boston Globe and many other magazines and newspapers. Sarah studied writing and literature at Middlebury College and Trinity College, Dublin. She has taught fiction writing and literature for ten years and currently teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Visit her on the web at www.SarahStewartTaylor.com.
Writer's Center co-founder Joni B. Cole is a frequent educator and speaker at writing conferences around the country. She is the author of Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive, which is "strongly recommended" by Library Journal for students, teachers, and workshops. She is also the founding creator of the acclaimed "This Day" book series, including Water Cooler Diaries: Women across America Share Their Day at Work ("both fascinating and eye-opening," according to Publisher's Weekly). Nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize, Joni has published several essays in literary journals, and is a contributor to The Writer magazine. Her forthcoming book, Another Bad-Dog Book: Tales of Life, Love, and Neurotic Human Behavior, will be available this September wherever books are sold. For more information, visit jonibcole.com. You can also find Joni on Facebook.
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Joe Applegate has served as the night editor of the Valley News for the past five years. He has had three of his short plays produced at Parish Players' 10-Minute Play Festival in Thetford. One was anthologized in Larry Haribson's Best 10-Minute Plays of 2007. Info: joe@theapplegategroup.com.
Sarah Aronson holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her first novel, Head Case, was published in 2007 by Roaring Brook Press and was a 2008 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. Sarah is a regular presenter at NE-SCBWI events. She reviews young adult novels for Jewish Book World, and is a regular contributor to the VCFA:MFA blog, Through the Booth, community.livejournal.com/thru_the_booth. For more info: www.saraharonson.com.
Meg Brazill is a writer and editor. She's served on literature panels for the Maine Arts Commission, the Vermont Arts Council, and the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. She was Executive Director of the Literary Program at the Lannan Foundation in Los Angeles, and created its "Readings & Conversations" series. She is a 2009 recipient of a grant from the Vermont Arts Council and a Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center.
Katharine Fisher Britton lives in Norwich, Vermont and teaches at Colby Sawyer College. She has written three screenplays, one of which is a 2009 Moondance Film Festival winner. She has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and has written freelance for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Tuck School of Business, Thayer School of Engineering, many local publications, as well as Scribner's Biographical Encyclopedias. Her debut novel, Her Sister's Shadow, will be released on June 7, 2011, and she is in the process of revising her second book. She is also an author coach. For more, visit Katharine's webiste: www.katharinebritton.com.
Wendy Call is a writer, editor, translator and educator. Usually based in Seattle, Wendy is in Vermont for two months as the 2011 Artist in Residence at Woodstock’s Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. She is co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide and author of the new narrative nonfiction book No Word for Welcome. She is a recent Writer in Residence at Harborview MedicalCenter, New College of Florida, and Seattle University. Read more at www.wendycall.com.
Sharon G. Comeau has been published in the Old-Time Herald and Here in Hanover magazines. She writes personal essays and fiction and has kept a journal for most of her life. She’s been practicing yoga since 1999 and teaching since 2006.
Geoffrey Douglas is the author of four nonfiction books (Henry Holt, Hyperion) and more than 100 magazine pieces, many of them widely anthologized. His third book, The Game of Their Lives (Holt, 1996), was in wide release as a 2005 movie. An adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, he has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a writer-in-residence at several schools and universities. A National Magazine Award (ASME) finalist and regular contributor to Yankee, he lives in the Upper Valley, where he's presently at work on a novel.
KJ Dell'Antonia has written for Parenting, Parents, American Baby, the Time Out New York Eating and Drinking Guide and other publications. She is a co-author of Reading With Babies, Toddlers and Twos: Choosing, Loving and Reading Books Together, a regular contributor to Commonsense Media and a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Kim J. Gifford holds a Master's in Creative Writing and Religion from Vermont College at Norwich University. She also studied writing while earning her Bachelor's in Religion at Middlebury College, taking classes with novelist Julia Alvarez. She now works as a freelance writer. Her work appears in a number of regional publications including Upper Valley Life, Kearsarge Magazine, Valley Business Journal, Rutland Magazine and many more. For the last six years, she has worked as a memoir writing instructor, offering classes in a variety of settings including the Thompson Senior Center in Woodstock, VT and Harvest Hill in Lebanon, NH. She presently teaches memoir writing at Lebanon College and offers private workshops on a variety of genres.
Nancy Kilgore lives and writes in Vermont and is a psychotherapist in Hanover. She studied fiction writing at the Radcliffe Seminars and holds a doctorate in pastoral psychology from Boston University. Nancy's novel, Sea Level, about a woman minister in a small town in 1980, will be published in May 2011. In her therapy practice Nancy specializes in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. For more information see www.nancykilgore.com and www.uvmindfultherapy.com.
Peter Money has been publishing his own writing for twenty-five years. He has published several books in the small press movement, was a student of the late Beat writer Allen Ginsberg, and his work has been heard on Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac." He has edited several magazines and writes poetry and prose. He is on the faculty at The Center For Cartoon Studies, teaches creative writing at Lebanon College, and has been a guest artist on panels and writing programs. His writing has appeared in journals published in Austria, Japan, England, the States, and in a recent anthology by City Lights books. Peter has directed Harbor Mountain Press and its nearly fourteen books since 2006. Peter's degrees are from Oberlin College, Brooklyn College (MFA), and San Jose State University (MLS). To learn more about Peter, visit: www.cervenabarvapress.com/PeterMoneyinterview.htm.
Giavanna Munafo holds an MFA from the University of Iowa (poetry) and also studied writing while pursuing her BA and PhD at the University of Virginia. She has taught writing since 1985 at various colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, George Washington University, and Dartmouth College. She currently teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies program at Dartmouth. Giavanna recently returned from a residency at the Vermont Studio Center where she revised a poetry manuscript and worked on two new projects, a memoir and a collection of short stories. She can be reached at 802-356-2492 or gmunafo@mac.com.
April Ossmann is a publishing, editing and writing consultant and author of Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007) and former Executive Director of Alice James Books, editing poets as various as Donald Revell, Cole Swensen, Kazim Ali, Mary Szybist, Catherine Barnett and Frank X. Gaspar. Her poetry has been published widely in anthologies and journals, including Harvard Review, Colorado Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review. She won the Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award for ten poems published in the summer 2000 issue, and has taught creative writing and literature courses at Lebanon College and at the University of Maine at Farmington. For information about April's book, visit www.fourwaybooks.com/books/ossmann/ossmann_reviews.php. Also see her website: www.aprilossmann.com.
Midge Raymond has worked as an editor and copywriter for such publishers as Houghton Mifflin, Penguin, and St. Martin’s Press, and she is a co-founder of the boutique publisher Ashland Creek Press. She taught communication writing at Boston University for six years and has taught creative writing at Boston’s Grub Street Writers, San Diego Writers, and Seattle’s Richard Hugo House. Her book, Forgetting English, received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, and her stories, which have appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and the Los Angeles Times, among others, have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes. Learn more at www.MidgeRaymond.com.
Julia Shipley is a freelance writer and teacher, as well as the caretaker of the Writer’s Retreat in Craftsbury, VT, a cozy farmhouse studio rental for writers. Her collection of poems, Herd won the Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Award and was published last March. Other awards include the Ralph Nading Hill Award and an Emerging Writers Fellowship to the Center for Book Arts. She has also received grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Fund, and her poems and essays have appeared in Hunger Mountain, Bloodroot, Vermont Life, and Vermont Magazine among others.
Joanna Tebbs Young has been writing a personal journal for over 20 years and designed and taught her own journal workshop before becoming a certified instructor through the Center for Journal Therapy. Using valuable journaling techniques, she now teaches customized workshops through organizations such as Women's Network & Shelter, Vermont Women's Business Center and Rutland Regional Medical Center. As a freelance writer, Joanna has been published in Mama Says and The Rutland Herald. She blogs and provides journal writing tips at wisdomwithinink.com.
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