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Program Director
 Amanda
Cockrell is a graduate of Hollins, where she also earned her M.A. in English and creative writing. In addition to directing the children’s literature program, she is the author of the young adult novel, What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay, as well as The Legions of the Mist, The Moonshine Blade, The Deer Dancers trilogy, The Horse Catchers trilogy and Pomegranate Seed, and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction. What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay has been acclaimed as one of the best books for 2011 for children by The Boston Globe, and has also been named to the Bulletin Blue Ribbons 2011 list from The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.
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 Michelle Ann Abate, associate professor of English, and co-editor of the journal Children's Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press); B.A., Canisius College; M.Phil. and Ph.D., City University of New York. Michelle is the author of Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History (Temple University Press, 2008) and Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature and American Political Conservatism (Rutgers University Press, 2010). In addition, she has published critical essays on a wide range of topics, including "The Muppet Show," William Faulkner, Louisa May Alcott, Caddie Woodlawn, Mark Twain, the Left Behind novels for kids, and the genres of lesbian pulp fiction and young adult novels. In the photo (left), Abate is at Ollantaytambo in Peru, where she took a group of students in January 2007 in connection to her Short Term course on travel writing.
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 Brian
Attebery, professor of English and director
of American studies, Idaho State University;
Ph.D., Brown University. He is coeditor, with
Ursula K. Le Guin, of The Norton Book of Science
Fiction; author of Decoding Gender
in Science Fiction, Strategies of Fantasy,
The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature:
From Irving to Le Guin, and the Teachers
Guide to the Norton Book of Science Fiction; and is editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He recently won the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship.
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Rhonda Brock-Servais,
associate professor of English, Longwood University;
Ph.D., University of South Carolina. Her work has
appeared in Children’s Literature in Education, and The Encyclopedia
of American Children’s Literature. Besides
children’s literature, her interests include
literary horror, Romantic and Victorian literature,
and fairy tales.
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 Renée Englot, M.A. in Children's Literature, Hollins University. She is a professional storyteller working with schools, libraries, andcorporations. Her storytelling has taken her across Canada and the United States, and her stories can be found on the recordings Tales on the Wind, World of Story 2009, and Undaunted Enchantments. She is also the author of The Stranger Who Snored: An Intercultural Folktale Exploration.
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 Lisa
Rowe Fraustino, associate professor of English, Eastern Connecticut State University; Ph.D., Binghamton University. Her newest book, the middle-grade novel The Hole in the Wall, won the 2010 Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature and will be out in November. She is the current president of the Children’s Literature Association, and is also the author of I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials; The Hickory Chair; and Ash. As Lisa Meunier, she is the author of the forthcoming poetry chapbook, Hitching to Istanbul.
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Tina Hanlon, associate professor of English, Ferrum College; Ph.D., Ohio State University. Her publications on children’s literature, folk and fairy tales include entries in The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, as well as essays in The Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature, and the book Tales, Tellers, and Texts. She is co-editor of Crosscurrents of Children’s Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism, and director of the Web site AppLit: Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults.
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 Hillary Homzie, M.A., Hollins University; M.Ed.,
Temple
University. She is the author of Things Are Gonna Get Ugly and The Hot List as well as the chapter book series Alien Clones From Outer Space. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and numerous children’s magazines.
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Len Hatfield, associate professor of English,
Virginia Tech; Ph.D., Indiana University. He is the
former president of the International Association
for the Fantastic in the Arts, founder and editor
of the Virginia Tech Online Speculative Fiction Project,
associate director of the Virginia Tech Center for
Applied Technologies in the Humanities, and the co-director
of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.
Besides the fantastic in literature, his interests
include literary theory, postmodernism, and humanities
computing.
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 Alexandria
LaFaye, assistant professor of English, Lee University; M.F.A., University of Memphis; M.A., Hollins College and Mankato State University. Her newest book is The Keening. She is also the author of Worth, which won the 2005 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Water Steps, Stella Stands Alone, The Year of the Sawdust Man, Edith Shay, Strawberry Hill, and Nissa’s Place.
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 William
Miller, associate professor of English, York
College; Ph.D., Binghamton University. He is the
author of two collections of poetry and numerous
books for children, including numerous books for
children, including Night Golf which won
the Parents' Choice Gold Medal Award, Zora Hurston
and the Chinaberry Tree, Frederick Douglass: the
Last Day of Slavery, The Knee-High Man, Madame
Zina and the Conjure Woman, A House by the River, Richard
Wright and the Library Card, The Bus Ride, Tituba, and Rent-Party
Jazz.
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 Nancy Ruth Patterson, M.A.T., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her five novels for children have been honored on reading master lists in 10 states. The Christmas Cup, The Shiniest Rock of All, and A Simple Gift, a Junior Library Guild Selection, have been adapted as plays and performed professionally. Her latest works are The Winner’s Walk, selected for master lists in five states, including the Texas Bluebonnet Master List, and Ellie Ever, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the fall of 2010. Retiring after 33 years as a teacher and administrator with Roanoke (VA) City Schools, she joined the adjunct faculty of The University of Virginia, teaching graduate courses in children’s and young adult literature. She has spoken at more than 500 national conferences and workshops and has written numerous articles on the craft of writing.
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 Julie Pfeiffer,
associate professor of English; Ph.D., University
of Connecticut; editor of the annual of the Children’s
Literature Association, Children’s Literature (Johns
Hopkins University Press). She has published on Charlotte
Bronte, gender and children’s literature, and
on nineteenth-century revisions of Paradise Lost for
children.
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 Candice Ransom, M.F.A., Vermont College;
M. A., Hollins University, is the author of over 100 books for children of all ages, including the novels Finding Day’s Bottom and Seeing Sky-Blue Pink; picture books including Tractor Day, I Like Shoes, Liberty Street, and The Promise Quilt; and the Time Spies books, among dozens of others.
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 Ruth
Sanderson, author and illustrator, is a graduate of Paier College of Art. Among her many books for children are Goldilocks, The Enchanted Wood, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Papa Gatto, The Night Before Christmas, The Snow Princess, Cinderella, and Saints: Lives and Illuminations. Her books have received a number of awards, including the Texas Bluebonnet Award for The Golden Mare, The Firebird, and The Magic Ring. In 1997 she was writer-in-residence for the Children's Literature program.
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 Delia Sherman, Ph.D., Brown University. She is the author of middle-grade novels Changeling and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, and the forthcoming Freedom Maze. Her adult novels are Through a Brazen Mirror; The Porcelain Dove (winner of the Mythopoeic Award); and with Ellen Kushner, The Fall of the Kings. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in many young adult and middle-grade anthologies, most recently Coyote Road, Troll's Eye View, and Welcome to Bordertown. She is a founding member of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, an organization supporting work that falls outside traditional genre categories, for which she co-edited two Interfictions anthologies.
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 C. W. Sullivan III,
professor of English, East
Carolina
University; Ph.D., University of Oregon. He is
a full member of the Welsh Academy, author of Fenian Diary: Denis B. Cashman on board the Hougoumont, 1867-1868, and Welsh
and editor of numerous books including The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays, Science Fiction for Young Readers, and Young Adult Science Fiction. His newest book is Heinlein’s Juvenile Novels: A Cultural Dictionary.
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 Ashley Wolff, B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design.
She is the author and/or illustrator of over 40 children’s picture books including Baby Beluga, Stella and Roy Go Camping, Me Baby, You Baby, Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?, Mama’s Milk, and the beloved Miss Bindergarten series. Her books have won numerous state and national awards. She lives and works in San Francisco.
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 Sharon Dennis Wyeth is the author of over 50
books for young readers, including Tomboy
Trouble, the Underground Railroad diaries of Corey Birdsong, and Orphea Proud, which was a 2005 LAMBDA Literary Award finalist. The Granddaughter Necklace will be published in the near future by Arthur A. Levine Books, and she is a Cave Canem Poetry Fellow.
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