Writers-in-Residence
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Karen Osborn '79 is the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence for 2013. She is the author of four novels: Patchwork, Between Earth and Sky, The River Road, and Centerville, due out in October 2012. Her poetry and stories have appeared in journals nationwide, including The Southern Review, Kansas Quarterly, Clapboard House, Poet Lore, Wisconsin Review, New England Watershed, and The Centennial Review. Her grants and awards include fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and a Notable Book of the Year Award from The New York Times.
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Natasha Trethewey was the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence for 2012. In June 2012 Trethewey was named U. S. Poet Laureate for 2012-13 by the Library of Congress. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Lillian Smith Award for her collection Native Guard, Trethewey is the author of two previous poetry collections, Bellocq's Ophelia, and Domestic Work. Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast was published in fall 2010. Her numerous grants and awards include fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Bellagio, The Rockefeller Foundation. In January 2012, she was named poet laureate of Mississippi. She is professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University in Atlanta. She received her B.A., University of Georgia, M.A., Hollins College, M.F.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Trethewey was profiled in the October/November issue of Garden & Gun magazine. |
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Carol Moldaw was the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence for 2011. She is the author of five books of poetry, including So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems; The Lightning Field, winner of the FIELD Poetry Prize; Through the Window; Chalkmarks on Stone; and Taken from the River. She has also penned a lyrical novel, The Widening. Moldaw’s work has been published widely in journals, including Agni, Conjunctions, The Drunken Boat, Field, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Parnassus, Partisan Review, Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, The Threepenny Review, and Triquarterly. The recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, Moldaw has taught for many writing conferences and university programs, including Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine’s low residency M.F.A. program, and the M.F.A. program at Naropa University. She lives in Pojoaque, New Mexico. |
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David Payne was the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence for 2010. He is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, including Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award, Ruin Creek, and Back to Wando Passo, which Pat Conroy describes as “so bold in the concept and audacious in scope that it seems like the summing up and exclamation point of a great writer’s career.” Payne – who has written for The Washington Post, The Oxford American, and the Paris daily, Libération – is currently finishing a memoir titled Barefoot to Avalon, about his relationship with his bipolar brother. |
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Kelly Cherry was the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence for 2009. She is the author of seven books of fiction (most recently We Can Still Be Friends), as well as seven books of poems (including Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems) and three of literary nonfiction. Another book of essays, Girl in a Library, and a new collection of poems, The Retreats of Thought, are due out soon. The recipient of many grants and awards for both her poetry and her prose, she has held named chairs and distinguished visiting writer positions at a number of universities.
In 2011, Cherry was named Virginia's Poet Laureate by Gov. Bob McDonnell. |
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Christine Schutt '70 was the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins for 2008. Her new novel, All Souls, was published in April 2008. Her first novel, Florida, was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award in Fiction. Nightwork, a short-story collection, was chosen by poet John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement, and a second collection, A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2005 to wide acclaim. Schutt’s other honors include a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Short Story Prize. |
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Elizabeth
Seydel Morgan '60 was the 2007 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence. She is the author of four books of poetry, including On
Long Mountain, a finalist for the Library of
Virginia Poetry Prize in 1998. Her next book of poems, Without
a Philosophy, will be published by LSU
Press in 2007. Recently awarded the Carole Weinstein
Poetry Prize, Morgan also won the Emily Clark Balch
Award from The Virginia Quarterly Review for
her fiction, and the Governor’s Award for Screenwriting
at the Virginia Film Festival. |
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James
Dodson was the 2006 Louis
D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence. A writer of memoir,
biography, and literary journalism, he is a regular
columnist for Golf Magazine and was an editor for Departures Magazine.
A former senior writer for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution Sunday Magazine and Yankee
Magazine, his public affairs and political writing has won numerous national
awards. He is the author of Final Rounds, Faithful Travelers, A Golfer's Life,
The Dewsweepers, The Road to Somewhere, and Ben Hogan: An American Life.
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Poet
Dara Wier was the 2005 Louis
D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence. She
directs the MFA program for poets and writers at
the University of Massachusetts. Her work has received
grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts, and has been included in
recent volumes of Best American Poetry and The
Pushcart Prize Anthology. The American Poetry
Review awarded her the Jerome
Shestack Prize in 2001. |
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Denise
Giardina was the 2004 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence. She has published five novels and is
a recipient of a creative writing fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts. Her second novel, Storming
Heaven, was a Discovery Selection of the Book
of the Month Club. Her fifth, Fallam's Secret,
has just been released. |
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LeAnne
Howe was the 2003 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence. Her first novel, Shell Shaker,
was the winner of an American Book Award, and a collection
of her new stories, Howe, Like the Indian, will
be published in 2003. A member of the Chocktaw Nation
of Oklahoma, she is also a poet and playwright, as
well as an American Indian literature scholar. |
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Novelist
Wayne Johnston was the 2002 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence. He is the author of five novels, including The
Divine Ryans, and The Colony of Unrequited
Dreams, which was nominated for the Giller Prize
and the Governor's Award in Canada. |
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Poet
Paul Zimmer was the 2001 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence. He is the author of many volumes of poetry,
including Big Blue Train, The Great Bird of Love, and Crossing
to Sunlight: Selected Poems. |
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