Workshop Faculty
Fred Leebron, Director
Fred Leebron, program director of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte, is also a Professor of English at Gettysburg College, and a former director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His novels include Six Figures, In the Middle of All This, and Out West. He has received a Pushcart Prize, a Michener Award, a Stegner Fellowship, and an O. Henry Award. He is co-editor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology and co-author of Creating Fiction: A Writer's Companion. The independent production of Six Figures premiered at the Toronto Film Festival recently, and he is currently at work on another film project.
Pinckney Benedict, Director, fiction
Pinckney Benedict grew up in southern West Virginia. He has published two story collections (Town Smokes and The Wrecking Yard) and a novel (Dogs of God). His stories have appeared in Esquire, Zoetrope All-Story, StoryQuarterly, the O. Henry Award series, the New Stories from the South series, the Pushcart Prize series, and The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, among others. He is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale.
Hal Ackerman, screenwriting
Hal Ackerman (Co-Chair UCLA Screenwriting) has been on the UCLA faculty for 20 years. Among the students he has mentored are Pamela Gray (A Walk On The Moon), Scott Kosar (The Machinist), Sacha Gervasi (Terminal), Nicholas Griffin (Matchstick Men), and Felicia Henderson (Soul Food). Hal has sold his own material to the major studios and networks. His fiction and poetry have been widely published. His one-man play Testosterone: How Prostate Cancer Made a Man of Me premiered in Atlanta earlier this year. He is a regular member of the visiting faculty at Hollins.
Laura Benedict
Laura Benedict's debut thriller, Isabella Moon, is available now from Ballantine Books, with a second novel to follow in spring 2009. Surreal South, an anthology of short fiction and poetry that she co-edited with her husband, Pinckney Benedict, is available from Press 53. Her fiction has also appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and several anthologies. She is a freelance reviewer for The Grand Rapids Press, in Michigan, and resides in Southern Illinois.
Jen Boyle, new media
Jen Boyle has published articles and book chapters on new media, film theory, and techno culture and literature, as well as print and new media poetry. She is also a collaborator-author of new media art installations, including "The Affective Image" and "The Hollins Community Project" (in collaboration with Virginia Tech). During 2006-07, she was a Fellow at Brown University, and has held a fellowship at the Folger Institute and been a scholar-in-residence at the Dibner Library in Washington, D.C. Jen Boyle is an assistant professor at Hollins University.
Michelle Brooks, introductory poetry
Michelle Brooks has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in The Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Orchid, Blue Mesa Review, Baltimore Review, Madison Review, Gargoyle, Long Shot, Phoebe, Natural Bridge, Getrude, South Carolina Review, Slipstream, Rainbow Curve, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, No Half-Measures Here, won The Ledge Prize in 2004 and her other collections, Such Short Supply (Concrete Wolf) and A Hotel Room in Baton Rouge (Liquid Paper Press), were published in 2005. Her poem, "Attention" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A native Texan, she now teaches creative writing in Detroit. Her nonfiction can be found at www.michellespells.blogspot.com.
Jim McKean, creative nonfiction
James McKean writes poems and nonfiction. He has published two books of poems, Headlong from the University of Utah Press, and Tree of Heaven from the University of Iowa Press. Headlong won a 1987 Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writer Award, and Tree of Heaven won a 1994 Iowa Poetry Award. His nonfiction has appeared in magazines and collections such as The Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, and The Best American Sports Writing 2003, and has received a Pushcart Prize. His latest book is a collection of essays titled Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports, published in 2005 by Michigan State University Press. He teaches creative writing and American literature at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and in the M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Thorpe Moeckel, advanced poetry
Thorpe Moeckel's collection of poems, Odd Botany, won the 2000 Gerald Cable Award and was published in 2002 by Silverfish Review Press. Poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, Field, The Antioch Review, Poetry Daily, Hotel Amerika, and many other journals. Chapbooks include Meltlines, The Guessing Land, and Making a Map of the River. He earned an M.F.A. in 2002 at the University of Virginia, where he was a Jacob K. Javits and Henry Hoyns Fellow. A former Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill, he now teaches at Hollins University.
Daniel Mueller, fiction
Daniel Mueller's collection of stories, How Animals Mate, won the Sewanee Fiction Prize in 1999, and was released in paperback in 2000. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Story Quarterly, Story, Mississippi Review, Crescent Review, Orchid, Another Chicago Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Cutbank, Cincinnati Review, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Henfield Foundation, University of Virginia, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He teaches on the creative writing faculties of University of New Mexico and the Low-Residency M.F.A. Program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. In January 2008 he served as Writer-in-Residence at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
Ashley Warlick, fiction
Ashley Warlick is the author of three novels, The Distance From The Heart of Things (1996), The Summer After June (2000), and Seek the Living (2005), all published by Houghton Mifflin. She is the youngest winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, a founding member of the advisory board for the Novello Festival Press, and book columnist for several newspapers. In 2006, she received a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte and at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.
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