CONTACT
Tinker Mountain Writer's Workshop
Hollins University
Christine Powell
P.O. Box 9552
Roanoke, VA 24020-1552
(540) 362-6229
Fax (540) 561-2325
cpowell@hollins.edu |
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| Workshop Faculty |
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Fred Leebron, fiction, 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. |
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Jane Alison, creative nonfiction
Jane Alison has published three novels: The Love-Artist (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001), which has been translated into seven languages; The Marriage of the Sea (FSG, 2003), a New York Times Notable Book; and Natives and Exotics (Harcourt, 2005), a summer reading selection of NPR. Her most recent book is a memoir, The Sisters Antipodes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), which has also been published in Australia and Holland and was an editor's pick in People magazine. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, TriQuarterly, Germanic Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Miami and teaches in the M.F.A. programs of the University of Miami and Queens University of Charlotte. |
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Pinckney Benedict, fiction
Pinckney Benedict has published two collections of short fiction and a novel, all of which were named "Notable Books" by The New York Times Book Review. His stories have appeared in, among other magazines and anthologies, Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, the O. Henry Award series, the New Stories from the South series, the Pushcart Prize series, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #20, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, and The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction. He currently serves as a professor in the English department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois and on the faculty of the low-residency M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte. His third collection of short fiction, Miracle Boy and Other Stories, is forthcoming in May 2010. |
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Sally Keith, poetry
Sally Keith’s first book Design won the 2000 Colorado Prize, judged by Allen Grossman. Her second manuscript Dwelling Song was chosen by Bin Ramke and Fanny Howe for the University of Georgia’s Contemporary Poetry Series. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize; has published poems in numerous journals, including: Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Volt, A Public Space and Forklift, Ohio and has received fellowships from The Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and most recently the Brown Foundations Fellows Residence Program at Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France. She was the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College in 2002-03 and currently is a faculty member of George Mason University’s M.F.A. program in poetry. |
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James 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. |
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Thorpe Moeckel, advanced poetry
Thorpe Moeckel teaches in the writing program at Hollins University. His work has appeared in Field, Open City, The Antioch Review, Poetry Daily, Orion, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. He is the author of three books of poems -- Odd Botany (Silverfish Review Press, 2002), Making a Map of the River (Iris Press, 2008), and the forthcoming Venison: a poem (Etruscan Press, 2010). Chapbooks include Meltlines and The Guessing Land. His poetry is featured in the anthologies, Field Work: Modern Poems from Eastern Forests, edited by Erik Reece and published University of Kentucky Press, and From the Fishouse, published by Persea. |
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Daniel Mueller, fiction and creative nonfiction
Daniel Mueller is the author of a collection of stories, How Animals Mate. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Story, Story Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Crescent Review, 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. |
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Jon Pineda, poetry
Jon Pineda is the author of the poetry collections: The Translator's Diary, winner of the Green Rose Prize, and Birthmark, winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series Open Competition. His memoir, Sleep in Me, is forthcoming in fall 2010 from the University of Nebraska Press. Recent work is appearing or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Third Coast, and in the anthologies The Working Poet: 75 Writing Exercises and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. His website is www.jonpineda.com. |
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Laura van den Berg, fiction
Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her M.F.A. at Emerson College. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, the 2009 Julia Peterkin Award, and the 2009-10 Emerging Writer Lectureship at Gettysburg College. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Boston Review, American Short Fiction, Epoch, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV: Best of the Small Presses, among others. Laura’s first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), was recently selected for the Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Program.
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