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Lis Anna  (May 2007) director of film and writer of film and fiction, was the Second Place Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Award 2006 and the Second Place Winner Best Dramatic Short at the Tupelo Film Festival 2006. She is currently the Artist in Residence at the Herbert Hoover Historical Presidential Site 2006.  Her films "The Chocolate Fetish" "The Joy Café" "Waiting for Jilly" and "Rutherford County" have screened in numerous venues, including the Cannes Short Film Market, receiving tremendous praise.

Carrie Brown (January 2005) Brown has been an associate editor at The Columbia Flyer and held a Henry Hoyns teaching fellowship at the University of Virginia’s MFA writing Carri program.  She was awarded the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for her first novel, Rose’s Garden, published in 1998; her later published work includes the novels Lamb in Love, The Hatbox Baby and Confinement, as well as The House on Belle Isle, a collection of short stories. 

John Gregory Brown (Jan 2007) was born and raised in New Orleans, but now resides in Virginia.  He is the author of the novels Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery (1994), The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur (1996), and Audubon’s Watch (2001). His honors include a Lyndhurst Prize, the 1994 Lillian Smith Award, the 1996 Steinbeck Award, and the 2002 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award. He serves as Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of English at Sweet Briar College, and he lives with his wife, the novelist Carrie Brown, and their three children.

Carole Burns (September 2005) is an American fiction-writer who is currently living in Lincoln, England .  A part-time lecturer in creative writing at Kingston University in  London, Carole Bums also writes book reviews for The Washington Post, and hosts an online chat program with fiction writers for washingtonpost.com. Her fiction has appeared or is upcoming in Washingtonian Magazine (2005), Puerto del Sol (May 2005), Enhanced Gravity, an anthology being put out by Paycock Press in 2006, Folio (2002) and Other Voices (1999). She has been awarded numerous grants as well as residencies at the VCCA, The MacDowell Colony, and Hawthomden International Retreat for Writers in Scotland . In 2004, she was a finalist for a Fulbright to study creative writing and work on her novel in the UK. She also serves as fiction editor of Two Rivers Review, a biannual journal that publishes poetry and fiction.  

Gregory Donovan (October 2005) a senior editor of Blackbird, is one of the founding faculty members of the MFA in Creative Writing program at VCU, where he has taught for twenty years. He has won the Robert Penn Warren Award, as well as grants from the VCA and fellowships from the Ucross Foundation and the VCCA. Donovan's poetry collection, Calling His Children Home, was the 1993 Devins Award winner. His work has appeared in numerous journals. His poetry has been anthologized, most recently in Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia (UVa, 2003).  Donovan is the writer-in-residence for the VCU Glasgow Artists and Writers Workshop.

Camille Dungy (March 2006) Camille Dungy, author of What to Eat, What to Drink and What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press), has won fellowships and awards from organizations including the NEA, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, The American Antiquarian Society, Yaddo, the VCCA, and the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Poetry Daily, Mid-American Review, The Crab Orchard Review and other places. A graduate of Stanford Universityand the MFA program at UNC-Greensboro, Dungy is now an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State Univ.  

George Ellenbogen (September 2005) is the author of Winterfischer (Munich, Edition Kappa, 2002), The Rhino Gate Poems (Vehicule Press, 1996), Portes Aux Rhones Et Autres Poemes (l'Harmatton, 1997), Winter Fishher (Edition Kappa, 2002), Along The Road From Eden (Vehicule Press, 1989), The Night Unstones (Identity Press, 1971), and Winds Of Unreason (Contact Press, 1957).  His poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Partisan Review, Matrix, Encore, Kansas Quarterly, Epos, Boulevard, New Boston Review, and Nantucket Review as well as several anthologies.  He is the subject of a documentary film, George Ellenbogen: Canadian Poet in America.  Ellenbogen is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Forum at Bentley College, MA.

Claudia Emerson's (March 2006)  was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems (LSU Press, 2005). She is also the author of the poetry collections Pharaoh, Pharaoh, and Pinion: An Elegy; all volumes are published in Dave Smith's Southern Messenger Poets series. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review, and other journals. Emerson is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She is an associate professor of English at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Steven Faulkner (Feb 2007) will present excerpts from his latest book, Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts.  This book chronicles the 1000 mile canoe journey Faulkner and his 16-year-old son Justin took along the route of French explorers Marquette and Joliet.  Tired, hungry, lost, lonely, fogbound, canoe-wrecked, unable to make their way in the darkness, they have a wonderful time. They are inexperienced paddlers and take nothing but a few supplies and a couple books. Waterwalk is a journey into the heart of this continent 300 years ago, a modern exploration of the quiet waterways that weave their way through America, and a portrait of a father-son relationship.

Bunny GoodJohn (Apr 2006, Jan 200&) emigrated to the USA from the UK in 1999. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies including The Texas Review, The Cortland Review, and Wind Magazine. Her first novel "Sticklebacks and Snow Globes" is due for release by New York publishing house Permanent Press in October 2007, and her poetry collection "The Weather House" is looking for a publisher. 

Laura-Gray Street (October 2005, March 2006) Laura-Gray Street has received a poetry fellowship from the VCA and the Dana Award in Poetry. Her poems have been published in Shenandoah, Meridian, the Notre Dame Review, the Yalobusha Review, New Virginia Review, and Blackbird, among other venues. She was commissioned in 1999 to write a libretto for the New York Festival of Song. Street is assistant professor of English at RMWC.  She holds a BA from Hollins University, an MA from the UVa, and an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.

J.C. Hallman (January 2006) J.C. Hallman's work has appeared in GQ, The Los Angeles Times, and a variety of literary magazines. He is the author of The Chess Artist, a nonfiction adventure through the chess subculture, and The Devil is a Gentleman, a creative biography of the philosopher William James, told through narratives of Hallman's journeys to a variety of modern religious movements. The Devil is a Gentleman is due out this spring from Random House.

Cathryn Hankla's (April 2006) the author of ten books of poetry and fiction, including the novel The Land Between (Baskerville, 2003) and the poetry collections, Last Exposures: a sequence of poems (LSU, 2004), Poems for the Pardoned (LSU 2002) and Texas School Book Depository: prose poems (LSU 2000). She's the poetry editor of The Hollins Critic.

James Hoch (April 2005)  James Hoch’s most recent poems have appeared in Slate, The Believer, Ninth Letter, Carolina Quarterly and Virginia Quarterly Review, and have been nominated many times for the Pushcart Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Summer Literary Seminars, and received a 2002 Individual Artists Fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts. His book, A Parade of Hands, won the Gerald Cable Award and was published in March 2003 by Silverfish Review Press.  Originally from Camden, NJ, he resides in Charlottesville, VA and teaches at Lynchburg College.

Jeanne Larsen (April 2006)  is the author of James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita: A Book of Poems, Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao, three novels, Silk Road, Bronze Mirror, and Manchu Palaces, and most recently Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women's Poems from Tang China. She co-edited Engendering the Word: Feminist Essays in Psychosexual Poetics, and is the winner of many grants and awards. Her creative nonfiction, essays, poems, poem translations, and short fiction appear regularly in various magazines nationwide.  Larsen is the director of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Professor of English; B.A., Oberlin College; M.A. Hollins College; Ph.D., University of Iowa.

Charlotte Matthews (Apr 2007) is the author of a full-length collection of poetry, Green Stars (Iris Publishing Group, 2005). She is also the author of two chapbooks, A Kind of Devotion (Palanquin Press, 2004), and Biding Time (Half Moon Bay Press, 2005). Her work has recently appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Borderlands, Tar River Poetry, and The Potomac Review. She is the recipient of numerous awards for both teaching and writing including a fellowship from Brown, a grant from the Klingenstein Foundation, and is a 2007 Prize Winner from the Fellowship of Southern Poets. She is a graduate of UVa and The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She teaches in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary and Professional Studies at the UVa.

Kevin McFadden (April 2008) is the author of Hardscrabble, an inaugural selection in the VQR Poetry Series. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and in other publications. His essays and critical work have appeared in Quarterly West, The Hollins Critic, The Virginia Quarterly Review and Agni Online. Associate Program Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book, he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Constance Merritt (March 2006) Recipient of a 2001 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a 2001/2002 fellowship from The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Edward Stanley and Hugh J. Luke Awards from Prairie Schooner, two Pushcart Prize nominations and an Academy of American Poets College Prize, Merritt has published poems in Callaloo, Quarterly West, American Literary Review, Disability Rag & Resource, and The Women's Review of Books.  Born in Arkansas and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock she holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from the Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln.

Wendy Miles (February 2006) Wendy Miles's work appears in various journals, including Southern Poetry Review, The Dos Passos Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Hawaii Review, and The Comstock Review. She lives in Virginia and is Assistant Professor of English at Randolph College.

Thorpe Moeckel was a Hoyns Fellow at the UVa. He is currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill. His poems have appeared in Field, Wild Earth, The Antioch Review, Poetry, Free Lunch, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife and daughter in Hillsborough, North Carolina.  Currently teaching at Hollings.

Elizabeth Seydel Morgan (October 2005, Feb 2007) is the author of four books of poetry: Language, a limited edition with prints by artist Laura Pharis, and three collections from Louisiana State University Press: Parties (1988 and recently released in a new edition), The Governor of Desire (1993), and On Long Mountain (1998), a finalist for the Library of Virginia Poetry Prize; a fifth collection, Without a Philosophy, is forthcoming from LSU. She has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She taught literature and creative writing at St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, Virginia, and has also been an adjunct professor of poetry at University of Richmond, Visiting Professor at Washington and Lee University, and Writer-in-Residence at RMWC. Morgan received her MFA from VCU.

Jim Peterson (March 2006) was born in Georgia and raised in South Carolina and has lived in Montana and Virginia . When not writing or teaching, he prefers to spend his time riding his motorcycle around the country or hiking in the mountains and deserts of the West. His fourth poetry collection, The Owning Stone, won The Benjamin Saltman Award. His poems have been widely published in such journals as Poetry , Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner, and was awarded a 2003 Poetry Fellowship by the VCA. His plays have been produced in colleges and regional theatres. Paper Crown is his first novel. He is currently Coordinator of Creative Writing at Randolph-Macon Woman's College and lives in Lynchburg , Virginia with his wife, Harriet, and their Welsh Corgi, Dylan Thomas.

Joshua Poteat (October 2005, February 2006) was named the winner of the 2004 Anhinga Press Poetry Prize and also won the National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America (judged by Mary Oliver), as well as awards from American Literary Review, Nebraska Review, Marlboro Review, Columbia, Bellingham Review, Yemassee, Lullwater Review, and Universities West Press. He has been the Summer Writer-in-Residence at the University of Arizona 's Poetry Center and was awarded an Individual Artist's Grant from the VCA, as well as fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Catskill Writing Workshop. 

Nancy Schoenberger (February 2006) has published three books of poetry--The Taxidermist's Daughter, Girl on a White Porch, Long Like a River, the most recent in 1998.  Her prose works include two biographies and a true crime investigation into the murder of George Reeves, TV's first Superman.  Her prose works are: Dangerous Muse, A Life Of Caroline Blackwood, Hollywood Kryptonite; The Bulldog, The Lady And The Death Of Superman, And A Talent For Genius, The Life And Times Of Oscar Levant. A chapter from Dangerous Muse. was excerpted in the May 2001 issue of Vogue.  Schoenberger has won The Devins Award, the NYU Press Poetry Award, The Mary Carolyn Davies Award from the Poetry Society of America; and was editor of Verse magazine for two years. She is currently a professor at the College of William& Mary.

Jason Schossler (February 2006) lives in Bethlehem, PA, where he works as a freelance sports and entertainment writer and editor. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Event, American Writing, The MacGuffin and other literary magazines. He recently earned his MA in Creative Writing from Temple University. He is an Ohio native.

Gary Short (Apr 2007) is the author of three books of poetry. His latest book is Ten Moons and 13 Horses. His book, Flying Over Sonny Liston, received the Western States Book Award.  Short has garnered many awards and honors including a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and a term at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has been a resident at Centrum, the MacDowell colony and VCCA.  In 2003, his poems were published in Albania, translated by the poet Luljeta Lleshanaku whom he met when both were fellows at VCCA. He has worked for the United Nations Verification Mission and been a professor at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska and Old Dominion University.

R. Rex Stephenson and Tina Hanlon (March 2008)(both from Ferrum College) will bring Appalachian folk tales to life at Riverviews.  Stephenson writes and performs folktales adapted from traditional Blue Ridge Mountain stories.  Hanlon’s extensive academic background on the subject of Appalachian folktales will provide a revealing introduction to the topic and an enlightening compliment to Stephenson’s reading/performance.

Janet Sylvester (January 2006) has published a collector's edition chapbook, A Visitor at the Gate and two books of poetry, That Mulberry Wine and The Mark of Flesh. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies.  Recipient of a Pushcart Prize (2004) and a PEN Discovery Award, she teaches in the undergraduate creative writing program at Sweet Briar College, and in the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA . The first Sweet Briar Fellow at VCCA, she has also been granted fellowships at Yaddo (NY), The Breadloaf Writers Conference (VT) and the MacDowell Colony (NH). She is currently completing her third book of poems

Marguerite Watkins, (May 2007) poet/memoirist, spent most of her childhood in India .  Her prose and poetry reflect this background and touch on a slice of Indian and British history.  She will be presenting work from her newest collection of poetry, Patterns in Henna.  In addition to this publication, she has a memoir and a chapbook.  Watkins considers herself an "adopted Lynchburger."  She earned her Masters from Lynchburg College and has taught at the Laurel Regional School.

Ann Fisher Wirth (Mar 2007)is the author of William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature, published in 1989. Ann's poems have appeared in many journals, among them the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, Feminist Studies, ISLE, the Southwest Review, the Valparaiso Review, Flyway, and the Florida Review.  Her first book of poems, Blue Window, will appear from Archer Books in September of 2003.  Her chapbook of poems, The Trinket Poems, was runner-up in 2003 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Chapbook Competition and will be published by Wind in June 2003.

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (Sept. 20)
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda is currently serving as Virginia’s Poet Laureate.  She is a poet, painter, sculptor, and lifelong educator.

Jane Wampler (Oct.) has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and has taught creative writing and poetry classes at CU-Colorado Springs and the Colorado College. She is past-president of Poetry West, the oldest and largest non-profit poetry organization in southern Colorado.  Jane spent a decade writing news, politics, features and commentary for publications such as the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, the Houston Post, Texas Monthly, and the Denver Rocky Mountain News. She lives in Colorado Springs, CO, and is currently at work on a book of poems and a collection of personal essays.