WHIDBEY WRITERS WORKSHOP
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
CATALOGUE, 2007-2009
FACULTY
Bonny Becker, Children/Young Adult
MA, San Francisco State University
Bonny Becker is the author of ten children's books including picture books and novels. Her books have been featured in the New York Times Book Review, read on National Public Radio and selected for the Junior Literary Guild and Children's Book of the Month Club. She's an instructor for the Institute of Children's Literature and a freelance editor and writing consultant with an expertise in story structure.
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, Children/Young Adult
MS, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand is the author of six books for children and young adults. Her books include a biography in poems and one in prose, an anthology of Puerto Rican folk-tales and a second book of four illustrated folk-tales, and a novel. Her CESAR: Yes, We Can! ¡Sí, Se Puede! won Pura Belpré Honors for her poems and David Diaz's illustrations. Her book FRIDA: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life! appeared in the summer of 2007. DIEGO: Bigger Than Life, illustrated by David Diaz, will be out in 2008.
Lawrence W. Cheek, Nonfiction
Lawrence W. Cheek (Larry) has published 15 nonfiction books on travel, nature, North American prehistory, architecture, and a memoir about building a sailboat. He is currently architecture critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and has written on architecture and environment for many other newspapers and magazines, including Preservation, Interior Design, Sunset, and Arizona Highways. He teaches in the University of Arizona Writers Program and the Whidbey Island Writers Association MFA Creative Writing program.
Christopher Howell, Poetry
MFA, University of Massachusetts,
1973; MA, Portland State University, 1971; BS, Oregon State University, 1968
Christopher Howell's eight
collections of poetry include The Crime of Luck;
Though
Silence: The Ling Wei Poems; and Light's Ladder, latest in the
University of Washington Press' Northwest Poets series. His poetry has won two
National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Washington State Governor's
Award, and the Vachel Lindsay and Helen Bullis prizes, along with three Pushcart
Prizes.
Bruce Holland Rogers, Fiction
MA, Colorado University, 1987;
BA, Colorado State University, 1982
Bruce Holland Rogers' short
fiction collections include Flaming Arrows, Wind Over Heaven, and
Thirteen Ways to Water. He is also the author of Word Work: Surviving
and Thriving as a Writer. His stories have appeared in North American
Review and Quarterly West and have
won Nebula, Hugo, and Pushcart awards. Bruce won the 2006 World Fantasy Award for his collection The Keyhole Opera.
Wayne Ude, Program Director and Fiction
MFA, University of Massachusetts, 1974;
BA, University of Montana, 1969
Wayne Ude's books include Becoming Coyote,
a novel; Buffalo and other stories;
and Maybe I Will Do
Something: Seven Tales of Coyote, for ages ten and up. His stories have
appeared in North American Review and Ploughshares,
David Wagoner, Poetry. August 13-14
David Wagoner is the author of seventeen books of poems, most recently Good
Morning and Good Night (U. of Illinois Press, 2005) which has been nominated
for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He's also
written ten novels, one of which, The Escape Artist, was made into a movie
by Francis Ford Coppola. Wagoner won the Lilly Prize in 1991 and has won
six prizes from Poetry, which has published 171 of his poems, more than any
other individual. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets for
23 years and edited Poetry Northwest until its closure in 2002.
Carolyne L. Wright, Poetry
Ph.D, English and Creative Writing, Syracuse University, 1979; MA, English
and Creative Writing, Syracuse, 1975; BA, Humanities, Seattle University,
1971
Carolyne Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali, and a collection of essays. Her new collection is A Change of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006), finalist for the Idaho Prize and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her previous book, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire (Eastern Washington UP / Lynx House Books), which won the Blue Lynx Prize and an American Book Award, appeared in a second edition in 2005. Wright's investigative memoir in progress of her experiences in Chile on a Fulbright Study Grant during the presidency of Salvador Allende, The Road to Isla Negra, received the PEN/Jerard Fund and the Crossing Boundaries Awards. She spent four years on fellowships in Kolkata, India, and Dhaka, Bangladesh, translating the work of Bengali women poets and writers. Wright is Translation Editor for Artful Dodge, and on the Board of Directors of the AWP for 2004-2008.
Susan Zwinger, Nonfiction
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University,
1975; MFA, Iowa Writers Workshop, 1971;
BA, Cornell College, 1969
Susan Zwinger's books of
non-fiction include 2004's The Hanford
Reach;
The Last Wild Edge; Stalking the Ice Dragon; and Still
Wild, Always Wild. Her essays and non-fiction regularly appear in magazines
and journals around the country. She co-authored Women In Wilderness with
her mother, Ann Haymond Zwinger.
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