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JANET FITCH '78 is the author of the novels Paint it Black (2006), and White Oleander (1999). The latter, an Oprah book pick, was translated into 26 languages and was adapted into a Warner Bros. film. Her short stories have appeared in such journals as Room of One's Own, Black Warrior Review, and Speakeasy. Fitch teaches fiction writing at the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC (UCLA extension), and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. |
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DEBRA GINSBERG '85 is the author of the memoirs Waiting:
The True Confessions of a Waitress (2000), Raising Blaze: Bringing Up an Extraordinary
Son in an Ordinary World (2002), and About My Sisters (2004). Her first novel, Blind
Submission, was published last fall by Shaye Areheart Books. |
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VERN RUTSALA '56 is the author of The Moment's Equation, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Other recent books include A Handbook for Writers and How We Spent Our Time. The latter received the Akron Poetry Prize. Other awards have included a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA grants, the Juniper Prize, two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prizes, the Oregon Masters Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Kenneth O. Hanson Prize from Hubbub. Rutsala recently retired after more than 40 years of teaching at Lewis & Clark College. |
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JOHN DANIEL '70 is the author of eight books of essays, memoir, and poetry. His recent memoir, Rogue
River Journal, is winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, two-time winner of the Oregon
Book Award in literary nonfiction, and recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Daniel has been the James Thurber
Writer-in-Residence at Ohio State University and has taught in similar positions at colleges and universities across the country. |
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TAMIM ANSARY ’70 is the author of the bi-cultural
memoir, West of Kabul, East
of New York. In the ensuing years since its publication, Ansary has emerged as a
major voice of and about Islam and the West. His most recent book, The Story of My
Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky, was a collaboration with a courageous
young émigrée, Farah Ahmedi. Ansary is a columnist for Microsoft’s
learning site, Encarta.com, and also heads the San Francisco Writers Workshop. He has
written nonfiction books for children, jokes for a mathematics program (“edutainment” software),
a literary memoir, several novels, and a series of educational comic books, "Adventures
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GORDON DAHLQUIST '83 is the author of the recent New
York Times bestseller The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, as well as the author of many plays, including Messalina, Babylon Is Everywhere: A Court Masque, Delirium Palace, The Secret Machine, Vortex du Plaisir, and Island of Dogs. He has been a member of New Dramatists, is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, and a founding member of the CiNE. |
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was born in Beijing and grew up in Massachusetts. She is the author of 12 books of poetry, which have received numerous awards. Her selected poems, I Love Artists, was published by the University of California Press in 2006. Concordance, an artist's book with sculptor Kiki Smith, is recently out in a trade edition from Kelsey Street Press. She lives in rural New Mexico and in New York City with artist Richard Tuttle and their daughter. |
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LESLIE SCALAPINO '66 has 30 publications of poetry, fiction, plays, and criticism, including Zither & Autobiography, The Tango, and New Time. Forthcoming coming books of poetry include Day Ocean State of Stars' Night from Green Integer, and her Selected Poems from UC Berkeley Press. Her awards include the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, Poetry Center Award from San Francisco State University, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and two NEA grants. She is the publisher of O Books. |
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LISA M. STEINMAN, whose fifth volume of poetry is Carslaw's Sequences from University of Tampa Press, teaches at Reed and co-edits the poetry magazine, Hubbub. She has received NEA and Rockefeller fellowships and has also published two books about poetry, Made in America (1987), and Masters of Repetition (1998). Her poems have been published in The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Notre Dame Review, The Women's Review of Books, and elsewhere. |
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LEE BLESSING '71 is the author of the play A Walk in the Woods, which was nominated for both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize. His recent plays include A Body of Water, Great Falls, Lonesome Hollow, The Scottish Play, The Winning Streak and Going to St. Ives among many others. He heads the graduate playwriting program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. |
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ANNE WASHBURN'S has written the plays Orestes, The Internationalist, Apparition, and The Ladies. They have been produced by 13P, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Soho Rep, the Vineyard Theatre NYC, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. They have been produced or developed internationally in Berlin, Budapest, and Sydney. Apparition is published in New Downtown Now (2006) edited by Young Jean Lee and Mac Wellman. |
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ELINOR LANGER's book about the 1988 Portland skinhead killing, A Hundred Little Hitlers, was a finalist for the Book of the Month Club's best non-fiction book of 2003, among other honors. Her biography of the American radical novelist and journalist Josephine Herbst was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award in 1984. A contributor to national publications since the 1960s, she has received several fellowships, including Guggenheim, Bunting, and the Open Society Institute. Besides teaching at Reed, she has taught writing at Portland State University and at the Mountain Writers-Pacific MFA Program. |
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GARY MIRANDA was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He has taught creative writing and literature at Reed, and, as Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature, at the University of Athens, Greece. Miranda's poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and in three collections of poems. He has also translated Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies. Miranda has won several awards for his poetry and, most recently, two national competitions as a screenwriter. |
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PETER SEARS is the author of two books of poetry: The Brink, winner of the Western States Book Award for poetry and a national competition sponsored by Gibbs Smith Publisher; and Tour: New & Selected Poems from Breitenbush Books. His work has been widely published and has appeared in the Atlantic, Zyzzyva, Northwest Review, Rolling Stone, Saturday Review, Southern Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Now, Iowa Review, New Letters, and the New York Times. |
