MELISSA BANK Novelist and Short Story Writer Melissa Bank is the author of the best-selling story collections
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and
The Wonder Spot. She received the Nelson Algren Award for short fiction from the
Chicago Tribune and holds an M.F.A. from Cornell University. Her work has been translated into 33
languages.
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KAREN BENDER Visiting Writer, Spring 2022
Karen E. Bender is the author of two story collections:
Refund
, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, a shortlist selection for the
Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, a longlist selection for the Story
Prize, and a
Los Angeles Times
bestseller, and
The New Order
, a longlist selection for the Story prize. A new collection,
The Words of Dr. L and other stories,
is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press. She is also the author of two novels:
Like Normal People
, a
Los Angeles Times
bestseller, a
Washington Post
Best Book of the Year, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection,
and
A Town of Empty Rooms
. Her fiction has appeared in magazines including
The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review,
Guernica
and others, and has been reprinted in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery
Stories, and won three Pushcart prizes. She has won grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Rona Jaffe foundation. She is fiction editor of the literary
journal
Scoundrel Time.
Karen has taught creative writing at universities including Hollins University, the
University of Iowa, Warren Wilson College, Chatham University, and Tunghai University,
and is currently Core faculty at the MFA program at Alma College. Visit her at
www.karenebender.com.
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CARLA CAGLIOTI Executive Director, Southampton Arts, Assistant Director, Creative Writing and Literature Carla Caglioti is the Executive Director of Southampton Graduate Arts and founding
Associate Director of the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Writing and Literature. She
is also an Assistant Dean at Stony Brook Southampton. Caglioti has a Bachelor's in
English Literature and Writing, a Master's in English Education, and a doctorate in
English Literature. Her dissertation focused on the rise of the field of creative
writing in higher education. Her work has appeared in
The Scrub Oak Review, Proteus, Letters from Ninevah and
The Southampton Review.
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ANNETTE HANDLEY CHANDLER
Producer, Producer and Screenwriter Annette Handley Chandler
has produced films for Paramount Pictures, Disney, PBS, ABC, and CBS. In 2001, she
won an Emmy as Executive Producer of
Ansel Adams: A Documentary, directed by Ric Burns. A former literary agent, Handley Chandler was also a programming
executive for ABC Entertainment in Los Angeles, overseeing the production of over
twenty films in four years. A member of WGAWest, she has taught screenwriting at UCLA
and Pepperdine University and recently at NYU Tisch. She is currently developing a
documentary on the Shinnecock Nation of Southampton, NY, and in development and pre-production
on two feature films.
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BILLY COLLINS Poet Billy Collins is the author of eleven collections of poetry, most recently a new and
selected collection titled
Aimless Love (Random House, 2013). Others titles include
Horoscopes for the Dead,
Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Sailing Alone Around the Room, Nine Horses,
Ballistics
and
Picnic, Lightning. He is also the editor of three anthologies:
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday, and
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Bird Poems. His poems have been published in a variety of periodicals including
The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, and
The American Scholar, and his work appears regularly in
The Best American Poetry. A Guggenheim Fellow and a New York Public Library "Literary Lion," he served as
New York State Poet (2004-5) and United States Poet Laureate (2001-2003). He was recently
inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This fall, Random House is
publishing his newest collection,
The Rain in Portugal.
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GENEVIEVE SLY CRANE Novelist
Genevieve Sly Crane is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts (B.A. English,
2010) and Stony Brook Southampton, (M.F.A. Creative Writing and Literature, 2013).
Her first novel,
Sorority,
earned a
Publisher's Weekly
starred review. She is the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Award for fiction. Her 2017
story, "Endings, Bright and Ugly," was a finalist for the American Short(er) Fiction
Prize. Her upcoming novel is due for publication through Simon and Schuster in January,
2023.
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NEAL GABLER
Biographer, Essayist Neal Gabler is the author of five books:
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Winchell: Gossip, Power and
the Culture of Celebrity, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality
,
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, and, most recently,
Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity and Power for the Yale Jewish Lives series. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous
newspapers and magazines, including
The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Playboy, Newsweek, and
Vogue, and he has been the recipient of two
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes,
Time magazine's nonfiction book of the year,
USA Today's biography of the year, a National Book Critics Circle nomination, a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a Public Policy Scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Shorenstein
Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Patrick Henry Fellowship at Washington
College's C.V. Starr Center. He has also served as the chief nonfiction judge of the
National Book Awards.
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MOLLY GAUDRY
Poet, Author Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novels
Desire: A Haunting and
We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and shortlisted for the
PEN/Osterweil. She holds master's degrees in fiction and poetry, and a PhD in experimental
prose from the University of Utah. She is the founder of Lit Pub.
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EMMA WALTON HAMILTON
Author, Editor Emma Walton Hamilton is a best-selling children's author, editor, producer, and arts
educator. She has co-authored over thirty children's books with her mother, Julie
Andrews, seven of which have been on the
New York Times best-seller list, including the #1 bestselling series
The Very Fairy Princess. Emma’s own book for parents and caregivers,
Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment, premiered as a #1 best-seller on Amazon.com in the literacy category and won a Parent’s
Choice Gold Medal, silver medals from the Living Now and IPPY Book Awards, and Honorable
Mention from
ForeWord Magazine's Best Book of the Year. Walton Hamilton’s most recent project is as co-creator,
writer and executive producer of
Julie’s Greenroom, a children’s television program about the arts created for Netflix. Emma is a faculty
member and directs both the
Southampton Children’s Literature Fellows program and
YAWP (the Young Artists and Writers Project). She is married to actor/producer/director
Stephen Hamilton. More information can be found at
www.emmawaltonhamilton.com.
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PAUL HARDING
Director, Creative Writing & Literature MFA Program; Novelist
Paul Harding is the author of the novel
Tinkers,
which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His second novel,
Elon,
was published by Random House in 2013. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and
the PEN American Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. He was a fiction fellow at
the Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, MA, and has taught at the Iowa Writers'
Workshop, Harvard University and Grinnell College.
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AMY HEMPEL Author
Amy Hempel is the author of four story collections, including
Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and
The Dog of the Marriage.
The New York Times named
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel one of the Ten Best Books of 2006. A 2017 inductee to the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, Hempel is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
a Guggenheim Fellow; and the recipient of the Hobson Award, a USA Fellowship grant,
the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, and the
John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence from Centenary College. Hempel
is a founding board member of the Deja Foundation, which offers direct assistance
to dogs rescued from high-kill shelters in an effort to empower small rescue organizations
to support sustainable adoptions.
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KAYLIE JONES Novelist, Memoirist Kaylie Jones is a novelist, creative nonfiction writer, and editor. Her memoir,
Lies My Mother Never Told Me, was released by Harper Collins in 2009. Her third novel,
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (Bantam, 1990), was adapted as a Merchant Ivory Film in 1998.
Celeste Ascending was published by Harper Collins in 2000 and her novel
Speak Now was released by Akashic Books in 2003. Her novels have been translated into many
languages including French, Dutch, German, and Japanese. Kaylie taught fiction at
The Writer’s Voice from 1988 to 1996, before helping to create Long Island University's
MFA Program in Writing at Southampton campus, now the Stony Brook Southampton MFA
Program in Creative Writing, where she still teaches. Currently, she chairs the James
Jones First Novel Fellowship, which awards $10,000 annually to an unpublished first
novel. Many of the winners have gone on to publish to critical acclaim. Kaylie is
also the proud editor of the
Long Island Noir anthology, published by Akashic Books in spring 2012. In November 2011, Kaylie was
given an award by the National Coalition Against Censorship for her work in bringing
to print an unexpurgated, uncensored edition of her father’s classic novel,
From Here to Eternity. Kaylie’s newest and probably most important endeavor is the launch of her imprint,
Kaylie Jones Books, under the aegis of Akashic Books. In the last three years she
has published seven titles, including award winners and two national best-sellers.
Kaylie’s most recent novel,
The Anger Meridian, was published by Akashic Books in June, 2015. She holds an MFA in Creative writing
from Columbia University.
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MATTHEW KLAM Fiction Writer and Journalist Matthew Klam is the author of
Sam The Cat, a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Book of the Year and a
New York Times Notable Book. The recipient of an O. Henry Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Whiting
Writer’s Award, he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. A
novel is forthcoming from Random House in the spring of 2017.
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ROBERT LOPEZ Fiction, Creative Nonfiction Robert Lopez is the author of three novels,
Part of the World,
Kamby Bolongo Mean River —named one of 25 important books of the decade by HTML Giant,
All Back Full, and two story collections,
Asunder and
Good People. A new novel-in-stories,
A Better Class Of People, will be published by Dzanc Books in March, 2022.
Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere, his first nonfiction book, will be published by Two Dollar Radio in September, 2022.
His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in dozens of publications, including
Bomb, The Threepenny Review, Vice Magazine, New England Review, The Sun, and the Norton
Anthology of Sudden Fiction – Latino. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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PATRICIA MARX Fiction, Creative Nonfiction Patricia Marx is a staff writer for
The New Yorker and a former writer for
Saturday Night Live. She is the author of many books, including the novels
Starting From Happy and
Him Her Him Again
The End of Him, both of which were finalists for the Thurber Prize for Humor, and several collaborations
with the cartoonist Roz Chast. Their first children's book,
Now Everybody Really Hates Me, was the recipient of the first and only Friedrich Medal, an award named after Marx's
air conditioner. Her latest book is
Let's Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties. Marx was the first woman elected to the
Harvard Lampoon. She has taught screenwriting at Princeton University and can take a baked potato
out of the oven with her bare hand.
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MEGAN McANDREW
Fiction
Megan McAndrew is the author of the critically acclaimed novels
Going Topless (Downtown Press, 2004) and
Dreaming in French (Scribner, 2009). She lives in East Quogue and Brooklyn.
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PATRICIA McCORMICK Young Adult Fiction Patricia McCormick is a two-time finalist for the National Book Award. She is the
author of several young adult novels, including Never Fall Down, the true story of
a boy who survived the Killing Fields of Cambodia, and SOLD, an account of sexual
trafficking based on her research in the brothels of Calcutta. She is also the co-author
of the young readers’ edition of I am Malala, the story of Nobel Peace Prize winner
Malala Yousafzai. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Stone Coast
Review and will be featured on The Moth.
She splits her time between North Haven and New York where she volunteers with Literacy
for Incarcerated Youth.
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CHRISTIAN McLEAN Co-Director, Southampton Writers Conference
Christian McLean's fiction has been published in
The Rumpus,
Scores Anthology,
and
The Southampton Review
. His poetry has been featured in a collaborative work at the Dundee Contemporary
Arts Museum (Dundee, Scotland).
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SUSAN SCARF MERRELL Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist Susan Scarf Merrell is Co-Director of the Southampton Writers Conference and a professor
in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook Southampton. She is the
author of the non-fiction work,
The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships, the novel
A Member of the Family, and, most recently,
SHIRLEY: A Novel, which was selected as one of the top fifty novels of the year by
The Washington Post and has been optioned by HBO.
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SUSAN MINOT Novelist, Short Story Writer Susan Minot studied writing and painting at Brown University and received an MFA in
writing from Columbia University. After she published short stories in
Grand Street and
The New Yorker. the legendary publisher Seymour Lawrence brought out her next three books:
Monkeys, a collection of linked short stories which won the Prix Femina Etranger in France
in l987;
Lust & Other Stories, another collection, and
Folly, a novel. She collaborated with the director Bernardo Bertolucci on the screenplay
of
Stealing Beauty. Her fourth book,
Evening, was made into a major motion picture in 2007. It was followed by the novels
Rapture in 2002 and
Thirty Girls in 2014.
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ROBERT REEVES
Professor, Novelist, Assoc. Provost Southampton Arts Campus Robert Reeves is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, both published by
Crown, as well as short fiction, essays, and literary criticism. Kirkus Review hailed
Doubting Thomas as "a zesty, classy original," and Patricia Holt of the
San Francisco Chronicle called
Peeping Thomas "funny, disturbing, and brilliant." Reeves, director of the Southampton Writers Conference,
has also taught writing at Harvard and Princeton.
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ROGER ROSENBLATT Distinguished Professor of English and Writing, Essayist, Novelist Roger Rosenblatt, whose work has been published in 14 languages, is the author of
five
New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and three
Times bestsellers, including the memoirs
Kayak
Morning,
The
Boy
Detective, and
Making
Toast, which was originally an essay in
The New
Yorker. He has also written seven off-Broadway plays, notably the one-person
Free
Speech
in America, that he performed at the American Place Theater, named one of the
Times’ “Ten Best Plays of 1991.” He also wrote the screenplay for his bestselling novel
Lapham
Rising, starring Frank Langella, Stockard Channing, and Bobby Cannavale, currently in production.
The Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook, he formerly held
the Briggs-Copeland appointment in creative writing at Harvard, where he earned his
Ph.D. Among his honors are two George Polk Awards; the Peabody, and the Emmy for his
essays at
Time magazine and on PBS; a Fulbright to Ireland, where he played on the Irish International
Basketball Team; seven honorary doctorates;
The Kenyon Review Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement; and the President’s Medal from the Chautauqua
Institution for his body of work.
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JULIE SHEEHAN
Associate Professor, Poet,
Julie Sheehan's three poetry collections are
Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise (W.W. Norton),
Orient Point (also from Norton) and
Thaw (Fordham). Her honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and NYFA Fellowship in Poetry.
Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies.
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FREDERIC TUTEN Fiction Frederic Tuten grew up in the Bronx and later lived in South America and Paris, writing
about Brazilian Cinema Novo and teaching at University of Paris 8. Among his novels
are
The Green Hour,
Tintin in the New World, and
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March. He has written extensively about art, literature and film; acted in an Alain Resnais
movie; taught with Paul Bowles in Morocco; cowrote the cult classic Possession; and,
along the way, earned a PhD in literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an award from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His most recent book,
Self Portraits: Fictions, is a collection of interrelated short stories. He has been awarded two Pushcart
Prizes.
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LOU ANN WALKER Director, TSR Publishing; Professor
Lou Ann Walker's book,
A Loss for Words, a memoir, won a Christopher Award. Her other books include
Hand, Heart & Mind. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including
The New York Times Magazine,
Esquire,
Life,
Allure,
Parade,
The Chicago Sun-Times,
The New York Times Book Review,
O,
The Oprah Magazine,
The Writer, and
The Hopewell Review. Formerly an editor at
Esquire and
New York Magazine, Walker has lectured on writing at Smith College and Yale University, and taught
at Marymount Manhattan College, Southampton College, and Columbia University. The
author of several screenplays, she is a member of the Writers Guild of America.
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DAWNIE WALTON Visiting Writer Dawnie Walton is a writer, editor, and author of the novel
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and named one of the best books of
2021 by
The Washington Post, NPR,
Esquire, and former U.S. President Barack Obama, among others. Her work explores identity,
place, and the influence of pop culture. Formerly an editor at
Essence and
Entertainment Weekly, she has received fellowships in fiction from MacDowell and Tin House, and an MFA
from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (2018). Her writing has appeared in
Oxford American,
Bon Appetit, NPR, Lithub, and Black Ballad. Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, she lives
in Brooklyn with her husband.
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DE'SHAWN WINSLOW Visiting Writer De'Shawn Charles Winslow was born and raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. His
first novel,
In West Mills, received the 2019 Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, an American Book Award
and a Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction. His second novel,
Decent People (a small town murder mystery) will be published in early 2023.
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MEG WOLITZER Novelist and Short Story Writer
Meg Wolitzer is a novelist whose recent work includes
The Interestings, named a best book of the year by
Entertainment Weekly,
Time, and
The Chicago Tribune, and named a notable book by
The New York Times Book Review and
The Washington Post. Among her other books are
The Ten-Year Nap,
The Uncoupling,
The Position, and
The Wife, as well as the YA novel
Belzhar. Wolitzer’s short fiction has appeared in
The Best American Short Stories and
The Pushcart Prize. A member of the MFA faculty at Stony Brook Southampton, she has also taught creative
writing at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Skidmore College, and the 92nd
Street Y. In 2013, along with singer-songwriter Suzzy Roche, Meg Wolitzer was a guest
artist at the Princeton Atelier at Princeton University.
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