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Note from the Editor...... 4 2007 Summer Programs ...... 5 Poetry Staff News...... 7 Participant Profile: Amber Flora Thomas...... 9 The Sounds of Summer 2006: Music Heard in the Office ...... 10 PoetWatch: Poetry Participant News ...... 11 Happy Hour: Poem by Larry Ruth ...... 23 Summer 2006 Special Thanks...... 24 Participant Profile: Kazim Ali...... 26 Screenwriting Staff News...... 27 An Extraordinary Opportunity for Screenwriters: Eugene Corr...... 28 Screenwriting Participant News...... 29 Participant Profile: Michael Schulman...... 33 Published Alumni Reading Series 2004-2006...... 35 Introduction to Writers Workshop in a Book: ...... 38 The Follies Set the Stage for Success: The Novelettes...... 40 Writers Workshop Staff News...... 41 Oakley Hall Voted “New Artist to Watch” by Rolling Stone ...... 48 omnium gatherum The Colonial Theory of Point of View: Sands Hall...... 51 Participant Profile: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...... 54 & newsletter Writers Workshop Participant News...... 55 Participant Profile: Alex Espinosa...... 75 Coming to Your Senses: Janet Fitch...... 76 A Writer’s Sense of Place: James D. 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~ ~ ~ ~ COMMUNITY 2007 “One of the best hotels in .” OF WRITERS POETRY WORKSHOPS National Geographic’s “10 Best of Everything, 2006” July 21 - 28 For individual reservations, call 800.433.4434 Jimmy Santiago Baca · Robert Hass Brenda Hillman or visit www.thehotelrex.com Sharon Olds · Claudia Rankine 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 94102 FICTION & NARRATIVE NONFICTION: August 4-11, 2007 Squaw Valley Max Byrd · Michael Carlisle · Ron Carlson Alan Cheuse · Mark Childress Alev Lytle Croutier · Leslie Daniels California Gill Dennis · Karen Joy Fowler · Lynn Freed Dagoberto Gilb · Sands Hall James D. Houston · Michael Jaime-Becerra SUMMER Sue Miller · Varley O’Connor Gregory Spatz · Al Young WRITING Literary Agents · Editors With Alumni Readings by: WORKSHOPS Alex Espinoza · Beatrice Motamedi Katayoon Zandvakili and more Plus Special Guests: Rabih Alameddine · Oakley Hall Financial Aid available Diane Johnson · Persis Karim · Amy Tan Application Deadline: May 10, 2007 SCREENWRITING WORKSHOPS: August 4-11, 2007 [email protected] Eugene Corr · Pamela Gray (530) 470-8440 Michael Lehmann · Christopher Monger Judith Rascoe · Tom Rickman Lisa Rosenberg · Camille Thomasson www.squawvalleywriters.org Tom Schlesinger

~ ~ ~ ~ UNIVERSITYOFPITTSBURGHPRESS thea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for a work in progress from the Center for Documentary Squaw Valley Community of Writers Studies at Duke University. She is a 2004 POETRY recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and is newly elected to the American Academy of STAFF Arts and Sciences. NEWS Dean Young: His collection, Elegy on Toy Piano, was published by Pittsburgh University Press in 2005. A new book, em- bryoyo, will be published by McSweeney’s in 2007 . Lucille Clifton: BOA Editions published About the Moon was published by W. W. her collection, Mercy, in 2004 . Norton in 2005 . Robert Hass: His new book of poems, Li-Young Lee: Earl Ingersol edited and Eye of Water Time and Materials, will be published by BOA Editions will publish Breaking the Al- by Amber Flora Thomas Ecco Press and a collection of his columns abaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young ISBN 0-8229-5893-7 • Paper $14.00 • 96 pp. for the Post, Now & Then: The Lee in September 2006. Poets Choice Columns 1997-2000, will be Sharon Olds: Her most recent collec- out this spring from Shoemaker & Hoard. tion, Strike Sparks, was published in 2004 He recently co-edited, with Jessica Fisher, by Knopf. She was named the 2003 James The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Merrill Fellow of The Academy of American Poetry Walk, published by HeyDay Books Poets . in 2004 . Harryette Mullen: Her collection, Recy- Brenda Hillman: Her collection, Pieces clopedia, was published by Graywolf Press Galway Kinnell of Air in the Epic, was published by Wes- in October 2006. leyan University in 2005. Len Roberts: University of Press Strong Is Your Hold Richard Howard: His newest collection, published his book of poems, The Disap- Elegy on Toy Piano Inner Voices: Selected Poems 1963-2003, pearing Trick, in late 2006. He won first This striking was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and various by Dean Young prize (“Poison Sumac’) in River Styx’s In- ISBN 0-8229-5872-4 • Paper $12.95 • 105 pp. in 2004 . ternational Poetry Contest and second collection by Galway Kinnell: Strong is Your Hold was prize (“Wassergass, 2006”) in the Paterson Galway Kinnell, published by Houghton Mifflin in Novem- Review’s International Po- whom the New ber, 2006. etry Contest. York Times has called “one of Yusef Komunyakaa: In 2004 his collec- Gerald Stern: His collection, Everything tion Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part Is Burning: Poems, was published by W. the true master 1 was published by Farrar, Straus and W. Norton in December 2006. Not God Af- poets of his Giroux. Pleasure Dome: New And Col- ter All was published in 2004 by Autumn generation,” lected Poems was published by Wesleyan House Press. includes a bound-in CD of poems read by the author. University Press, also in 2004. With drama- C.D. Wright: Her book, Cooling Time: An turg and theater producer Chad Gracia he American Poetry Vigil, was published by Book & CD; 80 pages; $25.00 wrote a dramatic adaptation of The Epic of Copper Canyon Press in 2005. In 2003 she Gilgamesh . The play was published in Oc- ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618224975 Speedwalk and Other Stories published One Big Self: Prisoners of Loui- ISBN-10: 0618224971 by Suzanne Greenberg tober 2006 by Wesleyan University Press. siana, a collaboration with photographer Houghton Mifflin ISBN 0-8229-4217-8 • Cloth $24.00 • 184 pp. Dorianne Laux: Her collection, Facts Deborah Luster. It was awarded the Doro- www.powells.com 800.621.2736 upress.pitt.ed upress.pitt.eduu ~ ~ ~ ~ The Sounds of Summer 2006 Participant Profile: Music Heard in the Office Amber Flora Thomas —Lisa Alvarez Dan Zanes – Catch That Train combining the hope for peace and (Festival Five) justice with the hope for love. Yes, mber Flora Thomas attended the Community of he made a love song out of it – which Writers’ Poetry Workshop for the first time in 1993; in Former lead singer of the Del Fuegos back in the day, Dan Zanes grew is only right. A2002 she was back for more, and again in 2005. She up like the rest of us and now plays organized the annual Benefit Poetry Reading from 2003- children’s music with his pals. This Oakley Hall* – Gypsum Strings 2005 . latest album features the Blind Boys What can we say? The name chosen of Alabama, Natalie Merchant, Nick by this sextet of Brooklyn says it all. Cave and the Kronos Quartet playing Rolling Stone describes the band’s Thomas has a MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, where she old and new songs. music like this: “mixes pristine coed won an Academy of American Poets prize and a post-graduate teaching fellowship. harmonies and banjo-and-fiddle -ar She is the recipient of several major poetry awards, including the Rella Lossy Poetry Jackson Browne – Solo Acoustic, rangements with shambling folk and Vol. 1 (Inside Recordings) Award, the 2001 Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, and the 2004 fuzzy rave-ups.” Check them out: With just a piano or his guitar, www.oakleyhall.net Richard Peterson Prize. Also in 2004 she was awarded the Browne reprises some of his greatest Cave Canem prize by Harryette Mullen for her manuscript, hits as well as songs like “The Barri- The Little Willies – The Little Eye of Water, which was published in 2005 by University cades of Heaven” that we may have Willies (Milking Bull Records of Pittsburgh Press. Her work has appeared in Cloud View overlooked. Recorded live. – EMI) Poets: An Anthology, Gathering Ground: A Reader Cel- The Little Willies are , Madeline Peyroux – Careless Jim Campilongo, , Rich- ebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, Crab Orchard Review, Runes, Borderlands: Love (Rounder Records) ard Julian and Dan Rieser. On this Poetry Review, Sycamore Review, Phoebe, Columbia Poetry Review, Calyx, She sings covers of , their debut, they cover a range of Marlboro Review, Southern Poetry Review, Gulf Coast and elsewhere. She is cur- Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Elliot songs by , Kris Kristof- rently an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Smith with a voice reminiscent of Bil- ferson, Graham Parsons and Townes lie Holliday. We like her. Van Zandt, as well as originals. Our favorite line: “Now we don’t mean Of her debut book of poems, Yusef Komunyakaa writes, “It is wonderful to see that Bob Dylan – Modern Times to sound like we’re tripping, but we Amber Flora Thomas’ Eye of Water isn’t a blurred vision, that it indeed enlightens (Sony) swear to god we saw Lou Reed cow- through mature reflection and measured insight. This lyrical voice knows water as Bob Dylan does Bob Dylan and it’s tipping.” good . life and redemption, and each line here seems like a Dave Alvin – West of the West divining rod that shows us where personal and public Bruce Springsteen – We Shall (Yep Roc Records) truths are found . Eye of Water is a rewarding tour de Overcome: The Seeger Sessions The boy rocker from Downey, Cali- force.” (Sony) fornia (co-founder of The Blasters) We loved these old tunes when we celebrates California songwriters and Eye of Water was recently a finalist for a PEN USA first heard Pete Seeger sing them de- his home state in this collection which ranges from Merle Haggard and Kate Literary Award, as well as the Lambda Literary Awards. cades ago and we love how Springs- teen rocks and swings through them Wolf to Jerry Garcia, Brian Wilson and again. His take on “We Shall Over- Los Lobos. For Eye of Water, click on www.powells.com . come” transforms the original ballad, *Named after SVCW co-founder Oakley Hall .

~ ~ ~ 10~ Jay Laton Carter (‘96,‘98): Carter’s first ceived a George A. and Eliza Gardner How- PoetWatch collection of poems, Leaving (University of ard Foundation Sabbatical Fellowship in Chicago Press), was published in 2004 and March 2004 from Brown University for the won the 2005 Stafford-Hall Oregon Book 2005-2006 academic year. Award, selected by Mark Doty. Poems are Marlon Fick (‘96,‘05): He received the poetry forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, Burn- National Endowment for the Arts, Individ- side Review, and Faultline . ual Grant for Poetry in 2005. Also in 2005, participants Katherine Case (‘04): Since 2004 she has his edition/translation The River Is Wide: published poetry in Parthenon West and Twenty Mexican Poets was published by Urthona. In 2005 she was a finalist for the The University of New Mexico Press. Kazim Ali (‘98): See Participant Profile mer Train, Rock & Sling— Bren- Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize. Ann Fisher-Wirth (‘92,‘00): Her page 26. demeuhl Award, and Poets On Parnassus Brandon Cesmat (‘99,‘01,‘04): He has book,Blue Window was published by Ar- Joan Baranow (‘98): She and her pro- Poetry Competitions. published poems in Comet, Homestead cher Books (2003) and her book Five Ter- duction team have just completed a video Bruce Bond (‘97): His collection, Cin- Review, ONTHEBUS, Perigee, Pemmican, races was published by Wind Publications documentary called Healing Words: Po- der, published by Etuscan Press in 2003, ROADSpoetry and San Diego Reader. His (2005). She has also published two chap- etry and the Art of Medicine, an hour long was a finalist for the TIL Best Book of poem was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by books: The Trinket Poems (runner-up for film that celebrates the Arts in Medicine Poetry Prize. His sixth book, Blind Rain, Red River Review. His first full-length collec- the Quentin R. Howard Chapbook Compe- program at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, is forthcoming from LSU Press. His book, tion, Driven into the Shade (Poetic Matrix tition, Wind Publications) and Walking Wu Florida. The Anteroom of Paradise, has just been Press) received the San Diego Book Award. Wei’s Scroll (online, The Drunken Boat). Elaine Bartlett (‘02): She is a Poe- reissued in a revised edition. Elizabeth Biller Chapman (‘00,‘04): Since 2003 she has won a Malahat Review Faulkner Fellow at the University of Virgin- Annie Boutelle (‘03): Two poetry collec- Arkansas Press published her book, Can- Long Poem Prize, the Rita Dove Poetry ia. Her poems and stories have appeared in tions were published in 2005: Becoming dlefish, in 2004. The title poem of her Award, a Mississippi Arts Commission fel- the Antietam Review, the South Carolina Bone: Poems on the Life of Celia Thaxter manuscript, “Light Thickens,” was wrtten at lowship, and the poetry award from the Review, the Comstock Review, and Calyx, (University of Arkansas Press); and Nest Squaw Valley in 2000. That poem was just Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and has received two Pushcart nomina- among others. She won the 2003 Yemas- of Thistles, which won the Morse prize audio-recorded, along with some others, tions. Recent or forthcoming poems in see prize in fiction. Her second daughter, from Northeastern University Press, and by Poetry Foundation (Austin, AWP meet- Runes, Poetry International, Natural Susannah Grier Bartlett, was born in Au- was published by University Press of New ings, 3/06). Bridge, The Review, VOX, and gust 2005 . England. Sharon Charde (‘01,‘03): Her book, Poetry Kanto. She is the 2006-7 Liberal Arts Bad Girl At The Altar Rail, won First Prize Jill Battson (‘94,‘06): She has recently Jennifer Swanton Brown (‘89,‘99,‘01): Faculty of the Year at the University of Mis- in the 2005 Flume Press Chapbook Contest written two poetic librettos for operas that Poems published or forthcoming in Sand sissippi. On January 6, 2006, she became a and was published last September. It can were produced at Tapestry New Opera Hill Review, Disquieting Muses, Conver- grandma! Works in Toronto. Netsuke was written in gence, Tangents, Tundra and the Waver- be ordered by email from flumepress@ Molly Fisk (‘92,‘95,‘98,‘04): Her poem a haiku form, and Ashlike On The Cradle ley Writers Anniversary Anthology . csuchico.edu. Her collection, Four Trees “Little Songs for Antoinette” won the 2005 Of The Wind was written in freeverse. She Down from Ponte Sisto, a chapbook, won Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann (‘00,‘03): Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize. A CD of is currently finishing a spoken word/dance the Dallas Community Poets prize. Poems published or forthcoming in An- her radio commentary, Using Your Turn project, Hard Candy, with the choreogra- Jeffrey Coleman (‘00): His debut col- thropology & Humanism, Journal of Bel- Signal Promotes World Peace, and Other pher D.A. Hoskins. lection, Spirits Distilled, was published in levue Literary Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Observations of a Working Poet, was re- March 2006 by Red Hen Press. He also re- Michelle Bitting (‘05): She has work Review, Latinos and Education, Language leased in 2005. She has had recent work in forthcoming or published in Glimmer Arts, and Puerto del Sol . She won prizes 88 and Artworks, an interview and poems Train, Swink, Prairie Schooner, Small Spi- in the 2004 (top prize) and 2005 (award in the spring 2006 issue of the trilingual ral Notebook, Nimrod, The Southeast Re- prize) Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg contest Algerian literary magazine Arabesques Re- view, Clackamas Literary Review, Many for poets under 40 and was a finalist for view (Arabic, French, and English), and Mountains Moving, Poetry Southeast, the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace and Sow’s she has read two of her essays on The Cali- Slipstream, Dogwood, Salt Hill, Pearl, Ear Poetry Contests. In June 2006, she was fornia Report. She runs Poetry Boot Camp, Rattle, and others. She has won the Glim- married in Athens, Georgia. an on-line workshop for people who want

~ 11~ ~ 12~ Poet Molly Fisk writes to write a poem a day when they’re not at with Pittsburgh artist, Robert Qualters Squaw Valley (www.poetrybootcamp.com), based on the imagery in her poetry. Her radio commentary for NPR with participants from all over the world, poem “Green Pulses” is a finalist in The and KVMR-FM, Nevada City, CA. including the South Pole. Sandburgh Livesay Contest. She is poet-in- residence for the Peace River Writers. Using Your Turn Signal Gretchen Fletcher (‘05): Her poems Promotes World Peace have recently won Palm Beach’s Society Colette Anderson Gill (‘02): Her poem of the Four Arts competition and Nob Hill “First Light” is forthcoming in The Texas collects fourteen of her Pen Women’s contest in San Francisco, and Review . She was a finalist for the 2003 unique, humorous and have been published in Chicago’s Woman Chapbook Contest of Blue Light Press. thought-provoking essays: Made Gallery date book 2006, Ghost Road Lise Goett (‘88,‘90,‘92,‘94): She was Press’s Open Windows, and the online available for $10 through awarded the D.H. Lawrence Fellowship to journal www.seastories.org. the Taos Summer Writers Conference in cdbaby.com or mollyfisk.com Stewart Florsheim (‘91,’92): He wrote 2004, and her collection Waiting for the the poetry chapbook, The Girl Eating Oys- Paraclete (Beacon 2002) won the 2005 You can hear Molly’s essays weekly at 89.5 FM in Northern ters (2River, 2004). In 2005, Stewart won PEN Southwest Book Award in Poetry. California and worldwide at kvmr.org, at 6:55p.m. Thursdays the Blue Light Book Award for The Short One of her poems, “Space Age,” was an- thologized in Air Fare: Stories, Poems, and (Pacific Time), at the end of the News Hour. Fall From Grace (Blue Light Press, 2006) www. stewartflorsheim.com. Essays on Flight (Sarabande 2004), edited by Squaw Valley alum Judith Taylor with CB (‘Lyn) Follett (‘91,‘93,‘95,‘00,‘04): Molly’s essays render the common uncommon. I think that Nickole Brown. what she really talks about is the art of noticing. Beautiful She has a new collection of poetry, Hold language, beautifully spoken. and Release, due out at the end of this year Elizabeth Gonzalez (‘00): Her poetry, —Utah Phillips, Songwriter, Folksinger, Anarchist, Poet from Time Being Books in St. Louis. She is fiction or creative nonfiction recently -ap co-editor, with Susan Terris, of RUNES, now peared in Heliotrope, Plum Ruby Review, in its sixth year. Poems from RUNES have So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthol- What do I do when Squaw is not in session? been included in Best American Poetry ogy of California Poets, and Women on the and awarded a Pushcart Prize. In 2007, the Edge: Writing from Los Angeles . Her recent Is there really a workshop you can take in your pajamas?! theme is Connection, and will be judged awards include the Arts Council for Long by Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman. Beach’s 2005 Professional Artist Fellow- ship, a fiction-writing grant from The Eliza- Julie Gamberg (‘02,‘05): Her first book beth George Foundation and a residency Poetry Boot Camp of poetry, The Musuem of Natural History, at Hedgebrook: A Retreat for Women Writ- led by NEA award-winning poet Molly Fisk won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize and was ers. www.lizgonzalez.com just published by Eastern Washington Uni- PWrite 6 poems in 6 days versity Press. Jennifer (Allen) Gresham (‘99): Poems published or forthcoming in and get instant (smart & kind) e-feedback Joanne Gardner (‘96,’91): Her collec- Quarterly, Main Street Rag, Gargoyle, and tion, La Florida, received the Weldon Kees PGenerate new work PJumpstart your writing MARGIE. Her collection, Diary of a Cell, Award for 2005 and was published by The won the 2004 Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize PJoin a writing community PCamps run once a month Backwaters Press in Spring 2006. and was featured by Garrison Keillor on his Gail Ghai (‘03): Poems were published in NPR show “The Writer’s Almanac.” New Orphic Review, Loyalhanna Review, That’s one of the reasons I keep coming back to Boot Camp: your critiques WindsorReview, White Wall Review, The are so on target. I can really count on you to give me serious feedback. Comstock Review, The New Yinzer and —L.S.M Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (short listed for the 2006 Benjamin Frank- lin Award). She did a collaboration, Earth’s Bounties: Paintings, Drawings and Prints www.poetrybootcamp.com ~ 13~ ~ 14~ Lara Gularte (‘05): She won several Saskia Hamilton (‘89,‘92): Her newest rie Schooner, The Southern Review, and Poetry Review, A Gathering of the Tribes, James D. Phelan Literary Awards and the collection, Divide These, was published by Tampa Review . Awarded a 2005 Money for Pavement Saw, and Skidrow . 2005 Anne Lillis Award for Creative Writ- Graywolf in 2005. She is also the editor of Women/ Barbara Deming Memorial Award Ann Keniston (‘96,‘03): She has pub- ing. Gularte’s poems have been translated The Letters of Robert Lowell (FSG, 2005). and 3rd place in the 2006 St. Petersburg lished a poetry collection, The Caution of into Portuguese by the University of the Her poetry has appeared in the Kenyon- Summer Literary Seminars contest, her Human Gestures (David Robert Books), as Acores and featured in the literary supple- Review, Book Review, manuscript, The Stranger Dissolves, was a well as poems in Southwest Review, North ment Supplemento Acoriano de Artes e the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She teach- finalist for the May Swensen Award. Her American Review, and Epoch . Letras, da revista Saber/Acores. Her work es at Barnard College. manuscript, Interregnum, is currently a fi- was presented in the Acore Islands at an in- nalist for the New Issues Poetry Prize and Barbara Koons (‘03): Her first poetry col- ternational conference on storytelling and Lois Hirshkowitz (‘92,‘93,‘94,‘95): Her the National Poetry Series. lection, Night Highway, was published by cultural identity in June 2005. fourth poetry collection, 3 .14159+, was Cloudbanks Books in 2005. It contains two published by Barrow Street Press in 2004. Alice Jones (‘88): She was on the staff of poems written at Squaw Valley in 2003. Quinton Hallett (‘91): Shiver Quench Writing the Medical Experience in 2003. Slake, a poetry chapbook, was published in Alicia Hokanson (‘86-88,‘90,‘93,‘97,‘99): Her most recent book is Gorgeous Mourn- Michelle Koukhab (‘05): Her work ap- 2004 by Fern Rock Falls Press. Two of her She has poems in the anthology, Blessing ing from Apogee Press. She won the 2006 pear in Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: poems appeared in Dona Nobis Pacem, the Animals (Skylight Paths Publishing, Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society New Writing By Women of the Iranian a chapbook published by Lane Literary 2006) and on Seattle Metro Poetry Bus, of America. Recent magazine publications Diaspora, an anthology published in May Guild, 2006. A poem of hers was published 2005. She was named “River of Words” included ZYZZYVA, Isotope and Volt . 2006 by the University of Arkansas Press. Poetry Teacher of the Year in 2003, and in Windfall: Journal of Poetry of Place in Patricia Spears Jones (‘92,‘94,‘99): Keetje Kuipers (‘05): Poems published 2006. received the award from Bob Hass. Her second poetry collection, or forthcoming in West Branch, Parthenon Forrest Hamer (‘92,‘97,‘02): A new Christina Hutchins (‘03): Recent poems Femme du Monde, is due April 2006 West Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, book, Rift, is forthcoming from Four Way appear in The Antioch Review, The Com- from Tia Chucha Press, which is dis- Faultline, Red Rock Review, and Southern Books. stock Review, Cream City Review, Prai- tributed by Northwestern University Hum. Six of her poems are forthcoming Press (www.poets.org/npmbooks.php). from Ellipsis where she has been chosen Poems in Femme du Monde first appeared as the featured poet for their August 2006 in Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew issue. She was recently awarded the C. Shepard and in the following journals: Hamilton Bailey Poetry Fellowship, an Agni, Callaloo, Barrow Street, Plough- Oregon Literary Fellowship provided by shares, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Literary Arts, which will fund her proposal Bomb and Crab Orchard Review. Recent to run a week-long series of bilingual poems are in TriQuarterly, nocturnes re- poetry workshops for Mexican women view, and Barrow Street. She played Circe working in maquiladoras on the border of in John Ashberry’s The Heroes at the Bow- Texas and Mexico. ery Poetry Club in April. Danusha Laméris (‘00): Poems pub- Marilyn Kallet (‘96,‘98,‘05): She pub- lished in Alaska Quarterly Review, Atlan- lished two books in 2005, Circe, After ta Review, Crab Orchard Review and the Hours, BkMk Press/UMKC (poetry), and anthology In A Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond GORGEOUS The Art of College Teaching: 28 Takes, UT to Shakespeare. She also received an hon- Press (co-edited with April Morgan). Her orable mention in Water~Stone’s Jane Ke- translations of Paul Eluard’s Last Love Po- nyon Prize. MOURNING ems came out in a new edition from Com- TO ORDER, CLIcK ON Ted Lardner (‘98,‘02): African Ameri- ALICE JONE S TO ORDER, CLICK ON monwealth Books/Black Widow Press in WWW.APOGEEPRESS.WWW.APOGEEPRESS.COMcOM can Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular June 2006. English in the Composition Classroom, co- Andrew Kaufman (‘01): His collection, written with Arnetha Ball, was published in “Dazzling poems, wholly taken in by where Earth’s Ends, published in 2005 won the the Series in Writing and Rhetoric by South- the words are going.” —ADAM PHILLIPS 2003 Pearl Poetry Award. His poems have ern Illinois University Press (2005). Poems also appeared in Nimrod, Spoon River are forthcoming or have recently appeared

~ 15~ ~ 16~ TheTh Cautione Cautio n in Rhino, 5am, and Arsenic Lobster . of Human Gestures of Human Gestures Anthony A. Lee (‘01): He collaborated Poems by Ann Keniston with Dr. Amin Banani and Dr. Jascha Kes- Poems by Ann Keniston sler on the translation of the poems of TheT textureshe text ofur musices of mandu sic and memory form Tahirih, a nineteenth-century Iranian femi- memorycircle forms tha circlest ripp thatle e ver outward in Ann rippleKe evernist ooutwardn’s Th ein C Annauti on of Human Gestures. nist poet, Tahirih: A Portrait in Poetry: Keniston’s The Caution of Selected Poems of Qurratu’l-’Ayn (Kalimat HumanKen Gestures.iston is a Keniston poet fo isr whom careful craft Press, 2004). His first full book of poems, a poetis a for m ewhomans t ocareful subt lcrafte vi sion, a knowledge is at hmeansat ev toen subtle the s vision,malle sat of human gestures This Poem Means, won the Naomi Long knowledge that even the small- has larger resonances both within and outside an individual life. Madgett Poetry Award for 2005 and was est of human gestures has larger resonances both within and published by Lotus Press (Detroit). outside an individual life. “Frost speaks of the process of writing poems as starting with an “Frost speaks of the process of writing poems as starting Jeffrey Thomas Leong (‘97, ‘00, ‘02): withem oanti oemotion,n, the ethem oemotiontion fi nfindingding a a tthought,hought ,and an thed t he thought finding a Poems published or forthcoming in Crab thoughtword. findingAt eve ray word.part oAtf everythis ppartro cofe sthiss, A process,nn Ke nAnniso n’s passionate, won- Orchard Review and The Asian Pacific Keniston’sderfully ipassionate,ntelligent wonderfully voice find sintelligent a way t ovoice giv efinds emo at ion, thought, and way to give emotion, thought, and word a quiet gravity and word a quiet gravity and grace that is unique in American poetry. American Journal . His daughter, Mariya, grace that is unique in American poetry. Keniston is one of was adopted in China in 2003, and now is a theK everynist fewon ipoets,s one like of tEmilyhe ve Dickinson,ry few po whoets, lhaveike Ethem giftily Dickinson, who rambunctious 4 year old. forha dramatizingve the gift thefor mind dra min amotion,tizing asth eopposed mind toin them omindtion , as opposed to the at rest. These poems are superb exemplars of the mind in mind at rest. These poems are superb exemplars of the mind in mo- Shara Lessley (‘02): Poems appeared motion, in which transparency of word matches exactly the densitytion, i ofn wthoughthich tandran integritysparen cofy emotion.”—of word m aTomtch eSleighs exa ctly the density of or forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, thought and integrity of emotion.”—Tom Sleigh Barbara Koons’ fine first Threepenny, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, The Order online at www.davidrobertbooks.com/keniston.html ISBN: 193233971X book of poetry, published Southeast Review, Bellingham Review, Order online at www.davidrobertbooks.com/keniston.html Hayden’s Ferry and Third Coast, among ISBN: 193233DAVID971X ROBERT BOOKS by Cloudbank Books, an others. Recent fellowships include the Stegner (Stanford University 2003-5), imprint of Bedbug Press, O’Connor (Colgate University 2005-6), and Now available from marick press DAVID ROBERT BOOKS was one of the two finalists Tickner (Gilman School 2006-7). Twice nominated for the Pushcart as well as Best in the 2006 Best Books of New Poets, Shara was recently awarded the Indiana competition. 2006 Discovery/The Nation prize. Nina Lindsay (‘97): Her first collection, Today’s Special Dish, will be published by Barbara wrote two of the Sixteen Rivers Press in Spring 2007. poems in Night Highway at Robert Lipton (‘95,‘03): His book of This is the book of childhood, love and the 2003 Poetry Workshop poems, A Complex Bravery, has just been war. Lipton’s poems are a gang that published by Marick Press. takes no prisoners; his voice is direct, his tone is clear, his diction is ironic but at Squaw Valley, and she Glenna Luschei (‘99): Essays dedicated his irony is earned and felt-through… Lipton’s voice’s quirky and alive, was again there in 2006. to Luschei appeared in Prairie Schooner, always ready to report the world straight Winter 2004. An Artist Book of Sor Juana to us, without patronizing, for ‘this battle Inés de la Cruz’s Enigmas was published is parent by parent/ and I have home- work to do.’” in 2006. Recent poems in Chance of Ghost, —Ilya Kaminsky To order Barbara’s Helicon Press, 2005; The Sorrow Psalms, Press, 2006; Pembroke book, please go to #37, 2005; Art Life, 2003-06 and APR . Her publishing company Solo Press has pub- www.bedbugpress.com www.carolinawrenpress.org lished the following: Solo 7, 2004; Solo

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NightHighwayAd.indd 2 8/30/06 12:20:52 PM Cafe 1: Songs of the Goddess, 2005; Cafe Press of Minneapolis in early summer Kathleen O’Toole (‘05,‘03,‘01): Her www .mmminc .org Solo: 40th Anniversary Issue and a chap- 2007. Mary Logue was the judge. Two of new collection, Ties that Binds, is due out Monika Rose (‘97): She is the editor of book by Lynn Strongin, Dovey & Me, 2006. the poems were written at Squaw this past from Finishing Line Press. Her chapbook, Manzanita: Poetry and Prose of the Moth- Sarah Maclay (‘97): Her poems, essays summer . Practice, was also published by Finishing er Lode and Sierra, a journal for nature Line Press (www.finishinglinepress.com). and reviews have appeared or are soon to Joan Monheit (‘02): She was awarded an writers and artists inspired by our region. appear in American Poetry Review, Swink, Honorable Mention in poetry by the As- Jennie Orvino (‘05): Poems published 1,500 copies of Volume 5 were printed The Journal, FIELD, Ploughshares, Hotel traea 2004 Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund. in the following anthologies: Cloud View this summer. Several Squaw Valley Com- Amerika, Ninth Letter, The Writer’s Chron- Poets: David St . John Masterclass; Marin Berwyn Moore (‘90,‘92): Her collection, munity of Writers participants are featured icle, Pool, The Laurel Review, Washington Poetry Center Anthology; Present at the Dissolution of Ghosts, was published in in this publication. For more information, Square Review, Solo, Tampa Review, Los Creation: Poets Write About Writing Poet- 2005 by Cherry Grove Collections. Recent contact [email protected]. Angeles Review, forPoetry .com, Parthenon ry; Slow Trains; and From Porn to Poetry . poems in Nimrod International Journal Lois Rosen (‘01,‘99): Her first book of West Review, Runes, Pearl, Spillway, ON- Letterpress chapbook from Clamshell Press of Poetry and Prose, River Walk Journal, poetry, Pigeons, was published by Trap- THEBUS and Poetry International, where titled Jennie Orvino: A Sampler of Her Po- and Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts . she now serves as book review editor. Her ems . Erotic prose at www.cleansheets.com rock Books in 2004. Quite a few of the debut full-length, Whore, won the 2003 An interview with Berwyn about her work and www.sextoytales.com. And appear- poems were written at Squaw. Tampa Review Prize for Poetry and was appears in Eclectica (www.eclectica.org). ance in the Libido Films documentary Or- Yiskah Rosenfeld (‘01,‘03): New po- released in 2004 from University of Tampa Linda Joy Myers (‘94): Don’t Call Me gasm: Faces of Ecstasy . ems published in Comet Magazine, the Press. She has received several Pushcart Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother- Rachel Richardson (‘01): She is current- Bitter Oleander, Lilith Magazine, and nominations, won the dA Center for the Daughter Abandonment was published by ly finishing a Fellowship Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts . She Arts Poetry Contest in 2003, and was a final- Two Bridges Press in 2005. Excerpts from in Poetry at Stanford University. She has was twice a finalist for the Frances Locke ist for the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry and a the book won the Jack London First Non- poems recently published and forthcom- Memorial Award and second prize winner semi-finalist for the Kenyon Review Prize in fiction Prize and second prize at the East ing in Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly for the Seacoast Writers Association 2006 Poetry, the Cleveland State University Prize of Eden contest . Becoming Whole: Writing Review, Ninth Letter, Antioch Review, Wit- contest. No births, but she did acquire a in Poetry and the Tupelo Press first book Your Healing Story was released by Two ness, and Washington Square . small wonderdog named Paz. prize, and she received a 2005 Albert and Bridges Press in July 2006. The short mem- Elizabeth Rosner (‘99): See Writers Elaine Borchard Fellowship. oir Who Am I? won first prize for memoir Barbara Riley(‘02): Poems published or forthcoming in Central Avenue , Sin Workshops Staff News. Sandra Cohen Margulius (‘01): Her for the lifewriting contest through Story Fronteras, Just Outside the Frame: An- poem “Women and Birds” won the first Circle Network. Deborah Dashow Ruth (‘91,‘92,‘95,‘98, thology of Santa Fe Broadside Contribu- place prize and publication in RUNES, a ‘00,‘01): In 2005 “Unfinished,” a poem Kathy O’Fallon (‘02): In December, tors. Her book, The Rising of the Wind, Review of Poetry for Fall/Winter 2005. she wrote with Brenda Hillman, appeared 2005, Finishing Line Press published her was published by Lumen Books in 2005. Another poem, “Aunt Betty,” has been in Oyez, published by Roosevelt Univer- new collection, At Higher Elevations, www.rileyreader.com sity (Chicago). It was also nominated for accepted for publication in the forthcom- which includes poems written at Squaw ing Holocaust anthology being edited by Ariel Robello (‘02): Her collection, My a Pushcart Prize. And in 2005, a reading of Valley. Her poems have also appeared in her play by professional actors was held at Charles Fishman to be released in 2007. Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Moun- Sweet Unconditional: Poems, was pub- lished in 2005 by Tia Chucha. the Berkeley City Club. Judy Rowe Michaels (‘91,‘92,‘01): She tains, an anthology edited by Margot Wiz- was awarded a fellowship at the MacDowell ansky from Salt Marsh Press, 2006, Rattle, Renato Rosaldo (‘00,‘02): His bilingual Larry Ruth (‘00,‘02,‘04): Poems pub- Colony, summer of 2005. Her poems were Tidepools, Magee Park Poets Anthology, (Spanish-English) collection of poems lished in The Berkeleyan, Ibid ., Berkeley finalists in Kalliope’s Saniel Sue Elkind 2006, and Poets Against the War, 2003 . entitled Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a Poetry Review, and in Hail to California: Contest and The Atlanta Review’s contest Jude O’Nym (‘95,‘02): She received la mujer araña was published in Saltillo, and won Honorable Mention in the Nim- a 2003 Fellowship in Literature (Poetry) Mexico by ICOCULT in 2003. The collec- rod/Hardman Pablo Neruda competition. from the Texas Writers’ League. Her poem tion received a Before Columbus Founda- Poems also appeared this year in Ekphra- “The Beginning” was one of two runners tion American Book Award, 2004. A poem of his won the sis, US-1, and English Journal . up in the 2005 RUNES Award Competition. poetry contest, 2005. Recent poems of his Norman Minnick (‘06): His book of po- A poem, “Blue in the Face,” which she will appear in Prairie Schooner, Puerto ems, To Taste the Water, won a first book wrote while at Squaw Valley, was published del Sol, and Many Mountains Moving . contest and will be published by Mid-List in Hanging Loose # 85 .

~ 19~ ~ 20~ POETRY FROM RUNES is an annual will be judged by Robert Hass and Brenda Writers) Prints; Midnight Mind Magazine; Red Hen Press themed anthology. Hillman. Poetry Ink; and Mischief, Caprice and The theme for ‘07 is: Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press). “Connection,” which Amber Flora Thomas (‘93,‘02,‘05): See The Common Fire should be interpreted in Participant Profile page 9. Ian Randall Wilson (‘93): See Writers traditional as well as met- Lisanne (Stouder) Thompson (‘99): Workshop Participant News. BY SHELLEY SAVREN aphorical, metaphysical, Poems are forthcoming in Xantippe and Sholeh Wolpe (‘04): Her collection, The showcases and imaginative ways. The Common Fire Five Fingers Review . Her first child, Nina Scar Saloon, was published by Red Hen this remarkable talent and For 2006, the theme is “Hearth.” We will be publish- Louise, was born in February. will aptly serve to introduce ing poets Mary Jo Bang, Mark Doty, Barbara Hamby, Press and her CD of poems read to mod- a whole new audience of Ilya Kaminsky, W. S. Merwin, and David St. John, Sally Van Doren (‘01,‘03): Her poems ern and ancient Persian music was released readers to a storytelling poetry. along with 94 others known and less well-known. have appeared recently, or are forthcom- by Refuge Studios and distributed by Red —Midwest Review Poems from RUNES have been featured in Best ing, in Barrow Street, Cincinnati Review, Hen Press. Recent anthologies in which American Poetry and in the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Columbia Poetry Review, Delmar, LIT, her poems have appeared, or are due to Shelley Savren’s poems in The Common Fire Parthenon West Review, Pool and Snow appear, are: Contemporary Poetry of the are warm and direct, full of the stuff of daily RUNES also offers an annual competition: life, family life, joy and pleasure and grief and the RUNES Award with a prize of $1000. Theme Monkey . She was named a semi-finalist Eastern World (Norton, 2007), Evensong: pain we can all identify with in poems that of the competition is also: “Connection.” Final in the 2005 Discovery/The Nation prize. Contemporary Poems of Spirituality (Bot- carry a strong emotional weight. judges in ‘07 will be Robert Hass and Brenda Her manuscripts were finalists in contests tom Dog Press, 2007), Inlandia: A Literary —Marge Piercy Hillman. Submissions for RUNES and for the RUNES at Barrow Street Press, InTuit House and Journey Through California’s Inland Em- Award are accepted only during April and May. AVAILABLE FROM Story Line Press. pire (Heyday, 2006), Let Me Tell You Where For additional information visit the website: TRADEPAPER RED HEN PRESS I’ve Been: New Writing by Women of the 88 PAGES P.O. BOX 3537 http://members.aol.com/Runes Nicola Waldron (‘01,‘04): Her baby boy, ISBN: 1888996-96-X GRANADA HILLS, CA Brook, born on Christmas Day 2004, is now Iranian Diaspora (University of Arkansas $12.95 91394 –CB (‘Lyn) Follett & Susan Terris, editors running, though not yet reciting poetry! Press, 2006), The Other Side of Sorrow www.redhen.org • 818.831.0649 (Poetry Society of New Hampshire 2006), Lucinda Watson (‘98,‘02,‘04): She has and Java Monkey Speaks (Poetry Atlanta published poems in The Louisville Review, Press, 2006). Her short story, “Axing the The University of California at Berkeley in Gary Short (‘81,‘90): His newest collec- Phantasmagoria, Inkwell (semifinalist Horses,” was one of this year’s Glimmer Verse and Story (an anthology). In 2005 tion of poems, 10 Moons and 13 Horses, award) MacGuffin,and The Griffin in 2004 Train Open Fiction competition finalists. he was awarded a Lili Fabilli and Eric Hof- was published by University of Nevada and 2005 . www.sholehwolpe.com fer Essay Prize by the University of Califor- Press in 2004 . David Watts (‘99,‘02,‘04): His book of nia, Berkeley. Edgar Silex (‘95,‘02): Curbstone Press essays, Bedside Manners, was published Ernie Wormwood (‘98,‘00,‘02): Poems published in Convergence (2005), Beltway Shelley Savren (‘01): In 2004, her book published his Acts of Love in 2004. His by Random House in 2005; the paperback (2006) Innisfree Poetry (2006), Raintiger of poems, The Common Fire, was pub- most recent poems appear in The Alembic, appeared in 2006. He is a regular com- (2005), The Cafe Review (2006), Rhino lished by Red Hen Press. Rattle, The Baltimore Review, and The New mentator on NPR’s All Things Considered . American Poets: A Breadloaf Anthology . He is founding director of the writers con- (2006), and in the anthologies Poetic Voic- Laura Secord (‘00,‘03): Her poem cycle/ es Without Borders (2005) and Only the Elizabeth Sullivan (‘02,‘05): Recent ference, Writing the Medical Experience, stage play Sanapia’s Courage Medicine, Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (2005). publishing credits include poems in the which is now held at Sarah Lawrence much of which was written at Squaw in Her poem “Pizza” written at Squaw Valley Atlanta Review, Primavera, and several College. www.slc.edu. in 2002 and dedicated to Galway Kinnell 2003, was first performed in May 2005 poems in www.mamazine.com. Niama Leslie Williams (‘00): Poems (http://wbhm.org/tapestry/May12-05.html) appears online at www.innisfreepoetry.org. Susan Terris (‘04): Her poem, “Goldfish: and/or prose pieces published in XCon- It will be featured at Goddard Colleges’s nect, the University of Pennsylvania’s lit- She was a finalist in 2005 for the Dogfish Power of Words Conference. “The Burn- A Diptych,” published last fall in FIELD Head Poetry prize. Magazine, was just awarded a Pushcart erary magazine (print and web edition); ing,” written at Squaw Valley, was published blackfemlens.org; Acts of Emancipation: Toni Wynn (‘95): Toni’s poem “Good in PoemMemoirStory, April 2006. Prize. She is co-editor, with ‘Lyn Follett, of RUNES, now in its sixth year. Poems from An Anthology of Teachers’ Writing; Mind- News from the River” was published in Evie Shockley (‘99): Her collection of RUNES have been included in Best Ameri- Fire Renewed; My Soul to His Spirit – Soul- Cave Canem’s Gathering Ground, Univer- poems, half-red sea, was published by can Poetry and awarded a Pushcart Prize. ful Expressions from Black Daughters to sity of Michigan Press, 2006, edited by Toi Carolina Wren Press in September 2006. In 2007, the theme is Connection, and Their Fathers; P .A .W . (Philadelphia Arts Derricotte and Cornelius Eady.

~ 21~ ~ 22~ Summer 2006 Special Thanks! Bill Yake (‘98): His collection, This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain, was pub- here are many people who work to make the conference lished by Radiolarian Press. In recent years happen each summer; some have a formal relationship with the his poems have won Alligator Juniper’s po- TCommunity of Writers, and some are friends and family. etry prize, Fine Madness’ inaugural James M. Snydal prize, and a Pushcart nomination. First of all, we thank our magnificent staff who make the conference Recent or forthcoming poems in Wings: what it is. Many thanks to Lisa Alvarez, Andrew Tonkovich, Louis Essays on Invertebrate Conservation, B. Jones, who despite their roles as directors and/or teaching staff Open Spaces Quarterly, Entelechy: Mind are to be seen in the days before the conference moving tables and & Culture, The Bear Deluxe Anthology, chairs; to Kaitlin Klaussen, who coordinated housing for us with Fine Madness, Chronogram, Artful Dodge, Audrey Rose on her hip; to Stacey Knapp for running the bookshop HazMat Review, and Red Rock Review . with good cheer. We’d also like to thank The Book Seller in Grass Valley who helped us tremendously with the book orders, as well as Debbie Lane of The Bookshelf at Hooligan’s Rock for filling in the gaps . Joan Klaussen for running the snack-bar during both programs, and her husband Peter who put up with it all and carried many cases of wine . Many thanks to members of the Board and Squaw Valley locals who have been tremendously generous with their time over the years: Eddy and Osvaldo Ancinas, Amy Tan and Lou; Barbara and Oakley; Maria VonderAhe; Mimi & Burnett Miller; Don and Geri Thayer; The poem below came after Harryette Mullen’s craft talk… and Max Byrd. Thanks also to our friends Justin Bailey, Tad Hall, Tracy Hall, Amanda Holsopple, Hunter Happy hour Jones, Margot Miller, Tom Taylor, and especially to Thomas Estler, Arianne Simard, and

Steve Susoyev. And Sands Hall for the Follies. Line and shadow an eccentric conflict between plot and something else, a bird in hand is worth Great appreciation to Justin Casey and Tom O’Neill of the Olympic Plaza Food and Beverage for their lovely venues; and Ena Arbueza for her remarkable dinners. Thanks also to two null hypotheses striving to recall the present Raine Howe of the Squaw Valley Institute who helped us present some terrific fundraisers imagination, motivation, allegory, all the new thinking this summer. Thanks to staff members Mark Childress, Gill Dennis, Alice Sebold, Amy Tan, about loss gone west, creative misinterpretation east who generously donated their time for these events. taking refuge behind some ironic curtain in a show Thanks to our work-waivers in Poetry: Amanda Chiado, Melissa Mack, Karyna McGlynn, of solidarity, hilarity, and anti-personnel pronouns Natalie Peeterse, Eliza Rotterman, Joanna Solfrain, Sara Wallace, and Mary Jane White. And thanks to our work-waivers in Writers Workshops: Sally Abbot, Lori Brown, Rebecca Cummings, Parissa Ebrahimzadeh, Claudia Errington, Sara Hove, Maxima Kahn, there’s no limit anymore, just a hard listless presence Anna Mills, Bob Pomeroy, Sandhya Rao, Cora Stryker, Craig Tepper, Carrie Thovson, on the plane of words; syllables, diphthongs, vowels and Yunshi Wang. Thanks also to Emily Baldwin and Seth Fleisher. Thanks also to the Screenwriting helpers: Rebecca Rufer, Jason Wolos, Jason Boyce, and Chris Upham. and consonants slowly disaggregate, dissolving lines, paragraph, meaning and multiverse, rebutting The Board and Staff of the Community of Writers would especially like to thank the late, great Alexander Cushing, Chairman of the Squaw Valley Ski Corp who has had faith in us all these presumptions of contingency, order and expansion years; Nancy Wendt, his wife and President of the company who has continued to create an of space and string as a way to fathom text and time— environment where a conference such as ours is possible; and to their wonderful staff: Ernst surrealism, arc, sphere, there, here, plots against mime . Hager, Tom Kelly, Christine Horvath, Cynthia Braga and the Security Team (who are superb ambassadors). Larry Ruth And thanks to our many friends and donors without whom the Summer Workshops would not happen .

~ 23~ ~ 24~ !,)#%*!-%3"//+3 Participant Profile: ,ĒīĚĞ"ĝĚt5ęĖ'Ēģ.ĠĤĢĦĖ 3FOVODJBUJPO Kazim Ali

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ɨFCPPLTXFSFBMMUPSOBQBSU TMJDFEBMPOHUIFTQJOFT azim Ali attended the Squaw Valley meter nonetheless.” -JHIUmMMFEBMMUIFPQFOJOHTUIBUTIFJOIFSTJMFODFSFOPVODFE Poetry Workshop in 1998, and has 4UJMMIFSIBOEXSJUJOHPOUIFQBQFSTSFNFNCFSFEVTUPIFS said, “My experience at Squaw Val- His debut book of poems, The Far Mosque, ɨFDBSFGVMNBUDIJOHPGUIFQBQFSTFEHFTXBTBSPBECBDL K ley really was the beginning of my life as was published by Alice James Books in Oc- 0OFOJHIU.VIVNNBEXBTCPSOFBMPGUCZBXJOHFEIPSTF a poet.” Since then he’s been busy writ- tober 2005 and won the /New 5BLFOGSPNUIF/FBS.PTRVFUPUIF'BS.PTRVF ing and publishing poetry and fiction and York Prize. Library Journal wrote, “If one &BDICPPLMJLFOTJUTFMGUPMJDIFO  giving readings. He also teaches English of the poet’s tasks is to revive the mytho- TUJUDIJOHTPGUMZUPUSFFUSVOLT UPSPDLT and Creative Writing at Shippensburg Uni- logical powers in things, Ali does so skill- XIBUXBTHJWFOJOUPUIF1SPQIFUTFBSTUIBUOJHIU versity and is a member of the permanent fully here.…His poetry is reminiscent of "DIBOHJOHPGEJSFDUJPOT‰OPXBMMUIFTDBUUFSFEUSJCFTNVTUQSBZ faculty of Stonecoast, the MFA program of the works of French poet René Char in its 8POEFSXFMMGPVOESZ XFMMTVOCPSO TVOEFSFEBOETPVOEIFSF the University of Southern Maine. surrealistic style and lyrical fragmentations. 8FMMZPVCFGPVOEIFSF GPVOEFSFEBOEGPVOE In addition, the mystic voices of the East, www.alicejamesbooks.org Ali was born in London, England and grew which express a passionate yearning for a WWWALICEJAMESBOOKSORG up in Canada and in the . He harmonious unity with absolute beauty, are ANAFFILIATEOFTHE5NIVERSITYOF-AINEAT&ARMINGTON grew up hearing Qura’an recitations in Ara- echoed throughout most of his poems.” bic and sung poems in Urdu. “So the ear- Northeastern University Press & University Press of New England liest poetry to me was rhythm and sound His novel Quinn’s Passage (BlazeVox but without meaning. A beautiful way (I Books) was named one of The Best Books congratulate think) to begin.” of 2005 by Chronogram! Novelist Michael Annie Boutelle Joyce says, “The novel combines a deft, po- His early inspirations were novelists like etic ear and nimble erudition and poetry Winner of the 2005 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize Marguerite Duras and Anais Nin, as well to evoke the rhythm of time, a tidal suc- as the theory of Roland Barthes, so he be- cession of events, memories, visions, and gan by writing short, fragmented pieces of passions which embody ‘the ocean dance’ est of histles nnie outelle N T A B fiction. Then, he says, “I started political that its title character ‘choreographs under Selected and Introduced by Eric Pankey organizing and began writing performance- his breath.’” “Boutelle’s eye for the revelatory detail, her ear for a oriented poetry.” craggy consonance and airy assonance, and her mind His new book of poetry, The Fortieth Day, with its well-honed intelligence, reveal and explore the He lists among his many eclectic influences is forthcoming from BOA Editions. He has self, in particular a self wrought from history, myth, visual artists like Agnes Martin, the art, poli- poems forthcoming or recently published and tradition. . . .” tics and performances of Yoko Ono, as well in Colorado Review, Barrow Street, Paint- as countless poets, and admits to a ed Bride Quarterly, and New Orleans —From the introduction by Eric Pankey penchant for breaking the rules, but Review. With Squaw alum Jennifer Chapis 96 pp. 6” x 8 1/4” in the next breath, he adds that he he co-founded the small press Nightboat Paperback • ISBN 1-55553-648-4 • $14.95 has great respect for his formal edu- Books (www.nightboat.org). Cloth • ISBN 1-55553-647-6 • $30.00 cation as well; “I write in meter—dis- junctive manic meter perhaps, but www.kazimali.com www.upne.com

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Dear Northern California Writers, The “problem”: Gene Corr: He is co-writing Butte, Ameri- be aired on NBC in the winter. they’re turning ca, with Ed Dobb for Pam Roberts and his Some of you know I taught a screenwriting out far more work than I can read. And last Thomas Schlessinger: He has collabo- Friday, 9 students showed up. I came back documentary of Cuba, From Richmond to rated with Doris Dorrie on The Fisher- class at San Quentin last Spring. Twenty-six Regla, is scheduled to begin shooting in classes offered under the auspices of the Pris- from last Friday’s meeting with over five man and his Wife which will be released hundred pages of screenplays and a finished April 2007. in Spring 2007, and is currently producing on University Project, administered by Patten University in Oakland. It’s an excellent pro- novel. It was clear to me I had two choices: Pamela Gray: She is currently writing the feature film, Playground, written and abandon the program or get help. a comedy feature for Paramount and will directed by Caroline Link. gram, run by a wonderful, dynamic woman, be making her directorial debut with an Jody Lewen. All teachers at Prison University Erika Szanto: Her new documentary, work on a volunteer basis because all state I am writing to appeal to Northern Cali- original project she’s developing for Fox For the Good of the Nation, premiered in fornia screenwriters to consider men- Searchlight. funding has long been cut for such programs. Budapest this year and her original screen- Prison U is the only remaining program in toring one or two San Quentin writers. Camille Thomasson: Her most recent play, Dog Story, was optioned by a Hungar- the California State Prison system that offers Your choice. By mentoring one student it television credits include, The Magic of ian film company. convicts college level classes on site. not only makes the workload manageable, Ordinary Days (2005), and The Valley of Christopher Upham: He is in post pro- it also allows the development of a richer Light (2007). She is currently adapting Re- duction on his feature documentary, The Screenwriters such as Pamela Gray and relationship between mentor and student. I gina Louise’s memoir, Somebody’s Some- War Within, and has received two grants Jeremy Larner, among others, came to the believe you will find this a manageable and one, for Lifetime. (See Regina Louise in in support of the project, from Pacific Pio- prison, showed their films, and spoke to the deeply satisfying commitment. Screenwriting Participant News.) neer and Fleishhacker. It is produced by class. I think they can both attest to what a Michael Lehmann: He directed the new Teri Lang (Screenwriting Guest ‘06). His worthwhile experience it was. As mentor, you would read their work in Diane Keaton movie, Because I Said So, short story, “Nothing To Crow About,” progress, offer comments, discuss ideas, which will be released by Universal in Feb- has been anthologized by Koa Books in The class was a great experience. Most of movies, life, whatever comes up. Much of ruary. Currently he is completing an epi- Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (sec- the students were enthusiastic and put forth the written work can be sent through the sode of Big Love for HBO. ond printing!) which was edited by Maxine exceptional effort. A couple had real talent. mail (via Jody Lewen and the Prison U office), I was able to create a portable San Quentin but occasionally the mentoring writer would Christopher Monger: He is marketing Hong Kingston. screenplay library (most from the donations need to come to San Quentin to meet with his award winning documentary, Special from Diana Fuller and the Squaw Valley Com- his or her student. The meeting could be Thanks to Roy Landon, which premiered munity of Writers, also from individual writ- once a month, once every two months, once at Tribeca Festival in 2006. It can be ordered ers). Some San Quentin students devoured every three months, or how ever often seems through www.specialthankstoroylondon.com. the screenplays, reading as many as twenty right. The mentor, along with the student, Judy Rascoe: She was the story consultant over the course of the semester. Two stu- can decide on the best schedule. on Roger Spottiswood’s film,Shake Hands dents wrote complete screenplays, and four With the Devil, which is in post production continued to write after the classes ended. Please contact me if you’re interested and is currently the story consultant for the in participating in the program, and we Bang Bang Club, a feature about young After talking with four or five of the more can discuss it further. conflict photographers in South Africa. committed students, who were determined Send an email to [email protected] Tom Rickman: He has completed a 12 to keeping writing, we decided to form a San Quentin Writers Group. The plan was that with “FOR EUGENE CORR” in the subject line, hour mini-series for Universal-NBC on the and SVCW will forward your email to me. story of Motown, and is currently involved I would read their work and would go over in a miniseries about Hurricane Katrina to once a month and meet with the Writers Group. All the best, Eugene Corr

~ 27~ ~ 28~ Skye Dent (‘94): She has produced/writ- Walk the Line, Fall 2005. ten several documentaries for Discovery Dwayne Humeyestewa (‘02): With SCREENWRITING Channel, sold a film script to Showtime, Deepa Donda he wrote and produced and written columns for several major the 2004 short film Echoes from Juniper newspapers . Canyon . Their new production company, PARTICIPANT Melanie Dixon (‘05): Her horror script, Red Elephant, has just completed its first Frost, is in development at Lions Gate feature film, California Indian, written by NEWS UK. She adapted fellow alumnae, Tim Timothy Ramos. Wendel’s novel, Castro’s Curveball, for Buzzy Jackson (‘93): See Writers Work- the screen; the script is currently with shops Participant News . William Morris. Wendel’s novel has re- cently been republished. Penelope Karageorge (‘03): She won seventh place out of more than 3000 sub- Deepa Donda (‘03): With Dwayne Hum- missions in Final Draft’s Big Break Contest Joan Baranow (‘98): She and her pro- Contest, part of the California Independent eyestewa she wrote and produced the 2004 for her film script, The Neon Jungle . duction team have just completed a video Film Festival. short film Echoes from Juniper Canyon . documentary called Healing Words: Po- Eugenie Chan (‘04): Her play, Kitchen Their new production company, Red El- Nancy Kelly (‘84,‘85): Smitten, which she wrote, produced and directed was etry and the Art of Medicine, an hour long Table, was presented by the Magic Theatre ephant, has just completed its first feature film that celebrates the Arts in Medicine film, California Indian, written by Timo- aired nationally on PBS in July 2006. Smit- in August as part of the 2006 Bay Area Play- program at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, thy Ramos. ten has received the Audience Award for wrights Festival. She recently co-wrote the Florida. Best Documentary from the DC Indepen- San Francisco Mime Troupe’s GodFellas Jack Estes (’05): He won first place in the dent Film Festival, shared the Audience Jan Baross: Her first novel, Jose Builds a with the Troupe. FilmMarkers Sixth Annual International Award at the Aspen Shortsfest, and re- Woman, was published by Ooligan Press Screenplay Competition. He is in the final Mark Coggins (‘01): See Writers Work- ceived Honorable Mention for Best Short in August. She has had a film offer on the ten for Scriptshark . shop Participant News . Documentary from the Nashville Film Fes- book. Her newest book, Ms . Baross Goes Vibeke Gad: She has completed a mini- tival. She is currently also producing and To Paris, is a guide to Paris that she wrote David Corbett: (‘01): His third novel, series for Danish Radio/TV Drama, To Live directing a documentary called Moments and illustrated. www.barossmedia.com Blood of Paradise, will be published in the Truth, and a TV-Series, The Train. Her in Time, in partnership with KRCB Public spring 2007 as part of Random House’s Greg Bills (‘94): See Writers Workshops docudrama, The Harmonica, was screened Television as Executive Producer. Participant News . new Mortalis imprint. His short story, on television. Bobby the Prop Buys In, appeared in the James Kohlberg (’04): He has published Carroll Parrott Blue (‘99): Her experi- Springsteen-inspired anthology, Meeting Lisa Ginsberg (‘06): Her short film, Joy- short stories in the Review stick Blues, had wide festival showing and mental memoir, The Dawn at My Back, Across the River, and his story, It Can Hap- and The Distillery. His 2005 film, Run- Girltalk was picked up for distribution. won a 2004 Sundance Film Festival Jury pen, was included in San Francisco Noir, away, was the winner of the Austin Film Award (www.dawnatmyback.com), and both collections published in 2006. Direc- Sheldon Gleisser (‘05): His short story, Festival. Trumbo, a documentary on the will become The Dawn Installation at tor Elie Udel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) has Souvenir, was a runner up in the Mary life and letters of Dalton Trumbo, star- Project Row Houses while Blue is a Uni- purchased the film rights to his first novel, Shelley awards published by Rosebud ring Liam Neeson, is in production. He versity of Houston Visiting Professor and The Devil’s Redhead . www.davidcorbett.com magazine. has started an international film sales and Project Row Houses Artist-in-Residence finance company, Essential Entertainment, Patty Dann (‘89): In 2003, her second Jenny Hedley (‘05): Her story, Equato- (www.project-rowhouses.org) June 2006 rial Lines, appears in the book Surfing’s to expand the scope of his production through May 2007. novel, Sweet & Crazy, was published by St. company, Essential Productions. Martins Press. St. Martin’s Griffin repub- Greatest Misadventures, published in Denise Bostrom (‘89,‘93): She has been lished her 1999 novel, Mermaids, which Spring 2006 by Casagrande Press. Edito- Tiffany Laufer (‘03): She served as cin- advising Denise Zmekhol on her docu- was made into a feature film starring Wi- rial Production Assistant credit on Fox film ematographer and co-producer for Christ- mentary, Children of the Amazon, soon to nona Rider and Cher, in 2004. A new book, be aired at film festivals nationally. The Goldfish Went on Vacation: Shamb- Jason Boyce (‘05): His film, Barry John- hala/Trumpeter will publish A Memoir of son, won 2nd place in the Iron Filmmaker Loss in January of 2007.

~ 29~ ~ 30~ mas at Maxwells, to be screened at se- will open its Spring season with a produc- on Union Square in San Francisco. He won Nada Von Tress (‘06): She is the edi- lected theaters starting in December. She tion of his play The Pull Toy . . And His the 2005 Critic’s Award for the San Fran- tor of the literary magazine On the Page, is co-founder of the production company Paisán . cisco Fringe Festival for Sperm Warfare . (www.onthepage.org) which is publishing LauferFilm, chaired by her father, William Lynda Rutledge (Stephenson) (‘95): its 13th issue this fall. Laufer, who is also co-producer of the film. Rhoderyc Charles Montgomery (‘01): He was the producer on the Fox SearchLab Her novel, Brave New Wanda, was pub- Ellen Weis (‘92): Berkeley: The Life and Laura Glen Louis (‘88): See Writers film, Broadcast 23, which made its pre- lished by Wordfarm Press in August 2004. Spirit of a Remarkable Town, was pub- Workshops Participant News. miere at the Sundance Film Festival. Her creative nonfiction works have been lished by North Atlantic Books in 2004. published in the Spring 2006 issues of Regina Louise: (‘02): Her memoir, Leena Pendharker (‘04): Her short Tim Wendel (‘06): See Writers Workshop Brevity and River Teeth . www.lyndars.com Somebody’s Someone, was published by film, This Moment, screened at a number Participant News . Warner Books in 2003. Staff member Ca- of festivals from the Hamptons to Ojai, Rebecca Sanders (‘96): She has written Tracy Wheeler (‘02, ‘04): She and Owen mille Thomasson wrote the screenplay including the Diaspora Festival of Black scripts for two independent features, Cult Prell have joined together under Story for the Lifetime Television adaptation of and Independent Film at UNC-Chapel Hill. (2000) and Love (2004). She currently has Hawk Productions to produce Tracy’s Somebody’s Someone, which is currently Currently she is in preproduction for her a script, Esther, optioned by Omar Kacz- screenplay, Improvising Desire . They are in in production. In 2004 her long-lost friend, feature film, Raspberry Magic . marczk’s OK Company, Los Angeles. She is negotiations with Lars Von Trier’s produc- Jeannie Kerr, who was a young counselor currently co-producing a feature filmShan - tion company, Zentropa, to form a Danish/ at the Contra Costa children’s shelter Owen Prell (‘02/’03): He and Tracy ti (peace in Hindi), for Smera Pro,ductions, Wheeler have joined together under Story American partnership for the production. where Regina lived as a teen, adopted her. to be filmed in India this year. Zentropa is in the process of attaching a She was appointed National Spokesperson Hawk Productions to produce Tracy’s Lisanne Sartor (‘00): She recently sold Danish director to the project while Story for Foster Care Awareness Month (May). screenplay, Improvising Desire. They are in her screenplay, Cleaverville, to Lifetime, Hawk begins to raise the American portion Her one- woman show will premiere in negotiations with Lars Von Trier’s produc- which will be shooting in December. of the budget. May 2007 with the Sacramento Theatre tion company, Zentropa, to form a Danish/ Company. www.reginalouise.com American partnership for the production. Michael Schulman (‘05): See Participant Myrton Running Wolf (‘03): He has Zentropa is in the process of attaching a Profile page 33. been working for PBS in the research Moses Ma (‘06): He has founded Little Danish director to the project while Story department on a five-part series on the Joni Sensel (‘94): She won a grant to cre- Taoist Films to produce independent Hawk begins to raise the American portion history of the American Indian, We Shall ate a small press which has now published films. His most recent film isThe Feynman of the budget. Remain, due to be broadcast in the spring Lectures . two childrens picture books, one of which of 2008. He completed a stage play about Richard Raucci (‘03): He has finished his won a 2001 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Anne Makepeace (‘90): She won a na- the Carlisle Indian School which is being fourth feature script this year, and is cur- Book Honor. She sold a middle-grade nov- tional primetime Emmy Award in 2003 considered by UCLA Live!, the Joseph Papp rently working with a producer, formerly el and a young-adult novel to Henry Holt. for her American Masters documentary, Public Theater, and the Banff Performing with CAA and SONY Pictures, to get one or The first (which she wrote first as a screen- Robert Capa in Love and War . Her previ- Arts Center. more of his scripts produced . play) will be released next spring; the sec- ous film, Coming to Light, also broadcast ond, will be published in Spring 2008. Indi Zeleny (‘00): She compiled and ed- on American Masters, was short-listed for Kimberly Reed (‘06): Her documentary, ited the nonfiction book Herstory: What I the feature documentary Oscar. She has Prodigal Sons, is in postproduction and Amy Tan (‘90): See Writers Workshop Learned in My Bathtub . . and More True just finishedRain in a Dry Land, a feature she plans to shoot her narrative feature, Staff News . Stories on Life, Love, and Other Inconve- documentary on Somali Bantu refugees in Please Check One, late in 2007. Andrew Tonkovich (‘96): See Writers niences (Adams Media, 2005). She recently America that won the Full Frame Working Matthew Riutta (‘06): His short film, Workshops Staff News. published stories in Horse Crazy (Adams Films award last month, and will be broad- Media, 2006) and Letters to My Teacher Dress Up, was screened at the 2006 India- Mabel Valdiviezo (‘05): Her short film, cast on the PBS’s P.O.V. series in 2007. (Adams Media, 2006), and is currently napolis Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. He is Soledad Is Gone Forever, will be included compiling and editing the forthcoming Aparna Malladi (‘06): She plans to go looking for a producer for his current film, in the International Latino Film Festival in nonfiction book, The I Have a Life Guide into production with Hanglider in 2007 . Just Wanabe, which he plans to direct. San Francisco. She has also been nomi- to Baby’s 1st Year (Adams Media, Decem- nated for the Emerging Latino Filmmakers Robert McEwen (‘04): He has accepted David Rouda (‘04): Two of his plays, ber 2006). an invitation as resident playwright at Chi- Sperm Warfare and Pomp and Circum- Award. cago Dramatists. Collaboration Theatre stance, premiered at the Shelton Theater

~ 31~ ~ 32~ Participant Profile: Moshe (Michael) Schulman f a l l 2 0 0 6 available now oshe Schulman attended the the word and Screenwriting Program at has stirred dis- the Community of Writers in cussion among M Review 2005. While still in high school, he teachers and completed a documentary entitled students at The N Word, which explores the use his school. In Fictions & Essays of the racial epithet. The film won for an interview George Ducker best documentary at the 2006 Tartan with Joelle Leslie Daniels Road Student Film Festival and was Asaro Berman, also an official selection of the 2006 Schulman says Jonathan Cohen San Francisco Black Film Festival and of the film, “I Gregory Spatz the Rockland Film Festival. am interested in race issues and cul- ture issues. I am a big advocate for Jenn Scott Schulman started out attending diversity and integration amongst all Kenneth Calhoun a tiny Orthodox Jewish high school cultures and all religions. The experi- Peter La Salle ONICA of fifty students, all male. When he ence of making this film made me re- transferred to a large public school of alize I could address issues through a Stephanie Dickinson

2,000, in which 85% of the students documentary and inspire thought.” Kenneth Siewert M are minorities, he found himself delv- Cris Mazza ing into issues of culture and identity. Schulman is now 19 years old and He is currently writing a screenplay has been a film major at Five Towns Colin Dickey based on his experience of switching College, now looking to transfer. He Vicki Forman schools entitled Culture Shock . has created a second documentary, Without A Voice—The Hidden Epi- He was spurred to investigate the demic of Sexual Abuse in the Jewish controversial use of “the N word” af- Community, exploring sexual abuse ter hearing it in Yeshivas and the orthodox reli-

used so much gious community. Other screenplays ANTA among his include The Bird and The Fish, Gen- Cover: Deborah Davidson,

African-Ameri- tle Waves into Oblivion, The Path of S can peers as a The Righteous, and Dr . Lawton . His “You Are What You Think You Are.” positive term. book, My Broken Silence (iUniverse, The film -ex 2005), features original poetry on poli- plores a range tics, religion, divorce, and culture shock, $7 copy / $12 yr. subscription of reactions and is available at www.barnesand- SM Review / Santa Monica College and opinions noble.com. Visit his blog at www. 1900 Pico Boulevard / Santa Monica, CA 90405 to the use of michaelschulman.blogspot.com. www.smc.edu/sm_review

~ 33~ ~ 34~ Published Alumni Reading Series AND IN 2006 our Published Alumna were Chris- tina Adams (’00) who read from her memoir, A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention and ften referred to as the “this could be you” reading, Recovery, (Berkley Books); Michael Lavigne (‘01) the Community of Writers has welcomed some read from his fi rst novel, Not Me, (Random House), Oremarkable writers back to Squaw Valley for the which is currently being translated into three lan- Published Alumni Reading Series. Each summer, recently guages; David Lincoln read from his novel, Mobil- published alumni are invited to return to Squaw Valley to ity Lounge, (Spuyten Duyvil); Lee Montgomery read from their books and talk about their journey from (‘99) read from her memoir, The Things Between Us, unpublished writers to published authors. The Communi- (Free Press); Katia Noyes (‘99, ‘01) read from her ty of Writers is delighted to celebrate the success of these fi rst novel, Crashing America (Alyson Publications), writers and to present them to the participants, staff, and which was a Book Sense Notable book in 2005. Kris the public. Saknussem (‘01) read from his fi rst novel, Zanes- ville (Villard). IN 2004, we were joined by Meg Waite Clayton (’00) who read from her fi rst novel, The Language of Light, (St. Martin’s Press); Suzanne Greenberg (‘99) whose read from the 2003 Drue Heinz Literature Prize- winning Speed-Walk and Other Stories (U. of Pittsburgh Press); Michael Jaime-Becerra (‘99,‘02) read from his collection, Every Night Is Ladies’ Night, (Rayo/ HarperCol- lins in 2003); Elizabeth Kadetsky (‘97) read from her memoir, First There Is a Mountain, (Little Brown); and Mary Helen LaGasse (‘97) read from her fi rst novel, The Fifth Sun (Curbstone Press) which won the 2003 Miguel Marmol Latina First Fiction Award.

IN 2005, were visited by another group of fi ne writ- ers. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrom (’02) read from This Life She’s Chosen: Stories (Chronicle Books); Kristin Ohlson (’88,’92) read from her memoir Stalking the Divine (Theia/Hyperion). She won the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Nonfi ction Award; Jordan Fisher Smith read and talked about the writing of his nature writing book, Nature Noir: A Park Ranger’s Patrol in the Sierra, (Houghton Miffl in); Brenda Rickman Vantrease read from her novel, The Illumi- nator, (St. Martin’s) which has been trans- lated into 10 foreign languages.

Photo of Jordan Fisher-Smith by Jim Herrington; Lee Montgomery photo by Kristina Wright ~ 35~ ~ 36~ Coming summer 2007 from Chronicle Books ZNe Of_Q Writers Workshop in a Book: ZVPUNRY PUNO\[ The Squaw Valley Community of Writers NYN[ PURb`R on the Art of Fiction ZN_X PUVYQ_R`` Introduction by Richard Ford; Edited by Alan Cheuse and Lisa Alvarez WN[Ra SVaPU From the Introduction by Richard Ford: or almost forty years now the Squaw outs see that their dream of writing was Yf[[ S_RRQ Valley Community of Writers has been possibly a mistake, or was at least unfairly ExpEriEncE thE Fdoing its best to expose its students optimistic, and can then go home to Palos _VPUN_Q S\_Q to the wonder that is or can reside in excel- Verdes or Baton Rouge happy not to have Squaw Valley lent writing, by employing the talents, the to fret about it anymore. Or else they don’t \NXYRf UNYY belief, and the experience of a mostly good- do that. Or else they go home and write a writerS willed contingent of writer-practitioners of wonderful novel or a story collection that whom I’ve been one, having first been a proves us all wrong, proves that wonder workShopS `N[Q` UNYY student there myself in the late 1960s. It’s can’t be taught but also not discouraged. very likely that by our “teachings” we have And then all of us who were the teachers ...in a book! WNZR` U\b`a\[ satisfied O’Connor’s dictum by discourag- can quietly take satisfaction that we “had a ing more than we’ve encouraged. There’s hand” in another writer’s early success. QVN[R W\U[`\[ no reason, after all, that any generation I once sat out on a sun-shot deck of an should ever produce a lot of good writ- August morning, going carefully through Y\bV` O W\[R` ers. Apart from native talent always being some extraordinary pieces of narrative sub- A compilation of advice in short supply, writing well can seem like mitted to me by a young Amy Tan. To my and wisdom from the N[[R YNZ\aa hard work and be solitary, and plenty of credit I saw the vivid genius in these pieces. people who start out thinking writing’s a But I could see no way that they could be prestigious Squaw Valley W\N[[R ZR`PUR_f good idea don’t want to take things that made into anything but vivid pieces. Per- community of writers. far. Life also throws impediments in the haps the writer, I said sagely, should think `N[Q_N `P\SVRYQ way like a wedding guest tossing rice. You of these as evidence of genuine talent, but get sick, divorced, go broke, turn to booze that since they didn’t “hang together,” set- _\OR_a `a\[R or drugs or both or worse. You get a bet- ting them aside and commencing some- writers workshop ter deal from the advertising agency or the thing more obviously cohesive might be NZf aN[ law firm. You have a bunch of screaming the thing to do. Don’t get stuck, I said, on in a book kids. You die before your opus is finished. what are just bits of good writing and ex- The Squaw Valley Community NY f\b[T I could go on. And most people who sur- pend time trying to make them fit together of Writers on the Art of Fiction vive these natural pitfalls—including having when they probably won’t. Amy, whose Edited by Alan Cheuse & Lisa Alvarez some talent—still turn out not to be very essay appears in this volume, was very ap- Introduction by Richard Ford good writers and never will be for some preciative and quite polite, as I remember. reason known only to God. And by various I was very admiring of her nascent talents, coming summer 2007 to bookstores To pre-order this book at a gentle means we writer-practitioners have wished her well with her work, and then everywhere. discounted rate, click here: accepted the challenge of explaining and went on my way. When I next saw those www.amazon.com sometimes even personally demonstrating promising pieces of vivid writing they were this lack of worthiness, or just lack of good magically interlocked into The Joy Luck fortune, in workshops, in conferences, in Club . And that’s all I need to say about that ChRonICLEbookS.Com letters, in essays, in lectures—all of which display of wonderment in its struggle with may be thought of as forms of teaching. the teaching arts . After which these once-hopeful writer try- To pre-order this book: www.amazon.com

~ 37~ ~ 38~ THE SCENE BOOK A Primer for New books from the Fiction Writer Squaw Valley writers published by KNOPF The Follies set the stage for success!

or those who might be tempted to discount Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie the inestimable value of the Follies, the tal- Her latest novel is Half of a Yellow Sun Fent show night that closes the weeklong Writers Workshop at Squaw Valley, read on! Wendy Tokunaga and Mary Mitchell met as room- Bill Barich mates in 2001 at the Squaw Valley Community of Levittown Boy, a memoir, will be published Writers conference. Both had been struggling for several years to see their novels published but with “Demystifying that grand process in the Spring of 2008 no success. The two women (Mary from Boston we call writing will give you a and Wendy from San Francisco) not only became Jennifer Egan greater sense of control over your fast friends but discovered their mutual talent and work.” From the introduction. interest in singing. With fellow participants Ariane Her latest novel is The Keep Simard and Sara Robinson they decided to form A fundamental guide to the basic the Novelettes singing group to perform at the building block of narrative. For Follies. The group brought the house down with Richard Ford their version of “Mr. Agent” sung to the tune of beginners and seasoned writers The Lay of the Land, the final novel in the “Mr. Sandman.” Mary and Wendy had such a great working individually or in groups. Frank Bascombe trilogy experience at Squaw that they signed up for the Includes selections from contem- conference the following year and also performed porary literature, exercises, and in an encore appearance by the Novelettes. James D. Houston templates for studying stories. Mary Mitchell writes, “Despite living on separate Bird of Another Heaven will be published in March 2007 $14 Forthcoming from coasts, we have stayed close and supportive of PENGUIN BOOKS in April. each other through the rough seas of rejected Sharon Olds manuscripts, agents who dropped us, etc., etc. Now we’ve had the wonderful tandem experience Sandra Scofield is the author A collection of poems, Strike Sparks, of eight books. She is a popular of both being picked up by St. Martin’s Press with is available in paperback workshop leader and is on the two-book contracts! We are so grateful to Squaw faculty of Pine Manor College and for helping us believe in ourselves and improve Seattle Pacific University’s MFA our craft, and for affording us the opportunity to www.aaknopf.com programs. make lifelong friends.” www.sandrascofield.com

~ 39~ ~ 40~ an article in The New York Times; and is a five Women Over Forty Doubleday,( 2006). frequent contributor to Poets & Writers, as She will have essays published in the War- well as having published dozens of fiction ner Books anthology, The Other Woman, reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Washing- in Spring/Summer, 2007 and in the anthol- ton Post, Chicago Tribune, East Hampton ogy, Becoming American: Personal Essays Writers Workshop Star and others. She was a fellow at the by First Generation Immigrant Women Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in (Seven Stories) in Spring, 2007. Her sto- taff ews November/December 2005. She is a con- ry, “Ma: a Memoir,” will be performed at S N tributor to the NBCC blog, Critical Mass, Symphony Space, , on 24th Will Allison: Free Press, an imprint of Max Byrd: His most recent novel, Shooting http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com. January, 2007. She was a guest writer at Simon & Schuster, will publish his novel, the Sun, was published by Bantam in 2004. Leslie Daniels: After nearly two decades the Sydney Writers’ Festival (Australia) in What You Have Left, in June 2007. His in the publishing business, she opened her May and at the Prague Summer Program : He edited The Best in July of this year, and in September and short story, “What You Have Left,” which American Short Stories 2005, published own literary agency in 2006, Daniels Books, LLC. In the prior year, she took over as October, she was a guest at the House of originally appeared in One Story, was cited by Houghton Mifflin. The Escapists, a six- fiction editor of The Green Mountains Literature on the island of Paros, Greece. among the “100 Other Distinguished Sto- issue limited series from Dark Horse Com- Review . Her stories have appeared most ries of 2004” in The Best American Short ics, which is a spin-off of The Amazing Molly Giles: She has published fiction in recently in The Santa Monica Review and Stories 2005 (Houghton Mifflin; Michael Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, debuted The Southern Review, Summer 2006. Chabon, editor). “Atlas Towing,” which in the anthology, The Way We Knew It . summer, 2006. His newest novel, The Yid- Glen David Gold: His story, “The Tears originally appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, dish Policemen’s Union, will be published Gill Dennis: With James Mangold he received a special mention in the 2006 of Squonk,” appeared in The Better of Mc- by HarperCollins in 2007. Michael Chabon wrote the screenplay, Walk the Line, based Sweeney’s, Volume 1, November 2005. Pushcart Prize. Stories are forthcoming or also writes a regular column for the maga- on the early days of Johnny Cash. James recently released in The Cincinnati Review zine Details . Mangold directed the feature film, released Judith Grossman: Her essay, “The Craft and Glimmer Train . www.willallison.com by Twentieth Century Fox in 2005. Lecture,” was published in the September Alan Cheuse: He has four new short 2006 issue of AWP’s Writer’s Chronicle . Lisa Alvarez: An excerpt from Lisa Alva- stories forthcoming, one each in Prai- Janet Fitch: Her new novel, Paint It rez’s novel, A Wise Child, will appear next rie Schooner, New Letters, The Antioch Black, was published by Little, Brown in Oakley Hall: His most recent novel, Love year in the Bilingual Press anthology, Lati- Review, and Ploughshares, and an essay September 2006. and War in California, will be published nos in Lotusland. With Alan Cheuse, she is on rereading A Portrait of the Artist as Richard Ford: His new novel, The Lay of by Thomas Dunne Books in April 2007. co-editing a collection of essays on writing a Young Man in the Fall issue of The Se- His novel Warlock has been republished by Community of Writers staff which will the Land, was published by Knopf in Octo- wanee Review. He was recently published ber 2006 and was chosen by The New York in the New York Review of Books Classics be published by Chronicle Books in 2007. in the The Santa Monica Review . The Novels series. In 2004 he was awarded the She writes a regular column about parent- Times Book Review as one of the “Ten Best Fires, a pair of his novellas, will appear in Books of 2006.” Poets and Writers Magazine Writers For ing her son in OC Family . September 2007 . Writers Award. Karen Joy Fowler: Her latest novel, The Bill Barich: Knopf published A Fine Place Mark Childress: His latest novel, One Jane Austen Book Club, was published by Sands Hall: Tools of the Writer’s Craft was to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and Mississippi, was published by Little, Putnam in 2004. Her new story, “What I published by Moving Finger Press in 2006. The Irish in March 2006, and will publish Brown in 2006. It was a summer reading Didn’t See,” can be read at www.scifi.com. “The Literary Life of Mary Hallock Foote” Levittown Boy, a memoir, in 2007. list selection of Good Morning America, was the cover story of the Winter/Spring Lynn Freed: The paperback of her book, Clark Blaise: His new collection of stories, People Magazine, Entertainment Week- issue of the California State Library Foun- Reading, Writing & Leaving Home was World Body, was published by Porcupine’s ly, The Los Angeles Times, O: The Oprah dation Bulletin. 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~ 45~ ~ 46~ Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer will story “Forks” appears in the Santa Monca Putnam in 2005; her memoir, The Opposite tributor, won a City of Los Angeles grant. be published by Penguin in March 2007. Review, Fall 2006. of Fate, appeared in 2003 . Katherine Vaz: The Aliform paperback Alice Sebold: The paperback reprint edi- Rob Spillman: He is the editor of Tin Jervey Tervalon: His novel, Lita, was reprint of her novel, Marianne, appeared tion of her New York Times bestselling House magazine, which has been honored published by Washington Square Press in 2004 . novel, The Lovely Bones, was published by in Best American Stories, Best American in 2004. With Gary Phillips, he co-edited Ayelet Waldman: Her novel, Love and Back Bay Books in 2004. Little, Brown & Essays, Best American Poetry, O’Henry the fiction anthology, Cocaine Chronicles Other Impossible Pursuits, was published Co. published the hardcover. Prize Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology (Akashic Books, 2005), which includes a by Doubleday in 2006; the paperback Martin J. Smith: In 2006 Harper Collins and numerous other anthologies. He is also story of his. Currently, he is Writer-In-Resi- will appear in February 2007. Her newest published his non-fiction book, OOPS: 20 the Executive Editor of Tin House Books. dence at Pitzer College and is a California Mommy-Track Mystery, Bye-Bye, Black Life Lessons From the Fiascoes that Shaped In 2003 Bloomsbury USA published Bestial Arts Council Fellow. Sheep, will be published by Berkley in Au- America, co-written with Patrick J. Kiger. Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader . Andrew Tonkovich: His work has ap- gust 2006. They also co-wrote POPLORICA: A Popular Anthony Swofford: Jarhead, his memoir peared recently in the Los Angeles Times Rick Wartzman: He co-authored, with History of Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, of his time as a marine in the Gulf War, was and on the website Common Dreams Mark Arax, The King of California: J .G . and Lore That Shaped Modern America, published in 2003 by Scribner. It became (www.commondreams.org). An excerpt Boswell and the Making of a Secret Ameri- released by HarperResource in 2004. a New York Times bestseller and was made from his novel, Being Mr . Right, appears can Empire (Public Affairs Press, 2003). in an upcoming issue of Green Mountains Dava Sobel: Her novel, Planets, was pub- into a major motion picture. His new nov- He was appointed editor of the Los Angeles Review . He is the editor of the Santa Mon- lished by Viking in 2005. el, Exit A, was published in January 2007 Times Magazine in 2005, re-launching it as (Scribner). ica Review, now available for purchase on- West in 2006. Gregory Spatz: His novel, Fiddler’s line at www.smc.edu/sm_review. Frequent Dream, was published in April 2006 by Amy Tan: Her most recent novel, Saving contributor Gary Amdahl won the Milk- Al Young: His new collection of poems, Southern Methodist University Press. His Fish from Drowning, was published by weed Prize for a collection of short stories, Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons, Visigoth, many of which first appeared in will be published in November 2007. SMR. Diane Lefer, another frequent con- Fiddler’s Dream by Gregory Spatz

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~ 49~ ~ 50~ Years of Solitude and Allende’s House of in philosophy, of course: swerves and up- Spirits . It seemed to me that their writing heavals in religion and science and psychol- THE COLONIAL THEORY OF mirrored their cultural understandings, as ogy and politics. Now America has become Britain’s did theirs, and America’s theirs. its own colonizing force in the world. Has POINT OF VIEW This limited and highly-subjective dis- this contributed to the emphasis and ex- cussion does not include the many other ploration we see of the omniscient point cultures whose people came to America, of view by our own native writers? We have except to say that at first, for the most part, now become the “top” of the world. (And Sands Hall they strove for assimilation: Let my voice although we seem to have an appreciation be yours; and in that effort perhaps their for, or at least grant respect to, the perspec- nce upon a time . . perspective became almost atavistic, bred writers did not immediately strive for a tives of others, is it only “pretty to think It has often occurred to in the bone as it were, and made its way, larger perspective, nor a unique one. In so”?) In any case, in my reading in the last Ome that British writers, both as often as not humorously, into the per- this America became not so much a melt- decade, I have noticed many more writ- canonical and contemporary, seem to have spectives of their novels, as when Dickens ing pot but a sort of stir-fry: a coming to- ers playing with omniscient perspectives. an especial ability with the omniscient avows, “It was the best of times, it was the gether while maintaining discrete forms This may merely mirror my own interests perspective: Fielding, Dickens, and Aus- worst of times...” and Austen proposes and taste. Only gradually, in the twentieth and abilities to perceive point of view. And ten; Forster, Woolf, and Waugh; Byatt and that “It is a truth universally acknowledged century, did this begin to announce itself there are no doubt myriad explanations Barker. In contrast, American writers (and I that a single man in possession of a good in voices, female and other-cultural, relat- besides this limited and mostly-amusing classify the expatriate Henry James as more fortune must be in search of a wife...” and ing their views of the American experi- notion. But there you have it: the Colonial English than American) seem to have early Galsworthy maintains that “Those privi- ence. Tan, Morrison, Ehrlich, Lahiri and Theory of Point of View. on developed an affinity for the narrower leged to be present at a family festival of so many others . —Excerpted from Tools of the Writers perspectives of first person or close third, the Forsytes have seen that charming and And all of this also has to do with shifts Craft (Moving Finger Press, 2005) although these narrators may emerge onto instructive sight—an upper middle class the page in highly diverse ways: Melville’s family in full plumage...” “Call me Ishmael”; Twain’s “You don’t Early settlers of America were usually know about me without you have read...”; looking for some form of disconnection— OUR SCHOLARSHIP FUND NEEDS YOUR HELP Faulkner’s “Through the fence, between moving away from a mother country, or the curling flower spaces, I could see them The Community of Writers awards full and partial tuition waivers to talented writers out to unsettled land, seeking opportuni- and poets. These scholarships increase the cultural diversity of the workshops and hitting.” ties to make a new life, an individual mark, Perhaps England’s writers were re- allow talented writers to participate who would otherwise not be able to attend. Please far from the collective empires they’d join our friends and former participants and staff in donating what you can. sponding to the notion that “Britannia left. While Wharton and other American Rules the Waves”; after all, during the six-, authors may have employed the vast per- You may direct your tax-deductible contribution to the program of your choice. seven-, eight-, and nineteenth centuries, spectives of their peers across the Atlantic Britain colonized the world. 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~ 51~ ~ 52~ TOOOLSOLS OF THE Participant Profile: WRRITER’SITER’S CRRAFTAFT Chimamanda Ngozi EDITED BY STEVE SUSOYEV AND GEORGE BIRIMISA Adichie A treasury of revolutionary plays from the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway, introduced by memoirs from such pioneers as Edward Albee, Sam Shepard and Jeff Weiss, plus dozens of himamanda Ngozi Adichie, who The story takes place before and during archival photos attended the Writers Workshop the Biafran War. Publishers Weekly “This Ground Zero of the 1960s was a Cin 2002, was born in Nigeria in called it “a transcendent novel of many coffee-house, a theatre, a co-op 1977. She moved to the United States descriptive triumphs.” brothel, a temple, a flophouse, a dope-ring, a launching-pad, an insane to attend college, graduating summa asylum, a safe-house, and a sleeper cum laude from Eastern Connecticut Adichie displays not only a keen aware- cell for an unnamed revolution” State with a major in Communication ness of the importance of ethnicity in Robert Patrick, and a minor in Political Science. She Nigeria but also, especially in her later SAANDSNDS HAALLLL author of Kennedy’s Children from his Introductory Memoir holds a Masters degree in Creative fiction, of the hardship often endured Writing from Johns Hopkins. by Nigerian immigrants in the United States and in England. Of her work, By the time she was 21, Adichie had al- Adichie says, “I don’t think that all writ- ready published a collection of poems, ers should have political roles, but I Decisions (1998), and a play, For Love do think that I, as a person who writes of Biafra (1998). In the latter work, realist fiction set in Africa, almost au- she recounts the painful experiences tomatically have a political role. In a of a young Igbo woman, Adaobi, and place of scarce resources made scarcer her family, right before and during the by artificial means, life is always politi- Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s. cal. In writing about that life, you as- sume a political role.” During her senior year at Eastern Con- necticut State, she started working on Her short fiction has appeared in her first novel,Purple Hibiscus (Algon- Granta, Prospect, and The Iowa Re- “Reading this book is like learning quin, 2003). Set against the background view, among other literary journals, how a juggler juggles. It will be invaluable for writers new and of the political turmoil of the late 1990s and she received an O. Henry Prize old, and for anyone giving or H.M. Koutoukas’s in Nigeria, the story centres on Kambili in 2003. She was a 2005-2006 Hodder Medea of the Laundromat taking a writing workshop.” Starring Charles Stanley as Medea Achike, a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl, Fellow at Princeton, where she taught and Pat Holland as the Nurse (1965) and her family. The book has received Introductory Fiction. An article of hers Lynn Freed, author of Photomontage by James D. Gossage wide critical acclaim: it was shortlisted appeared in the June 12, 2006 issue The Curse of the Appropriate Man One of 22 plays included in the collection for the Orange Fiction Prize (2004) and of The New Yorker . She is presently was awarded the Commonwealth Writ- pursuing graduate work in the African ers’ Prize for Best First Book (2005) and Studies program at Yale. She divides the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. her time between the United States Moving Finger Press and Nigeria . Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, www.movingfingerpress.com was published by Knopf in September . www.halfofayellowsun.com

~ 53~ ~ 54~ novel was published in Santa Monica cerpt from his novel-in-progress, appeared Review, Fall 2005. He directs the creative in the May/June 2006 issue of Narrative writing program at University of Redlands. Magazine . www.narrativemagazine.com Linda Blachman (‘02): Her first book, Max Byrd (‘69,’70): See Writers Work- Another Morning: Voices of Truth and shop Staff News Hope from Mothers with Cancer, was pub- Kenneth Calhoun (‘00,‘01): His story, lished by Seal Press/Avalon in February “Voice on a Spool,” won the 2005 Italo 2006. In honor of her decade of work as Calvino Prize. His short story “Toast” ap- Writers Workshop founder and director of the Mothers’ Living peared in Fall 2006 Santa Monica Review . Stories Project, Blachman was nominated www.kennethcalhoun.com for the 2005 Peter E. Haas Public Service Participant News Award by the UC-Berkeley School of Public Aneesha Capur (‘05): Her short story, Health. www.lindablachman.com “Lion’s Teeth,” won the The Big Ugly Re- view fiction contest. Eve Abrams (‘05): Her poem, “Things www.leaaschkenas.com Elise Blackwell (‘88,‘90): She has two I Love New Orleans,” appeared in Clamor Judy B. (‘00): Her fiction collection, Sto- novels forthcoming in 2007: The Unnatu- Mauro Javier Cardenas (‘02): His story, Magazine in January/February 2006. Her ries for Airports, was published in 2005 by ral History of Cypress Parish, due out in “Our Baby Christ: Ecuador, 1987,” was pub- short story, “Fork in the Road,” was pub- Onze/11 www.onzeproductions.com. One May, and Grub. Recent stories have ap- lished in the Fall 2006 issue of The Antioch lished in SmokeLong Quarterly Journal of the stories from this collection, “Inter- peared in Witness, Quick Fiction, Seed, Review . www.review.antioch.edu in December 2005. StorySouth Magazine national Arrivals,” was a finalist for a 2004 and Global City Review . Tom Casey (‘93): His novel, Stranger’s published her essay, “What Has Happened Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award. Carroll Parrott Blue (‘01): See Screen- Gate, was published by Forge Books in to Charmaine?,” in Fall 2005. 2006. www.tomcaseywriter.com David Bajo (‘87,’88): His novel, The 351 writing Participant News Christina Adams (‘00): Her memoir, A Books of Irma Arcuri, is forthcoming from John Brantingham (‘03): He has had Tavia Cathcart (‘96, Naturalist ‘97- Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early In- Viking and in several translations. Stories in two poetry chapbooks published, and ’99): Her field guide, Wildflowers of Ten- tervention and Recovery, was published by the Cimarron Review (Pushcart nomina- dozens of stories and poems in magazines. nessee, the Ohio Valley, and Southern Ap- Berkley Books in 2006. She is a commenta- tion), Zzyvvaa, The Sun, and elsewhere. Garrison Keillor read one of his poems on palachians, was published by Lone Pine tor for National Public Radio. Her work has his daily show on NPR, and he was nomi- Publishing, 2005. appeared in the Los Angeles Times Maga- Jacqueline Bautista (‘93,‘94): Her col- nated for a Pushcart Prize for this year. Michael Chabon (‘86,‘87): See Writers zine, Brain Child Magazine, Kaleidoscope, lection of short stories, Fiestas, won the Workshop Staff News and Appalachian Heritage, among others. George Garrett Fiction Prize for 2005 and James Brown (‘85,’86): See Writers www christinaadamswriter. com. was published late 2006 by Texas Review Workshop Staff News Anne Chadwick (‘02,‘04): Her book Press . Carl Brush (‘02, ‘04): His Flash fiction of nature photography and essays of the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (‘02): See Pacific Coast, Pacific in My Soul, was Participant Profile page 54. Aimee Bender (‘97,’99): Her most re- pieces were published this last year in The cent book, Willful Creature: Stories, was Summerset Review and on Flashfiction.net published by Cypress House in 2005. Lisa Alvarez (‘93,‘95): See Writers Work- published by Doubleday in 2005; the pa- (which also published it on coffee mugs). www.annechadwick.com shop Staff News perback appeared in August 2006. Her Another Flash fiction piece appeared in Julie Chibbaro (‘99,‘01): Her novel, Anita Amirrezvani (‘01): Her novel, The work appears in the anthology The Secret the June 2006 issue of Right Hand Point- Redemption, published by Simon & Schus- Blood of Flowers, will be published by Little, Society of Demolition Writers, published ing . www .righthandpointing .com ter in 2004, was a winner of the Ameri- in 2005. www.flammableskirt.com Brown & Co. in June 2007; it has also been Marika Brussel (‘98,‘01): An excerpt can Book Award in 2005, and nominated sold to publishers in 18 other countries. Krista Benjamin (‘03): Her poem “Let- from her novel, The Motion of Memory, re- for a 2007 ABE award (Illinois H.S. Book Award). Her daughter Samsa was born Lea Aschkenas (‘99,‘02): Her first book, ter from My Ancestors” was selected by cently won the Southwest Literary Center’s Guest Editor Billy Collins for inclusion in Discovery Competition, and the Santa Fe on her birthday, March 4, 2005. www.ju- the travel memoir, Es Cuba: Life and Love liechibbaro.com on an Illegal Island, was published by Seal The Best American Poetry, 2006 . She was Reporter’s Fiction contest. Short stories Press in January 2006. An excerpt of it awarded the 2007 Nevada Arts Council Art- published in Bliss, Pointe, and Medics (an Jane Ciabattari (‘77): See Writers Work- will be included in The Best Women’s ist Fellowship. anthology forthcoming 2007). shop Staff News Travel Writing 2006 (Travelers’ Tales). Greg Bills (‘94): A chapter of his new Craig Bueltel (‘99): “Uncle Peter,” an ex- Meg Waite Clayton (‘00): Her first novel,

~ 55~ ~ 56~ The Language of Light (St. Martin’s Press) “The Incident with the Brick,” was pub- in the Houghton Mifflin anthology, The was published University of Iowa Press. was a BookExpo 2004 Emerging Voices lished in the Summer 2006 issue of the Best American Mystery Stories 2003, ed- www.merrillfeitell.com Selection, and a finalist for the Bellwether Dunes Review . ited by Michael Connelly. Rich Ferguson (‘04): Recently released Prize, and has been released in Germany Barbara DeMarco-Barrett (‘92): Her Frances Dinkelspiel (‘03,‘04): Her first a spoken word/music CD entitled Where by Knaur. Her stories and essays have ap- book, Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman’s non-fiction book, Towers of Gold: Isaias I Come From that was produced by Herb peared in Runner’s World, Writer’s Digest, Guide to Igniting the Writer Within, was Hellman and the Creation of California, is Graham Jr. (John Cale, Macy Gray). Tracks and numerous literary magazines, and in published by Harcourt in October of 2004 forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in Spring can be heard at www.myspace.com/rich- the forthcoming Searching for Mary Pop- and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. 2008. Her blog, “Ghost Word,” can be found ferguson and also www.richrant.com. Fergu- pins (Penguin/Hudson Street Press, 2006). She is editor of The ASJA Monthly, the at www.francesdinkelspiel.blogspot.com son will also be a featured performer in the www.megwaiteclayton.com sequel to the cult multimedia sensation, official publication for the American Soci- Jennifer Egan (‘89): Her novel, The One Giant Leap, due out in Spring 2007 . Mark Coggins (‘97,‘00): His third novel, ety of Journalists and Authors, and hosts Keep, was published by Knopf in 2006. Candy from Strangers, was published by Writers on Writing, a weekly radio show www.jenniferegan.com Joshua Ferris (‘03): His book, Then Bleak House Books in September 2006. that airs on KUCI-FM from UC-Irvine. We Came to the End, will be published by Cai Emmons: (‘93,‘94,‘98): The paper- www.immortalgame.com www .writersonwriting .com Little, Brown in March 2007. back of her Kesey Award-winning novel, His Jonathan Cohen (’04): His work has ap- Terry DeHart (‘96,‘01): Her short stories Mother’s Son, was republished by in 2004, Barbara Fischkin (‘95): Her second nov- peared in Santa Monica Review, including have appeared in Vestal Review, Painted by Harvest Books. www.caiemmons.com el and third book, Confidential Sources, a short story, “Marley,” in the Fall issue. He Moon Review, Ink Pot, Smokelong Quar- was published by Bantam Dell in October works as a freelance editor. terly, Opium Magazine, FRiGG Magazine Maria Espinosa (‘93): Her most recent 2006. Target stores has selected it as a and The Barcelona Review . novel, Incognito: Journey of a Secret Bookmarked Breakout Book for Novem- Myfanwy Collins (‘04,’05): Her work is Jew, was published by Wings Press. Ex- published or forthcoming in The Kenyon Olivia Diamond (‘96,‘97): RockWay ber and December. It is a sequel to Ex- cerpts from her forthcoming novel, Dy- clusive: Reporters in Love . . And War, also Review, AGNI, The Cream City Review, Press will publish her poetry collection, ing Unfinished, have been published in Swivel, Lilies and Cannonballs Review Women at the Well, and her novel, Voice published by Bantam Dell in June 2005. Tertulia Magazine (www.tertuliamaga- www.barbarafischkin.com and others. She received 3rd place in the of Stone, in Fall 2006. Conquistadora, the zine.com), and “Rosa in Bloom,” 1957 Night Train Yates Fiction Contest 2005, second in her trilogy, will be published in was published in the September, 2006 Jordan Fisher Smith (‘01): His book, was named a Finalist in The Journal’s 2006 early 2007 by RockWay Press. issue . www .mariaespinosa .com Nature Noir: A Park Ranger’s Patrol in William Allen Creative Nonfiction Contest, Colin Dickey (‘06): His work has ap- the Sierra, published in 2005, became an and long listed for the 2006 Carver Awards. peared in TriQuarterly, The Journal of Alex Espinoza (‘04,’05): See Participant Audubon Magazine Editor’s Choice and www.myfanwycollins.com Aesthetics and Protest, Santa Monica Re- Profile page 75. one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of 2005. This May it was published David Corbett (‘88,‘89,‘91,‘99): See view, and the anthology Northwest Edge . Jack Estes (’98): See Screenwriting Par- Screenwriting Participant News . in paperback by Mariner Books, and was Tyler Dilts (‘00): His story was published ticipant News . selected as a Booksense 2006 summer Steve Creech: (‘00,‘02,‘03,‘05): His Herta B. Feely (‘03): She was awarded reading pick. www.naturenoir.com nonfiction book, Hold Your Water, co- an Artist Fellowship in Literature for 2006 authored by marine-life artist Wyland, was Janet Fitch (‘93): See Writers Workshop by the DC Commission on the Arts & Hu- Staff News published by Andrews McMeel Publishing manities (funded in part by NEA). She also in 2006. received the 2006 James Jones fellowship Brenda Flanagan (‘03): Her stories from Lindsey Crittenden (‘98): Her book, The for her novel The Trials of Serra Blue . the recent collection In Praise of Island Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns Short stories will appear in The Hurri- Women and Other Crimes have been trans- to Pray, will be published by Harmony cane Review and an anthology, Enhanced lated into Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Books, an imprint of Random House in Gravity . Her essay, “A Child’s Christmas,” Richard Ford (‘69,‘70): See Writers spring 2007. An excerpt of this memoir appeared in Issue #41 of The Potomac Workshop Staff News appeared in Best American Spiritual Review . Vicki Forman (‘94): Portions of her Writing 2004 (Houghton Mifflin, 2004). Merrill Feitell (‘93): Her first book, memoir, The Preemie Cantos, which www.lindseycrittenden.com Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won chronicles her experiences giving birth to Catherine Crown (‘03): Her short story, the 2004 Iowa Prize for Short Fiction and two severely disabled children, have ap-

~ 57~ ~ 58~ john J. Gobbell STOP THE A Call to Colors peared in Santa Monica Review . tion of his own novel, Simple Prayers, for Laurie Frankel (‘06): Her book, It’s Not which Martin Scorcese will be Executive PRESSES! “Wonderful… Me . . It’s You!: And Can We Not be Friends?: Producer . a rousing A Modern Girl’s Guide To Breaking Up Andrea Gosline (’04): Her first book, a “Bright, smart, wildly funny, dramatization was published by Sourcebooks Hysteria in young adult novel, Stars on the River, will September 2004. be published by Feiwel & Friends/Holtz- and one of the most touching of history’s greatest sea brinck Publishers in 2008. Scholastic Press novels I’ve ever read.” Aleta George (‘05): Her literary essay, battle.” “Poetry and Politics Undammed,” about will publish her children’s book, January’s —New York Times bestselling Child: The Birthday Month Book, in Janu- —James D. poet activists Gary Snyder and Robert author Luanne Rice ary 2007. Her fourth children’s picture Hornfischer, Hass appeared in Divide: The University of author of The Colorado’s Journal of Ideas, Fall, 2005. “At book, The Hope Tree, will appear in Spring “With the wit and keen Last Stand of the Home with Randall Sexton” was published 2009 . observation of a journalist Tin Can Soliders in the San Francisco Chronicle in April Lisa Gottreich (‘04,‘05): Her short story at the top of her form, “I shall return” is General Douglas 2006, and “Poolside Beauties: The Flower “Ecce Homo” won the The Speakeasy Fischkin takes us to the most MacArthur’s promise to the and the Bee” in the April/June issue of Bay Prize in Prose in 2006, chosen by judge foreign and maddening Filipinos. It will take 165,000 Nature magazine. Jane Hamilton. The story will appear in the country of all: Marriage.” troops and 700 ships in the bloody Sandra Giedeman (‘93,‘95): Recently Spring 2007 issue of The Georgia Review, as Speakeasy has ceased print publication. —Ana Menendez, author of battle of Leyte Gulf to do it. her poems have appeared in Pearl and Speakeasy launched its online magazine 0-89141-890-3 $6.99 California Poetry Quarterly . Her poem Loving Che www.speakeasymagazine.org in October. www.johnjgobbell.com “Spring” was published by the Bellevue Lit- erary Review (NYU School of Medicine). Suzanne Greenberg (‘99): Her collec- Her short stories, “Norco Blues” and “Star- tion of stories, Speed-Walk and Other Sto- dust,” appeared in the Cortland Review ries (University of Pittsburgh Press), won and Prose Toad . She won the Mudfish Po- the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 2003 etry Prize for her poem “L. A. Night” in the and was a finalist for the 2004 Bingham- current issue of Mudfish judged by Charles ton University John Gardner Fiction Book Simic . Award. Her story “Night Shift” appeared Laura Glen (‘87): Her second book, a in West Branch 54, Spring 2004, and her novel, Unsewn, will be published by El story “Shopping for Dad” was published in Léon Literary Arts in 2008. the 2006 Fiction Issue of Pearl . Her essay “An ‘A’ for Effort: Where Does Talent Fit John J. Gobbell (‘89): His sixth novel, in Grading Creative Writing?” appears in The Neptune Strategy, was published by St. Power and Identity in the Creative Writ- Martin’s Press in 2004. A Call to Colors, ing Classroom, edited by Dr. Anna Leahy, was released by Random House/Presidio Multilingual Matters, 2005. Press in 2006. www.johnjgobbell.com Lev Grossman (‘95): His second novel, Glen David Gold (‘96,‘97): See Writers Codex, was published by Harcourt in 2004 Workshop Staff News and became an international bestseller; the Michael Golding (‘90,’93): Francois paperback came out last year. He is Time www.barbarafischkin.comwww.barbarafi schkin.com Girard has been shooting Michael’s adap- Magazine’s book critic and has also written tation of Alessandro Baricco’s novel Silk . articles for the New York Times, Salon, Lin- The film, which stars Keira Knightley, gua Franca, Entertainment Weekly, Time Michael Pitt, and Alfred Molina, will be Out New York and the Village Voice, as released in 2007. He is working on several well as commentaries for NPR’s All Things Available as an eBook www.uapress.com other screenplays, including an adapta- Considered. www.levgrossman.com

~ 59~ ~ 60~ Lara Gularte (‘03, ‘06): See PoetWatch Gina Hyams (‘00): She co-edited the New Releases by Daniel Hallford Lise Haines (‘99): Her second novel, anthology, Searching for Mary Poppins: author of the underground classic Small Acts of Sex and Electricity, was pub- Women Write About the Intense Rela- lished by Unbridled Books in 2006 and was tionship Between Mothers and Nan- Tattooed Love Dogs selected BookSense Pick in September. nies, with Susan Davis; it was published by Hudson Street Press/Penguin USA in Daniel Hallford (‘05): His novel, Peli- October 2006. She published two non- can Bay, was published last year. His fiction books in 2005 with Chronicle A memoir of growing up in a memoir, Upper Noe, appeared in 2006. Books: In a Mexican Garden and Pacific San Francisco neighborhood www.danielhallford.com Spas . www .ginahyams .com as told through the eyes of a Judith Ryan Hendricks (‘97): Her third Buzzy Jackson (‘00): She published an novel, The Baker’s Apprentice (William Mor- essay in the travel writing collection, The young boy. row 2005) was published in trade paperback Risks of Sunbathing Topless: and Other in March 2006. www.judihendricks.com Funny Stories from the Road (Seal Press, “as compelling and important Raelynn Hillhouse (‘97): Her thriller 2005. In 2006 her book, A Bad Woman a reference to a certain place Rift Zone, published by Forge Books, was Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who selected by the American Booksellers’ Sing Them (W.W. Norton, 2005) was pub- and time as any I have ever Association as one of the best books of lished in translation in Spain, Latin Ameri- read...” Leonard Michaels 2004 and by the Library Journal as one of ca, and France. www.buzzyjackson.com the year’s best debuts. In 2006 her short Joanne Jacobs (‘04): Her first book,Our “a lovely study of characters stories will appear in the anthologies School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teach- Thriller (ed. by James Patterson), This ers, One Big Idea and the School That Beat at their most innocent.” is Chick-Lit, and James Bond in the 21st the Odds, was published by Palgrave Mac- Josephine Miles Century . Her next novel, Outsourced, millan in November, 2005. She got married will be published by Forge Books in May in July. www.joannejacobs.com 2007. www.Raelynnhillhouse.com Benjamin Jahn (’02): Short stories pub- Rhoda Huffey (‘90,’98): Her short story lished or forthcoming in The Greensboro “Fever” appeared in Tin House magazine, Review, ZYZZYVA, and McSweeney’s Quar- A dropout from the Aryan Fall 2005. terly . Brotherhood finds his Nicole Hunter (‘02): Her novel, Waiting Michael Jaime-Becerra (‘99,’02): See freedom is no less confining for the World to End, published in 2004 Writers Workshop Staff News won ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the than the walls of Pelican Bay Norman Johnson (‘04,‘05): He was a Year Silver Award and Independent Pub- State Prison. lisher Book Awards’ Honorable Mention fiction editor for theOrange Coast Review for religious fiction in 2005. in 2005. The 2005 issue featured six past fiction participants of the Community of “...a tight lipped noir style Writers . that is violent, messy and not Louis B. Jones (‘83,‘84): See Writers Workshop Staff News politically correct.” Matthew F. Jones (‘90): His sixth novel, Kel Munger, Sacramento Bee Boot Tracks, was published in May, 2006, by Europa Editions. His novel, DeepWa- ter (Bloomsbury, 1999), was made into a movie in 2005, starring Lucas Black, Leslie Anne Warren, and Peter Coyote. It opened Available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com or at your local bookstore.

~ 61~ ~ 62~ in the juried competition at the 2005 Se- Alma M. Katsu (‘03): Her short story, published her short story, “The Parting,” in advertising received the Clio, New York attle Film Festival and was released nation- “Pipefitter’s Union,” was published in En- in Fall 2005. Film Festival, Addy, and Communication ally in late 2006. hanced Gravity, an anthology of short David Kerns, M.D. (‘05): His first Arts awards. stories by Washington, DC women writers, Kathryn Jordan (‘97): Her novel, Hot novel, Standard of Care, is forthcoming Joan S. Lester (‘03): The paperback edi- Paycock Press, in June 2006. Water, was published in January, 2006 by from Sentient Publications in early 2007. tion of her biography of Congresswoman Berkley, A Division of Penguin Group. She Nancy Kelly (‘06): Smitten, which she www.davidkerns.com Eleanor Holmes Norton, Fire In My Soul, writes a monthly column, “Women Chang- wrote, produced and directed, was aired Ruth Kirschner (‘00): Her play “Remem- was issued by Simon and Schuster (Atria, ing The World” for The Desert Woman . nationally on PBS in July 2006. Smitten has ber Me” won a National Women’s Theatre 2004). The book was featured for an entire received the Audience Award for Best Doc- Development Award from the Centenary hour on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Elizabeth Kadetsky (‘97,’04): Her story, umentary from the DC Independent Film Theatre in 2004. Her essay, “What I Wore Margit Liesche (‘03): Her first novel, The Poison that Purifies You, published in Festival, shared the Audience Award at the Waiting for the O’Neill,” won the New Mil- Lipstick and Lies, is forthcoming from the Spring 2003 Gettysburg Review, won Aspen Shortsfest, and received Honorable lenium Writers award in 2004, and most Poisoned Pen Press in April 2007. www. a 2004 Pushcart Prize. First There Is a Mention for Best Short Documentary from recently, her play, “Backlight,” was chosen margitliesche.com Mountain: A Yoga Romance, was pub- the Nashville Film Festival. She is currently for development at The Last Frontier Fes- lished by Little, Brown and Co. in 2004. also producing and directing a documenta- tival in Valdez, Alaska. Ruth also the did David Lincoln (‘98,’99): His novel, www.elizabethkadetsky.typepad.com ry called Moments in Time, in partnership the dramaturgy and voice-over scripting Mobility Lounge, was published by Spuy- Vikram Kapur (‘02): His first book,Time with KRCB Public Television as Executive for documentary film, The Wild Parrots ten Duyvil in May 2005. Recent short fic- Is a Fire, had its second printing in India in Producer . of Telegraph Hill . Her book, Too Stressed tion has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, 2003. His second book, The Wages of Life, Dawn Kemper (‘04,’05): She is editorial to Think? A Teen Guide to Staying Sane and his mixed media essay, “Thing Into Be- was published in 2004. assistant at Santa Monica Review, which When Life Makes Your Crazy, was pub- ing,” was screened at The Lake Forest Liter- lished in 2005. ary Festival, in Chicago, April 2006. www. spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/mobilitylounge.htm James Kohlberg (’03): See Screenwrit- ing Participant News . Mary Helen LaGasse (‘97): Her novel, Mobility Lounge hot water The Fifth Sun, won the 2004 Miguel Marmol by David Lincoln A Novel Award; the Rudolfo Anaya Premio Atzlan Award; the 2005 Independent Publishers Kathryn Jordan Award for Best Multicultural Fiction; was www.kathrynjordancom or hotwaternovel.com a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Berkley / A Division of Penguin Finalist; and a Best Debut Novel of 2004 by New Orleans Times-Picayune . live the ! Dylan Landis (‘01): She won the 2006 Writers at Work Fellowship Competition “Women are like tea bags. They don’t know how strong, they are until they get into hot water.” Eleanor Roosevelt and the 2005 Nelligan Prize for Short Fic- tion . Short stories in or forthcoming in the Colorado Review, the New Orleans Review Mobility Lounge is at heart a “HOT WATER is a rare treat for body, mind and soul — a kind of global love story, a virtual tale and Quarterly West . literary vision quest, rich in spiritual imagery, romantic eroticism, of intersecting strangers who philosophical themes and dialogue.” Michelle Latiolais (‘89): See Writers tumble into connection despite Workshop Staff News themselves. If you buy one book this season for the sheer pleasure of it, I Michael Lavigne (‘01): His first novel, —Catherine Bush recommend HOT WATER. It is unbelievable.” Not Me, was published in 2005 (Random ISBN 0-9720662-5-X $13.00 House), was a Book of the Month Club Michelle Buonfiglio, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, spuytenduyvil.net featured alternate, and is currently being and booksense.com WNBC.com (New York) translated into three languages. His work amazon.com

~ 63~ ~ 64~ Aimee Liu (‘94): She received a Special Meditation (Stone Bridge, 2004). Her book Mention in the 2006 Pushcart Prize for her Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By, is due Lipstick and Lies, by Margit Liesche story “Faith,” published in Other Voices lit- out in paperback in Summer, 2006 (Stone erary magazine. Her work has been anthol- Bridge), and her translations of Ayukawa Pilot and undercover agent, ogized in My California (Angel City Press, Nobuo’s America and Other Poems are Pucci Lewis, did not want to go 2004), Meeting Across the River (Blooms- forthcoming (Kaya Press, 2007). She and bury, 2005), and in Why I’m Still Married her husband Shogo Oketani received the to jail... (Hudson St., 2006). Her nonfiction book, Japan-U.S Friendship Commission Award Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eat- for the Translation of Japanese literature But how else could she unmask an imprisoned ing Disorders, will be published by Warner from for this work. countess-counteragent suspected of triple dealing Books, February, 2007. www.aimeeliu.net Her essay on translation appeared in The and putting our country’s future at risk? Dixon Long (‘94,‘97,‘99,‘00-03,‘05): Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2004). She WWII spy caper Lipstick and Lies pits Pucci His co-authored book, Markets of Paris, will be published by The Little Bookroom, recently published four short stories in against this real-life figure, the one-time head of the publishing arm of New York Review of Wingspan, All Nippon Airways in-flight a Detroit-based German spy ring. Books in Spring 2007. In addition, he has magazine. www.lezalowitz.com published the following stories recently: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum (‘02): She “The Frog,” The Rockford Review, Winter- is the author of This Life She’s Chosen: Hardcover: $24.95 US/ $29.95 Can Spring 2006; “Harry Waiting,” WORDS, May Stories, published by Chronicle Books in Release Date: April 2007 2006; “Weekend in the Luberon” (novella 2005 and selected as a Barnes and Noble ISBN: 1-59058-320-5/ 978-1-59058-320-3 excerpt), ZYZZYVA, Spring 2006; “First Discover Great New Writers title. Her www.margitliesche.com Born,” Fresh Boiled Peanuts, Summer story, The Drowning, published by Willow 2006; and “No Escape,” The Listening Eye, Springs (vol. 56, Fall2005) was nominated Summer 2006 for a Pushcart Prize. Davi Loren (‘96): She is currently editing Kathryn Madison (‘92,‘96): Her novel, the Orange Coast Review, a journal of lit- Woman’s Sigh, Wolf’s Song, was published erature and art that places emphasis on the by Windstorm Creative in February of 2005. interesting ways images and words play off www.kathrynmadison.com each other to enhance the impact of both. Layne Maheu (‘98,‘99): His first novel, Hailed by the OC Weekly as a handsome Song of the Crow, was published by Un- volume featuring refreshingly diverse “An extremely well-edited, handsome little volume.” bridled Books, June 2006.

—Cornel Bonca, OC Weekly Amor photo by Mary stories and expressive art, the Orange Coast Review has published a number of Maile Meloy (‘00): See Writers Work- Squaw Valley participants, including Steve shop Staff News The Orange Coast Review is dedicated to publishing high quality work by Creech, Harriet Rohmer, Douglas Fenn emerging and established writers and artists. Electronic submissions of poetry, Mary Mitchell (‘01,‘02): Her first novel, Wilson, Robert Steven Williams, Thedmo fi ction and narrative nonfi ction are accepted from August—December each year at Starting Out Sideways, will be published [email protected] as Microsoft Word attachments. Include contact information Pink, Norm Johnson and Clare Willis. It is by St. Martin’s Press in May 2007, with a in the body of the email. Contributors receive two copies of the journal. currently seeking poetry, fiction, and nar- second novel to follow in 2008. She and rative non-fiction for its Spring 2007 issue. fellow alumni Wendy Tokunaga met at Sample issues are available for $7 (checks made out to “Orange Coast Review”) Submissions may be sent as Microsoft Word to the address below: Squaw Valley and since then founded the Davi Loren attachmments to [email protected]. singing quartet The Novelettes! The Nov- The Orange Coast Review www.orangecoastreview.com elettes have performed at two writers con- Orange Coast College Regina Louise: (‘02): See Screenwriting ferences . 2701 Fairview Avenue Participant News . Costa Mesa, CA 92628 Lee Montgomery (‘99): Her memoir, Leza Lowitz (‘99): She published Sacred The Things Between Us, was published by www.orangecoastreview.comœÀ>˜}iVœ>ÃÌÀiۈiÜ°Vœ“ Sanskrit Words: For Yoga, Chant and Free Press in August 2006. Recent work

~ 65~ ~ 66~ has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Santa the October 2005 Book Sense Picks List !ÓUif!tnbsuftu-!gvoojftu- Monica Review, Tin House, Black Clock, and earned an Honorable Mention at the and is forthcoming in the anthology The 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book xbsnftu-!boe!nptu!xjdlfe!! Honeymoon Is Over (Warner Books, Feb Awards. pg!bmdpipmjtn!boe!gbnjmz!! 2007). She is presently the editorial direc- Katia Noyes (‘99,‘00): Her first novel, tor of Tin House Books and Executive Edi- Crashing America (Alyson Publications), eztgvodujpo!nfnpjst!up! tor for Tin House . was a Book Sense Notable book in 2005, Beatrice Motamedi (‘04,‘05): Her liter- received nominations for three fiction ! dpnf!bmpoh!jo!nboz!zfbst/ ! ary essay, “When Toys Are Us,” appears in awards (Northern California Book Award, Ô Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writ- Lambda Literary Award, Publishing Trian- ! ÒBouipoz!Txpggpse-!bvuips!pg!Kbsifbe ing By Women of the Iranian Diaspora, gle Award), and was chosen as one of the an anthology published in May 2006 by the Ten Best Gay/Lesbian Books of the Year by Ó!Npwjoh!boe! University of Arkansas Press. Amazon, the UK’s Rainbow Triangle and Nami Mun (‘02): Her story, “On the Libertas. www.crashingamerica.com nfnpsbcmfÊ! Bus,” was published in The Iowa Review, Kem Nunn (’79): See Writers Workshop b!hfofspvt! the Fall 2004 issue. Her story, “Blue Fly,” Staff News . was published in the Winter 2005 Issue of Kristin Ohlson (‘88,‘92): She is the cvu!tujmm! TinHouse Magazine . dmfbs.tjhiufe! author of the nonfiction book, Stalk- Linda Joy Myers (‘95): Don’t Call ing the Divine (Theia/Hyperion, bttfttnfou!pg! Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of 2003; Plume, 2004). She won the pof!gbnjmzÖt! Mother-Daughter Abandonment American Society of Journalists was released by Two Bridges Press and Authors’ Nonfiction Award for tusvhhmft-! in November, 2005. Excerpts from 2004 . Salon included her personal bmpohtjef!uif! the book won the Jack London First essay in a 2003 anthology, Life As dmptfoftt/ Nonfiction Prize and second prize We Know It . Her essay “Big Words Ô at the East of Eden contest . Becom- from BrainChild” was nominated ÒBjnff!Cfoefs-! ing Whole: Writing Your Healing for a Pushcart Prize and listed bvuips!pg!! Story was published by Two Bridges among the notable essays of year Xjmmgvm!Dsfbuvsft Press in July 2006. The short memoir Who in Best American Essays 2005. www.kris- Am I? won first prize for memoir for the tinohlson.com. lifewriting contest from Story Circle Net- Todd Oppenheimer (‘90): His nonfic- ÓBt! !gbtdjobujoh! work. www.memoriesandmemoirs.com tion book, The Flickering Mind, was pub- bt!ju!jt!tbe/Ô Janis Cooke Newman (‘97,‘98,‘01): lished by Random House in 2004. ÒDbspmzo!Tff-! Her novel, Mary, was published in Septem- Liza Palmer (‘04): Her novel, Conversa- bvuips!pg!! ber 2006 by MacAdam/Cage. It was named tions with the Fat Girl, was published in Nbljoh!b!Mjufsbsz!Mjgf a Booksense pick for October. 2005 as the launch for Warner Book’s new Denise Nicholas (‘01): Her first novel, imprint, 5 Spot. www.lizapalmer.com Freshwater Road, was named one of 2005’s Mary Otis (‘00,‘01): She was published Ó!Fwfszpof!xjui!b!ufsnjobmmz!! notable books by Washington Post Book in the 2005 Summer issue of Tin House . jmm!qbsfou!tipvme!sfbe!uijt!! World, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, She has received an honorable mention for tqbsf!bddpvou-!xijdi!jt! New York Newsday, The Detroit Free Press the Pushcart Prize, and Tin House Books and The Chicago Tribune . The American will be publishing her short story collec- ebno!ofbs!qfsgfdu/Ô www.simonsays.com Library Association’s Black Caucus has tion, Pilgrim Girl, in March 2007. She was ÒLjslvt!Sfwjfxt!)tubssfe* named Freshwater Road the winner of its a 2006 runner-up for the H.E. Francis short Best First Novel award. It was included in story award . Bwbjmbcmf!xifsfwfs!cpplt!bsf!tpme/ xxx/tjnpotbzt/dpn ~ 67~ ~ 68~ Steph Paynes (‘01): Her short story, Toe Review, Blue Collar Review, Knock, and her Life in Fashion, Art, and Letters, Mary Lou Schram (‘89,‘01,‘03): Her “The New Nose,” was published by Gar- Pindeldyboz, Runes, Rumble and String- in November 2005. It has also been pub- novel, KLIK, was published online by iUni- goyle, Issue 47. She has momentarily town. He is the editor and publisher of a lished in Ireland and the United Kingdom, verse, Inc. in 2004. swapped her pen for a guitar pick and new journal, The Wandering Hermit Re- New Zealand, and Australia. Lynn Scott (‘01): Her memoir, A Joy- leads the New York City-based band, Lez view, and “would love to see submissions ful Encounter: My Mother, My Alzheimer Zeppelin, an all-girl Led Zeppelin she-in- from Squaw Valley Community folks.” Deborah Dashow Ruth (‘94): See Poet- carnation that has been gaining critical www .wanderinghermit .com Watch . Clients, and Me, was published in 2005. www.lynnscottbooks.com acclaim worldwide for its authentic and Mark Pritchard (‘05): His essay “What Mina Samuels (‘03): Her first novel, impassioned interpretation of Led’s mu- I’m Giving Up” was published in the an- The Queen of Cups, is forthcoming in Alice Sebold (‘96,‘97): See Writers sical zeitgeist. The group was recently thology, Best Sex Writing 2006, published January 2007. She has published new Workshop Staff News featured in a Reuters article that made by Cleis Press in June 2006. memoir and fiction pieces recently in Carla Shapreau(‘05): Her literary essay, the front page of CNN.com and was Alimentum and The French Literary Dina Rabadi (‘03): She was awarded “The Lost Strad,” was published in the described by SPIN as being the most Journal . www.thequeenofcups.com powerful female band in rock history. a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation writing February 12, 2006 issue of the L .A . Times’ www.lezzeppelin.com grant to conduct research for her next Julia Scheeres (‘03): Her memoir, magazine, West . novel in the Middle East, and was awarded Jesus Land, published by Counterpoint Adrienne Sharp (‘88,‘98): Her novel, Todd Pierce (‘04): His book of short a writing residency at the Sitka Center for in October 2005 and Random House UK stories, Newsworld, won the 2006 Drue First Love, was published by Riverhead Art and Ecology. Her manuscript, Mary’s in March 2006, has won two awards—the Heinz Literature Prize, judged by Joan Books in 2005. Wings, was a semi-finalist for the William American Library Association’s Alex Didion, and was published in hardcover Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. Award, and the New Visions Award Gary Short (‘81): See PoetWatch in August 2006 by the University of Pitts- www.dinarabadi.com burgh Press. His co-authored college granted by the Quality Paperback Book Julia Flynn Siler (‘03,‘04): Her first textbook on creative writing, Behind the Mark Rauzon (‘05): His article, “Live Club. www.juliascheeres.com book, House of Mondavi, will be published Short Story, was published in March by Ammo,” was published in the November Longman, a division of Pearson Educa- 2006 Issue of the Los Angeles Times Maga- tion. His first novel,The Australia Stories, zine, West . was re-issued in 2006 as a trade paper- Andrew Roe (‘97,‘03): His fiction has re- KLIK by Mary Lou Peters Schram back by MacAdam/Cage with a new title, cently appeared in One Story, Tin House, A Woman of Stone . He has new work and Glimmer Train, as well as the anthol- WELCOME TO RADIO STATION KLIK recently published or forthcoming in Wil- ogy Where Love Is Found: 24 Tales of Con- low Springs, Puerto del Sol, The Georgia nection, published by Washington Square Life at KLIK is as chaotic as that in other offices. Review, Indiana Review, and other jour- Press/Simon & Schuster. He was also The news director is in a messy divorce. The nals. He was recently hired as an assistant nominated for a Pushcart Prize. bookkeeper is stealing. professor of English at Cal Poly, San Luis Brian Rogers (‘95,‘03): His manuscript, Obispo. www.toddpierce.com That Social Jones, received the 2003 As if this wasn’t trouble enough, it is 1974 and Steve Potter (‘97,‘99,‘02): His writ- Faulkner Society prize for Best Novel in the FCC has decided that broadcasting stations ing has appeared recently in print and Progress, and was a finalist for the 2005 online publications, including Arson, Big Faulkner Society prize for Best Novel. He must give a percentage of the good jobs to was a finalist for the Best Teleplay prize at women. New boss Morgan Hayes soon equates the 2004 Austin Film Festival. running KLIK to riding a runaway horse. Monika Rose (‘00): See PoetWatch “When I closed this “There is fascination and intrigue (as well as book, I wanted Elizabeth Rosner (‘82,‘83,‘87): See just plain sex) along with a news staff too Writers Workshop Staff News. more.” harried to notice.” Penelope Rowlands (‘94): Atria Books, Jane Denison, author of Jim Schock, Broadcast Legends a division of Simon & Schuster published The Mill her book, A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow ISBN: 0-595-31728-6 iUniverse.com www.klikbyschram.com

~ 69~ ~ 70~ by Gotham Books, a Penguin imprint, Fall William Taeusch (‘94,‘97): He pub- Seller, is due from St. Martin’s in 2007. Ellen Weis (‘04,‘05): Berkeley: The Life 2007 . lished a short story, “Jack and Jill: A Re- www.brendarickmanvantrease.com and Spirit of a Remarkable Town, was published by North Atlantic Books in 2004. Dashka Slater (‘05): She is the recipient assessment Using Computer Modeling to Marci Vogel (‘05): Her story, “Go,” was of a 2004 Creative Writing Fellowship from Predict Outcomes,” in Manhattan Liter- published in West magazine; and the manu- Tim Wendel (‘86,‘87,‘88,‘89): See the National Endowment for the Arts. Two ary Review in the Summer, of 2004. His script from which that story was excerpted Screenwriting Participant News . story “Man Crying on a Subway” appeared children’s books, Baby Shoes and Firefight- was a finalist in Quarterly West’s Biennial in Hurricane Review, “Motherstuff” in Robert Steven Williams (‘03,‘04): ers in the Dark, will be published in 2006 Novella Contest and a runner-up for LoFi Epicenter, and “Judy’s Circ” in Southern His short stories have been published in by Bloomsbury Books and Houghton Mif- Press’s Novella Award. An essay, “Where Indiana Review . Orange Coast Review, Carve Magazine, flin, respectively. www.dashkaslater.com Books Were the Bond,” appeared recently and the Canadian anthology Tall Tales, Amy Tan (‘87): See Writers Workshop- in the Los Angeles Times . C. Kevin Smith (‘01,‘02): He was Volume II . His story “The Jersey Cowboy” Staff News . awarded First Prize in the 2004 Short Fic- Mary Volmer (‘03,‘04): Her first novel, was a top-ten placement for the Raymond tion Contest by The Brown Foundation for Jervey Tervalon (‘93,‘94): See Writers Crown of Dust, was published by Harper- Carver short story contest, and he was a his story, “Not the Last of the Mohicans,” Workshop Staff News. Collins UK in January 2006. finalist for his stories “Inheritance” and “A and a 2004 Power of Purpose Award by the Monona Wali (’05): Her short story “Af- Winter’s Day .” His CD, I Am Not My Job, Wendy Tokunaga (’02): Wendy’s first was released in 2005. www.rswmusic.com Templeton Foundation for his story, “The novel, Midori by Moonlight, will be pub- ter” appeared in Santa Monica Review, Fall Stone Bird.” His essay, “Tomato Love,” lished by St. Martin’s Press in January 2008. 2005. Her story, “The Greenest Country,” Waimea Williams (‘88-96,‘05): Her was published in the Summer 2006 issue This is the first novel in a two-book con- appeared in Tiferet: Journal of Spiritual memoir, Aloha, Kaua’i, was published of Alimentum . www.ckevinsmith.com. tract. She and fellow alumnus Mary Mitchell Literature, Spring 2006, and ”The Persian in October 2003 by Island Heritage. Her Garden,” was published in Catarmaran: A first poems appeared in Bamboo Ridge in Martin J. Smith (‘91): See Writers Work- met at Squaw Valley and since then found- Journal of South Asian American Writing, 2004 . shop Staff News ed the singing quartet The Novelettes! The Novelettes have performed at two writers Fall 2006. Ian Randall Wilson (‘04): His stories Dorothy Allred Solomon (‘95): Her conferences. www.wendytokunaga.com Dora Wang (‘00,‘01,‘02,‘04,‘05): Her have appeared in North American Review, memoir, Predators, Prey and Other Kin- memoir, The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychi- The Double Room and Ecletica . He edited folk: Growing Up in Polygamy, was pub- Andrew Tonkovich (‘93,‘95): See Writ- ers Workshop Staff News. atrist’s Story of Changing Times, will be 12 chapbooks for the first Hollyridge Press lished by W.W. Norton. It was awarded published in 2007 by Riverhead Books/ Chapbook Series featuring works from Tony First Prize in the 2004 Willa Award for Lisa Tucker (‘01): Her third novel, Once Penguin Group. Her short story “Monkey Hoagland, Jesse Lee Kercheval and Reginald Memoir/Essay. In 2004 Norton published Upon a Day, was published in April 2006 Goes to Hollywood” was published in the Gibbons. Poems in Puerto del Sol, Forklift a paperback version renamed Daughter by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster and Bril- Asian Pacific American Journal. and American Letters and Commentary . of the Saints, which includes a Readers’ liance Audio. Once Upon a Day is also Amanda Eyre Ward (‘92): Her second Guide. www.dorothyallredsolomon.com forthcoming in six foreign markets includ- Patricia Woeber (‘02,‘03): She was novel, How to Be Lost, was published by ing Italy, Germany and Australia. www. awarded the Medaille d’Or from the Elaine Starkman (‘93): She has work Random House in 2004. Her third novel, lisatucker.com French Government for her travel articles published in Calyx and The Personal Nar- Forgive Me, will be published by Random on France. Her recently published articles rative in the Healing Professions, and she Madeleine Van Hecke (‘95,‘96): Her House in 2007. Her short stories have ap- cover Bhutan, France, Indochina, and won the 2005 Benicia Love Poem Contest. psychology self-help book, Blind Spots: peared in Tin House, Story Quarterly, The Thailand. Why Smart People Do Dumb Things, was Mississippi Review, The New Delta Review, Ellen Sussman (‘96,‘80): Her first nov- Lyndane Yang (‘00,‘01,‘02): Her story, published by Prometheus Books, Inc. in Salon .com, and the Austin Chronicle . el, On A Night Like This, was published “The Opium Bed,” was selected by Joyce by Warner Books in 2004 and was bought April 2007. www .amandaward .com . by Lifetime Films. The Warner paperback Brenda Rickman Vantrease (‘02): Her Kathie Weir (‘01): Her essay, “What I edition was published in 2005. She ed- first novel,The Illuminator, was published Learned from Connie,” was included in an ited Bad Girls, an anthology of essays by by St. Martin’s Press in 2005; the paper- anthology entitled Open My Eyes, Open My women writers, which will be published back edition appeared in December 2005. Soul, published by McGraw-Hill in 2003. by Norton in 2007. She has an essay in The Illuminator, was a national bestseller The book, edited by Yolanda King, eldest Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Tales From the with over 100,000 copies in print in the daughter of Martin Luther King, and Elodia Midlife Underground (Doubleday, 2006). U.S. and has been translated into fourteen Tate, was published in honor of the Janu- www.ellensussman.com foreign languages. A sequel, The Mercy ary 2004 Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

~ 71~ ~ 72~ Carol Oates and Raymond Smith as a fi- residency at Hedgebrook in 2006. She re- Castro’s Curveball nalist for the 2003 Cooper Prize in Short ceived an honorable mention at the 2006 Fiction. It appeared in the Spring 2004 is- Boston Fiction Festival. Her short story, sue of Ontario Review . Other stories were “A Nearly Blonde Christmas,” appears in Tim Wendel published in Byline and ZYZZYVA. Her sto- the 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories ry collection, Distant Shores, was a semi- anthology. finalist for the 2004 Spokane Prize in Short Fiction. Sally Shore of Blonde & Brunette Desiree Zamorano (‘05): Her short Productions has selected Distant Shores story “Mercy” appeared in the LA Times- to debut in the New Short Fiction Series. Magazine, West . In September 2006, actors performed four Katayoon Zandvakili (‘02): Her poems stories before a live audience at the Bev- appear in Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: erly Hills Public Library. New Writing By Women of the Iranian Tiphanie Yanique (‘05): She has had Diaspora, an anthology published in May stories and novel excerpts accepted for 2006 by the University of Arkansas Press. publication or published with The Kenyon An excerpt from her memoir-in-progress Review, Prism International, The Global was published online at Narrative Maga- City Review and Sonora, among others . zine www. narrativemagazine.com. Her story will be appearing this May in the Alexi Zentner (‘05): His short story, Boston Review as the 2006 Fiction Winner. “The Adjuster,” was published in the Sum- This coming academic year she will be the mer 2006 issue of The Southwest Review, Creative Writing Fellow at Rice University. and his short story, “Touch,” appears in “... I cannot think of Alia Yunis (‘04): She was awarded a PEN the current issue (#29) of Tin House . another book that so vividly Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2005 and a www.alexizentner.com and insightfully portrays “ (a) passionate novel of love, the day-to-day ‘inner world’ loss, and the real freedom of ‘50s keiki (children) -- that wisdom and time our thoughts, beliefs, sometimes bring.” understandings, fears and dreams.” —Ken Burns - Wanda Adams, e Honolulu Advertiser “A superbly crafted ❧ meditation on heroism, duty, and the irony derived “... delightful and informative” from recognizing everyone’s - Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio imperfections but your own. ❦ —Kirkus Review (starred review) University of Nebraska Press To order call toll free (800) 468-2800 or visit Available at www.WelcomeToTheIslands.comWelcomeToTheIslands.com www.timwendel.com www.amazon.com www.barnesandnoble.com ~ 73~ ~ 74~ Writers Workshop in a Book: Participant Profile: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers Alex Espinosa on the Art of Fiction From “Coming to Your Senses” From “A Writer’s Sense of by Janet Fitch Place” by James D. Houston lex Espinoza first attended the Community of Writers in 2004 s writers, our task is to remind peo- n our workshops each morning, much ple what it is to be human. Through with a scholarship from UC Ir- of the conversation has focused on A all the lenses that we embody, we personal relationships and matters of vine, and returned again in 2005. This A I seek to explore and recreate the experi- kinship—the husband and the wife, the summer we will welcome him back ence of being alive on this earth. And espe- mother and the daughter, the father and again as part of our Published Alumni cially now, in our denatured times, we are the son, or the absent father, or the miss- reading series. “I always had such a Lisa See describes Alex’s novel as in a position to give the reader back the ing lover, or the seducer, the seducee. wonderful time at Squaw the years I “Fresh, magical, beautiful, evocative” sensual world—restore to him something There are good and necessary reasons for attended. I feel I owe the community while Sandra Cisneros says it is “As per- fundamental which has been taken away this. It’s the basic stuff of fiction: what we big time since it was there that I found fect as the beads of a rosary.” Barnes from him, something he craves, the smells do to each other, and with each other. my superb agent…And I look forward and textures of physical reality. I want to focus on another kind of and Noble has chosen the novel for And it is not only the reader who suf- to being among the tall pines and fresh their Spring “Discover Great New Writ- kinship. Each time I drive up into these air once again this August,” Alex re- fers from this deprivation. We too suffer mountains, climb from sea level to six ers” program. Still Water Saints chron- the same disconnect. Anyone who sits in cently said. thousand feet and see this bowl of peaks icles a year in the life of the commu- a darkened room looking at a computer rising all around us, I get re-awakened to nity Agua Mansa, a largely Latino town screen and microwaving dinner shares in the power and the magic of landscape and His debut novel, Still Water Saints, outside Los Angeles and home to the the fate of our time . open country, and to the many ways that will be released by Random House Botánica Oshún, where people seek So first, as writers, we ourselves must certain places can work on us. I think a big early in 2007. It will also be published charms, herbs, and candles. reconnect to the life of the senses. To give part of what makes this workshop such a simultaneously in Spanish, translated the reader back the blue of the sky, the rewarding experience is the location itself, by the well-regarded Liliana Valenzuela In addition, Alex’s work is featured heat of the day, the softness of the wind, having the chance to spend a week togeth- who has also worked with Julia Alvarez in the newly published anthology In- the smell of newly turned earth, to bring er thinking about stories in the presence and Sandra Cisneros. him back to his senses, restoring him to his of such majestic terrain. So while we’re at landia (Heyday Books, 2006), and will full humanity, so that he might even think appear in the forthcoming Latinos in this altitude, I want to say a bit more about to go outside and look at those stars, smell the role of place in our stories and in our Lotusland (Bilingual Press, 2007). that wind for himself, we must first get lives. ourselves out of the jar. We ourselves must First of all, I don’t mean simply Alex was born in Tijuana, Baja Cali- adopt a more experimental and experien- names and points of interest as identified fornia, Mexico in 1971, the youngest of tial attitude toward physical existence, and on a map . What has fascinated me for a 11 children. At the age of two, he mi- be willing to experience the whole sensual long time now is the relationship between grated to southern California with his piano, not just certain predictably pleasant a locale and the lives lived there, the rela- family and grew up in the city of La Pu- chords . tionship between terrain and the feelings ente, a suburb of Los Angeles. Earning a it can call out of us, the way a certain place B.A. from the University of California at can provide you with grounding, location, Riverside with honors, Espinoza went meaning, can bear upon the dreams you on to receive an MFA from UC Irvine, dream, can shape your view of history, sometimes your sense of self. where he was the editor of the univer- sity’s literary magazine, Faultine . To pre-order this book at a discount- ed rate, click on this link: www.amazon.com

~ 75~ ~ 76~ Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora Contributors This Issue Edited by Persis M. Karim LISA ALVAREZ is co-director of the Community of Writ- Manzanar, now in a 68th printing from Bantam Books. Reviewed by Jasmin Darznik (Writers Workshop 2006) ers’ Writers Workshops and is a professor and chair of This spring Knopf brings out his new novel, Bird of An- the English department at Irvine Valley College. With other Heaven . Alan Cheuse, she is co-editing a collection of essays on he first anthology of writing by Are Us” dares to imagine the day when writing by Community of Writers staff. SANDS HALL teaches for the Iowa Summer Writing Fes- women of the Iranian diaspora, Let Iranian-American men stand proudly JASMIN DARZNIK was born in Iran and came to the U.S. tival and the University of California Davis Extension Pro- grams. She is the author of the novel, Catching Heaven, Me Tell You Where I Have Been, beside their “bros” in the American mili- after the Islamic Revolution. She attended the Com- T munity of Writers in 2006. Her writing has appeared in a Random House Reader’s Circle selection and a Willa is also a striking tribute to the literary tary. And then there are poems like Zara the West (the Los Angeles Times Magazine), San Fran- Award Finalist for Best Contemporary Fiction. In Decem- accomplishments of Iranian-American Houshmand’s “Nazr,” which remind us cisco Chronicle Magazine, ZYZZYVA, and the Women’s ber 2005 Moving Finger Press published her non-fiction Review of Books. She won the 2006 Zoetrope: All-Story book, Tools of the Writers Craft . women. With humor, rage, eloquence, of nothing so much as the value of art in Short Fiction Contest. and compassion, its fifty contributors of these clamorous times. BRETT HALL JONES has been the Executive Director of poetry and prose—including a number of In the space of three hundred pages, RICHARD FORD is the author of three collections of sto- the Community of Writers for 15 years. Before that, she ries and six novels, including The Lay of the Land, which was director of catalogue photography for the San Fran- past participants of Squaw Valley work- Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been man- was published in September 2006. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, winner of the cisco Auction House, Butterfield & Butterfield. shops—give voice to what it means for ages to capture a new ethnic literature Pulitzer Prize for fiction and of the PEN-Malamud Award Iranian women to live, and to write, in engaged not only with the most troubling for Excellence in the Short Story. MAXIMA KAHN is a poet, fiction writer and essayist. She teaches workshops on writing and on creativity at U.C. the West today . questions of the day, but also with some JANET FITCH is the author of the novel White Oleander, Davis Extension and in Nevada County. She attended the Organized in six sections—“Home Sto- of the most common and timeless sub- which has been translated into 26 languages. The Warner Writers Workshop in 2006. ries,” “For Tradition,” “Woman’s Duty,” jects of human life. Bros. film adaptation appeared in 2002. Fitch teaches fiction writing at the Masters of Professional Writing Larry Ruth works as a consultant in natural resource “Axis of Evil,” “Beyond,” and “Stories Left program at USC. Her new novel, Paint It Black, was pub- and environmental policy. For many years he taught at Untold”—the entries traverse a formida- Nazr lished in September 2006 by Little, Brown. the University of California. Recent poems of his have ble range of stories and sensibilities. The been published in The Berkeleyan, Ibid ,. Berkeley Poetry It has been so long, JAMES D. HOUSTON has published twenty works of melancholy of exile is rendered with stun- fiction and nonfiction including the novels Snow Moun- Review, and in Hail to California:The University of Cali- How will you know me? tain Passage, Continental Drift, and The Last Paradise, fornia at Berkeley in Verse and Story (an anthology). In ning sensual detail in Michelle Koukhab’s honored with an American Book Award. With his wife 2005 he was awarded a Lili Fabilli and Eric Hoffer Essay (Poetry Workshop 2005) “The Persian I am the one standing still in the Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston he co-authored Farewell to Prize by the University of California, Berkeley. Baths,” where memories of the hamman throw a window onto “the gap” which Scanning the screen again and again “opens sometimes/between the places trying to find You Might Want to Consider… we are born and the places that we live.” a believable destination. These magazines are edited by Squaw Valley Staff or Participants Longing also shades Katayoon Zandvaki- and welcome submissions from The Community of Writers li’s (Writers Workshop 2002) images of I am the one who has spread her “sunlight in rooms of afternoon tea, the skirts on the grass Wandering Hermit Review, Steve Potter, editor. www.wanderinghermit.com red and green/laughter over cards” (“The Like a picnic cloth, saying, Orange Coast Review, Davi Loren, editor. www.orangecoastreview.com Here is trust. World Was a Couple”) and her memory Santa Monica Review, Andrew Tonkovich, editor. www.smc.edu/sm_review of a long-ago “horse of infinite feeling, And honesty. infinite pain” (“Stripes”). And kindness. RUNES, CB (‘Lyn) Follett and Susan Terris, editors. http://members.aol.com/Runes Fitting to the times, there are also bit- Come feast. Tin House, Rob Spillman, editor. Lee Montgomery, excecutive editor. www.tinhouse.com ing political commentaries from many I am the one tying poems Green Mountains Review, Leslie Daniels, fiction editor. www.greenmountainsreview.jsc.vsc.edu different perspectives. Sholeh Wolpe’s to the branches of a tree Manzanita: Poetry and Prose of the Mother Lode and Sierra, Monika Rose, editor. (Poetry Workshop 2004) prose poem “My whose leaves have fallen. www.manzanitacalifornia.org Brother at the Canadian Border” is a sly On the Page, Nada Von Tress, editor. www.onthepage.org indictment of racial profiling and airport Zara Houshmand If you edit a literary journal and have participated in the Community of Writers and would like to detentions. Beatrice Motamedi’s (Writers be included in future lists of this sort, let us know! [email protected] Workshop 2004, 2005) essay “When Toys go to the book now: www.uark.edu

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