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SEPTEMBER 15–18, 2011 OUR PRESENTERS Tananarive Due is the American Book Francine Prose is the author of thirteen Award-winning author of nine books, novels, including Blue Angel, a finalist for ranging from supernatural thrillers to a the 2000 National Book Award; My New mystery to a civil rights memoir. Her newest American Life (April 2011); Goldengrove novel, My Soul to Take (2011), continues the saga (2008); Hunters and Gatherers (2008); and of African immortals with healing blood A Changed Man (2006). Nonfiction works and is a sequel to Blood Colony and The Living Blood. Due include Reading Like a Writer (2006), a New York Times currently teaches creative writing in the MFA program at best-seller; Caravaggio (2010), a biography of the painter for Antioch University, Los Angeles. Due lives in Southern the Eminent Lives series; Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The California with her husband, their son, Jason, and her Afterlife (2009). Prose has also written four children’s books stepdaughter, Nicki. and co-translated three volumes of fiction. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 1989 Fulbright Lynnell Edwards’s third book of poetry, fellowship to the former Yugoslavia, two NEA grants, and Covet, will be released in October 2011. She a PEN translation prize. In 2006 she was awarded the first is the author of two previous collections of Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction forA Changed Man. In poetry, both from Red Hen Press: The 2009 Prose was elected into the Academy of Arts & Letters. Highwayman’s Wife (2007) and The Farmer’s She lives in New York City. Daughter (2003). She is associate professor of English at Spalding University and received her doctorate in Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author English from the University of Louisville. of three poetry collections: Lucky Fish (January 2011); At the Drive-In Volcano, Katja Esson is an independent filmmaker winner of the 2007 Balcones Prize; and based in New York City who mixes Miracle Fruit, winner of the Tupelo Press documentary and narrative genres. Esson’s Judge’s Prize in Poetry. Her writing has newest work is The Poetry of Resilience, a film been published in several anthologies, she and was awarded about five poets who survived human an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. She atrocities and their stories of transformation. is associate professor of English at the State University of Her documentary short Ferry Tales, which turns the unlikely New York-Fredonia. Photo by Dustin Parsons setting of the Staten Island Ferry Powder Room into a celebration of sisterhood, received an Academy Award nomination Danzy Senna’s newest work is You Are for Best Documentary Short in 2004 and aired on HBO. Free (2011), a collection of short stories. Her best-selling debut novel, Caucasia Krista Franklin is a poet and visual artist (1998), which sparked a newfound focus from Dayton, OH who lives and works in on biracial cultures in America, was the Chicago. Her poetry and mixed medium winner of the BOMC Stephen Crane collages have been published in lifestyle Award for First Fiction and an Alex Award from the and literary journals such as Copper Nickel, American Library Association. Senna’s second novel, RATTLE, Indiana Review, Ecotone, Clam and Symptomatic (2005), is a psychological thriller that continues Callaloo, and in the anthologies Encyclopedia Vol. II, F-K and her examination of race. In her memoir Where Did You Sleep Gathering Ground. Franklin is a Cave Canem Fellow. Last Night? A Personal History (2009), Senna looks back at her parents’ divorce and their wildly opposing backgrounds. Kim Dana Kupperman is the author of a Senna lives in Los Angeles. critically acclaimed collection of essays, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, translator, Other Side of Silence (Graywolf, 2010), which and Avalon Foundation Professor in the received the 2009 Katharine Bakeless Nason Humanities at Princeton University. Her Prize in Nonfiction from the Bread Loaf five books of poetry includeColumbarium Writers’ Conference. She is the founder of Welcome Table (2003), which received the National Book Press, dedicated to publishing and celebrating the essay in all its Critics Circle Award; Red Rover (2008); forms. Kupperman currently works as managing editor of the and The Forest (1995), which received the Literary Award award-winning quarterly literary journal, The Gettysburg Review, of the Philadelphia Atheneum. Stewart’s collected essays where she also coordinates an annual summer writers confer- on art, The Open Studio: Essays in Art and Aesthetics, were ence. She teaches nonfiction at the Fairfield University MFA in published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004. Her Creative Writing. Photo by Bill Dowling other books of criticism include the forthcoming The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making. page 2 Sallie Bingham is the author of over ten books, most SPECIAL GUESTS recently the short story collection Red Car (Sarabande, 2008). American Poets’ Poetry Book Club; Outlandish Blues (2003); Her newest collection of stories is entitled Mending and will and Red Clay Suite (2007), chosen by Dorianne Laux as the be published by Sarabande in October 2011. In 1985 she second prize in the Crab Orchard Open Competition. Hon- founded the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She also orée is a native southerner but now lives on the prairie where established the Sallie Bingham Archive for Women’s History she is associate professor of English at the University of at Duke University. Oklahoma and teaches creative writing.

Sherry Chandler’s first full-length collection of poetry, Elizabeth Oakes is the author of three volumes of poetry: Weaving a New Eden, was released by Wind in March of this The Farmgirl Poems, which won the 2004 Pearl Poetry Prize, The year. She was awarded the 2002 Betty Gabehart Prize, and her Luminescence of All Things Emily (Wind), and Mercy in the New work has appeared in many print and online magazines and World (Wind). Another volume, Leave Here Knowing, will be anthologies, including Kestrel, qarrtsiluni, Soundzine, Poemeleon, released in the summer of 2012 (Wind). She and her and the Louisville Review. She lives on a farm in Bourbon husband, John, an artist, are the co-owners of Ethereal County, Kentucky, with her husband and son. Publications. She is currently writing a book on boomer retirement. Jan Isenhour was executive director of the Carnegie Center from 1998 to 2011 and had served as assistant director since Jane Gentry Vance was born in central Kentucky and now the center opened in 1992. She has published creative non- lives in Versailles in Woodford County. Her most recent full- fiction inWind magazine, and in 2009, as a member of the length collection of poems is Portrait of the Artist as a White KaBooM Writing Collective, received grants to support the Pig (2006). She is also the author of A Garden in Kentucky publication of the anthology, When the Bough Breaks. She is in (1995) and A Year in Kentucky (2008). She co-edited, with the process of completing and shopping a novel, Old Beauties, Frederick Smock, Five Kentucky Poets Laureate: An Anthology. In partially set in a retirement community. 2007 she was appointed Kentucky Poet Laureate for 2007 and 2008.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of three books of Naomi Wallace’s major plays include One Flea Spare, And I poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue (2000), which was chosen by Lu- and Silence, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours cille Clifton as winner of the 1999 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry and The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East. Prize and was a featured publication of the Academy of Wallace is writing new plays for the Public Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare festival. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

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