The 14th Lewes Creative Writers’ Conference Presenter Bios

Fleda Brown Fleda Brown’s tenth collection of poems, Flying Through a Hole in the Storm (2021) won the Hollis Summers Prize from Ohio University Press. Earlier poems can be found in The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems, chosen by Ted Kooser for the University of Nebraska poetry series in 2017. Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her new memoir, Mortality, with Friends will be out from Wayne State University Press Fall 2021. She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware and was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-2007.

Ellen Prentiss Campbell Ellen Prentisss Campbell’s debut short story collection, Contents Under Pressure (Broadkill River Press) was nominated for the National Book Award. Her first novel, The Bowl with Gold Seams, (Apprentice House Press, Loyola, Maryland) received the Indie Excellence Award for Historical Fiction. Known By Heart: Collected Stories (Apprentice House Press) was published in May 2020. Her novel, Frieda’s Song (Apprentice House Press, May 2021) is inspired by the life and work of renowned psychiatrist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann who fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and came to the Chestnut Lodge Sanatorium in Rockville, Maryland.

Anne Colwell Anne Colwell writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She has published two books of poems, Believing Their Shadows, (Word Poetry 2010) and Mother’s Maiden Name (Word Poetry 2013). She received both Emerging and Established Artist Awards in fiction, poetry and nonfiction from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in several journals, including: Bellevue Literary Review, California Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, and The Madison Review. She has been a member of the staff at Bread Loaf Writer’s Workshop and a visiting professor at the University of Granada in Spain.

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Lois Hoffman Lois Hoffman is the owner of The Happy Self-Publisher and award-winning author of Write a Book, Grow Your Business, The Self-Publishing Roadmap, and Barriers. She helps new and experienced writers confidently share their voice to make a difference in their lives and in the lives of others. She values a diversity of people, thoughts, and ideas to share knowledge and promote understanding. Newark, Delaware is the place she calls home.

James Keegan James Keegan is a professional actor and member of Actor’s Equity. He has performed in numerous regional theaters and for 13 years he was a company member at the American Shakespeare Center, playing some of the great roles in Shakespeare, including Macbeth, King Lear, Falstaff, Iago, and Shylock. Most recently he played James Tyrone in an award-winning American Stage production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night. He is a Professor of English at The University of Delaware, teaching for over 25 years in the Associate in Arts Program in Georgetown, where he has also offered courses in acting. He has published poems, stories, and essays in journals and periodicals and collections, and he is a past recipient of Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships.

Edgar Kunz Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collection Tap Out (Mariner / Houghton Mifflin), a New York Times New & Noteworthy book. Originally from New England, Edgar lives in Baltimore where he teaches at Goucher College and in the low-residency Newport MFA. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is working on a book of poems about love and late capitalism.

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