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2 0 0 8 - 2 0 0 9 i s s u e 1 3 Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Our Supporters Omnium Gatherum & Newsletter Table of 2008-2009, Issue 13 The Community of Writers gratefully acknowledges the financial support that Contents makes our programs possible: Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (In the online A Non-Profit Corporation #629182 University of California version, you can P.O. Box 1416, Nevada City, CA 95959 Depot Bookstore E-mail: [email protected] click on an item LEF Foundation www.squawvalleywriters.org to go there.) San Francisco Foundation Newsletter edited and designed by Anne & Gordon Getty Foundation Maxima Kahn The Bookshelf Bookstores with support and advice from Squaw Valley Institute Brett Hall Jones University of California/ Irvine Academy Foundation of The Academy of Note from the Editor...... 4 Board of Directors Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Announcing Our 2009 Summer Programs...... 6 President Max Byrd Hotel Rex Poetry Staff News...... 7 Vice President Joanne Meschery National Endowment for the Arts Secretary Eddy Ancinas Squaw Valley Ski Corporation PoetWatch: Poetry Participant News ...... 8 Financial OfficerBurnett Miller Entrekin Foundation Osvaldo Ancinas Poetry Participant Profile: Rusty Morrision...... 18 and our many individual donors and friends, Jan Buscho Summer 2008 Special Thanks and Gallery of Photos...... 20 Alan Cheuse as well as Lou DeMattei and Amy Tan for their major contribution to the Community Sounds of Summer 2008: Music Heard in the Office...... 22 of Writers Endowment Blair Fuller Screenwriting Participant Profile: Jeffrey Brown...... 23 Diana Fuller Barbara Hall Screenwriting Staff News...... 24 James D. Houston Edwina Leggett About Our Advertisers Screenwriting Participant News...... 26 James Naify The ads which appear in this issue represent Hard Times for Writers: Louis B. Jones...... 33 Christopher Sindt the work of Community of Writers staff and Published Alumni Reading Series...... 36 Kevin Starr participants. These ads help to defray the Amy Tan cost of the newsletter. If you have a recent In Memoriam Oakley Hall...... 38 John C. Walker or forthcoming book, please contact us Harold Weaver Writers Workshop Staff News...... 41 about advertising in our next annual issue. Nancy Wendt Writers Workshop Participant Profile: Jamie Ford ...... 46 Contact Maxima Kahn for a Rate Sheet and more information: (530) 273-3566 Writers Workshop Participant News...... 48 The Workshops or [email protected] Contributors...... back cover Executive Director Brett Hall Jones or visit: www.squawvalleywriters.org Writers Workshops: Some Magazines to Submit To...... back cover Lisa Alvarez Louis B. Jones Michael Carlisle Please note: We are not able to fact-check Poetry Robert Hass the submitted news. We apologize if any Screenwriting Diana Fuller incorrect information is published.

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~ ~ ~ ~ Community 2009 POETRY WORKSHOPS: July 18 - 25 Poetry Cornelius Eady · Robert Hass · Brenda Hillman of Writers Sharon Olds · Evie Shockley and special guest Galway Kinnell Staff News WRITERS WORKSHOPS: August 1 - 8 Dorothy Allison · Bill Barich · Max Byrd Michael Carlisle · Ron Carlson · Alan Cheuse : Sunbelt Sharon Olds: Her new collection, One Mark Childress · Leslie Daniels · Gill Dennis Publications published his collection Secret Thing, was published by Knopf in Rita and Julia in September 2008. Grove September, 2008. Carol Edgarian · Janet Fitch · Karen Joy Fowler Press will release his new novel, A Glass Gerald Stern: His most recent collection Lynn Freed · Dagoberto Gilb · Molly Giles Of Water, in fall 2009. Heinemann is of poems, Save the Last Dance, was Glen David Gold · Sands Hall · James D. Houston publishing Metamorphosis: Stories about published in May 2008. Squaw Valley Michael Jaime-Becerra · Louis B. Jones Learning, Loving, and Living in 2009, C. D. Wright: Her most recent collection Joanne Meschery · Jason Roberts and New Directions is coming out with a of poems, Rising, Falling, Hovering, was California Sandra Scofield · Gregory Spatz comprehensive collection of his work in published by Copper Canyon Press in April Andrew Tonkovich · Rick Wartzman · Al Young Spanish . 2008 . Literary Agents Lucille Clifton: Her newest collection of Dean Young: His most recent collection SUMMER Book & Literary Magazine Editors poems, Voices, was published in November of poems, Primitive Mentor, was published 2008 . by the University of Pittsburgh Press in PUBLISHED ALUMNI: Robert Hass: His collection Time and January 2008. His collection of poems WRITING Materials was awarded the Pulitzer Embryoyo (Believer Books/McSweeney’s) David Bajo · Frances Dinkelspiel · Jamie Ford Prize, the National Book Award, and the was nominated for a Northern California WORKSHOPS Vicki Forman · Tanya Egan Gibson Northern California Book Award. Book Award in 2008. Brenda Hillman: Her newest collection, Kevin Young: His most recent collection Financial Aid available PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS: Practical Water, is forthcoming from of poems, Dear Darkness, was published Rhoda Huffey · Diane Johnson · Malcolm Margolin Wesleyan University Press in 2009. by Knopf in September 2008. The paperback edition of his book For the Application Deadlines in Amy Tan · Kem Nunn · Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Galway Kinnell: Mariner Books published Confederate Dead was also published by April and May Jane Vandenburgh the paperback edition of his recent Knopf in September . (See each program) collection, Strong Is Your Hold, in 2008 . SCREENWRITING: August 1 - 8 Yusef Komunyakaa: His most recent [email protected] Production commitments will determine the collection, Warhorses, was published by availability of staff members and guests. Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September (530) 470-8440 Eugene Corr · Pamela Gray · Michael Lehmann 2008 . Toney Merritt · Christopher Monger · Judith Rascoe Li-Young Lee: His collection of poems Tom Rickman · Lisa Rosenberg · Camille Thomasson www.squawvalleywriters.org Behind My Eyes (with audio CD) was Tom Schlesinger · Michael Urban published by W. W. Norton in 2008.

~ ~ ~ ~ Gretl Claggett (05): Gretl has just signed Ann Fisher-Wirth (00,92): Her third on with Kuhn Projects to represent her book of poems, Carta Marina, will be PoetWatch corporate memoir Do This, Get That. Her published by Wings Press in April 2009. poem “The Net” appeared in Submerged: With Laura Gray Street she is coediting an Tales from the Basin and has been international anthology of contemporary poetry nominated for a Pushcart Prize. ecopoetry in English, Earth’s Body. During Catharine Clark-Sayles (03 Writing the past year she was a finalist for the participants the Medical Experience): Her first Review Poetry Prize. Her poems book of poetry, One Breath, has just been have appeared or are forthcoming in The published by Tebot Bach Press. Several Review, Sentence, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, The Kazim Ali (98): He has two new books Cynthia Broshi (05,01): Two poems of the poems were written at Squaw Oxford American, 32 Poems, and other forthcoming in 2009: a novel, The (one of them begun at Squaw) were Valley’s “Writing the Medical Experience” journals, and in the anthologies White Disappearance of Seth, from Etruscan published this fall in Portland Review . workshop. Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood, Press, and a book of lyric essays, Bright Kevin Conder (05): He has two poems Elizabeth Chapman (07,04,01): She was Letters to the World, Bear Flag Republic, Felon, from Wesleyan University Press. coming out in the Summer 2009 issue awarded the Robert McGovern Publication and Artifice and Marrow . His most recent of book of poetry is The Prize for Poetry. Ashland Poetry Press of Quiddity . He will also be reading Fortieth Day, published in 2008 by BOA (Ashland University, ) will publish her his poems on the journal’s companion Molly Fisk (04,99,95,92): In November Editions . www.kazimali.com collection, Light Thickens, in April 2009. National Public Radio program. www .sci . her second CD of radio commentary, She wrote the title poem at Squaw Valley edu/quiddity/about.html Blow-Drying a Chicken, was released, and Stephanie Anagnoson (07,05,04): See a poem appeared on Poetry Daily (poems . during her first Poetry Week there. Diane Dawber (06): Her new collection Writers Workshop Participant News. com). She continues to write weekly essays Sharon Charde (07,03,01): She had for younger readers, Looking for Snow- Dan Bellm (03,97,95,92): His new for community station KVMR in the Sierra her first full-length collection of poems, fleas, was published by Borealis Press. Her book of poems, Practice, was published Branch In His Hand, published by new non-fiction book, A New Spin on the Foothills. by Sixteen Rivers Press in San Francisco. Backwaters Press in November. www . Rotation Diet,was published by the Health Gretchen Fletcher (05): She won the http://sixteenrivers.org/ sharoncharde .com Pursuits Group. Her grandson Alexander Poetry Society of America’s Bright Lights, Michelle Bitting (05): Her first full-length Ching-In Chen (07): Ching-In’s novel-in- was born October 2, 2008. Big Verse competition and read her poem, collection, Good Friday Kiss, was chosen by poems, The Heart’s Traffic, was selected Maureen Eppstein (92 Art of Wild): “Two Giant Men in New York,” in Times Thomas Lux as the winner of the DeNovo by Eloise Klein Healy for the Arktoi imprint Her poetry collection Quickening was Square where she and the poem were First Book Award and was published by C of Red Hen Press (February 2009, www. published by March Street Press in 2007. projected on the Panasonic Jumbotron. & R Press in 2008. Poems are published or redhen.org/arktoi.asp). Her poem-play Poems have appeared recently in Avocet, Her chapbook That Severed Cord was forthcoming in Narrative, Nimrod, Many “The Geisha Author Interviews” was Calyx and Sand Hill Review. published in summer 2008 by Finishing Mountains Moving, and others. She will nominated for a John Cauble Short Play Line Press. Sharon Fain (04): Sharon was a resident complete an MFA in Poetry through Pacific Award and recommended for development poet at I-Park Arts Colony for the month of University, Oregon, in January. at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Poems published or May and was in residence at Blue Mountain Noah Blaustein (07): August Cole Amaya forthcoming in Poemeleon, Water~Stone Center in September-October. Her work Blaustein was born on 08-08-08. Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review . is forthcoming in Poetry East, Hayden’s Lorraine Bonner (92,91): She has Ferry Review and the Spoon River Poetry Amanda Chiado (07,06): Her work has Review . turned to “the decidely non-linear practice appeared in The Rambler, The California of sculpture” and will be showing in the Poets in the Schools Annual Anthology, Chanda Feldman (06): She is a 2008- Museum of the African Diasopra in San and is forthcoming in Fence and Dusie. Her 2010 Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford Francisco, (www .moadsf .org) this coming first baby, Isabella Marie Bozzi, was born in University. Her poems appeared in Prairie February. 2008, the day before her 30th birthday. Schooner and the Southern Review.

~ ~ ~ ~ CB (‘Lyn) Follett (04,02,95): Her new Lise Goett (06,94,92,90,88): She will Beau Hamel) Poems from his full-length Sarah Jefferis (01): Her first book of poetry collection, And Freddie Was My be a visiting artist at the American Academy collection, Secret Cowboy at the Raw poems, Forgetting the Salt, was published Darling, just came out in November in Rome for the month of April 2009. Her Bar, recently appeared in Pedestal by Foothills Press. poems appeared in the 2008 Winter issue 2008 from Many Voices Press in Montana. Magazine, Poetry Now, the Other Voices Patricia Spears Jones (99,94,92): She is of Western Humanities Review . Follett’s Arctos Press just published a poetry International Project (on-line anthology), the featured poet in The Oxford-American collection by Lowell Jaeger, Suddenly Out Kythe Heller (07): Her poetry has been and the Building Bridges SFWC Anthology. 10th Southern Music Issue with two CDs . Of A Long Sleep. After seven years, Follett published in 2008 by Alaska Quarterly The November 2008 issue of Sunset Other writers in the issue are Roy Blount, and Squaw Valley alum Susan Terris have Review, POOL, Salamander, The Wick magazine gave positive press to Bistro Jr. and Sven Birkerts. www .psjones .com (Harvard University), and in the chapbook 33 Poetry Night, the twice-monthly year- ended, with regret, the publication of Maxima Kahn (07,06): In 2008, her Immolation (Monk Honey, Brooklyn, round reading series which Henderson co- Runes: A Review of Poetry . NY). Performance work has been staged poems were published in Slant, Eureka hosts with “Dr. Andy” Jones. Literary Magazine, Wisconsin Review and Melissa Fondakowski (02): Her poem this year at WAXworks and BAX in NYC, M. Miriam Herrera (05,02,99): Her Left Curve . “Lab” published in the January 2008 issue of Harvard University, and at the Virginia new chapbook, Kaddish for Columbus, Many Mountains Moving, was nominated Center for the Creative Arts. Currently she Marilyn Kallet (05,98,96): Her new is working on a commissioned poetry and was a finalist in New Women’s Voices for a Pushcart Prize. book of collected poems, Packing Light: performance project called “Experiments Chapbook Competition by Finishing Line New and Selected Poems, was published Marcene Gandolfo (03): Her poems with Fire” at Harvard University, where Press and was published in Janurary, 2009. by Black Widow Press in January 2009. have appeared recently or are forthcoming she is also pursuing an MDiv degree. miriamherrerapoems.googlepages.com She published an essay in Poets & in Harpur Palate, Bayou, Poet Lore, [email protected] . Harmony Holiday (07,05): She was one Writers (March/April 2008). Her review Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Brad Henderson (06): (AKA, the neo- of the winners of the first annual Life-Long of Alice Friman’s The Book of the Rotten Poetry and Red Wheelbarrow. cowboy poet and blues-rock drummer Press publication contest in 2008. Daughter appeared in Prairie Schooner

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~ 10~ ~ 11~ (summer 2008); and the review of Ellen Verlag, Germany, 2008). Two poems are ference in New Mexico. She received her by Artamo Press and Total Immersion Bass’s The Human Line appeared in the forthcoming in The New York Quarterly. MFA in Creative Writing, with an emphasis by Presa Press. Her collected works, Salt July/August online edition of American He presented a paper at the February, on poetry, from Arizona State University in Lick, by West End Press is due out in 2009 . Book Review. Marilyn’s poems appeared 2009 AWP conference on “Lyric Selves and December. In Janurary, 2008, along with She has also had work in a number of online in New Works Review and at Poetz. Global Imperatives: Toward a Poetics and two other poets, she began a monthly anthologies, such as White Ink, Letters to com, the environmental issue. “Currents” Ethics of Encounter.” reading series in Phoenix, Arizona. This the World, a WOMPO anthology, and Bear and “Healing Chant in the Shade of the past summer, Lockhart expanded genres Flag Republic . Parnassus presented a Nuclear” were anthologized in Outscapes: Julia Levine (95): Her new collection by acting in two separate roles in a com- comprehensive study of her poetry, written Writings on Fences and Frontiers, 2008 . of poetry, Ditch-tender, was published by munity theatre production of The Vagina by Leonard Berkman. And she recently In March 2008, she directed the Young University of Tampa Press in 2008. Monologues, and by writing for The Herald published a new issue of her magazine, Writers’ Institute at the University of Nadine Lockhart (formerly Kachur) as the Art Hop correspondent in Truth or Solo Cafe. www.solopress.org Tennessee. She will be teaching a poetry (05): She received three writing residen- Consequences, New Mexico. writing workshop for the Virginia Center cies: A two-week winter International Sarah Maclay (06,97): Her second full Sabra Loomis (03,91,89): Loomis is for the Creative Arts in Auvillar, France, Writing Fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico; a length collection, The White Bride, was the author of House Held Together by this June. Her poetry blog can be found at: one-week summer Writing Residency to published by University of Tampa Press in www.redroom.com/author/marilyn-kallet Casa Libre in Tucson, Arizona; and a three- Winds, a new Harper Perennial Trade early 2008. Her poem “My Lavenderdom” Paperback Original (August 2008), which Andrew Kaufman (08,01): Sixteen week spring residency working with Tony was selected for The Best American sonnets from his Cinnamon Bay Poems Hoagland at the Atlantic Center for the won the 2007 National Poetry Series Open Erotic Poems From 1800 to the Present appeared in Signale aux der Bleeker Arts in Florida. Lockhart also received a Competition as selected by James Tate. (Scribner) and her “Anne B to Henry 8” Street 3: Junge Literatur aus New York, scholarship to attend the Poets and Writ- Glenna Luschei (99): She has published was Verse Daily’s August webmonthly translated by Bernd Huppauf (Wallstein ers Picnic/Sunflower Festival Writing Con- two new books of poetry, Libido Dreams feature. She is now a full-time member of The White Bride poems by Sarah Maclay

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~ 12~ ~ 13~ the English faculty of Loyola Marymount Jim Natal (97): He became the series Elaine Sexton (98): Her second book joining the Community of Writers’ poetry University, where she teaches poetry and curator and director of The Hassayampa of poems, Causeway, was published by staff this summer . creative writing, and she received another Institute Presents: The Literary Southwest New Issues (Western Michigan University) Scot Siegel (07): His first full-length Pushcart nomination. Individual poems at Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ. in 2008, with poems featured in O! the book, Some Weather, is forthcoming have appeared this year in the Burnside Oprah Magazine, the Massachusetts Kathleen O’Toole (05,03,01): Individual from Plain View Press this winter. Scot’s Review, Poemeleon, Tampa Review, Cider poems have appeared in Little Patuxent Review, New Letters, and on Poetry Daily. poem, “The Zoning Officer’s Resignation Press Review, LUNA, Poetry International, Review, Potomac Review, Christian Causeway was the subject of an interview La Fovea, poeticdiversity and The Laurel Century, and Frogpond. An essay is with the poet featured on Critical Mass, a Letter,” received First Prize in the Oregon Review, as well as in Spanish translation forthcoming in Modern Haiku. blogsite hosted by National Book Critics State Poetry Association fall contest, in Luces y Sombras. They have also been Circle. This year she became a contributor and “Maybe” received First Honorable Mary Petrosky (07): Her poems are translated into French for publication in reviewing art for Art in America . Mention. His Squaw Valley poem, “The Day forthcoming in the Winter 2009 issue of Dans la lune. Her critical writing appears Father’s Shop Burned to the Ground,” was in Poetry International . Calyx, in an anthology of atheist poetry Evie Shockley (99): She has poems appearing or forthcoming in Harvard a semi-finalist for Nimrod International’s Karyna McGlynn (06): Her first full- by Incarnate Muse Press, and in the Spring Review, Achiote Seeds, Columbia Poetry Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize. Other poem’s length collection, I Have to Go Back to 2009 issue of The Journal of New Jersey Review, Pluck!, La Petite Zine, Alehouse, appeared in Acorn, Windfall, Essence 1994 and Kill a Girl, received the Kathryn Poets, along with a review of poet Teresa The Drunken Boat, Ecotone, The Southern (UK), The Externalist, The Enigmatist, A. Morton Prize in Poetry and will be Carson’s first book, Elegy for the Floater . and The Portland Alliance, among others . published by Sarabande Books in 2009. She In 2008, as part of a collaboration with Review, PMS: poemmemoirstory, and recently released a chapbook, Alabama painter Terri Moore, her Argentina Series Tuesday; An Art Project . Her poetics Pudding House Publications has accepted Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008), of poems was featured in the exhibit The essay on the line was published in Center: Scot’s next book, a chapbook called and has another chapbook, Small Shrines, Red Beret at the Main Gallery in Redwood A Journal of the Literary Arts ..She will be Untitled Country . forthcoming from Cinematheque Press . City, CA. In 2008, Mary also launched the Judy Michaels (01,92,91/03 Writing Peninsula Literary Series, a bi-monthly the Medical Experience): Her poetry reading series featuring writers from the Do you have a collection Reviewing the Skull will be San Francisco Bay Area. manuscript that needs reworking? published by WordTech in January, 2010. Suzanne Roberts (04): Her second Sara Michas-Martin (08,03): She collection of poems, Nothing to You, was A drawerful of poems received a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg published with Pecan Grove Press. She was yearning to be a book? Poetry Prize, a full fellowship to the named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by The lyric word whispering in the office, singing in the family, charting Studio Center and published National Geographic Traveler Magazine . Three-time Squaw Valley poems in APR, Bird Dog, Court Green, policy for the land. –Kim Stafford participant with a full-length DIAGRAM, Field, Forklift Ohio, Harp & Larry Ruth (06,04,02,00): One of his collection published and another Alter, jubilat and Pool . poems was published in the Berkeley A rally for consciousness to sanctify forthcoming, former Shakespeare Poetry Review .. Norman Minnick (06): He has edited an the details of “how we legend our prof., Marshall scholar, can help anthology of young poets entitled Between Eliot Schain (07,02,99,98): He has been selves.” –Maureen Alsop shape, lay out and edit. Water and Song that will be published by included in the new anthology Bear Flag White Pine Press in 2009 . Republic, Prose Poems and Poetics From Scot Siegel’s poems are unafraid “While her manner is gracious, she is unafraid to say what California, edited by Christopher Buckley of joyous things… the songs and Rusty Morrison (95,94,93): See her weather of a full, interior life. needs saying.” profile on page 18. and Gary Young. –David Biespiel —client (SVCW participant) Gabrielle Myers (07): Her poems David Scronce (08,05,03): He has a poem at www.PoetryBay.com (Fall 2008 Contact Elizabeth Chapman appeared in Damselfly Press Online, Plain View Press Caesura, Solitary Plover (online), and If issue) and three poems in the Spring 2009 Austin, TX (650) 380-2466 or email Poetry Journal . issue of 5AM . www.plainviewpress.net [email protected]

~ 14~ ~ 15~ N. Colwell Snell (02): His book Hand Sally Van Doren (06,03,01): Her poems Moving Mountain, Fine Madness, Raven Sondra Zeidenstein (01,94,92,91,90): Me My Shadow won the following awards: have appeared recently in American Poet, Chronicles, Cutthroat: A Journal of the This year, four of her poems were included Readers’ Choice Award for Best Collection anti, Crayon, Margie, Ping Pong, Sawbuck, Arts, Snow Monkey and the Tacoma Art in the anthology Love after Seventy, of Poetry, sponsored by Salt Lake City Southwest Review, and Verse Daily. Her Museum in the exhibit “Telling Stories.” His published by Wising Up Press; two were Weekly, and 2nd Place for the Utah Center book, Sex at Noon Taxes, which won the review of Taos Mountain, a posthumous published in the online journal le nouveau for the Book Award in connection with the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy collection of poetry and painting by Robert monde vert; one was published in the Utah Arts Council and the Utah Humanities of American Poets, was published in April Sund, also appeared in The Pacific Rim online journal PersimmonTree; two were Book Festival. He conducted an interview 2008 by State University Press. Review of Books . published in the online journal New Verse with Carolyn Forche which was published Sara Wallace (05): A poem she wrote Harry Youtt (03): In 2007, Harry News . in the Winter edition of Weber, The at Squaw two years ago won Cream City received a Pushcart Prize nomination Contemporary West . Review’s annual poetry contest, the Beau for a poem that he originated during the Laurie Zimmerman (99,01): Christopher Melissa Stein (99): Her poems were Boudreaux Poetry Prize. 2003 Squaw Valley Workshop. In January Buckley chose four of her poems for the 2008, Harry’s paper “Frosting the Words: 2008 New Letters Award, which includes published or are forthcoming in Mary Jane White (06): Her translation Consciousness Dynamics of Plain Speech a $1,500 prize and publication. Kim Review, North American Review, Crab of Marina Tsvetaeva’s “Poem of the End” Resonance Poetry” was published in Addonizio picked another poem of hers to Orchard Review, and Nimrod, and her will appear in the Winter 2009 Translation Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and win the River Styx 2008 Poetry Prize, which work won the Barbara Bradley Award and a issue of The Hudson Review, and her the Arts (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, also includes $1,500 and publication. She Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. villanelle “For My Father, And His Mother” London 2008). In summer 2008, Harry appeared in the ’s Daily has been published most recently in Orion Jeanine Stevens (07): Rattlesnake Press initiated a new poetry workshop in the Palette website poetry feature on January Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, and published her collection Eclipse, and UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Mid-American, among others . poems appeared in The South Dakota 9, 2009. She was awarded the John Woods Scholarship by the Prague Summer Program Review, Poet Lore, Alehouse, West Wind, sponsored by the University of Western and Edge . She was awarded first place in Michigan. New poems appeared in The the Poetry Contest (Nature Iowa Review, translations of Tsvetaeva in Squaw Valley Review 2008 Category), and was a finalist for the The Review, and a translation continues the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Ekphrasis Prize. of Montale in Agni Review online. Poetry Program tradition of publishing a collection George Stratton (03): His chapbook, of poems begun during the poets’ week together Ian Randall Wilson (08,04,93): See in July. Poets submitted three poems—whether Granite Land—Lava Land, came out from Writers Workshop Participant News. March Street Press in April. He is now completely revised or exactly the same as the day teaching writing at Napa Valley College’s Ernie Wormwood (02,00,98): He has the poem was first imagined—and three volunteer non-credit division. had poems published in Flights, MIPO’s editors (participants of the Poetry Program) Café, Café, Innisfree Poetry, and the selected which poems to include in the Review. anthology Poem, Revised from Marion Proceeds benefit the Scholarship Fund, enabling Street Press . more poets to attend the workshop. Mark Wunderlich (93): He has new poems forthcoming in Poetry . As of March 2009, the Squaw Valley Review 2008 is in the final editing stages, with a print release Bill Yake (98): He had two poems expected in early summer. More information, featured in Nalini Nadkarni’s Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections including table of contents, sample poems and to Trees (University of California Press, benefit readings in Northern California and Texas 2008). Two of his poems were also will be available soon on the website: among the six poems chosen as winners for the EcoLit Contest by Seattle’s Knock http://www.squawvalleywriters.org/poetry_anthology.html magazine. Other poems appeared in

~ 16~ ~ 17~ Participant Profile: Rusty Morrison

usty Morrison attended the Poetry Workshop three years in a row in ‘93, ’94, and ’95. She had been a teacher for 18 years, mainly at Rthe high school level, but her experience at Squaw Valley helped to inspire her to enter the MFA program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College, where she studied with Brenda Hillman and Lyn Hejinian among others.

The time she has devoted to her writing has been well spent. In September 2008, the Academy of American Poets announced that Rusty Morrison’s collection the true keeps calm biding its story (Ahsahta Press) was chosen by poets Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine, and Bruce Smith to receive the 2008 James Laughlin Award, which gives $5,000 to the most outstanding second book by an American poet published in the previous year. Written in the aftermath of her father’s death, the collection is a book-length sequence of poems about loss and the transformation she experienced in reconciling herself to it. About the selection, Claudia Rankine says: “In Rusty Morrison’s the true keeps calm biding its story the poem transforms into a machine for transmitting lines across impossible distances. … In the end we, as readers, are left with a stunning collection, written into the silence of everlasting loss.”

The collection also won Ahsahta Press’ 2007 Sawtooth Prize, selected by Peter Gizzi, and the 2007 Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, selected by . In addition, she recently won the 2008 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry from Cutbank, the University of Montana’s literary magazine. Whethering, her first collection, won the 2004 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and she has been a recipient of the Cecil Hemley (2006), and Robert H. Winner (2003) Memorial Awards from The Poetry Society of America. In April she will receive the 2009 George Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America, selected by John Yau. Her criticism and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Bomb, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Pleiades, New American Writing, Volt, Verse, and elsewhere.

In 2001 she embarked, with her husband Ken Keegan, on the adventure of starting Omnidawn Publishing (www .omnidawn .com). When asked what inspired her, she replied, “Lyn and Brenda were very enthusiastic about the idea of giving back to the community, and creating community, with writing. Lyn said to the class one day, ‘If you want to be invited to the best parties, you’d be wise to learn to give good parties.’ I brought that notion home and talked with my husband. He decided it would be a good thing. It’s a huge amount of work, but endlessly valuable. It is an honor to bring books to a reading public.” Since 2001, they have published 23 collections of poems by an impressive array of well-known and lesser-known authors, including an award-winning book by Martha Ronk and Lyn Hejinian’s The Fatalist, which was chosen as one of The Village Voice’s 25 Favorite Books of 2003 and was also mentioned in Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2003. In 2006 Omnidawn began adding Fabulist and New Fabulist Fiction to their list. Rusty is currently the Poet in Residence in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga. ~ 18~ ~ 19~ Summer 2008 Special Thanks and Photo Gallery

here are many people who work to make the conference happen each summer; some during poetry we thank Paula Bernett, Alex Chambers, have a formal relationship with the Community of Writers, and some are friends and Joshua Davis, Whitney Devos, Liberty Heise, Sara Tfamily. Michas-Martin, Michelle Raust and Lauren Shapiro, and for their work during the writers workshops, our gratitude First of all, we thank our magnificent goes to Jen Conley, Sarah staff that makes the conference what it is, and Fang, Ryan McBride, our many donors who make it possible. Many Gretchen McCullough, The Hall Family: Tad, Tracy, thanks to Lisa Alvarez, Diana Fuller, Andrew Mike Odom, Steve Potter and Barbara, Brett and Sands Tonkovich, Louis B. Jones, who despite Breeze Vincinz. their roles as directors and/or teaching staff are to be seen in Thanks also to our friends Paul Calandrino, Emma the days before the Amy Tan, Anne Lamott, Bailey, Justin Bailey, Thomas Estler, Adam Haight, Tad conference moving tables and chairs; to Mark Childress Hall, Hunter Jones, Margot Miller, Jessica Sievert, Tom Kaitlin Klaussen, who coordinated Taylor and especially to Steve Susoyev for omniscience and housing for us with Audrey Rose omnipotence. Thanks also to the trailing after; to Stacey Knapp for Paul Calandrino and Screenwriting helpers: Rebecca Jen Dietz running the bookshop with warmth Rufer, Jason Wolos, Jason Boyce, and style. We’d also like to thank and Chris Upham. Thanks to Chelsea Snell for childcare. And Debbie Lane of The Bookshelf thanks to Sands Hall for the inimitable Follies. Thanks also to who helped us tremendously with Maxima Kahn for editing and designing the Omnium Gatherum & the bookstore. Thanks also to Ariane Newsletter . Simard for running our intern Ariane Simard program, coordinating our snack We send our great appreciation to Justin Casey and Tom bar and handling special events, and O’Neill of the Olympic Plaza Food and Beverage for their lovely Ena Arbueza Jennifer Dietz, Tracy Hall, David Womack, Sasha Federoff, David Womack venues; and Ena Arbueza for her remarkable dinners. and Joan Klaussen for filling in the gaps wherever needed. The Board and Staff of the Community Many thanks to members of the Board of Writers would especially like to thank and Squaw Valley locals who have been Nancy Wendt, President of the Squaw tremendously generous with their time over Valley Ski Corp . who has continued to the years: Eddy & Osvaldo Ancinas, Amy create an environment where a conference Tan & Lou Demattei; Joan and Peter such as ours is possible; and to their Klaussen; Barbara Hall; Mimi & Burnett wonderful staff: Ernst Hager, Tom Kelly, Miller; Geri Thayer; and Max Byrd. Christine Horvath, Cynthia Braga, Linda Law and the Security Team (who Gary Short, Louis B. Jones, Andrew Tonkovich Our work waiver crews make each are superb ambassadors). conference run smoothly. For their labor The annual Poetry Workshop softball game! —Brett Hall Jones, Executive Director ~ 20~ ~ 21~ The Sounds of Summer 2008 Music Heard in the Office —Lisa Alvarez Participant Profile: Jeffrey Brown

effrey Brown attended the Screenwriting races and their conflicted relationship with workshop in 2008 to work on a script, their incarcerated mother as she gets out of JInto the Roar, about the impacts of prison after six years. the war on the veterans and their families, inspired by his work with veterans dealing Jeffrey started making films when he was 12, with their grief and anger. Although he has attended NYU film school and then made temporarily shelved this project, he has his a dramatic short, Molly’s Pilgrim, which hands full with a wealth of other noteworthy won an Oscar. He says of winning an Oscar Van Morrison: Moondance Emmylou Harris: Songbird endeavors. Taking as a role model his father, so early in his career, “It messed me up for Van Morrison got a workout last summer. This four-CD collection gathers together a pediatrician who spent his life working in a few years. My expectations of myself were This classic collection served our needs. Harris’ personal favorite songs and rare disaster relief around the world, Jeffrey has so high.” He partnered with Finn Taylor for “Into the Mystic” was our favorite. turned his career as a producer, director and ten years, co-writing Dream with the Fishes performances, duets and collaborations, many of which were never released screenwriter towards films that have a social (1997) and Pontiac Moon (1994) and also, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant: before and spanning 40 years (how can impact . more recently, working on Into the Roar . After Raising Sand that be?). Inspiring. years of directing toy commercials to support He is producing the film adaptation of the his family, he realized, “I wasn’t serving the Alison Krauss and Robert Plant unite and National Book Award-nominated novel Sold. world the way I was supposed to.” make the most of what each brings. Listen to Patti Smith: Twelve The film will be shot in India and Nepal in the them take on Townes Van Zandt, Tom Waits, fall. To date the script is with Danny Boyle’s Jeffrey grew up in Uganda for seven years, the Everly brothers, Sam Philips and others. Smith takes on 12 of rock’s anthems and puts her own stamp on them, from Hendrix’s “Are co-director of Slum Dog Millionaire, Loveleen which kindled an early interest in shamanism You Experienced?” and the Stones’ “Gimme Tandan. He also has interest from Oscar- that has continued for thirty years. Returning Keb’ Mo’: Keb’ Mo’ winning visual effects director Robert Legato to the States, he spent a great deal of time Shelter” to Nirvana’s “Smells like Teen Spirit” and director Julia Ormand. The story follows with the Hopi and the Sioux. He has worked This debut CD by bluesman Keb’ Mo’ still and the Doors’ “Soul Kitchen.” makes us happy after all these years, “Victims Lakshmi, who is sold by her impoverished with Michael Meade and African shaman of Comfort” still as relevant as ever. family to a brothel, where she is brutalized. Malidoma Somé, helping gang kids, and was Odetta: Looking for a Home She eventually escapes and then returns to involved in starting a branch of a non-profit save her friends. Jeffrey is making the film called Boys to Men in Northern California, Jackson Browne: Odetta’s powerful tribute album to Huddie out of a desire to bring attention to the global mentoring boys at risk. He is passionate Ledbetter, better known as “Leadbelly.” Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2 sex slave trade, which affects approximately about healing: self, others and the world, and We’ve been waiting for this one. It Check out her haunting version of “In the 20 million women, mostly teens, each year. is currently also developing a movie based on features fewer big hits and instead Pines.” Henry Butler plays piano. He is developing educational materials and a the autobiographical story of Malidoma Somé, showcases his often overlooked songs. documentary to go along with the film and Of Water and the Spirit. He is motivated to has partnered with Not For Sale.org and Maiti bring some of the ancient messages from Nepal to help raise money to rescue children indigenous cultures to the screen. Specifically, from the sex slave trade. he is interested in bringing shamanic dramas to the mainstream worldwide He also plans to shoot Run the Tide, audience. He feels this is what needs his first feature as a director this year. to happen next after Harry Potter and Run the Tide is the story of the love The Lord of the Rings trilogy. between two half-brothers of different

~ 22~ ~ 23~ Tom Schlesinger: Tom co-created The Juliette and the Crowd in Frank, and story Stranger, an action-adventure television consulting/editing for arms trafficking Screenwriting series now being shot in Morocco. He was investigator Kathi Austin’s memoir, which the Story Consultant on Prom Night in was purchased by Paramount . Mississippi, a documentary about teenage Michael Urban: He has been in Staff News race relations in Morgan Freeman’s production on a test shoot for a feature Mississippi town; Heart of Fire, a feature he wrote and is hoping to direct, Difficult Gene Corr: He is writer, director, Christopher Monger: He directed A film about child soldiers in Eritrea; and Child . He is still working on a feature for producer of a new documentary, From Sense of Wonder, the faux documentary Ayla, a feature film about honor killings in Plan B/Paramount called The Killing to be Ghost Town to Havana, with Roberto Chile of two interviews with the late Rachel Germany. directed by Jacob Estes. Additionally, he is as cinematographer and co-producer in Carson, based on the play, and performed Camille Thomasson: She continues collaborating with Camille Thomasson on Havana. The sandlot ball fields of Havana by Kailani Lee, currently on the festival with the adaptation of Regina Louise’s a comedy feature called Outlaw Inlaw . and East Oakland and two inspirational circuit. In production is his untitled project memoir, Somebody’s Someone (published coaches inspire and give young kids a Jason Wolos (04): He is the principal based on the story of autism-advocate in 2003), for Lifetime. Additionally, she is sense of fair play, confidence and athletic and animal behaviorist Temple Grandin at Fine Dining Productions, which has and life skills. In addition he was awarded writing the Stacey Bess Story, based on produced various projects from marketing for HBO Films. Currently he is writing the autobiography Nobody Don’t Love a residency by the Film Society/SFFilm Dangerous Doses, based on the book by to instructional videos. Currently his Nobody, for Hallmark Hall of Fame, as Commission at the Embarcadero Office Katherine Eban about the contamination feature, Trattoria, an original script, is well as The Lois Wilson Story, based on the Space . of America’s pharmaceutical drug supply planned for production in 2009. He is also book by the same name. Pam Gray: She wrote a remake of A by counterfeiters, for HBO films. teaching a class in shooting digital video as Christopher Upham: His documentary part of the new educational program at the Star is Born for Warner Bros., which is Tom Rickman: His screenplay, Front of film, War Within, is being completed with San Francisco Film Society. currently being cast. Her screenplay Betty the Class, was based on a book by the same consulting editor Eric Neudel (Eyes on the Anne Waters will be produced in early ‘09, name. It was presented on December 7, starring Hilary Swank. She is also writing by Hallmark Hall of Fame, to a glowing Prize, Vietnam: A Television History). His an adaptation of the bestseller Dewey, The response and national critical acclaim. other projects include a comic travel novel, Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World with Meryl Streep attached to star Lisa Rosenberg: She is writing a column as the librarian. Additionally, Walk On The on storytelling for SF360, the S.F. Film Moon is being adapted for Broadway. Society’s website. She is seeking a pro- duction deal for her screenplay, Crawl Space, based on Edie Meidav’s novel of the same name . She was selected by the San Francisco Film Society to direct the first two Screenwriting Classes in the new Educational Program: Launch Your Screenplay and Com- plete the Journey. The third in the series, Rough to Polish, will take place in the fall.

~ 24~ ~ 25~ Guardian and will tour festivals in Cairo Jack Estes (05): His script just took and Seoul. She was admitted as a Resident 1st place in the Film Makers 6th Annual Playwright to New Dramatists in New York International Screenplay Competition and Screenwriting and the Playwrights Foundation in San is among the final 10 for Scriptshark. Francisco. Her play Daphne Does Dim Bill Flanagan (05): He won three Participant Sum premiered at Centenary Stage in New REMI’s for Johnson’s Pages and The Clear Jersey. Her play Kitchen Table received a Horizon at the Worldfest, Houston. The reading by Playwrights Horizons in NYC in Good Samaritan also won Monterey Film News April 2008. She received commissions from Commission, The Writers Network, and the San Francisco Foundation for the plays was a runner up in Scriptshark where The Fall: A Child and Circus: A Diaspora Play Clear Horizon won the competition . and a grant from the same foundation to collaborate with Cutting Ball Theatre in William Farley (05): Recently he Marie Amsler (07): She won a one-year Matt Boatright-Simon (08): He has San Francisco and the Grotowski-based completed a film of John O’Keefe’s solo scholarship given by German TV and is been writing/directing/producing all of the Teatre Zar in Poland. Additionally, she will performance of Walt Whitman’s Song of one of the few chosen to work with TV commercials, documentaries, and narrative direct her short film Silk Fan in April. Myself and a 30-minute film on the unique producer, Claudia Gladziejewski, who projects for Christian Audigier, a fashion 82-year old artist Elaine Badgley-Arnoux. designer in Los Angeles. He hopes to go David Corbett (01,99,91,89,88): See helped develop The Lives of Others. Her Christina Ferguson (08): She teamed into preproduction on his script October Writers Workshop Participant News. screenscript, Esperaza, was optioned in up with Linda Kelly (Deadheads) to in early 2009. October by Enigmafilm, Munich (Germany) Fay Darmawi (08): She has submitted rewrite an original script, Box of Rain, Turtle Beach for admission into the 2009 and has a Swiss director attached, Sebastian Denise Bostrom (07,93,89): Her first with Gordy Hoffman. This is a fictional You Tube video, Get Out the Vote…, Tribeca All Access program in New York Kutzli, as well as the editor of The Lives of account of a family of Deadheads, dealing featuring Dave Smallen singing his song, City . with the death of Jerry Garcia (previously a Others. Production is scheduled for 2010 “America” appeared in October. Sheri Davenport (07): In June Sheri Sundance Finalist). in Hamburg and the Pyrenees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifG6LeOTyJ8 optioned her screenplay Kiss Me Lucky to Vibeke Gad: She has completed a Sara Baker (95,91): Her poetry has Jason Boyce (05): His film Barry Johnson Empire Productions . It was the script she miniseries for Danish Radio/TV Drama, To appeared or is forthcoming in The Yale won 2nd place in the Iron Filmmaker workshopped at Squaw Valley. Live the Truth, and a TV-Series, The Train . Journal of Humanities in Medicine, Contest, part of the California Independent Skye Dent (94): She obtained her MFA She recently screened her docudrama The The Healing Muse, and The Journal of Film Festival. He is planning to direct from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in Harmonica on television. his first feature, Medicine Run, fiscally Poetry Therapy. Her essay “Listening and 2007, taught at The NYU William H. Cosby Lisa Ginsberg (06): Her short filmJoystick sponsored by FAF. Currently he is seeking Observing” appeared in the book The Future Filmmakers Workshop, purchased Blues had wide festival showing and production outlets for his animated bird Art of Grief: The Use of Expressive Arts the remake rights of the 1972 Sidney Girltalk was picked up for distribution. film entitled The Art of Racing . Poitier film A Warm December, obtained in a Grief Support Group, published by Sheldon Gleisser (05): His short Jeffrey Brown (08): See his profile on the commitment of Dennis Haysbert Routledge, 2008. She presented workshops story “Converts” was a runner-up in the page 23 . to star, began writing a video game for at the International Society for the Arts in Mary Shelley awards for new stories of MINDLab/NIH, and just signed a contract Ashia Chacko (08): Her original script horror, fantasy, or science fiction and Healthcare Conference and the Writing to teach a TV Development course at Cal Black Box has garnered eight awards, was published in the Spring 2008 issue of and Wellness Connections Conference in State Northridge . Atlanta. www.saratbaker.com received positive coverage from The Rosebud magazine. His short story “Natural Weinstein Company, and was recently Tyler Dilts (00): See Writers Workshop Selection” was published in the online Jan Baross (94): Her new book, Ms .. novelized. Currently, she has a new family Participant News . journal Yellow Mama in August of 2008 . Baross Goes to Paris, an illustrated travel script in process called Child-Therapist . Melanie Dixon (05): Her horror script, Lisa Gold (08): She made the Nicholl guide, was published by MPolo Press Eugenie Chan (04): Her play Bone to Frost, is in development at Lions Gate UK. SemiFinals this year, ranking in the top 30 in 2008. Her award-winning novel, Jose Pick, performed in 2008 for the Cutting Ball She adapted fellow alumnae Tim Wendel’s scripts out of more than 5,200 submissions Builds a Woman, is now a screenplay and Exit Theater, was recently listed as one of novel, Castro’s Curveball, for the screen; and was accepted to the AFI Directing is making the rounds. the Best of 2008 by the San Francisco Bay the script is currently with William Morris. Workshop for Women.

~ 26~ ~ 27~ Daniel Hanna (08): He has just completed directed. He is an editor at Link T.V. Regina Louise (04): Her memoir, Labs. Currently Leena is teaching film his MFA in Film Production at USC. Jonas Koester (08): He has three Somebody’s Someone (published by production at Loyola Marymount University Agate Publishing in 2003), is currently and Otis College of Art and Design. Sean Hoessli (04): He currently, works producers looking at his script The being adapted by Camille Thomasson for for Yuco, a design firm in Hollywood, while Agreement . Owen Prell (02): He is a founder, pursuing several movie, television and web Lifetime Television. with Tracy Wheeler, of the Chrissy Field James Kohlberg (04,WW 03): He just projects as an independent producer, Moses Ma (08): He plans to shoot his first Screenwriter’s group. He and Wheeler have completed Trumbo, a documentary on including the adventure/comedy TV series feature in the summer of 2009, as well as acquired the rights to, and are adapting, Dalton Trumbo’s life and letters starring Hopjockey (www.Hopjockey.com) and a five minute short to test a new script, ’s The Spectator Bird into a Liam Neeson. Additionally, he has started Mendocino . an adaptation from a Hong Kong action feature length film. Prell is also currently in an international film sales and finance film. He is launching a new tech venture post-production on his documentary film Duane Allen Humeyestewa (02): company to add to his production efforts, in January, The Spirituality Network, Finding Nico . With his partner Deepa Donde (03), he enabling him to increase the scope of his part home-study video course, part news co-wrote and co-produced their recent Essential Entertainment and Essential Richard Raucci (04): He has finished channel and part social network. his fourth feature script this year and feature film Periphery, which is currently Productions . in post-production . Periphery was also Aparna Malladi (06): She plans to go is currently working with a producer, selected for IFP’s prestigious Independent Erich Stonestreet (06): His parody into pre-production with Hanglider in formerly with CAA and SONY Pictures, to Filmmaker Lab last June, and the trailer Goodnight Bush, written under the name December. Arati Misro is attached as get one or more of his scripts produced . was showcased during IFP’s Festival Erich Origen, was published by Little, producer, and there is a distributor willing Kimberly Reed (06): Her documentary last September. Currently the team is Brown in May. www .goodnightbush .com to serve as co-executive. She has found Prodigal Sons has been included in the developing two more features under their Steve Susoyev (06-00,98): See Writers a distributor who will provide finishing following festivals: AFI, Sheffield Doc/ company banner Red Elephant Films. Workshop Participant News. funds for her feature length film Mitsein . Fest, Denver International, Palm Springs International, Big Sky Documentary Film Marjory Kaptanoglu (07): Her scripts Tim Wendel (05,89-86): See Writers Elizabeth McDermott (07): She was Fest. Showing on BBC Storyville, the placed in the following contests for Workshop Participant News. hired by New Zealand producer Craig 2008: Devil’s Lure was a semifinalist in Newland to do a rewrite on a project film was the critic’s choice in 7 major UK Screenwriting Expo and Scriptapalooza. Tiffany Laufer (06,03): She was the entitled Radio Pirates, which then was outlets. IndieWIRE names Prodigal Sons as one of the “Five Undistributed Gems of Direct Descent won first place in Script cinematographer for Chad Benton’s short optioned by Ed Pressman . 2008” and KQED selected it as one of best Savvy. Just Kill Me Now was a semifinalist film, Women’s Work, which was screened Robert McEwen (04): His script Son of A films of 2008. She is waiting for distribution in WriteMovies. Raise You One Dead Body at the AFI Festival in October 2008. Her Gonne has been optioned to Dan Riley of and plans to shoot her narrative feature, finished in the second round of the British new TV project on organic food, Journey Port Magee Pictures. He has accepted an Please Check One, late in 2010. Short Screenplay Competition. to Your Plate, features Jack Hourigan (The invitation as resident playwright at Chicago Food Network and Slice TV). Dramatists and is currently adapting for Matt Reutta (05): He was key assistant Nancy Kelly (01,83): She produced and location manager on Milk; wrote, produced directed a documentary, Moments in Time, Julie Lipson (08): Her script Mercy, screen his newest award winning play, Mercy placed in the Nicholls Fellowship Cholo . and directed a children’s TV pilot called in partnership with KRCB Public Television Kid’s Club, which he is now pitching; and Awards for 2007. Currently she is doing a as Executive Producer in 2008. Currently Holly Payne (08): Her third novel, finished his second feature,Man Up Above, rewrite for producer Cliden Diamond on she is continuing her documentary on Big Ugly, due out in May 2009, has been scheduled for production in the fall. Chicago dance, Stories To Tell, as well as L .A .. River and developing a reality T.V. optioned by Momentum Cinema, and post production on the Point Reyes 99NRA show called Get A Job with producer Fila she has been hired to do the screenplay convention. A segment from her memoir, Barnett. She has also received interest adaptation . in Grand Theft Piano from Jinks Cohen When We Were Cowgirls, entitled Seasons, Leena Pendharker (04): She has formed (American Beauty) . She is Program appeared in the Spring edition of the West an LLC with producer Megha Kadakia to Coordinator for Theater of Hearts/Youth Marin Review . produce Raspberry Magic, scheduled for First in Los Angeles. Michael Kinomoto (Wilson) (05): He completion in June ‘09 and RK Dandekar collaborated on the Emmy Award-winning Lynn Logan (08): Her script Dying For Finds Home, which is in development. She documentary White Light Black Rain for Emily was chosen as one of the top ten in received the Roy Dean grant for Raspberry HBO as Assistant Producer. Steven Okusaki the Austin Film Festival. Magic and was a finalist for the Sundance

~ 28~ ~ 29~ David Sawle (07): He wrote and the new SF Film Society Kenneth Rainin produced his critically successful film Filmmaking Grants. Her award-winning Never Enough, a narrative feature, self short based on the feature is entitled distributed. In it, he delves into the lives of Soledad Is Gone Forever. She is also the wealthy and examines the destructive developing a romantic comedy, Parallel culture of consumerism that pervades Lies, with partner Cesar Viana-Teague. most American lives. Tracy Wheeler (05,02): She and Owen Rebecca Sanders (03): Her script Esther Prell have acquired the rights to, and are was optioned by Omar Kaczmarczk’s OK adapting, Wallace Stegner’s The Spectator Company, Los Angeles. She is currently Bird into a feature length film. This is co-producing a feature film, Shanti, for the second project Prell and Wheeler are Smera Productions, to be filmed in India co-producing, but their first time as co- this year . writers. Founders and members of the Samya Sattar (08): She received an Chrissy Field Screenwriter’s group, Prell offer from a notable Bay Area screenwriter and Wheeler met at Squaw in 2002. and producer for her feature screenplay Myrton Running Wolf (05): He worked Rickshaw Crossing . In addition she has for PBS in the research department on also been working as associate producer a five-part series on the history of the and script advisor on another feature film, American Indian, We Shall Remain, scheduled for production in spring 2009. broadcast in the fall of 2008. Lisa Swenson (05): She is in Mia Zuckerkandel (06): A KRON writer/ preproduction for her script Saltwater, for producer, she has written three spec which she has completed a trailer to raise scripts for episodic television: Big Love, funds and interest. Production is scheduled Friday Night Lights, and the award-winning for mid-2009 . Mad Men . Richard Schimpf (06): Fresh off the team that filmed Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Derek Zavala (06): He has completed the award-winning film Strange Culture, he final draft of his screenplay The Long Walk is again involved with alum Lise Swenson Home and is presently seeking production on a ground-breaking short, Mr ..Gary on interest. He has also also completed a the Feedback Show, which is now in post- Media Studies degree. production. Funds are being raised for Yun Suh (08,05): She is doing the final completion. cut of her documentary City of Borders Mabel Valdiviezo (05): Writer/director that follows the regulars at Jerusalem’s only Mabel Valdiviezo is testing scenes of her gay bar, where Israelis and Palestinians find political thriller Soledad’s Awakening at common ground. The film was selected the SFSDF’s Directing Actors Workshop. for the Berlin Film Festival, and the trailer The award-winning script (Best Feature won the Best Short Award at Vermont Screenplay at the Florida Media Market CineSlam in 2008. The film has received and Sundance Screenwriting Lab finalist), completion funding from Corporation for has been pitched to indie producers in the Public Broadcasting and is expected to be U.S. and Chile, and is one of 12 finalists for broadcast on PBS nationwide in 2009.

~ 30~ ~ 31~ Hard Times for Writers Louis B. Jones s p r i n g 2 0 0 9 he publishing business seems in a shambles like everything else. Chain available now Tbookstores are closing down their big “flagships” on streets like Michigan Avenue. Intrepid editors and smaller imprints are being withdrawn quietly from the field. Agents are refraining from sending out their favorite clients’ new work because they know that editors in their present despondency will only have to turn it down. One of the big publishing houses, for a while, actually placed a Review moratorium on acquiring new manuscripts, like a greengrocer who decides maybe business will pick up if he just stops receiving shipments of those damn vegetables. Fictions & (It was Houghton Mifflin. They soon awoke from that hysterical paralysis.) The Essays books that are being published are increasingly the sure-fire kinds of things – sure- Ellie Herman fire in all categories, highbrow and low-.

Robert Hambling Davis This community of writers of ours, every summer at our little congeries of Alisa Slaughter dusty parking lots in the Sierra, gets together with certain shared hopes. Maybe Ben Miller the highest hope people bring up here is that the secret might be imparted of how to capture the “Truth/Beauty” chimera; maybe something will rub off – whether a Kenneth Siewert ONICA habit or a technique – that will put into your hands the magic of the great sentence, Michael Jaime-Becerra the wonderful story, the profound character. We’ve all somewhere glimpsed Michael Cadnum the flashy tailfeathers of that combination “Truth-and-Beauty,” even if it was long M Dave Peters ago, even back in high school, and just the memory keeps us trying to lure it into our own homemade pages. But there is a more practical ambition people bring Sean Howell to the conference every summer, the ambition to get published. To learn how Emily Quinlan business is done. To learn how editors think. To get some contacts, in case it’s Ben Jahn true that connections matter. But with the publishing business these days in such a mercenary spirit, the writer can feel there’s cause to give up hope. The writer might Louis B. Jones begin to think it’s smart to start mistrusting her own heart, and start doing the kinds of things other people succeed so famously with. As if that’s what “technique” and Cover: Nomi Silverman “art and craft” consist in: re-doing what’s worked before. ANTA

The thing to remember is that the publishing business is always in a shambles. S Those editors and agents in New York are some of the smartest, wisest creatures in $7 copy / $12 yr. subscription the world, but in a very important sense, They don’t know what they want; they’ll SM Review Santa Monica College be the first to say it. This winter may be a time of extraordinary turbulence but 1900 Pico Boulevard / Santa Monica, CA 90405 chaos and benightedness are publishing’s creative condition. Once years ago on the phone to my agent, I was complaining of how worrisome I found it that Random www.smc.edu/sm_review House was being bought by Bertelsmann, and she said with almost a sigh, “Oh, that’s just the end-of-the-world, that’s always happening.” Since then, I’ve thought Continued on next page ~ 32~ ~ 33~ of that fine remark every time I’ve flown into New York, or been down on street level, and noticed, strictly from an architectural point of view, how much messy, noisy demolition is going on at all times. The end-of-the-world is going on every day on every streetcorner; it’s the method by which business is done. Writers Workshop The thing that’s invincible is literature. It’s more durable than the Condé-Nast in a Book building at 4 Times Square or the Random House offices at 1745 Broadway, and it’s more durable than the people who work in those buildings, or than the writers The Squaw Valley and the readers. What you do on your own workbench is the most important and Community of Writers redeeming activity because there really always will be an elite class of people – and on the Art of Fiction they deserve the name “elite,” though there are legions of them – who flip past the frontpage headlines, the basketball scores, the recipes and the restaurant reviews and Introduction by Richard Ford the celebrity gossip – all of which is very nice in its own way, but they want to get to Edited by Alan Cheuse that back page where a book is considered at length. They know that’s where the and Lisa Alvarez most effective and humane conversation about the world can be found.

The winter of 2009 feels like a replay of the “Great Depression” but writers have Max Byrd to keep on doing what they can’t help doing anyway: growing their weird crystals in their absolutely still environments. Hard times or no, writers can’t be looking over Distilled from seminars and lectures Alan Cheuse their shoulders. Possibly the beleaguered, straitened book editors, just these days, by the staff of the Community of do have to be practical and lower their sights a little bit. They have to keep the house Mark Childress Writers, this volume gives the reader a solvent, and they have to keep their own jobs or we won’t have editors. In Borders Janet Fitch and in the NY Times Book Review for the foreseeable future, plenty of the sure-fire jolt of inspiration, sharp insight melodramas will be served up – both the fiction and the nonfiction versions of Lynn Freed melodrama – served up to that large and dependable readership who open a book in Richard Ford into matters of technique, and a order to have their preconceptions confirmed, about the world and about themselves. Oakley Hall feeling of camaraderie with a Such more marketable books aren’t really about our lives, rather they propose to distract us from our lives. A number of successful writers do see themselves in the Sands Hall writing community. entertainment business. They feel that, as artists, they succeed to the extent that they James Houston hold people’s attention. Attention-holding is the game. And they’re certainly not Diane Johnson wrong. Attention-holding is presumably just the kind of art or craft you’re supposed to learn in “creative writing” classes. And it’s true, a novel’s first obligation is not to be Louis B. Jones boring. (Courtesy Henry James.) However, I think writers might be selling themselves Anne Lamott short if their plan is just to get the attention of as many people as possible for as long as possible. Such writers, in the attention-getting endeavor, compete with television Joanne Meschery shows, which usually do a better job of it. The writer with a surer purpose doesn’t Sandra Scofield Paperback. Published in May 2007. want to just hold people’s attention, he wants to reward people’s attention. That’s a Robert Stone ISBN 0811858219 whole other kind of investment, and it’s a relationship that must grow over time, like ISBN13 9780811858212 a marriage. In this light, if you’re an artist during hard times (compared with, say, a Amy Tan bricklayer), you’re fundamentally lucky. Because anyway, even the most deluxe form Al Young www.chroniclebooks.com of publication wouldn’t save you from your workbench, and you’re pretty much always in hard times. Your metabolism is evolved for it, for stamina and resourcefulness with longer-range ends in view. ~ 34~ ~ 35~ JAMIE FORD is the author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Ballantine) an Published Alumni Reading Series IndieBound NEXT List Selection for February 2009. Jamie is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer, Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China to San Francisco in 1865— ften referred to as the “this could be you” reading, the where he adopted the Western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. He Community of Writers has welcomed some remarkable attended the Community of Writers in 2006 . www .jamieford .com Owriters back to Squaw Valley for the Published Alumni Reading Series to read from their books and talk about their journey VICKI FORMAN is the author of the forthcoming book This Lovely Life: A Memoir from unpublished writers to published authors. of Premature Motherhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Her work has appeared in the Seneca Review and the Santa Monica Review, as well as the anthologies Love You to Pieces: Our 2008 Published Alumni were introduced by staff Creative Writers on Raising a Child With Special Needs, This Day: Dairies From American members and former participant Cai Emmons . Women, and Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined. www.vickiforman.com JOSHUA FERRIS attended the Writers Workshop in TANYA EGAN GIBSON is the author of the novel How To Buy a Love of Reading, 2003. He read from his novel Then We Came to the End, which will be published in May 2009 by Dutton. She attended the Community of Writers in a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. A national 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004. www .tanyaegangibson .com bestseller, named it one of the ten best books of 2007. His short fiction has been published recently i n Tin House, The Iowa Review, Best New American Voices, Prairie Schooner, New Stories from the South, The Guardian, and Granta . www .thenwecametotheend .com

CHRISTINA MELDRUM attended the Writers Workshop in 2005. She is the author of the novel Madapple, which was published in May 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf. Knopf will also publish her second novel. After working in grassroots development in Africa, she earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She OUR SCHOLARSHIP FUND NEEDS YOUR HELP has worked for the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland, and as a litigator at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling. The Community of Writers awards full and www.christinameldrum.com partial tuition waivers to talented writers and In 2009 we will welcome: poets. These scholarships increase the cultural diversity of the workshops and allow talented DAVID BAJO has worked as a journalist and translator and has writers to participate who would otherwise not published stories in The Cimarron Review, Zyzzyva and The Sun . be able to attend. Please join our friends, former Viking published his first novel, The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri, participants and staff in donating what you can . in 2008. He has a story in the current issue of Five Chapters. He attended the Community of Writers on a UC Irvine MFA Program You may direct your tax-deductible contribution Scholarship in 1987 and 1988. www.davidbajo.com to the program of your choice. Log on to http:// www.justgive.org to donate online with a credit FRANCES DINKELSPIEL is the author of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, which was card, or send a check to: published by St. Martin’s Press in November 2008. A former reporter for the San Jose Squaw Valley Community of Writers Mercury News, her freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, , THANK YOU! and People magazine. She also writes the literary blog “Ghost Word.” She attended the PO Box 1416, Nevada City, CA 95959 Community of Writers in 2003 and 2004 . www.francesdinkelspiel.com ~ 36~ ~ 37~ In Memoriam: Oakley Hall Squaw Valley Writers Last spring, Oakley Hall died at the age of eighty-six. Published by KnoPf~.~~ By recent generations of participants Oakley will be remembered as a magnanimous, warm, welcoming, unassuming figure, maybe a ducal presence at the periphery of the conference, a tennis player remaining rangy on into his eighties, who at conference events tended to sit with his wife Barbara in chairs close to the center, always with high expectations as if a wonderful meal were to be spread before them. Born in San Diego and reared partly in Hawaii, educated at San Diego State and UC Berkeley, and then at the University of Iowa’s writing program, Oakley began by writing mysteries as a young man and then steeply raised his ambitions and produced Corpus of Joe Bailey and Warlock, both highly regarded today. His two great legacies to writers are the writing program at UC Irvine, where with Hazard Adams he created a workshop modeled on the University of Iowa Workshops; and the Squaw Valley Community of Writ- ers, co-founded with Blair Fuller, which this year cel- Kevin Young sharon Olds ebrates its fortieth anniversary. He always felt that the Dear DarKness One secret thing literary establishment was unfairly concentrated in the east, and hoped both institutions would foster a literary community out west of the Rockies. Anyone who looks around will conclude, he seems to have succeeded.

Not only as an artist and an administrator, but also as a man, Oakley was an education to us. The practice of writing can be hedged about with nervousness, but Oakley had a way of putting people at ease with a plain candor that absolved all insecurities or pretensions. He was merciful as a critic but, also, blessedly no-bullshit. He was as patient with the vagaries of the book business as he was with the parade of Follies acts before him on Friday night; and as sincerely delighted, too, some of the time. He was glen David gold rabih alameddine courteous as the eminent must be. Also, he never sunnYsiDe the haKawati stopped doing what he loved. In the last year, he’d been growing fascinated by the Guinevere-Lancelot FREE! A PoeM A dAy foR 30 dAys relationship at Camelot, doing research, receiving We will deliver them by e-mail during the month of April. All you have to books by mail-order, and at the time of his death do is visit us at www.aaknopf.com/poetry and sign up for POEM-A-DAY. there was an unfinished manuscript on his desk.

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~ 44~ ~ 45~ In addition to Random House’s about the narrative structure.… Nice marketing efforts, Jamie has been busy to know the relative success of Hotel Participant Profile: Jamie Ford on his own with his website and blog, hasn’t quelled my internal critic.” guest blogging on numerous sites, giving amie started out in the advertising tells the story of their interviews, attending the Pacific Northwest Jamie has won the 2006 Clarity of Night world, attending art school in Seattle friendship and innocent Bookseller’s Association’s Feast of Authors, Short Fiction Contest, was First Runner-Up Jto become an illustrator, and then love set against the and doing a multi-city book tour. His in the 2006 Midnight Road Reader’s Choice working as an art director and copywriter. backdrop of war, engaging blog chronicles his experiences Awards, and the story that was the seed of On his website he writes, “I’ve won alternating between segments set in 1940s as a writer and the ins and outs of the Hotel was a finalist inGlimmer Train’s Fall an embarrassingly large amount of and the perspective of Henry, looking back book world, including many recent entries 2006 Short Story Award For New Writers. meaningless awards including 400+ on his life forty years later. Jamie calls it about touring, in which he recommends He has been published in The Picolata Addys, 7 Best-of-Shows, and my work has “a love story and a family story,” but also Traditional Medicinals Throat Coat Tea for Review and online at Flashing in the appeared in Adweek, Advertising Age, admits the book is “a bit more than that,” the inevitable voice loss, gives the name Gutters and Fictional Musings. His graphic Graphis and Communication Arts. I also as it deals with issues of race and history of a great new Asian restaurant in Seattle, novel script, Gaiman, will be published in had a commercial appear on an episode of and even dips into the Seattle Jazz scene and advises that “even the smallest Indie Secret Identities: The First Asian American The U.K.’s Funniest Commercials inspired of the 1940s. The initial idea for the novel store matters.” But he bemoans the loss of Superhero Anthology in spring 2009 . by an embarrassing incident with a bidet.” was inspired by an “I am Chinese” button time to write: “My second novel, Whispers that Jamie’s father was made to wear by his of a Thunder God, is sitting here staring Jamie lives in Great Falls, Montana with His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner own father during WWII so that he would at me like an orphaned child. And since I his wife and children. He says, “Yep, it’s of Bitter and Sweet was released by not be mistaken for Japanese. Like many tend to write obsessively, this time off has chaos, but the good kind of chaos.” only allowed seeds of doubt to germinate Ballantine on January 27, 2009, and is novels, it began as a “sliver of a story” and www .jamieford .com already in its fifth printing. He has spent grew from there . Keeping the ending in the last month touring in such places as mind helped Ford to expand the story to Dallas, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco a novel. “I look at storytelling as either and Milwaukee. This March, Hotel is the brief-residency banking or spending emotional currency Master of Fine Arts in Writing New Reads Book Club pick for Barnes & with the reader. Good or bad, happy or Noble; it has also been a Borders Original Spalding University offers a four-semester, sad, the ending is where those emotional Voices Pick. At the end of February, the brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing. debts are paid.” novel reached #30 on the New York Times • Begin the semester with a 10-day spring or fall Bestseller list. residency in Louisville or summer residency in an Jamie says his transformation from international location. Jamie describes Hotel as “basically the a “bored hobbyist” to taking his writing seriously came from surviving Orson Scott • Complete the semester at home through story of the Japanese Internment in Seattle one-on-one individualized study by during WWII, but Card’s Boot Camp and then attending correspondence with a faculty mentor. seen through the the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop in 2006. At Squaw, Jamie met an • Study fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, writing eyes of a 12-year for children, screenwriting, or playwriting editor who suggested he quit his job and old Chinese boy, Where Every “write this book as soon as you can.” Jamie named Henry.” Individual Talent Program Director: Sena Jeter Naslund, Henry befriends says, “Well, I didn’t quit my day job anytime Is Nurtured author of Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits, and a Japanese girl soon, but I did write like mad. I finished Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette named Keiko, who the book a few months later.” Then he 851 S. Fourth St. 502-585-9911 x 2423 is eventually sent queried agents, chose Kristin Nelson, and Louisville, KY 40203 800-896-8941 x 2423 to the internment his novel was auctioned to Random [email protected] www.spalding.edu/mfa camps. The novel House. Jamie was overjoyed. ~ 46~ ~ 47~ Feminism is Good for Families, Business Francisco Chronicle Notable Book. His and the Nation won two awards: upcoming novel, Wheel of Shadows, will Foreword Magazine’s gold-medal Book appear in the fall of 2009. His short story of the Year Award for women’s issues, and “Pretty Little Parasite” appeared in Las an Outstanding Academic Title award from Vegas Noir this past year, and his story Choice magazine. “Dead by Christmas” will appear in Phoenix James Brown (87,86): See Writers Noir in 2009 . www.davidcorbett.com Workshop Staff News. Diana Corbin (05): Her story “Catch” Jamie Cat Callan (90): Her latest was published in Two Hawks Quarterly in May 2008. Writers Workshop Participant News book, French Women Don’t Sleep Alone: Pleasurable Secrets for Finding Love, was Eileen Cronin (06,05): She was awarded Ronald Alexander (02): His third judy b. (00): Her screenplay Mighty, bought by Kensington Press this year and the Writers’ Prize for Short novel, The War on Dogs: in Venice Mighty Estro and the Super Duper was released in March 2009. She received Fiction from Washington Independent Beach (illustrated by Nathan Geare), was Paroxysms for Peace was a quarterfinalist a fellowship to work at the Virginia Center Writers (now American Independent published by Hollyridge Press in spring for the 2008 Bluecat Screenplay Award. for the Creative Arts this past year. Writers). Her short story appeared in the G .W ..Review and is now on the AIW 2008 . The War on Dogs was included Michael Chabon (87,86): See Writers Elaine Beale (02): Her novel Another website. An excerpt from her memoir-in- in WordTheatre’s annual “Novel and Life Altogether will be published in 2010 Workshop Staff News. Memoir Beginnings,” co-sponsored by the progress appears in the Fall 2008 issue by Spiegel and Grau, a division of Random Amanda Chiado (07,06): See PoetWatch American Booksellers Association. of the Belleview Literary Review and is House’s Doubleday group. for her news . available on the BLR website. Her novel Lisa Alvarez (95,93): See Writers Krista Benjamin (03): She received a Alix Christie (00): Alix’s novel Hard Lead Soul was again a finalist in the Pirate’s Workshop Staff News. Professional Artist Grant and the Robert News was in the running for the Top 10 Alley Faulkner-Wisdom competition in Anita Amirrezvani (01): Her first novel, Gorrell Literary Award from the Sierra Arts finalists on the Breakthrough 2008 . The Blood of Flowers, was published in Foundation. Two of her poems will be Novel award. And was a ABNA Books Top Debra A. Daniel (01): Her poetry paperback in May and was long-listed for reprinted in Creative Writers’ Handbook, 100 Semifinalist 2008. chapbook As Is was published in February the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction in the 5th edition, and Manual for the Creative Meg Waite Clayton (00): Her novel The from Main Street Rag Publishing Company. UK, as well as being sold to publishers in Writers’ Handbook (Pearson/Prentice Wednesday Sisters was published in June www .mainstreetrag .com 28 countries . www.bloodofflowers.com Hall, 2009) by Allan Lefcowitz. by Ballantine Books, and has become a Jasmin Darznik (06): She has been Stephanie Anagnoson (07,05,04): She Irwin Borof (01,97,92): His novel, national bestseller. She has also just sold awarded a Steinbeck Fellowship for 2008- had an essay published in the Fall 2008 now titled Evidence of Prejudice, a a new novel to Ballantine, tentatively titled 2009, and her memoir will be published by issue of UU World on spirituality in the legal thriller set in 1945 San Francisco, The Ms ..Bradwells . Grand Central in 2009. workplace. She gave birth to a daughter in has been published by Eloquent Books. Denise Emanuel Clemen (06): Denise Bob Davis (08): “The Control Freak’s September . Eloquentbooks.com/evidenceofprejudice. html has received fellowships to the Virginia Guide to Hallucinating” was just accepted Lea Aschkenas (02,99): She will serve Center of the Creative Arts (Oct. ‘08), the by PANK magazine, along with two other as the summer 2009 writer-in-residence at Denise Bostrom (07,93,89): See Vermont Studio Center (Feb. ‘09), and surreal short stories of his. The stories will Can Serrat, an international artists’ colony Screenwriting Participant News . has a piece in the November issue of Two be in print in fall 2009, but they are already in the Montserrat Mountains northwest of John Brantingham (07,03): Finishing Hawks Quarterly. available online at www.pankmagazine. Barcelona. Line Press is publishing his chapbook The David Corbett (01,99,91,89,88): His com/read/february09.html Jaynel Attolini (08): The six-word love Mediterranean Garden, and Garrison most recent novel, Blood of Paradise, Tracy DeBrincat (96): Her poem story she submitted to SMITH Magazine Keillor recently read one of his poems on was nominated for four national awards, “Swallow” was accepted for inclusion in will be published in Six Word Memoirs on Writer’s Almanac on NPR. including the Edgar, and was named one the 2008 edition of the Coe Review . The Love and Heartbreak by Writers Famous Ellen Bravo (01,00): Her non-fiction of the Top Ten Mysteries & Thrillers of short story “Spontaneous Light” appeared and Obscure by HarperPerennial. book Taking on the Big Boys, or Why 2007 by and a San in the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of

~ 48~ ~ 49~ new from alluvium books Phantasmagoria . A short short, “Chinese,” for the online edition of Spectrum was published in West Wind Review. Her Magazine, the national autism magazine: short story collection Moon Is Cotton http://www.spectrumpublications.com/ & She Laugh All Night was selected as a Seth Fleisher (08,06): Stories from finalist for the 2008 Noemi Prize and semi- his collection-in-progress on fathers Confessions of a Bi-Polar finalist for the 2008 Black River Chapbook have appeared or are forthcoming in the Competition . Mardi Gras Queen Bellevue Literary Review and Pearl . Tyler Dilts (00): His first novel, A King of Jamie Ford (06): See profile on page 46. by Marie Etienne Infinite Space,will be released in late April by World Parade Books. Vicki Forman (94): Her creative nonfiction manuscript This Lovely Life was Lee Doyle: The Love We All Wait For, a Available February 16, 2009 chosen to win the 2008 Bakeless Prize and novel, was published in 2008 by Komenar is scheduled to be published by Houghton ISBN: 978-0-9748474-1-2 Publishing. www.leedoyleauthor.com Mifflin Mariner Paperbacks in summer Merridawn Duckler (07): Her short 2009. She will also be a fellow at Bread Loaf stories have appeared in Green Mountains in August 2009 . For author events and information, Review and Night Train, and her non- Martha Frankel (98): Her memoir Hats please visit fiction has appeared in Narrative and & Eyeglasses was published by Tarcher/ www.marieetienne.com Isotope, and was nominated for the 2009 Penguin. The paperback appeared in Best Creative Nonfiction. Her script/ February. www.marthafrankel.com libretto for Beowulf has been accepted for the 2009 season at the Broad Theater in Alison Gee (07,01): Her memoir The “Marie Etienne’s ability to find humor in her haunting journey makes this Los Angeles. Peacock Cries for Rain was bought by St . a fascinating and powerful story.” Martin’s Press and is due out by the end Maureen Duffy (02): Her essay about of 2009 . ­—Adair Lara, author of The Granny Diaries a remote game park in Africa, “Pax, Ishango,” was published in the October Darien Hsu Gee (99): Under the pen issue of LOST Magazine (www.lostmag. name Mia King, she has published two “Marie Etienne has written a brutally frank and captivating memoir that com). She received her MFA in writing novels: Good Things (Berkley Books/ will have readers rooting for her at each step along the way.” from Bennington College in January. Penguin USA) was released in 2007 and was a national bestseller; Sweet Life (Berkley —Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, author of Love in Translation Selden Edwards (71-69): His debut Books/Penguin USA) was released in 2008 novel, The Little Book, was published by and was a pick for the Doubleday, Literary Dutton in 2008 and appeared on numerous Guild and Book of the Month book clubs. bestseller lists. He was a charter student of Her third novel, Table Manners (Berkley the Community of Writers in 1969 . Books/Penguin USA) will be released in Marie Etienne is the author of Marie Estorge (01): Written under the August 2009 . www.miaking.com Storkbites: A Memoir. She attended pen name Marie Etienne, her second Aleta George (05): She is a contributor to memoir, Confessions of a Bi-Polar Mardi the Squaw Valley Community Bay Nature, Smithsonian magazine, and Gras Queen, was published in February the San Francisco Chronicle. of Writers. She is a competitive 2009 by Alluvium Books. Tanya Egan Gibson (04,02-00): Her springboard diver and lives in Joshua Ferris (03): One of his stories was novel How To Buy a Love of Reading will California with her sons. published in the New Yorker in July 2008. be published by Dutton in May 2009. Her Barbara Fischkin (95): She is writing second child, Cole Raines Gibson, was a weekly column, momnot.calm, born in May 2008.

~ 50~ ~ 51~ Sandra Giedeman (96,93): She was and acquaintances . [email protected] a finalist in the New Orleans University Sheila Himmel (08): The book she Poetry Contest judged by Andrei Codrescu . workshopped last summer, Hungry: A In May, she read at Shakespeare & Mother & Daughter Fight Anorexia, will Company in Paris. In 2008, her poetry was be published in August 2009 by Berkeley published in Fieralingue (Italy), Shaking Trade Paperback. Like a Mountain, the California Poetry Quarterly, and Two Hawks Quarterly . Elizabeth Kadetsky (04,97): Her fiction appeared in Best New American Glen David Gold (97,96): See Writers Voices 2008, Guernica Magazine and Workshop Staff News. is forthcoming in Triquarterly, and was Andrea Alban Gosline (04): With cited in several competitions including the illustrator Lisa Burnett Bossi she celebrated Glimmer Train’s Family Matters contest. the launch of The Happiness Tree: Her essay “Modeling School” appeared Celebrating the Gifts of Trees We Treasure in Antioch Review and Going Hungry, (Feiwel & Friends, 2008). an anthology from Anchor Books. In Lev Grossman (95): The Magicians will September, she joined the creative writing be published by Viking in August 2009. faculty as a visiting assistant professor in fiction and creative nonfiction at Lise Haines (99): Bloomsbury will University of Pittsburgh. This year she also publish her third novel in the U.S. and the signed with Eleanor Jackson at the Elaine U.K. in fall 2009. She is currently Writer In Markson literary agency for her fiction and Residence at Emerson College. She can be nonfiction. reached at: [email protected] . Maxima Kahn (07,06): See PoetWatch . Daniel Halem (03,02): He has re- launched Walkabout Jones as an art Joseph Kennedy (98): He has published and political web magazine, which also in Natural History Magazine, Mobius, and includes video, music and photography. his fourth book, The Tropical Frontier, will www.walkaboutjones.com be published this year. He can be reached at [email protected] Carolyn Harris (07,02-00): Her story “The Graveyard Shift” appeared in r .kv .r .y David Kerns (05): His novel Standard quarterly literary journal, Winter 2008 . of Care has been honored as a finalist in A re-print of “A Tale of Two Towns” was the 2008 National Indie Excellence Book published in Through A Glass Darkly: Awards . www.davidkerns.com Americans View Themselves From Abroad. James Kohlberg (04 Screenwriting,03): Carolyn blogs at http://blog.seattlepi. See Screenwriting Participant News . nwsource.com/lynscircle/ Michelle Latiolais (89): See Writers Dorothy Hearst (04): Her novel Promise Workshop Staff News. of the Wolves was published by Simon & Edan Lepucki (07): Her story “Animals” Schuster in June 2008. won second place in the StoryQuarterly Steve Hermanos (05): His short story 2007 Fiction Contest, and her story “The “The Good Samaritan” was published in Baby” from CutBank was nominated for a Lullwater Review in July. He will gladly Pushcart Prize. The story she workshopped email the story to any interested friends at Squaw Valley, “Good Dog,” will be

~ 52~ ~ 53~ published in the Spring issue of the Los Rusty Morrison (95,94,93): See profile Lucia Orth (95): Her novel Baby Jesus is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Angeles Review . page18 . Pawn Shop, begun at Squaw Valley, was The Florida Review, and Santa Monica David Roy Lincoln (99,96): He won Karen Moulding (08,07): Her story “The published in November by the Permanent Review . the 2008 James C. McCormick Isherwood Emergency,” excerpted from her novel, Press . Todd James Pierce (95-92): Las Vegas Fellowship for work on his new novel, The Untrainable Heart, was published Mary Otis (01): Her story, “Pilgrim Girl,” Noir, an anthology of short fiction which Liberty Boys. in Fawlt Magazine (www.fawltmag.com) was published in the Tin House anthology he co-edited, was published as a trade in 2008. Her story “Theories” (from her Paulette Livers (07): She was awarded Do Me: Tales of Love and Sex and reviewed paperback by Akhasic Books in May 2008. novel The Naked Shopper), originally a writing residency this past summer favorably in The New York Times . In His personal essay on Internet gambling, published on Nerve.com in March 2007, at Artcroft, a 400-acre artists’ retreat November 2008, her story, “Odin, King “Bonus Hunter,” appeared in the Fall 2008 has been selected for the second Best of of Hearts” was published in Woof: Writers issue of The Missouri Review, and a new and working farm at the foothills of the Nerve “Smut” Anthology, to be published Appalachian Mountains. artcroft .org on Dogs (Viking). She was recently hired set of poems appeared in the Spring 2008 in 2009 by Chronicle Books. Her story as core faculty in the UC Riverside MFA issue of The Gettysburg Review. Amy Logan (08,06): Her essay, “Glitter,” also from The Naked Shopper, Program in Creative Writing. “Flipping the Bird at Fear,” was published was published on sliptongue.com in 2007. Yoav Potash (08,05): Crime After in Mothering Heights’ Manual for The Untrainable Heart was a finalist in the David Page (03,02): His guide Yosemite Crime, his documentary film, screened at and the Southern Sierra Nevada was Oakland’s Temple Sinai in September. Motherhood, Volume 1: What we wish we 2007 Parthenon Prize for Fiction contest. published by The Countryman Press. knew before we became short order cook, Nami Mun (02): The French edition of Jenny Pritchett (04): She won the 2008 shuttle driver, laundress, mother .. The Miles from Nowhere, her first novel, was Victoria Patterson (06): Her collection Michael Rubin Chapbook Award for her anthology, published in 2008, by Mothering published in 2008. The US edition, as well of interlinked short stories, Drift, will be debut collection of stories, At or Near the Heights Press, became an Amazon #1 best- as other translations, is forthcoming in published in June 2009 with Houghton Surface, judged by Tin House founding seller in the Motherhood category and hit January 2009. www .namimun .com Mifflin. Her short fiction has appeared or editor Holly MacArthur and published #7 in Essays. Barbara Falconer Newhall (06,03,02): Leza Lowitz (99): She has recently been She has started a blog: named Fiction Editor of Kyoto Journal . www.BarbaraFalconerNewhall.com Essays are forthcoming in Call Me Janis Cooke Newman (01,98,97): See Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Writers Workshop Staff News. Mothering (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing) and To Japan With Love (ThingsAsian Kem Nunn (79): See Writers Workshop Press). Staff News . Dave Morris (08): He was selected for the Varley O’Connor (88,89): See Writers Staige Blackford Nonfiction Writing Award Workshop Staff News. from the Virginia Quarterly Review . Mike Odom (08): In July, he received First Prize for Best Feature Story (Division Eric Martin (08,00,95): Recent Squaw D) in the 2008 Alabama Press Association grads Eric Martin and Jaynel Attolini left Better Newspaper Contest for a 2007 story Squaw inspired. Together they are working in the Fairhope Courier, where he works on creating an outstanding writing group as a reporter. In September, he was named based in San Francisco to carry them forward Nonfiction Editor ofOracle, the University in their writing and publishing. They are of South Alabama’s fine arts magazine. presently looking for 1-2 more serious hard- Kristin Ohlson (92,88): Her story from working writers to join them. Eric Martin Gourmet magazine called “Kabul Nights” is may be reached at: eemartin1012007@ featured in Best American Travel Writing yahoo com. 2008 .

~ 54~ ~ 55~ by Fourteen Hills Press. Stories from the Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Newsday and Kris Saknussem (03): His novel Private is now out in paperback. Her next book, collection have appeared or are upcoming others . Midnight (formerly The Window in the The Lost Kingdom: The Sugar King, the in Southwest Review, Northwest Review, Mirror) is due out from Overlook Press in Last Queen, and the Struggle for Hawaii, (05): Her new Boulevard, Salt Hill, and Fiction Attic; one March, and has received a starred review in will be published by Grove/Atlantic Press collection of stories about environmental was chosen for the Best of the Web 2008 Publisher’s Weekly. He won First Prize in in 2011 . heroes for young teenagers, Heroes of anthology from Dzanc Books. the Missouri Review’s first Audio Contest the Environment, will be published by C. Kevin Smith (02,01): He published in the 10 Minute Play category for “Memory Frederick Reiken (95): See Writers Chronicle Books in fall 2009. three essays in the Redwood Coast Workshop Staff News. Wound,” which comes from the novel. Review: “Eye of Newt” (Winter), “A Roof Robin Romm (03): Her memoir, The Eliot Schain (07,02,99,98): See of My Own” (Spring) and “Fire Season” Sue Repko (06): A short-short, “How Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks, PoetWatch . (Fall). He appeared in the award-winning I Give Birth to My Mother,” appeared in was published by Scribner in January documentary Emile Norman: By His Tattoo Highway, while another story, Alice Sebold (97,96): See Writers 2009. The paperback of her collection The Own Design, which received its national “Holding Patterns,” was published in Workshop Staff News. Mother Garden will be published shortly. premiere on PBS in June. His monologue Broken Bridge Review . Her poem “Holy www .robinromm .com Land Everywhere” went online at Midway Mike Shaler (07,02,00): He won “Beginning to Burn” won the Carl Journal in November. www.suerepko.com Amy Kathleen Ryan (06): Her young honorable mention for “Filling in the Cherry Center’s One on One Monologue adult novel Vibes was released by Houghton Blanks” in Glimmer Train’s May 2008 Competition and was performed at the Meredith Resnick (01,99): Her essay Mifflin Company in fall 2008. Short Story Award for New Writers . Center’s annual monologue festival by Jill “My Own Person” was produced for radio Jackson. www.ckevinsmith.com by NPR’s DimeStories, and her essay Phil Ryan (97): His novel All Sins Julia Flynn Siler (04,03): Her nonfiction “Too Young To Have a Mother That Old” Remembered was published in April 2008 book The House of Mondavi has been Susanna Solomon (97): Her story “A appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago by San Francisco City Press. nominated for a James Beard Award and Well Defined Trail” came in third place in the Inland Empire California Writers Contest. The story will be published in their publication, Fresh Ink . Robin Somers (06): Robin is hosting a monthly televised poetry show, titled “Live “CRIMINAL PARADISE is a powerful Tim Wendel Poets Society” that airs on Cable 27 in the 4.5 liter, fuel-injected V8 Cadillac Palo Alto area and was selected to read in “In Red Rain, Sedan Deville of a novel. And with Santa Cruz’s 26th Annual Celebration of the Tim Wendel takes Steven Thomas behind the wheel, it’s Muse poetry festival this coming spring. a footnote to World War II and an absolute joyride–an enormously masterfully expands it into a novel Teresa Stores (05): Her new novel, satisfying debut.” —Martin J. Smith of dynamic action and human Backslide, was published by Spinster’s Ink dimension.” —Colson Whitehead in 2008 . “Satirical and stylish . . . [with a] vividly Cora Stryker (06): She is the recipient described Southern California setting.” This is a terrific story, jammed with of the 2008-2009 Steinbeck Fellowship at —Chicago Tribune secrets, cross-purposes and San Jose State to complete revisions on her “The criminal-as-detective gimmick revelations, and Tim Wendel has first novel,Manzanita, a love story set in a made a fine novel of it.” post-petroleum San Francisco. works. This is a good start.” —Oakley Hall —Kirkus Review Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum (02): She published her second collection of Writer’s Lair Books “Send me anything this guy writes, short fiction, Swimming With Strangers ISBN 9780975440216 he’s the rare and real deal.” (Chronicle Books), this November. Stories www.writerslairbooks.com in the collection appeared in 2008 issues of —Ken Bruen www.timwendel.com ~ 56~ ~ 57~ the journals One Story and The American Amy Tan (87): See Writers Workshop Hawai’i’s Environment, was published in Scholar, as well as in the forthcoming Staff News . August by Island Heritage Publishing. anthology PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Jervey Tervalon (93,92): See Writers Naomi Williams (05): She won a 2009 2009. In September 2008, Kirsten joined Workshop Staff News. Pushcart Prize for her story “Rickshaw the faculty at Purchase College, SUNY, Runner.” Her short fiction also appeared where she teaches fiction writing. Steven M. Thomas (00): His SoCal literary crime fiction novel, Criminal this year in ZYZZYVA and The Gettysburg Christine Sunderland (05): Her new Paradise, was published by Ballantine in Review . novel, Offerings, has been contracted March. The book’s protagonist, Robert Ian Randall Wilson (08,04,93): His by OakTara (formerly Capstone) to be Rivers, will return in Criminal Karma, novella Great Things Are Coming was released in 2009. Offerings is the sequel which will be published by Ballantine in published in The Gettysburg Review and to Pilgrimage, published in 2007 by May 2009, a month after the paperback now, in book form, by Hollyridge Press. Capstone . version of Criminal Paradise arrives in They are simultaneously releasing his Steve Susoyev (06-00,98): In May 2008, bookstores. collection of stories Absolute Knowledge, his book Return to the Caffe Cino won Sheila Thorne (04): Sheila has writing in February 2009. the Lambda Literary Foundation award published recently or forthcoming in Mingmei Yip (98): Her novel Peach for Drama. His article “Ireland Honors divide, Louisiana Literature, and Talking Blossom Pavilion was released by Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi” River Review . Kensington Books. appeared in the July-August 2008 issue of The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. Wendy Nelson Tokunaga (02,01): She Alia Yunis (04): Her first novel, The His article “The Resurrection of Corpus received her MFA in Writing from University Night Counter, will be published by Shaye of San Francisco in October, and completed Christi” appeared in the Fall 2008 issue of Areheart Books/Random House in July her second novel for St. Martin’s, Love in White Crane Journal . 2009. The short story she workshopped Translation, which will be published in fall at Squaw Valley was published in Crab Ellen Sussman (96,80): Her new book, 2009 . www.WendyNelsonTokunaga.com Orchard Review this past fall, and she Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Andrew Tonkovich (95,93): See Writers also has pieces in the anthologies Hunger Sex, was published by Bloomsbury in June Workshop Staff News. and Thirst (City Works Press, 2008) 2008. The paperback of her bestselling and Dinarzad’s Children (University of Cameron Walker (04,02): She is the book, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, was Arkansas Press, 2008). She is currently fiction editor of A River & Sound Review. published in July 2008. www.ellensussman. teaching screenwriting and film production www.riverandsoundreview.org com in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates . Maureen O’Leary Wanket (06): Her Kathleen Sweeney (99): Her Alexi Zentner (2005): His short story first piece of published fiction, “The collaborative screenplay (with co-writers “Trapline” appeared in the Fall 2008 issue Cameraman,” appears in issue 11 of Esopus Kate Hagerman and Alystyre Julian), The of Narrative Magazine and was selected Magazine . Lodestar, was short-listed for the 2009 for the 2008 Narrative Prize. His short Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab. Her first Spring Warren (03): Her first book, fiction will appear in Atlantic Monthly, book, Maiden USA:Girl Icons Come of Age Turpentine, is coming out with Grove/ Slice Magazine, and Green Mountains (Peter Lang, 2008), made its debut this Atlantic in September 2008. www . Review in 2009 . www.alexizentner.com past year, and she is now Content Editor springwarren .com for a series of books on environmental Tim Wendel (05,89-86): His new novel, leadership for girls published by the Among your sexiest attributes: Health Red Rain, was published by Writer’s Lair Girl Scouts. She also joined the Advisory Insurance . Books. www.timwendel.com Board of Girls Write Now, a non-profit —Jaynel Attolini, Six Word Memoirs on organization that pairs inner city girls with Kirsten Whatley (06): Her first Love and Heartbreak by Writers Famous women writers in year-long mentorships. nonfiction book, Preserving Paradise: and Obscure (HarperPerennial) To learn more: www.girlswritenow.org Opportunities in Volunteering for

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