The Winter Getaway is well known for its challenging and
supportive workshops led by accomplished writers and artists. We
hope you will get to know our 2009 faculty members,
first online and
then in person in January!
Renée Ashley is the
author of three volumes of poetry: Salt, winner of the
Brittingham Prize in Poetry, The Various Reasons of Light,
The Revisionist's Dream and a chapbook, The Museum of
Lost Wings, as well as a novel, Someplace Like This.
She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council
on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is
co-poetry editor of The Literary Review and is on the
faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low-residency MFA
Program in Creative Writing. Her essays on craft have been
published in Studies in American Humor, Fulcrum: An Annual
of Poetry and Aesthetics and AWP's The Writer's
Chronicle.
Barbara Daniels'
Rose Fever was published by WordTech Press in 2008. She received two
Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on
the Arts, earned an MFA in poetry at Vermont College and was awarded
a full fellowship from the Dodge Foundation to attend the Vermont
Studio Center. Her chapbook, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, won the Quentin R. Howard Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Literary Review, Birmingham Poetry
Review, Natural Bridge and many other journals.
Michael Broek
is a Professor of English at Brookdale Community
College and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He holds an
MFA in poetry and is the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the
NJ Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in The Cimarron
Review, The Sycamore Review, Web Del Sol, 42opus,
The Journal of New
Jersey Poets, Sundog, Fourteen Hills, Paterson
Literary Review, The
Potomac Review, The Portland Review, Verse Libre and elsewhere. He
is currently completing his PhD. in American Literature at the
University of Essex in the UK.
Catherine Doty is the
author of Momentum, a volume of poems from CavanKerry Press
in 2004, and Just Kidding, a collection of cartoons
published by Avocet Press. Her work has appeared in numerous
magazines and anthologies, among them Garrison Keillor's More
Good Poems for Hard Times and Billy Collins' 180 More:
Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. She is the recipient of the
a Marjorie J. Wilson Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize,
fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the
New York Foundation for the Arts and other grants and honors. Ms.
Doty has worked as a visiting artist for the Frost Place, the
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New York Public Library and
other organizations.
Karen Zaborowski
Duffy is the recipient of two Poetry Writing Fellowships
from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and residencies at the
Vermont Studio Center and the Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown. Her poems have appeared in Calyx,
Birmingham Poetry Review, Many Mountains Moving, Salt Flats
Annual and elsewhere. Her
chapbook, Giving in to the Smoke, received the Starting
Gate Award by Finishing Line Press and was chosen as its Book of the
Month for November 2007. Zaborowski Duffy teaches English at
Atlantic City High School and serves as a poetry consultant for the
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Her poem, “World Series, Game 5” was
featured on The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer in October 2007.
Stephen Dunn has published
fifteen volumes of poetry, including Different Hours, which was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and
the soon to be released What Goes On, Selected & New Poems:
1995-2009 (Norton, 2009). He has received awards and fellowships
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Guggenheim
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Levinson Prize
from Poetry magazine, an Academy Award in Literature from The
American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as Fellowships from the
Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, three NEA Creative Writing
Fellowships, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the NJ State
Council on the Arts, the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry
Northwest, the James Wright Prize from Mid-American Review
and many others. A new and expanded edition of his book of essays,
Walking Light, was published in 2001. He is Distinguished
Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New
Jersey, but spends most of his time these days in Frostburg,
Maryland with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd.
Douglas Goetsch is the
author of six books of poetry, most recently, Your Whole Life
(Slipstream, 2007). His work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa
Review, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review,
The New England Review, online at PoetryDaily and
Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR
and in many anthologies. He has been on the writing faculty at The
Frost Place, The Dodge Poetry Festival, The Iowa Summer Writing
Festival and numerous other conferences and university programs. He
is currently Poet in Residence at the University of Central
Oklahoma, and is the editor of Jane Street Press.
Luray Gross is the
author of three collections of poetry: Forenoon
was published in 1990 by The Attic Press in Westfield, NJ, and
Elegant Reprieve won the 1995-96 Still Waters Press Poetry
Chapbook Competition. The Perfection of Zeros was published
by WordTech in 2004. A storyteller as well as a writer, she works
extensively throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania as an Artist in
Residence. She was the recipient of a Fellowship in Poetry from the
New Jersey State Council on the Arts. In 2000, she was named a
Distinguished Teaching Artist by the New Jersey State Council on the
Arts and was the recipient of the Robert Fraser Open Poetry
Competition Award from Bucks County (PA) Community College. She was
the 2002 Poet Laureate of Bucks County and resident faculty at the
2006 Frost Place Festival and Conference on Poetry in Franconia, NH.
Her poem “The Perfection of Zero” has been chosen by the
Pennsylvania Center for the Book as one of four poems featured by
the PA Public Poetry Project in 2008.
Lois Marie Harrod's ninth book Furniture, the 2008
Grayson Books Poetry Winner, was published this summer. Her
other books include Firmament (Finishing Line Press,
2007); Put Your Sorry Side Out (Concrete Wolf, 2005),
Spelling the World Backward (Palanquin Press, University of
South Carolina Aiken, 2000) This Is a Story You Already Know
(Palanquin, l999) and Part of the Deeper Sea (Palanquin, l997).
She won a 2003 fellowship, her third, from the New Jersey
Council on the Arts for her poetry. Over 325 of her poems have
appeared in literary journals from American Poetry Review to
Zone 3.
Charles Lynch has
published poetry and prose in Before Columbus Review, Black
American Literature Forum, The Black Scholar, Chelsea, Ms. Magazine,
Crab Orchard Review, Rattapallax, Orison, The Saint Ann's Review,
The Ledge, Home Planet News, Journal of New Jersey
Poets and other periodicals and anthologies. He is an Assistant
Professor of English at New Jersey City University and is a 2007
graduate fellow of Cave Canem. His Ph.D. dissertation at New York
University was a study of the lives and poetry of Robert Hayden and
Gwendolyn Brooks.
Laura McCullough has two collections of poetry,
What Men Want
(2008) and The Dancing Bear (2006) and a collection of prose
poems, Elephant Anger, at Mudlark online. Recent poems
have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Prairie
Schooner Review, Pebble Lake, New South and
Crab Orchard. She holds an MFA in fiction from Goddard
College and recent prose has appeared in The Pedestal,
Guernica and Hiss. Recent essays and book reviews
appear in Webdelsol Review of Books and The Potomac.
She's won two NJ State Arts Fellowships, been a Prairie Schooner
Scholar in poetry and a staff member at Bread Loaf.
Peter E. Murphy is the
founder and director of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway.
Priscilla Orr a recipient of
fellowships from New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Yaddo is
the author of Jugglers & Tides. Orr’s poems have appeared in
Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod, Worcester Review and other
journals and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Geraldine
R. Dodge poet, Orr resides in Hamburg, NJ, and is an Associate
Professor of English at Sussex County Community College.
James Richardson's
most recent books are Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and
Aphorisms, which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book
Critics Circle Award, and Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second
Essays. Winner of an Award in Literature from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, Richardson has work in Best
American Poetry 2001 and 2005, The New Yorker,
Slate, Paris Review, Science News, Poetry Daily and Great
American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. He is Professor
of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.
Christine E. Salvatore
received her MFA from The University of New Orleans. She is
currently an Adjunct Professor of Writing at The Richard Stockton
College of New Jersey and teaches English and Creative Writing at
Egg Harbor Township High School. Her poetry has appeared in The
Cortland Review, The Edison Literary Review and elsewhere. She
is the recipient of a 2005 Fellowship from the New Jersey State
Council of the Arts.
Madeline Tiger's eighth
collection, Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems,
1970-2000, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in April 2003. Her
recent work has appeared in Bridges, Marlboro Review, Runes,
George Washington Review, Harrisburg Review, Home Planet News,
Journal of NJ Poets, Poetry New York, One Trick Pony and
US 1. She teaches in the NJ State Council on the
Arts/Writers-in-the-Schools programs. As a "Dodge Poet," she is a
visiting artist in schools and festivals and has been a facilitator
for the "Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain" series for
teachers.
J. C. Todd is author of What Space This Body (Wind
Publications) and two chapbooks, Nightshade and Entering Pisces.
Her poems have appeared in APR, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner
and on Verse Daily. Awards include a finalist designation for
the Poetry Society of America's Lucille Medwick Lyric Poetry
Contest, two Leeway Awards for Poetry, a Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a New Jersey Governor's Award for
Arts Education and scholarships to Schloss Wiepersdorf arts
colony in Germany and the Baltic Centre for Writers and
Translators in Sweden. She has edited translation features for Frigate and
The
Drunken Boat and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College.
Angelo Verga’s poems have
appeared in Rattle, Manhattan Review, Massachusetts Review, New
Orleans Poetry Forum, Blue Mesa Review, Saint Ann's Review, Paterson
Literary Review, New York Quarterly, The Temple, Connecticut Poetry
Review and numerous other journals. A Hurricane Is
(Jane Street Press, 2003) is currently in a third printing. His most
recent collection, 33 New York City Poems (2005) is
published by Booklyn. Verga curates The Cornelia Street Cafe
readings in NYC and leads peer group workshops as well tutoring
individual poets.
Paul-Victor Winters'
most recent publications include poems and book reviews in The
Literary Review, Philadelphia Stories and
Tattoo Highway. His chapbook, Muscle & Bone (Slapering
Hol Press) won the 1995 Hudson Valley Writers' Center Poetry
Chapbook Competition, judged by Billy Collins. He holds an MFA in
Poetry from Indiana University. He has taught writing and literature
at Indiana University, Atlantic Cape Community College and The
Richard Stockton College. He currently teaches English at Egg Harbor
Township High School.
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