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 faculty,
read some of their work first online, and then in person in January.
 Stephen Dunn has published
fifteen volumes of poetry, including Different Hours, which was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and
the recently released What Goes On, Selected & New Poems:
1995-2009 (Norton, 2009). His newest book, Here and Now,
will be published by Norton in June 2011. 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. Stephen will lead
two special Advanced Poetry
Writing sessions at the Getaway.
Dorianne Laux's fourth book of poems,
Facts about the Moon, is the recipient of the
Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall
Poetry Prize. Laux is also author of Awake, What We
Carry, finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award,
and Smoke, as well as two small press editions,
Superman: The Chapbook and Dark Charms, both from Red
Dragonfly Press. Her fifth collection of poetry, The Book of
Men, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2011. Co-author of
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing
Poetry, she's the recipient of two Best American Poetry
Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National
Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2001, she
was invited by the late Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz to read at
the Library of Congress. Her selected works, In a Room with a
Rag in my Hand, have been translated into Arabic by Camel/Kalima
Press. She and her husband, poet Joseph Millar, moved to Raleigh
in 2008 where she teaches poetry in the MFA program at North
Carolina State University. Dorianne will lead two special
Advanced Poetry Writing sessions at the Getaway.
Patricia Smith is the author of five
books of poetry, including Blood Dazzler,
chronicling the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, which was a
finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, a choice for Library
Journal's Best Poetry Books of 2008, and one of NPR's top five
books of 2008; and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National
Poetry Series selection, winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy
Award and About.com's Best Poetry Book of 2006. She also
authored the ground-breaking history Africans in America
and the award-winning children's book Janna and the Kings.
Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review,
TriQuarterly and many other journals, and she has been
performed around the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Poets
Stage in Stockholm, Rotterdam's Poetry International, the Aran
Islands International Poetry and Prose Festival, the Bahia
Festival, the Schomburg Center and on tour in Germany, Austria
and Holland. She is a Pushcart Prize winner and a four-time
individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most
successful poet in the competition's history. She is a professor
at the City University of New York/College of Staten Island, and
is on the faculty of both Cave Canem and the Stonecoast MFA
program at the University of Southern Maine. Patricia will lead
two special
Advanced Poetry Writing sessions at the Getaway.
 Michael Broek's
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry
Review, The George Washington Review, Literary
Imagination, 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 the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the
NJ Council on the Arts, holds an MFA in poetry, and is completing
his Ph.D in American Literature. He teaches at Brookdale Community
College.
 Barbara Daniels'
Rose Fever was published by WordTech Press. 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,
Switched-on Guttenberg, Ars Medica, and many other journals.
 Emari DiGiorgio teaches at The Richard Stockton
College of NJ and is a NJ State Council on the Arts
Poet-in-the-Schools. She is a recipient of a Vermont Studio
Center Residency, a NJ State Council on the Arts Poetry
Fellowship, and the Ellen LaForge Memorial Poetry Prize. Her
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Feminist Studies,
US 1
Worksheets, The Marlboro Review, The Grolier Poetry Annual,
So
to Speak, The Georgetown Review, Buffalo Carp,
Whiskey Island,
The Barn Owl Review, HerMark 2009, Switched-on Gutenberg, and
the Paterson Literary Review. You can read and listen to some of
her poems at:
 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 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, Journal of New Jersey
Poets, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Giving in to the
Smoke, received the Starting Gate Award from Finishing Line
Press and was chosen as its Book of the Month for November 2007.
Her poem, "World Series, Game 5" was featured on The NewsHour
With Jim Lehrer in October 2007, and an excerpt from her
manuscript When Gangsters Burn Your House Down With You in It
won First Place for Personal Essay in Writer's Digest 78th
Annual Writing Competition in 2009. Zaborowski Duffy is a poetry
consultant for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
 Douglas
Goetsch is the author of six collections of poetry, most
recently, Your Whole Life (Slipstream, 2007).
His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and appearances in
numerous magazines and anthologies including The Best American
Poetry. 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.
 Kathleen Graber's
new book, The Eternal City: Poems, is forthcoming in August
2010 from Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Her
first collection Correspondence was the winner
of the 2005 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She is a graduate of New
York University's Creative Writing Program and has received
fellowships from The Rona Jaffe Foundation and The New Jersey State
Council on the Arts. She was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University
in 2007-8 and has had poems published in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review,
The Georgia Review and The Literary Review. A
former middle school teacher in Wildwood, NJ, she currently teaches
at Virginia Commonwealth University.
 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” was featured by the Pennsylvania
Center for the Book's Public Poetry Project in 2008.
 Lois Marie Harrod is the author of 9 books, most
recently the chapbook Furniture which won the 2008 Grayson Press
Poetry Prize. Other books include Firmament, 2007;
Put Your Sorry Side Out, 2005; Spelling the World
Backwards, 2000; This Is a Story You Already
Know, l999; Part of the Deeper Sea, l997; Green Snake
Riding, l994; Crazy Alice, l991 and Every Twinge a
Verdict, l987. Crazy Alice (Belle Mead Press, l991) and
a chapbook Green Snake Riding (New Spirit Press,
l994). She has received three poetry fellowships from the New
Jersey Council on the Arts. Over 325 of her poems have appeared
in literary journals from American Poetry to Zone3.
A 7-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize, she presently teaches
Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey. Visit her website to
read her poetry:
 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
four collections of poetry, Panic, which won the Alice James
Books 2009 Kinereth Gensler Award and will be out in early 2011,
Speech Acts, forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2010,
What Men Want (2008), and The Dancing Bear (2006) as well
as a collection of prose poems, Elephant Anger, at
Mudlark online. Her poems, reviews, essays, and short prose
have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry
Review, The Writers Chronicle, Prairie Schooner, Hotel America,
Pebble Lake, New South, Crab Orchard,
and many other journals. She has an MFA from Goddard College and is
a doctoral student in poetry at Bangor University in Wales. She's
won two NJ State Arts Fellowships, been a Prairie Schooner Scholar
in poetry, attended the Vermont Studio and Colrain, and been a
contributor and staff member at Bread Loaf. She founded the
Creative Writing Program at Brookdale Community College in NJ
where she teaches full-time.
Her website is
www.lauramccullough.weebly.com and you can read one of her
poems at:
 Peter E. Murphy was born in Wales and grew up in New York City where he
operated heavy equipment, managed a night club and drove a cab. He
is the author of Stubborn Child a finalist for the 2006 Paterson
Poetry Prize, and a chapbook of poems, Thorough & Efficient both
from Jane Street Press. In addition to receiving a 2009 Poetry
Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, he has received
awards and fellowships from The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Yaddo,
The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the White House Commission on
Presidential Scholars. He is the founder/director of
Murphy
Writing Seminars which sponsors the Winter Poetry & Prose
Getaway and other programs for poets, writers, and teachers. Read
more...
 James
Richardson's most recent books are By the Numbers (Copper
Canyon, 2010), Interglacial: New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms,
which was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle
Award, and the "cult favorite" Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second
Essays. His poems, essays and aphorisms have appeared in
American Poet, American Poetry Review, The New Yorker,
Paris Review, Poetry, Science News, Slate,
Yale Review and such anthologies as Great American Prose
Poems, Geary’s Guide to the World's Great Aphorists, the
2010 Pushcart Prize Anthology and the 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2010
editions of Best American Poetry. The recipient of an Award
in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the
Robert H. Winner, Cecil Hemley and Emily Dickinson Awards of the
Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and New Jersey State Council on the
Arts, he has taught at the University of Virginia, Harvard,
Princeton and Columbia.
 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
has 10 collections of poetry including The Atheist's Prayer, forthcoming from
Dos Madres Press (2010), The Earth Which Is All (2008), and
Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems,
1970-2000 (2003). Her
recent work has appeared in Edison Review, Tiferet,
Rhino, Bridges, Marlboro Review, Runes,
George Washington Review, Home Planet News,
Poetry New York, One Trick Pony and
U.S. 1. Tiger 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 at festivals, and has been a facilitator
for the "Spring-Fountain" series.
 J. C. Todd is
author of What Space This Body (Wind Publications, 2008),
Nightshade, and Entering Pisces. Poems have appeared in
APR, Paris Review, and on Verse Daily. She was
a finalist in the Poetry Society of America's Lucille Medwick Lyric
Poetry Contest and a recipient of Leeway Awards, a PA Council on the
Arts Poetry Fellowship, a NJ Governor's Award for Arts Education,
and fellowships to arts colonies in Germany and Sweden. She has
edited translation features for The Drunken Boat, teaches in
the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College and the Graduate
English and Creative Writing Programs at Rosemont College and holds
an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson.
 Angelo Verga is a
poet, teacher, editor, manuscript doctor and curator of innumerable
literary events. His sixth collection, Praise for What Remains (Three Rooms Press, 2009), is a long
poem set in the crooked footpaths of lower Manhattan. He has been
widely published and anthologized, and translated into a dozen
languages. His earlier publications include 33 New York City
Poems (Booklyn, 2005), 3 Poets 4 Peace (Against The Tide,
2003), A Hurricane Is (Jane Street, 2002), The Six O’clock
News (Wind, 1999) and Across The Street from Lincoln Hospital
(New School, 1995). Read a review of one of Angelo's books:
 BJ
Ward's most recent book is Gravedigger's Birthday (North
Atlantic Books). His poems have been featured on Poetry Daily,
NPR's "The Writer's Almanac," and NJN's "State of the Arts," as well
as in publications such as Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Literary
Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Sun. His essays
have appeared in The New York Times, The Worcester Review,
and Teaching Artist Journal. He is the recipient of a
Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the NJ
State Council on the Arts. For his teaching, he has received the
Governor's Award in Arts Education from the State of New Jersey and
was named Teaching Artist of the Year by Playwrights'
Theatre. He works year-round as an Associate Professor of English at
Warren County Community College.
 Paul-Victor Winters'
most recent publications include poems and book reviews in The
Literary Review, Philadelphia Stories and
New York Quarterly. 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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