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, first online, and then in person in January.
 Michelle
Cameron's debut historical novel, The Fruit of Her Hands:
the story of Shira of Ashkenaz, relating the life of the
author's 13th Century ancestor, Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg, was
published by Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books in September 2009.
Publisher's Weekly praised the novel's "powerful immediacy" and
Library Journal its "rich details." Michelle's novel in
verse, In the Shadow of the Globe, was published by Lit Pot
Press, Inc., in late 2003. It received excellent critical reviews,
was named the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's 2003-4 Winter Book
Selection, and was dramatically performed in several venues,
including the Stella Adler School of the Arts and the Winter Poetry
& Prose Getaway. Michelle is currently completing a second
historical novel, which takes place during the Judean exile to
Babylon.
 Robbie Clipper has published two novels-in-stories under
the name Robbie Clipper Sethi, The Bride Wore Red (Picador, 1997) and Fifty-Fifty
(Silicon Press, 2003) as well as short
stories in
The Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, the Philadelphia Inquirer
and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Her
fiction has won a National Endowment for the Arts award and two
fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Robbie
teaches fiction, poetry, expository writing and literature at Rider
University in Lawrenceville, NJ and on a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship
spent a "monsoon semester" (August-December 2009) teaching creative
writing at the International Institute of Information Technology in
Hyderabad, India. She is eager to inspire your revisions in
Visions
and Revision: Fiction at the Getaway.
 Anndee Hochman writes feature articles, profiles and
essays about education, health and the wide, quirky spectrum of
family and community life, including issues of adoption, foster
care, reproductive technology, same-sex couples and intentional
community. In addition to her regular pieces in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, her work has appeared in O, the
Oprah Magazine, Health, Working Mother,
Marie Claire and online in Literary Mama. She is the
author of Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador 2000)
and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing
Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press,
1994). For the past 18 years, Anndee has taught writing to
children, teens and adults in a variety of settings, including
schools, senior centers and a small fishing village on Mexico's
Pacific coast.
Joyce McDonald is the author of several critically
acclaimed books for teens and young readers, among them
Swallowing Stones, Shadow People,
Shades of Simon Gray, Comfort Creek, Homebody and
Mail-Order Kid. Honors and awards include ALA Top
Ten Best Book for Young Adults, Booklist's Best of the
Best 100, New York Public Library's Book for the Teen Age,
VOYA's "Books in the Middle" Outstanding Title of the Year,
ALA/YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults, and an Edgar Award
nomination. Her latest novel is Devil on My Heels (Delacorte).
Her books have been nominated for numerous state awards and are
on several state reading lists. She has taught literature and
creative writing at Drew University and East Stroudsburg
University, and currently teaches in the Brief-residency MFA in
Writing Program at Spalding University.
 Thomas
Peele is an investigative reporter who has won more than 45
journalism awards during a career on both coasts. His first book,
Killing The Messenger, an examination of Black Muslim
cults and the 2007 murder of Oakland, Calif. journalist Chauncey
Bailey, will be published by the Broadway Books division of Random
House in 2011. Peele's essay on the collapse of the Knight Ridder
newspaper company, "Oligarchies I Have Known," won the 2006
Association of Writers and Writing Programs' Intro Journals Award
and was published in Controlled Burn. His work has also
appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, Newsday,
the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Peele holds an MFA in writing
from the University of San Francisco and lives in Alameda, Calif.
with his wife, Jennifer Cole, and their daughters, Abigail and
Isabel.
 Carol Plum-Ucci
is the author of six Harcourt novels and a memoir, Homeschooling
Abbey: Your Basic Mom Tries Home Education & Tells All
(2008). Her latest novel, Fire Will
Fall, is the sequel to the
9/11 inspired Streams of Babel (2008) and is slated for release in 2010. The Body of
Christopher Creed (2000) was named a Michael L. Printz Award
Honor Book by the American Library Association. Carol has twice
been a finalist in the Edgar Allan Poe Awards and was a Book One
New Jersey author in 2004. She will lead Finishing Your Novel at the Getaway.
 Mimi
Schwartz, a veteran teacher and writer for over 35 years, has published five
books including the prize-winning Good Neighbors, Bad Times - Echoes of My
Father's German Village, now out in paperback (University of Nebraska
Press). Other recent books include Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, a JCC
Bookclub pick as one of top favorites off 2002, and Writing True and the Art
and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (with Sondra Perl), used in writing
programs nationwide. She is Professor Emerita at Richard Stockton College in New
Jersey and gives talks, readings, and workshops nationwide and abroad. She will
lead
Reimagining Memoir at the Getaway.
 Richard K. Weems is the author of Anything He Wants
(Spire Press, 2006), finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award,
and The Need for Character (Revelever Publications,
2004). His short story publications include North American
Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Mississippi
Review, Other Voices, Crescent Review, The
Florida Review and The Beloit Fiction Journal. Visit
his website and read some of his work at:
www.weemsnet.net
www.pifmagazine.com/vol28/f_weem.shtml
www.morpo.com/index.php?c=display&vol=5&iss=4&disp=87
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