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.
 Anndee Hochman's essays, articles
and short fiction have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine,
Working Mother, Health, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Glimmer Train
Stories and elsewhere. She is the author of Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador USA, 2000) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions. A two-time recipient of creative non-fiction grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, she has also received fellowships from the Leeway Foundation and the Astraea Foundation. Anndee has taught poetry and creative non-fiction to children, teens
and adults in a variety of settings--including schools, shelters, prisons
and a Mexican fishing village--since 1993.
 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.
 David G. Schwartz is a writer, historian
and the Director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. An Atlantic City native, Schwartz earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees (Anthropology and History) from the University of Pennsylvania before getting his Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA. He has published three books including Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond (Routledge, 2003), Cutting the Wire: Gambling Prohibition and the Internet (University of Nevada Press, 2005)
and Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling (Gotham, 2006) favorably reviewed in the New York Times (October 6, 2006). He also regularly writes about local history and current issues in Casino Connection and Las Vegas Business Press, and
keeps a running blog on his website:
 Mimi Schwartz, a veteran teacher and
writer for over 35 years, has published five
books including Good Neighbors, Bad Times - Echoes of My Father's German
Village (University of Nebraska Press), soon to be out in paperback. Other
recent books include Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed 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 teaches at writer conferences, libraries and teacher
institutes across this country and abroad. She will lead
Reimagining Memoir at
the Getaway.
 Robbie Clipper Sethi has published two novels-in-stories, The Bride Wore Red (Picador, 1997) and Fifty-Fifty (Silicon Press, 2003). She's published short stories in
The Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, the Philadelphia Inquirer
and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Winner of a
National Endowment for the Arts Award for her fiction and two
fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Sethi
teaches fiction and expository writing at Rider University in
Lawrenceville, NJ. She is currently on sabbatical teaching creative
writing as a Fulbright-Nehru scholar at the International Institute
of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India and upon her return
will lead Focusing Your Fiction
at the Getaway.
 Pamela Curtis Swallow led a double life for many years,
working as a writer and as a school librarian. She now writes
full-time, and for a wide audience—elementary, middle grades, and
young adult. Her fiction and non-fiction books include
Groundhog Gets A Say (Putnam/Scholastic), with
illustrations by Denise Brunkus; It Only Looks Easy
(Roaring Brook Press/Scholastic); The Melvil and Dewey Series
(Libraries Unlimited), to which was recently added the latest
gerbil adventure, Melvil and Dewey Gone Fishin', as well
as Melvil and Dewey Teach Literacy, an activity guide for
teachers and librarians; A Writer's Notebook
(Scholastic), a guide for aspiring young writers; Wading
through Peanut Butter (Scholastic); No Promises
(Putnam/Scholastic); Leave It to Christy
(Putnam/Scholastic). Pam is currently writing a biography of her
relative, Ellen Swallow Richards, founder of Ecology. Pam grew
up in New England but now lives in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
with her husband, two dogs, a cat, and a groundhog named
Charlotte.
 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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