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!
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 40 journalism awards during a career on both coasts. He holds
an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. His 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.
Other work has appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, Newsday, the
Seattle Times and elsewhere. Peele is working on a non-fiction
account of his time as a reporter covering Atlantic City, a
collection of essays on the newspaper business and is researching a
book on the 1968 baseball season. He lives in Alameda, CA, with his
wife Jennifer Cole, a consultant to museums.
Carol Plum-Ucci
is the author of six Harcourt novels, her most recent being the
9/11 inspired Streams of Babel. The Body of
Christopher Creed (2000) was named a Michael L. Printz Award
Honor Book, by the American Library Association. She 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:
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, she's had poetry most recently in the New Jersey State Museum in the
"Visions and Voices Show" with New Jersey artists. She teaches fiction and expository writing at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. She will lead Revising a Short Story Toward Publication 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 grade 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 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) and a chapbook of flash fiction, The Need
for Character (Revelever Publications, 2004). His short
story publications include North American Review, The
Gettysburg Review, Other Voices, The Florida
Review and The Beloit Fiction Journal. His flash
fiction publications include
Pif Magazine (as a
contributing writer), The Mississippi Review, Melic
Review and Story Bytes. He directs the Creative
Writing Division of the New Jersey Governor's School of the
Arts.
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