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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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