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Prose Writing Faculty

The Winter Getaway is well known for its challenging and supportive workshops led by accomplished writers and artists. Get to know our writing faculty by reading some of their work online, and then working with them in January.

Marina Budhos

Marina Budhos is the author of several books for young adults and adults. Her newest novel, We Are All We Have, was a Best Kirkus Book of 2022. Among her prior books are Watched, which received a Walter Award and an Asian Pacific American Honor, The Long Ride, Tell Us We’re Home and Ask Me No Questions, recipient of numerous honors. She has also published the adult novels The Professor of Light and House of Waiting, and three works of nonfiction, including Sugar Changed the World, an LA Times Book Finalist. She has received an NEA Literature Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers, three Fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and has been a Fulbright Scholar to India. She is a professor emerita at William Paterson University. View her website and read an essay by Marina.

Marina will lead Tutorials in Prose and Stay the Course: A Novel Writing Workshop.

Roberta Clipper

Roberta Clipper has published two novels-in-stories under the name Robbie Clipper Sethi, The Bride Wore Red (Picador) and Fifty-Fifty (Silicon Press), as well as short stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, the Philadelphia Inquirer and other literary magazines and anthologies. Her grants include an NEA in fiction, two grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship. Under the name Roberta Clipper, her most recent story appears in Waxing and Waning, issue 11. She serves as prose editor for the Kelsey Review, is a professor emerita at Rider University and teaches for Murphy Writing. Read a story by Roberta and visit her website.

Roberta will lead Tutorials in Prose.

Tyrese L. Coleman

Tyrese L. Coleman is the author of How to Sit, a 2019 Pen Open Book Award finalist published with Mason Jar Press in 2018. She is also the writer of the forthcoming book, Spectacle, with One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Writer, wife, mother, attorney and writing instructor, she occasionally teaches at American University. Her essays and stories have appeared in several publications, including Black Warrior Review, Literary Hub, The Rumpus and the Kenyon Review, and noted in Best American Essays and the Pushcart Anthology. She is an alumni of the Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. Read a piece by Tyrese and learn more on her website.

Tyrese will lead Tutorials in Prose and The Craft of Flash Fiction.

Hugo dos Santos

Hugo dos Santos is the author of Then, there (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), a collection of Newark stories, and the translator of Homecoming (Arquipelago Press, 2024) and A Child in Ruins (Writ Large Press, 2016), a staff pick at the Paris Review Daily. Hugo’s poetry and fiction shine a light on the beauty, complexity and pain of the immigrant experience and of life in the inner city. In his translations, Hugo celebrates contemporary Portuguese literature. Hugo lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children. Visit his website, and read a piece by Hugo.

Hugo will lead Tutorials in Prose and the Fiction 101 add-on workshop.

R.G. Evans

R.G. Evans is a singer-songwriter, poet and fiction writer. The 2025 recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts for his poetry, his books include Overtipping the Ferryman, The Holy Both and Imagine Sisyphus Happy. His collections of original songs, Sweet Old Life and Kid Yesterday Calling Tomorrow Man, are available on most streaming platforms. He has performed his songs at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, at the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival, in Los Angeles for RATTLE magazine, at the Smithsonian Institution and all over the state of New Jersey. Listen to a song by R.G. and learn more on his website.

R.G. will lead Tutorials in Songwriting and Poetry and Hitting the Right Note: A Songwriting Workshop.

Darla Himeles

Darla Himeles (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based poet and an assistant teaching professor at Widener University. They are the author of the chapbook Flesh Enough and the full-length poetry collection Cleave, both published by Get Fresh Books. Their poems and essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and can be read in recent and forthcoming issues of Beloit Poetry Journal, The Gay & Lesbian Review, The Massachusetts Review, Honey Literary and American Poetry Review. They hold an AB in English from Bryn Mawr College, an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew University and a PhD in American literature from Temple University. Find Darla on Instagram @darlahimelespoetry, read a piece by Darla and learn more at darlahimelespoetry.com.

Darla will lead Tethering Theme: Crafting Micro Essays.

Anndee Hochman

Anndee Hochman is a journalist, essayist, storyteller and teaching artist. Her book, Parent Trip: Unexpected Roads to Form a Family, a compilation of personal essays and nine years’ worth of “Parent Trip” columns from the Philadelphia Inquirer, is due out in February 2026 from Temple University Press. Anndee’s work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Purple Clover, Broad Street Review, the Moravian University magazine and numerous anthologies. She is the author of Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador USA) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press). She is also a ten-time Moth Story Slam winner. For more than 25 years, Anndee has taught writing to people of all ages in schools, senior centers and a small fishing village on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Visit her website and read an essay by Anndee.

Anndee will lead Tutorials in Prose, Out Loud: Storytelling for the Page and Stage and the Nonfiction and Memoir 101 add-on workshop.

Mike Ingram

Mike Ingram’s stories, essays and journalism have appeared in a number of publications, including PHOEBE, The North American Review, The Smart Set and Medium’s Human Parts. His first book, Notes from the Road, was published by Awst Press in March 2022. He lives in Philadelphia, where he’s a professor in the English Department at Temple University. He’s also one of the founding editors of Barrelhouse, a literary journal and small press. Read a piece by Mike and learn more on his website.

Mike will lead Tutorials in Prose and Outward Gaze: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop.

Nathaniel Popkin

Nathaniel Popkin is a writer and editor of fiction, nonfiction, film, criticism and journalism. He is the author of three novels and four works of nonfiction, and is the co-editor of the anthology, Who Will Speak for America? His work has been published by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review and Public Books. He is a writer and producer of history film documentaries. Read a piece about how Nathaniel approaches fiction, and learn more on his website.

Nathaniel will lead Tutorials in Prose and Staying in the Now: A Novel Writing Workshop.

Jane Wong

Jane Wong is the author of the memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House, 2023), winner of the Washington State book award. She also wrote two poetry collections: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, Ucross, Loghaven, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and others. An interdisciplinary artist, she has exhibited her poetry installations and performances at the Frye Art Museum, Richmond Art Gallery and the Asian Art Museum. She grew up in a takeout restaurant on the Jersey shore and is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University. Read a piece by Jane and learn more on her website.