Christine Evans' plays have been produced at many venues in her native Australia, including the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts and Sydney's Belvoir St. Theatre. Since moving to the U.S., her work has been developed or produced in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Providence, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Santa Rosa, Pittsburgh, Dallas and New Jersey.

	Honors include a Fulbright Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Rella Lossy Playwriting Award, the Weston Award in Dramatic Writing, Perishable Theatres' International Women's Playwriting Award (Mothergun, 2001; All Souls' Day, 2002) and the 2007 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (Trojan Barbie).
	Productions in 2007 include the October world premiere of Weightless at Perishable Theatre, RI (where Christine is a Resident Artist) and Emergency Theater Project's New York production of Mothergun. Further details of Christine's work can be viewed at http://ozscript.org/author.php?id=211 and www.crowdedfire.org/sfb.html.

Courses:
English Ckr. Introduction to Playwriting
English Clr. Introduction to Screenwriting
English Cakr. Advanced Playwriting
English Calr. Advanced Screenwriting

Darcy Frey is the author of The Last Shot (Houghton-Mifflin, 1994), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and George Divoky's Planet (forthcoming from Pantheon). He has also been a Contributing Editor for Harper's Magazine and a longtime Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, for which he has written about science, medicine, technology, music, art and the environment. His essays and journalism have been anthologized in Best American Essays and Best American Science Writing. His honors include a National Magazine Award, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and an award for public service from the Society for Professional Journalists.

On The Last Shot: "Darcy Frey writes as balletically as the young men in this book play basketball. This is not, however, a book about basketball but about the American Dream". A spellbinding book. --Ken Auletta "Soars toward the basket". A brilliant portrait of what has gone wrong in our cities and, by extension, in our country. --The Chicago Tribune

Courses:
Intro to Creative Nonfiction
The Nonfiction Novella

Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, is a former director of the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her 1996 volume, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994, won the Pulitzer Prize. Other collections of poems include Never (Harper Collins, 2002), Overlord (Ecco, 2005), Sea Change (Ecco 2008), and her most recent work Place (Ecco 2012).

On The Dream of the Unified Field "Everything comes together here - the voice like the wind that somehow marshalls itself out of kitchen daydreams and prosaic events into utterance that swings with the conviction of Blake's...(Graham) is one of the finest poets writing today." --JOHN ASHBERY

Courses:
English Capr. Advanced Poetry Workshop
English Cpwr. Poetry Workshop

Amy Hempel, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction, has taught at Bennington College, Brooklyn College, The New School, and Princeton University. Her Collected Stories was named as one of The New York Times' Ten Best Books of the year.

Bibliography Reasons to Live (1985) At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990) Tumble Home (1997) The Dog of the Marriage (2005) The Collected Stories (2006)

Courses:
English Cwar
English Cwfr

Joanna Klink taught in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Montana for seven years. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, she is the author of They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000) and Circadian (Penguin, 2007). Her new book of poems, Raptus, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2010.

On They Are Sleeping

"This is beautiful writing, sensuous and troubling." Colorado Review

On Circadian "Eliot's Four Quartets comes to mind, but I think Circadian bears a closer kinship with Rilke's Duino Elegies via its gorgeous, anguished calls toward the space beyond language, or before it." Rain Taxi "Klink writes love poems to nature. . . . This is beautiful writing, and it's also very American. Walt Whitman might find something to envy in the way Klink's more gentle sense of song tumbles out of simple, individual acts of attention." Chicago Tribune

Courses:
Poetry Workshop
Advanced Poetry Workshop
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Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of Creative Writing, is the author of the bestselling Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and the internationally acclaimed Corpus Christi: Stories, both from Random House. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Independent of London and The Irish Times, the collection has won numerous awards, including the Glasgow Prize. His work appears in magazines such as The Paris Review, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Tin House. In 2006, he received a National Book Award honor for young novelists. For more information, his website is: www.bretanthonyjohnston.com

On Naming the World.. Not only is Naming the World a rich compendium of provocative prompts, but as a whole it serves as a timely conversation of the larger aesthetic of well-made fiction, a roomful of caring experts. Mr. Johnston, by assembling these worthy exercises, has done us all a valuable favor. -Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies and The Hotel Eden With charm and intelligence, Naming the World touches on nearly every teachable aspect of the devilishly difficult art of writing fiction. -Ethan Canin, author of America America

On Corpus Christi... "Here arrives an author with a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue and a dead-on eye for conjuring an entire universe with one simple detail. Johnston 's genius lies in weaving a web of optimism around a series of difficult topics. [I]f they are read as they seem destined to be -- obsessively, in one sitting -- their rapt audience will turn the last page with a profound sense of calm." - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "Corpus Christi, Texas, provides the setting for Johnston's debut collection of ten hard-eyed, soulful stories, but it is primarily a country of the mind. These stories are large hearted, and intense. In their pathos, to quote C. S. Lewis on Chaucer, "every fluctuation of gnawing hope, every pitiful subterfuge of the flattering imagination, is held up to our eyes without mercy" (The Allegory of Love); and yet their effect is spiritually bracing. We are human to the last." - BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE

Courses:
English Crr, Fiction Writing
English Ctr, Advanced Fiction Writing

Kathy Rich's work has been in The New York Times, the Sunday Times magazine, the Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue and Salon. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts award and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Her books include The Red Devil (1999) and Dreaming in Hindi (2009). For more information, her website is: www.katherinerussellrich.com/

“Katherine Russell Rich's new book, Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language, is a riveting memoir about an American woman who spends a year in Rajasthan learning Hindi. The book illuminates the truth that when we learn a language, we learn an entire culture. One of the best foreign observers of contemporary India, Rich's gaze on the country is witty, empathetic, and intimate.” —Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Courses:
English Cnfr. Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
English Cnnr. Advanced Creative Nonfiction

After many years writing for professional theater companies as well as scripting industrial films and children's television, Danny Rubin began writing screenplays. His screen credits include "Hear No Evil," "S.F.W.," and "Groundhog Day," for which he received the British Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Critics' Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year, as well as honors from the Writers Guild of America and the American Film Institute.

Rubin has taught screenwriting in Chicago at the University of Illinois, Columbia College, and the National High School Institute; at the Sundance Institute in Utah; the PAL Screenwriting Lab in England; the Chautauqua Institution in New York; and in New Mexico at the College of Santa Fe.

For more information see Danny's website and blog (the "Blogus groundhogus") at www.dannyrubin.com

Courses:
English Clr. Introduction to Screenwriting
English Calr. Advanced Screenwriting

Peter Sacks is the author of five collections of poetry, In These Mountains (Macmillan, 1985), Promised Lands (Viking/Penguin,1990), Natal Command (Chicago, 1998), O Wheel (Georgia, 2000), and Necessity (W.W. Norton & Company, 2002); and of The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats (Johns Hopkins, 1986). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Boulevard, The Paris Review, and other publications.

On Natal Command "These are poems of hopelessness, of despair, yet they are restorative in their waves of clear interrogative light, their keen and moving exactitude." -- CAROL MUSKE in The New York Times Book Review

Courses:
English Cpw. Poetry Workshop