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2007 Guest Writers
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The Ninth
Annual Dorianne Laux, poet, co-authored The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry with poet Kim Addonizio. She has garnered several awards and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Fellowship. Her poems are published in some of the top literary magazines and have been translated into French, Italian, Korean, Romanian and Brazilian Portuguese. Her collection What We Carry was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her other titles are Facts about the Moon and Awake. She is Associate Professor in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. Thomas Lux, poet and teacher extraordinaire, has published over seventeen collections including New and Selected Poems, finalist for the 98 Lenore Marshal Poetry Prize, Split Horizon, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Other titles include Pecked to Death by Swans, A Boat in the Forest; The Drowned River: New Poems; Half Promised Land; and Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy. Published in hundreds of literary journals, he’s been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry and recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and Warren Wilson MFA program. Denise Duhamel, poet, whose work is ribald, heart-stopping and culture-skewing, is 1993 winner of Poets & Writers “Writers Exchange” award and1989 recipient of New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship. She has thirteen books and chapbooks including: Queen for a Day; The Woman with Two Vaginas; Girl Soldier; Kinky; How the Sky Fell; which won the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize, Two and Two, and Mille et un Sentiments. She is well published in literary magazines and widely anthologized, including the Best of American Poetry series. She teaches creative writing and literature at Florida International University. Jack Driscoll is a short story writer, novelist, and a poet. An elegant storyteller, he is author of four poetry books and four novels is a recipient of grants and awards including the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Story citations, the AWP Short Fiction Award, and seven Pen Syndicated Project Short Fiction Awards. His novel Lucky Man, Lucky Woman, received 1998 Pushcart Editors’ Book Award and 1999 Independent Book Publishers Award for Fiction. His latest novel is How Like an Angel. He is writer-in-residence at Interlochen Center for the Arts and teaches in Pacific’s MFA writing program. Christopher Knight/Johnathan
Rand is the author of St. Helena, Ferocity, The Laurentian
Channel, Bestseller, and Season of the Witch. He is also
the author of the million-selling American Chillers
series (under pseudonym Johnathan Rand). Before Christopher Knight
became one of the most successful self-published authors ever,
he was a commercial fly-tyer, an on-air radio personality and
a writer/producer of radio and television commercials. Although
he receives offers from bigger publishers, he remains satisfied
doing things his own way. "I just don't play the game the way
they do. Most big publishers are dinosaurs . . . doing business
the same way they did a hundred years ago. I can't even grasp
their mentality. Besides . . . we're having too much fun." Knight
is working on a new adult thriller, as well as new 'American Chillers'
and 'Michigan Chillers' under his pen name. In addition to the
'Chillers' books he writes as 'Johnathan Rand', he's also penned
another series entitled 'The Adventure Club', as well as a series
for younger readers (1st & 2nd graders) entitled 'Freddie
Fernortner, Fearless First Grader. Ivan Raimi,
Screenwriter and emergency room doctor whose most well-publicised work is
Army of Darkness, the sequel to the horror films The Evil Dead and Evil Dead
II. He also co-wrote the comic book adaption of Army for Dark Horse Comics.
He is the eldest of the Raimi brothers; his younger brother is writer/director
Sam Raimi and his youngest brother is actor Ted Raimi. Dr. Raimi is co-writer
of the new Spiderman 3, on it’s way to becoming one of the all time highest
grossing films at the box office. Prior to these successes, he also
contributed to several of the films that his brother Sam had made in his
early career. Some of these were amateur efforts produced in suburban Michigan;
some of them professional, theatrical efforts like Easy Wheels (though the
script was heavily altered from the one the Raimis submitted). They also
worked together on The Nutt House, which was, again, heavily altered—so much
so that all those who worked on the script used pseudonyms. Dr. Raimi was
credited as “Alan Smithee, Sr.” Dr. Raimi also co-wrote Darkman, a
collaboration with Sam and created the short-lived television series Spy
Game . He is a graduate of Michigan State University. Chuck Pfarrer, nonfiction writer, novelist and screenwriter with Hollywood credits and a best selling autobiography. Warrior Soul, the Memoir of a Navy SEAL is about his eight years in the Navy SEALS. He is the author of six graphic novels for Dark Horse Publications, and wrote and produced two interactive full motion videos, Crash Traffic and Silent Steel, and was screenwriter on The Jackal. He is also a counterterrorism consultant to the US and foreign governments. His debut novel, Killing Ché, will be published by Random House this year. Steve Amick, novelist and short fiction writer whose work has appeared in The Southern Review, Playboy, New England Review, the anthology The Sound of Writing on NPR and other journals. His first novel The Lake, The River & The Other Lake, is about the “townies” and “tourists” converging with comedic results in a resort town along Michigan’s Gold Coast, and is soon to be adapted to film. His MFA is from George Mason University. He’s also a playwright, copywriter, songwriter and musician in addition to being a charming and delightfully humorous Michigander.
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Your host,
John D. Lamb |
John D. Lamb is the Director of Springfed Arts, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate and inspire folks in the craft of writing, be it prose or song, the performance of works, spoken or sung.
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