Writers-in-Residence

Flagler College Writers-in-Residence 2011-2012

Upcoming Event

Tim Siebels

Wednesday, Feb 8th, 7 PM
Gamache-Koger Theater

Seibels' streetwise, syncopated poems zero in on such wide-ranging subjects as basketball, sex, dogs, race in America, and the inner thoughts of carton characters. His poems have appeared widely in journals suchs as The Kenyon Review and Black American Literary Forum, as well as in the anthologies Outsiders, Verse and Universe, in Search of Color Everywhere, A Way Out of No Way, and New American Poets in the '90s.

Co-sponsored with the
Florida Literary Arts Coalition

Events

Monday, October 3, 2011, Gamache-Koger Theater, 6:00 p.m.

Peter Trachtenberg

Peter Trachtenberg is the author of The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown 2008), a book that combines reportage, memoir, and moral philosophy to explore suffering and its narratives, which won the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for works that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity. Trachtenberg’s fiction, essays, and reportage have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Bomb, A Public Space, Bidoun, O: The Oprah Magazine, and The New York Times Travel Magazine. He has performed his monologues at Dixon Place, PS 122, and The Kitchen and broadcast commentaries on NPR’s All Things Considered. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award, the Nelson Algren Prize for Short Fiction, an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2010-2011 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2008-2009 he was a visiting professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, Gamache-Koger Theater, 7:00 p.m.

Khris Baxter

Khris Baxter is a screenwriter, producer, and story consultant. He teaches screenwriting at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, Gettysburg College, and the low-residency MFA at Queens University in Charlotte, NC. His body of work includes five optioned screenplays and one produced film. He is currently writing and producing Homestretch, a feature film based on the documentary by the same name. Khris is a member of the Virginia Film Office where he is a judge for the annual Governor’s Screenwriting Competition. He is also the founder of Baxter Baker & Associates (baxterbaker.com), a communications consulting firm.

Florida Literary Arts Coalition Other Words Conference

www.floridarts.org

Thursday, November 10, 2011, Flagler Room, 7:30 p.m.

Jenny Browne

Jenny Browne is the author of The Second Reason (University of Tampa Press, 2007), At Once (UT Press, 2003) and the chapbook, Glass (Pecan Grove, 2000). She is also the editor of Provide and Protect, Writers on Planned and Unplanned Parenthood. A former James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, she currently teaches creative writing at Trinity University.

Alice Friman

Alice Friman’s new book of poetry, Vinculum, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in 2011; her most recent volume is The Book of the Rotten Daughter. Other new work has appeared in the journals Boundary 2, Shenandoah, and Field, as well as in the Best American Poetry 2009. Friman is the winner of three prizes from Poetry Society of America and in 2001-02 was named to the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Professor Emerita at the University of Indianapolis, she now lives in Milledgeville, GA, where she is Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College & State University.

Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski has published more than forty collections of poems, including the four books that constitute her series "The Archaeology of Movies and Books"—Argonaut Rose (1998), The Emerald City of Las Vegas (1995), Jason the Sailor (1993), and Medea the Sorceress (1991)—all published by Black Sparrow Press; Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987 (1988), which won the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; and The Collected Greed, Parts 1-13 (1984). She has also published four books of essays: Toward a New Poetry (1979), Variations on a Theme (1976), Creating a Personal Mythology (1975), and Form Is an Extension of Content (1972). Her honors include a Fulbright fellowship, a Michigan Arts Foundation award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Friday, November 11, 2011, Flagler Room, 7:30 p.m.

Other Words Festival Reading

List of readers will be announced soon.

Saturday, November 12, 2011, Flagler Room, 7:30 p.m.

Michael Gills

Michael Gills was McKean Poetry Fellow at the University of Arkansas and Randall Jarrell Fellow in Fiction in the MFA Program at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He earned the Ph.D. in Creative Writing/Fiction at the University of Utah. His work is currently featured in Oxford American's Best of the South issue and Verb 4: An Audio Quarterly. Other fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Boulevard, The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Quarterly West, Salt Flats Annual, Moon City Review, Nebo Literary Quarterly, Arkansas Literary Forum, Parting Gifts, Lynx Eye, New York Stories, Salt Hill Journal, Flint Hills Review, Santa Clara Review, New Stories From The South: The Year's Best and elsewhere. Why I Lie: Stories won the Utah Arts Publication Prize, was a finalist for the Utah Humanities Book Prize, the Arkansas Porter Prize, and was chosen by Southern Review as one of the top debut books of 2002. Gills, the 2005-2006 Utah Arts Endowed Artist in Fiction, teaches writing in the Honors Department at the University of Utah.

Carol Frost

Carol Frost is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems (2000), The Queen’s Desertion (2006), and a chapbook, The Salt Lesson (1976). She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has won several Pushcart Prizes. Frost has taught at Hartwick College, Washington University, and Wichita State University; she has had several teaching residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, and was a visiting poet at University of Wollongon, Australia. She founded and for 15 years directed the Catskill Poetry Workshop at Hartwick College. At Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, she directs the Winter with the Writers program, a festival of the literary arts.

Thursday, February 2, 2012, Flagler College Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.

John Domini

John Domini has won awards in all genres, publishing fiction in Paris Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies, non-fiction in GQ, The New York Times, and other journals (including Italian journals), and poetry in Zone 3, Meridian (Editors’ Prize, 2006), and elsewhere. Grants have included fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram-Merrill Foundation. The New York Times has praised his work as "dreamlike... grabs hold of both reader and character," and Alan Cheuse, of NPR's "All Things Considered," described it as "witty and biting." The Emerging Writers Network, in a four-and-a-half-star review, called his novels from '07 and '08, Earthquake I.D.and A Tomb on the Periphery, "back-to-back stunners." Tomb on the Periphery also made the '09 short list at the London Book Festival for "the best of international publishing," and Earthquake I.D., in Italian translation, was runner-up for the Domenico Rea prize.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, Gamache-Koger Theater, 7:00 p.m.

Tim Siebels

Tim Siebels has been honored with many grants and awards, including an Open Voice Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Seibles’s streetwise, syncopated poems zero in on such wide-ranging subjects as basketball, sex, dogs, race in America, and the inner thoughts of cartoon characters. As “This is not a poetry of a highfalutin violin nor the somber cello,” wrote Sandra Cisneros, “but a melody you heard somewhere that followed you home.” Reginald McKnight testifies, “...you'll at times feel bruised, at times made love to. I read a lot of poetry. I've never read poetry like this.” Seibles moves, as he says, “between the polarities of delight and rage.” In addition to his five books of poetry, most recently Hammerlock (1999), Seibles’s poems have appeared widely in journals such as The Kenyon Review and Black American Literary Forum, as well as in the anthologies Outsiders, Verse and Universe, In Search of Color Everywhere, A Way Out of No Way, and New American Poets in the 90’s.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012, Flagler College Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Cassandra King

Cassandra King’s first novel, Making Waves in Zion, was published in 1995 by River City Press and reissued in 2004 by Hyperion. Her second novel, The Sunday Wife (2002), was a Booksense Pick, a People Magazine Page-Turner of the Week, a Literary Guild Book-of-the-Month selection, a Books-a-Million President’s Pick, a South Carolina State Readers’ Circle selection, and a Salt Lake Library Readers’ Choice Award nominee. Released in 2005, King’s third novel, The Same Sweet Girls, became a #1 Booksense Selection and Booksense bestseller, a Southeastern Bookseller Association bestseller, a New York Post Required Reading selection, and a Literary Guild Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and a Southeastern Bookseller Association Bestseller. King’s latest novel, Queen of Broken Hearts, has been hailed as “wonderful,” “uplifting,” “absolutely fabulous,” and filled with irresistible characters” by fellow Southern writers Sandra Brown, Fannie Flagg, Dorothea Benton Frank.

Monday, April 9, 2012, Flagler Room, 7:00 p.m.

John Blair

John Blair, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, has become the first Florida-born author to win the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, which celebrates its first decade of awards this year. Blair, who now lives in San Marcos, Texas, received the tenth annual prize for his manuscript entitled The Occasions of Paradise. In addition to a $2,000 check, the award includes book publication in Spring 2012 by the University of Tampa Press. Blair’s earlier poetry collection, The Green Girls, was the 2003 winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Award from Pleiades Press, and his short story collection, American Standard, was the 2002 winner of the Drue Heinz Literature prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He also has two novels from Ballantine/Del Rey, Bright Angel and A Landscape of Darkness.