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Mountain Writers
Conference
Meet our writers
Director
YVONNE DALEY has published
more than 5000 works of fiction and non-fiction and has contributed to
National Public Radio. Her most recent book, "Octavia Boulevard," was
published in February, 2011. "Octavia Boulevard" is a neighborhood memoir that
explores the clash between progressive politics and capitalism, the legacy of the
counter-culture, and the idiosyncracies, both good and bad, of San Francisco.
A previous non-fiction book "A State of Mind: Writing
in Vermont," profiles 21 Vermont writers who open their tool boxes and
share the tricks of their trade with readers and developing writers. Daley is also the
co-author of "An Independent Man," the biography of Senator James M. Jeffords, and contributed
many chapters to Fodor's Travel Guides. The recipient of more than 40 regional and national
awards in journalism, Ms. Daley writes for the Boston Globe, the Rutland (Vt.) Daily Herald,
Vermont Sunday Magazine, People, Time, The Washington Post, The San Jose
Mercury News, West, The Milwaukee Journal, The New York Daily News,
Sunset, Caribbean Life and Leisure, Stanford Magazine and other
publications. Ms. Daley is a graduate of Barry University and the MFA in
Writing Program at Vermont College. She was the recipient of a John S.
Knight Fellowship in Journalism at Stanford University and a Freedom
Forum Fellowship at Indiana University. Ms. Daley lives in Rutland, Vt.,
and San Francisco, where she is a Journalism professor at San Francisco
State University and a docent at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge
Biological Preserve. Her areas of emphasis this summer will be on memoir writing,
telling truth in different genres, creating character in fiction and non-fiction,
as well as self-publishing and using the Internet and social media to promote
and disseminate one's work.
ELIZABETH INNESS-BROWN is the author of two short-story collections, "Satin Palms" and
"Here," and the novel "Burning Marguerite." Her stories have won a Pushcart Prize and
have been published in North American Review, Boulevard, and The New Yorker.
She teaches writing and runs the writing center at Saint MichaelŐs College,
and she lives with her family on one of the Lake Champlain Islands. One of the remarkable
elements of Inness-Brown's work is the ability to tell a big story compactly, to bring
several lives and deep stories to the reader in both an intimate and starkly succinct language.
Those participants who remember her workshop from several years ago remember how deftly
she got participants to free themselves of preconceived themes to write freshly about unanticipated
subjects. She'll share some of her new work with us, work informed from her years of living
close to the land on a remote Vermont island located near the state's largest city.
DAVID HUDDLE is the author of sixteen books of poetry,
fiction, and essays, including "Only the Little Bone," "The Story of a Million Years,"
"La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl," and "The Writing Habit," Huddle has lived in Vermont
for the past thirty-eight years. His poetry frequently appears in the New Yorker and his
fiction has won many prizes, all of which makes him an invaluable mentor for those who
love words and whose work spans the genres. Indeed, Huddle's book on the writing craft,
The Writing Habit, has remained a favorite of writing students, teachers and practitioners
for more than a decade. A lesson from David Huddle is an exercise in opening up the brain
to words, to word play, to word experiment and the joy in finding the right combination
of words to express an idea, make a person come alive on the page, establish mood. He'll
also read to us from his new book of poetry and his latest short stories.
T. GREENWOOD was born and raised in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, and
many of her six novels are set there. She has received grants from the
Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, and, most recently, the Maryland State Arts
Council. TWO RIVERS was named Best General Fiction Book at the San Diego
Book Awards last year. Four of her novels have been BookSense76/IndieBound
picks; THIS GLITTERING WORLD is a January 2011 selection.
She teaches creative writing at both UCSD's Extension Program and at The Ink
Spot. She and her husband, Patrick, live in San Diego, CA, with their two
daughters. She is also an aspiring photographer. In bookreporter, Greenwood
says, "The only way to succeed as a writer is to write. You have to write when you're
happy. You have to write when you're sad. You have to keep writing when not a
single person thinks what you're writing is worthy. You have to write when you are
sick, when you're only getting two hours of sleep a night because you're up with a
newborn, you have to write when you're fighting with your best friend or your husband,
when your mother dies, when your house burns down." She's our kind of writer; I'm sure
we'll learn a lot from her, especially the mandate, if you want to be a writer, write.
VERANDAH PORCHE is a poet, performer and
writing partner whose work explores the relationships between
individuals and communities. Based in rural Vermont since 1986, she has
published two books of poems, "The Body's Symmetry" and "Glancing Off." A new
collection,"Sudden Eden," spans work from the last two decades. Porche
has published in Ms., The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The New
Boston Review and Vermont Organic Farmer, among others. During the past
thirty years, she has traveled from her home in rural Vermont, writing
with and for people in grange halls and garages, elementary schools and
Elderhostels, nursing homes and daycare centers, mansions and soup
kitchens, board rooms and basements, homes and jails, literacy programs
and colleges. In so doing, Ms. Porsche has developed a practice called
"told poetry" or shared narratives that enable people who need a writing
partner to create, preserve and share personal literature. She has been
engaged in residencies at Real Artways in Hartford, CT., and Gifford
Medical Center in Randolph, Vt. Her project with Hartford, Ct. resulted
in a published collection of her poems, In 1998, the Vermont Arts
Council awarded her its prestigious Citation of Merit, honoring her
contribution to the cultural life of Vermont. Ms. Porche lives in
Guildford, Vermont. She will lead us in writing two sessions
of writing poetry.
CHUCK CLARINO has worked as a journalist for 25 years, writing
for the Rutland Herald, Vermont Sunday Magazine, Vermont Life, Varsity
Sports New England, the Green Mountain Journal, Velo News and other
publications. A recent inductee into the Sportswriters Hall of Fame,
he has appeared frequently on television and radio as a
sports commentator and analyst and, with his wife, Yvonne Daley, has
published many travel stories. He is also an essayist and memoirist
whose family stories and personal recollections delight the reader with
historical detail and humorous anecdote. Mr. Clarino's short stories
have been published widely, including in New Mellennium, which awarded
his memoir pieces, "Randazzo: Jewels of Memory," and "Farley Binkey."
GARY MARGOLIS is executive director
of the Middlebury College Mental Health Services and Associate Professor of
English and American Literature. He was a Robert Frost and Arthur Vining Davis
Fellow and has taught at the University of Tennessee, Vermont and Bread Loaf
Writers' Conferences. His third book, "Fire in the Orchard" was nominated for
the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His poem, "The Interview" was featured on
National Public Radio's "The Story" and Boston's ABC Channel 5 interviewed
him on the Middlebury campus reading his poem, "Winning the Lunar Eclipse,"
after the 2004 World Series. He was awarded the first Sam Dietzel Award for Mental
Health Practice in Vermont by the Clinical Psychology Department of Saint Michaels'
College. His clinical articles have appeared in the Journal of American College
Health Association, Adolescence, the Ladies Home Journal, Runner's World Magazine
and he has been interviewed on his work with college students by Time Magazine,
ABC and CBS News. His new book of poems, "Below the Falls," is a book that responds
to the loss of Middlebury student Nicholas Garza, our country's wars, and the
search for things that sustain us.
TOM SMITH is a poet, short story writer and novelist. His most recent work,
"The Christmas Shopper," won the 2008 Long Story Contest Internatioanl and
the 2009 A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction, and was published by White Eagle Coffee Store
Press as a limited edition chapbook. Smith has been publishing poetry since 1959 in such magazines as Virginia Quarterly Review,
Chicago Review, American Scholar, Beyond Baroque, Beloit Poetry Review, Iowa Review
and New York Quarterly. A graduate of SUNY-Albany and Rutgers-New Brunswick and professor
emirtus at Castleton State College where he taught from 1964 to 1995, Mr. Smith has
published one novel, A Well-Behaved Little Boy (1993),
and seven volumes of poems: Some Traffic, Singing the Middle Ages, Traffic, The Broken
Iris, Waiting on Pentecost, Cow'sleap: a Nightbook, and Trash: the Dahmer Sonnets.
He has given frequent readings of his poetry at the Beyond Baroque Foundation in Venice,
Ca., at Notre Dame in Illinois, at West Point and the Citadel, at the Poetry Society of
America in New York City, at annual conferences of the International Association for the
Fantastic in the Arts at Fort Lauderdale, at Canterbury's Christ Church College,
England, and elsewhere. Smith is also an actor who has appeared in many roles in summer
stock. This summer, he'll share his observations about writing across the genres of prose
and poetry and share some of his most recent poems, including ones written about iconic
figures such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. He'll also talk to us about working
with editors at small presses.
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