Sean
Thomas Dougherty, Speculative Fiction Workshop
Sean Thomas Dougherty is author and editor of ten full length books of
poems and prose including the forthcoming novella The Blue City
(2008 Marick Press), Broken Hallelujahs (BOA Editions 2007), and
Nightshift Belonging to Lorca (2004 Mammoth Books) a finalist for
the 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize. His awards include a 2004 and 2006 PA
Council for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a Penn State Junior Faculty
Research Award. He teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at
Penn State Erie and is consulting editor for Penn State Erie's Lake Effect.
Emily
Mitchell, Fiction
Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (Norton,
2007). Her short fiction has been published by AGNI, Indiana Review and
New England Review. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn
College. A native of London, she has lived in Virginia, Vermont, Japan,
New York and California. She teaches English at California College of
the Arts, and will join the faculty of the MFA program in Creative Writing
at WVU in the Fall.
Gerry
LaFemina, Poetry
Gerry LaFemina's first collection of stories, Proofreading America and
Other Stories is forthcoming; his numerous collections of poetry include
Graffiti Heart, winner of the 2001 Anthony Piccione/MAMMOTH Books Poetry
Prize, The Window Facing Winter, and The Parakeets of Brooklyn, which
received the 2003 Bordighera Prize and was published in a bilingual edition
of English and Italian. A noted writer and teacher, LaFemina was nominated
for the Michigan Governor's Arts Educator of the Year award in 2000, served
on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs
(AWP), and has published essays, fiction, and poetry in a variety of journals.
