Residents
2006 Residents
Karelle Anthony - Seattle, WA
Karelle is the American Egg Board Fellow for 2006. She earned a B.S. in Museum Science from the University of Idaho and has owned her own catering business for 25 years with a line of products in retail gourmet stores. She is working on her first book; exploring personal relationships to food and emotions and specifically how this changed after her husband died suddenly, with recipes tied to each chapter that will reflect a return to the enjoyment of one of life's greatest and simplest pleasures-food.
Andrea Baker - Columbus, OH
Andrea Baker holds a PhD in sociology and currently teaches both online and in the classroom at Ohio University. Her book Double Click: Romance and Commitment Among Online Couples (Hampton Press, 2005) identifies factors of success for people who meet first in cyberspace. Other published articles include The Problem of Authority in Radical Movement Groups. She continues her research about life online and is currently writing another book on the subject.
Paige Britt - Austin, TX
Paige has a Master's Degree in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary and is the author of interactive educational materials for adults and children. She is published on over two dozen Web-based training sites that feature her writing. She is working on a young adult novel called Penelope and the Prodigious Peach Pit, the story of a ten-year-old girl who likes to moodle. Moodling involves lots of staring into space while your imagination runs wild!
Joe Cangelosi - Conway, AR
Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Arkansas. Joe will be analyzing the results of data gathered on preventive health care habits, breaking the questionnaire down into several separate projects, finishing the supporting literature search, and completing several journal articles.
Laura Parker Castoro - Pine Bluff, AR
Laura has authored over 35 books in print. She has written in several genres, including westerns and non-fiction, but her specialty and forte is historical and contemporary romance. She has been selected twice as a "Literary Lion" by the Southwestern Bookseller's Association, and has received several "Reviewers Choice" awards from Romantic Times. Her newest book, A New Lu, was released in 2005. Laura is the 2005 inductee in the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame.
Rosemary Daniell - Savannah, GA
Rosemary has developed the nationally acclaimed Zona Rosa approach, working with writers at all levels of experience, described in her book The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself . Other titles include: Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep South, Sleeping with Soldiers and Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist, and her 2006 publication - Secrets of the Zona Rosa.
Mark Donald - Dallas, TX
After practicing criminal law for many years, Mark left the courtroom for the pressroom writing for legal magazines, newspapers and journals. He is Senior Reporter for Texas Lawyer as well as a freelance reporter for Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine.
Kathryn Eastburn - Colorado Springs, CO
Kathryn will earn her MFA in writing from Spalding University, Louisville, KY, in May, 2006. She is working on a book titled A Sacred Feast: The All-American Tradition of All-Day singing and Dinner on the Grounds featuring recipes in each chapter and historically based stories about the tradition.
Hugo Freund - Barbourville, KY
An Associate Professor of the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Union College in Barbourville, Hugo has been awarded NEH fellowships to study at Newberry Library in Chicago and Ferrum College in Virginia. His publications include Friends and Lovers , Working the Seams and Published State Folklore and he is currently working on a biography of Kentucky author Silas House.
Glenna Gordan - New York, NY
Glenna is working on a Master's Degree at the School of Journalism, Columbia University. While her journalistic writing has been published frequently, she is working on her first novel this summer.
Darlene Graf - Fayetteville, AR
Darlene is a fourth grade teacher. She relocated to Fayetteville, AR in 2003 from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where, in addition to teaching, she was published in the Santa Fe Reporter after winning a writing contest in 2001. She has twice been the Grand Prize winner of the Fayetteville Free Weekly writing contest, in 2004 and 2006.
Betty Ann Henderson - Monett, MO
A former newspaper editor and Librarian, Betty Ann is working on a book tentatively titled Evolution of an Ozarks Junkyard, a collection of humorous vignettes. She is published regularly in the Ozark Mountaineer and won the Missouri Writers Guild "Best Romance Novel of the Year" for her book Child Support. www.grannydingle.com
Cherie Jones - St. Philip, Barbados
Winner of the 2006 Eureka! Fellowship, Cherie Jones is a full time writer and mother of two boys. She is a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's Short-Story competition from a field of 4200 Commonwealth entrants and the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition (Barbados). Cherie's first collection of short stories entitled The Burning Bush Women & Other Stories was published in 2004 by Peepal Tree Press. Cherie is in the process of moving to London.
Debra Kirschner - Brooklyn, NY
Screenwriter, film director and producer, Debra will be working on a new screenplay during her stay to the colony. With a B.A. in Playwriting and Women's Studies from Rutgers University and a Filmmaking Intensive Certificate from New York University, Debra also has experience teaching creataive writing to homeless adults and teenagers affected by domestic violence.
Matt Liebowitz - San Diego,CA
Matt received a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Boston University in 2004 and was the winner of the Sara Bennett Prize for Fiction: Skidmore College, May 2002. He is working on his first novel after successfully publishing several short stories including Everyone has Problems.
Kevin McKelvey - Lebanon, IN
Recipient of the 2006 Moondancer Fellowship, Kevin attended DePauw University and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, and currently teaches Freshman Composition and Professional Writing at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. His recent work appears in Plainsongs and Poems and Plays . The Indiana Arts Commission awarded Kevin a 2005-06 Individual Artist Grant. He is the Managing Editor of "Words on the Go", a community arts project that places poems in the buses of CityBus, the public transportation corporation of greater Lafayette, Indiana.
Alison Moore - Fayetteville, AR
Alison's short story collection, Small Spaces Between Emergencies, was chosen as an American Library Association Notable Book in 1993. Her novel Synonym for Love was published by Penguin/Plume. She is the winner of the 2004 Katherine Ann Porter Award for fiction for her short story Miniature Graceland.
Her newest novella and book of short stories, The Middle of Elsewhere, is now in print. She lives in Arkansas and Terlingua, Texas and travels with her husband performing a multi-media program with original music about the orphan trains.
Ellen Birkett-Morris - Louisville, KY
Ellen's writing has appeared in six anthologies including The Writing Group Book (Chicago Review Press) and Hidden Kitchens (Rodale). Her short fiction received an honorable mention in the 2005 Pedestal Magazine Readers' Awards. Her writing for children can be found in the June issue of KidTime magazine and in the upcoming anthology Sweeter Tea .
Jina Ortiz - Worcester, MA
Jina has won fellowships at Virginia Creative Center for the Arts, the Prentiss Hoyt Prize in Poetry from Clark University and The Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. Her published works include The Sahara Journal, Afro Hispanic Review and Calabash ( New York University. )
Barbara Ostmann - Gerald, MO
Barb is author of The Recipe Writers' Handbook, a distillation of 25 years of experience. The book won "Best in the World" in the Professional Books category of the 2001 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in France and a bronze in the Best Soft Cover Food Book category of the Jacob's Creek World Food Media Awards in Australia. Barbara has a B.A. and M.A. in Journalism
Curtis Parkinson - Ontario, Canada
Curtis has published several children's books and young adult novels. He studied at George Brown College and won the Arthur Ellis Mystery Award 2005. He is currently in the preliminary stages of a young adult novel set in small town Ontario in the late '30's early 40's.
His published books include Sea Chase, Storm-Blast, and Mr. Reezes Sneezes and most recently, Dominic's War.
Gary Eldon Peter - St. Paul, MN
With an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, 1996, numerous awards and a long list of published articles and short stories, fiction and non-fiction, Gary is working on his second book-length novel, a young adult novel about a teenage boy in the late 1960's coming to terms with his sexuality.
Catherine Rankovic - Pacific, MO
Catherine is the author of Fierce Consent and Other Poems (2005) and a co-author of Guilty Pleasures: Indulgences, Addictions and Obsessions (2003). She has taught creative writing at Washington University day and night schools since 1989, and also in the St. Louis Writers Workshop, the Poet-in-the-Schools program, the University of Missouri-St. Louis graduate program, and St. Louis Community College Her essays and poems have been published in The Missouri Review , The Iowa Review , The Progressive , Natural Bridge , Delmar , Boulevard , 13th Moon , River Styx , and elsewhere.
Stephanie Rosenbaum - Brooklyn, NY
Stephanie, Tyson Fellowship winner for 2006 is an award winning author and has published or contributed to seven cook-books. Her current project is about American jam, jellies, pickles and preserves. This book will be a series of essays exploring old and new traditions of this well-loved homemakers' art, with recipes in each chapter.
Hattie Schroeder - Cambridge, MA
Hattie earned an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University along with a teaching fellowship in the writing program. She was the winner of the M.I.T. Writing Prize for Longer Fiction in 1991. She is also a computer programmer and co-author of Web Applications with Tcl/TK (Morgan Kaufmann, 1998). She is working on a collection of short stories about a group of characters who grow up in a rural setting.
Jessie Sholl - NY City, NY
Jessie holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School, where she teaches fiction writing. She has short stories published in several literary journals, including "Other Voices", "CutBank", Lit , and "Fiction", and is currently finishing her first novel, You Are Here. She is the co-editor of the recently published literary non-fiction anthology, Travelers' Tales Prague (Travelers' Tales Press, March, 2006). Jessie lives in New York City with her husband and their dog.
Jonathan Skurnik - Vineyard Haven, MA
Jonathan was the 2005 Scriptwriters' Fellow. He is an independent documentary producer and director of photography whose work includes A Day's Work, A Day's Pay, about New Your City's Welfare to work program, Spit it Out, about a stutterer's quest for self-acceptance, and Aretha Live! He has just returned from a film project in China and Tibet.
Larry Allan Smith - Avon, CT
Larry is the Forrest Goodenough Fellow for 2006. Praised by the New York Times as a "young composer of great gifts", Smith has developed an international reputation as a composer, performer (pianist and poet), educator (Juilliard School and the Boston Conservatory) and arts executive. An award-winning and prolific composer, Larry is represented and published by the Theodore Presser Company, Bourne Music, E.B. Marks, Colla Voce Music and Tallow Tree Music Publishing. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and is currently Professor of Composition at the Hartt School and Artistic Director of American SongFest at the Woodstock Fringe in New York. April 1, 2006, he will become Executive Director and Artistic Director (designate) of Wintergreen Performing Arts in Virginia.
Martin J. Smith - Palos Verdes Estates, CA
A veteran journalist and magazine editor, Martin has won more than 40 newspaper and magazine writing awards. He currently is senior editor of The Los Angeles Times Magazine and the co-author, with Patrick J. Kiger, of OOPS: 20 Life Lessons From the Fiascoes That Shaped America (Collins, 2006), and POPLORICA: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore That Shaped Modern America (HarperResource, April 2004), about which Publishers Weekly concluded: "All history should be this much fun." Martin is currently working on two novels.
Grif Stockley - Little Rock, AR
Grif is the 2005 Bridge Fellowship recipient. He has worked 31 years as a Legal Services attorney and recently left the ACLU to begin working at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies as the First Dee Brown Fellow. His current Project is a book titled: Race Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the Present. Grif's published works include: Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader From Arkansas, Blood in Their Eyes and Salted With Fire. He is the author of 5 murder mysteries: Expert Testimony, Probable Cause, Religious Conviction, Illegal Motion and Blind Judgement.
Marian Szczepanski - Houston, TX
Marian has received writing awards and fellowships from Clackamas Literary Review , Vermont Studio Center, The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, and Houston Press Club. Her primary focus is fiction, but she also contributes frequent feature articles to Houston Woman Magazine. Her poems and essays have appeared in more than a dozen literary, university, and expatriate publications. Marian earned an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in 1997. The granddaughter of immigrant coal miners, she is currently at work on her fourth novel about a southwestern Pennsylvania mining family during the Great Depression.
Anne Webster - Atlanta, GA
Anne's writing has appeared in numerous literary publications including Southern Poetry Review, New York Quarterly and Cedar Hills Review. She weaves themes from her childhood, her experiences as a nurse, a mother, and her own battle with a serious illness, into her poignantly realistic work.
Linda Wendling - Maryland Heights, MO
Linda, winner of the WCDH 2006 Starr Fellowship is a Multi awarded (Milton Fellow 2005 at Seattle Pacific University, William Faulkner Novel Competition finalist, Bellwether Prize, Heartland Fiction Prize and more!) earned an M.A. in English, Writing Theory Specialist from University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her most recent publication, Peculiar Pilgrims-Stories from the Left hand of God, Hourglass Books, was published in 2006.
Lonnie Whitaker - High Ridge, MO
An attorney by trade and a well published author of Ozark live and nostalgia Lonnie is the recipient of the 2005 Starr Fellowship 2006. He was a winner of the John Woods Community College Writing Contest in 2003 for Come Saturday Morning and is currently working on a series of connected stories set in the MO Ozarks in the 1950's.
Evelyn C. White - Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Evelyn took ten years to research and write her acclaimed biography, Alice Walker: A Life (W.W. Norton, 2004). She has published articles, essays and reviews in such publications as Smithsonian, Essence, Ms., The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Time, The Vancouver Sun, and The Washing Post.
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Madison, WI
2005 Notorious Fellowship Winner, Roberta J. Hill is an Oneida poet, fiction writer and scholar. A professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she has written two collections of poetry, Star Quilt (Holy Cow! Press, (1984) 2001) and Philadelphia Flowers (Holy cow! Press, 1996). Her biography of Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill, the second American Indian woman doctor, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press. Her poetry has been selected for inclusion in the St. Paul Poetry Garden and the Midwest Express Convention Center in Milwaukee and her fiction, poetry and essays have most recently appeared in The American Indian Culture and research Journal, The Beloit Poetry Journal , Luna and Prairie Schooner . She is currently at work on her first novel, A Century of Sad Madness, a story about trauma and love in the context of ongoing colonization.
