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Myla Goldberg, Keynote and Morning Fiction Lecture
Myla Goldberg is the author of the bestselling Bee Season, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 2000, winner of the Harold U. Ribalow Prize and the Borders New Voices Prize, and a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award, the NYPL Young Lions award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover award. It has been adapted to film and widely translated. Her essay collection, Time's Magpie, explores all her favorite places in Prague, where she lived for a year in the early 1990s. Her 2005 novel Wickett's Remedy grew out of her fascination with the 1918 influenza epidemic and explores the nature of human ambition and the frailty of individual and collective memory. In 200, she published a book for children, Catching the Moon. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeneys and Harpers. Her book reviews have appeared in the New York Times and Bookforum. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Carrie Bebris, Afternoon Mystery Seminar

Carrie Bebris has been a professional wordsmith for more than fifteen years and a Jane Austen admirer far longer. A fan of romance, mystery, fantasy, and historical fiction, she has blended them all in her Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery series. Set in Regency England and featuring plenty of sharp dialogue and romantic interplay, the novels entangle some of Jane Austen's best-known characters in intrigue with a dash of gothic atmosphere. Carrie began her career in publishing after previous roles as a newspaper reporter and college English teacher. As an editor for fantasy publisher TSR, Inc., she developed supplements for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game before striking out on her own as a freelance writer and editor. She wrote two fantasy novels, Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001) and Shadowborn (1998, with William W. Connors), before making her mystery debut in 2004 with Pride and Prescience . Her second mystery, Suspense and Sensibility , followed in 2005, and the third, North by Northanger , in 2006. In addition to fiction, she pens remodeling articles for Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications and writes other nonfiction. Carrie holds a master's degree in English literature with an emphasis on 19th-century authors and studied Austen on the graduate level with one of the country's most respected Austen scholars. She is a longtime member of the Jane Austen Society of North America and has taken research trips to England to enhance her understanding of Austen's life and work. Originally from Wisconsin, Carrie now lives in Ohio.

Cathy Smith Bowers, Your Journey Begins
Cathy Smith Bowers, an AWW favorite, is back to teach our afternoon session for beginning writers. A native of South Carolina, she was a winner of the 1990 General Electric Award for Younger Writers and a South Carolina Poetry Fellowship. Her poems have appeared widely in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, The Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, and many others. Cathy's first book, The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas, was published in 1992 as the first winner of the Texas Tech University Press First-book Competition in their Poetry Award Series, subsequently named for Walt McDonald. Iris Press republished The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas in 1997, then published Traveling in Time of Danger (1999) and A Book of Minutes (2004; Cathy's fourth book of poems, The Candle I Hold Up To See You, is forthcoming. Cathy teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina.

John Drury, Afternoon Poetry Seminar
John Drury's poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, Western Humanities Review, and other periodicals, as well as in a Pushcart Prize anthology and in Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, edited by Agha Shahid Ali (Wesleyan University Press, 2000). He has won the Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry from The Paris Review, as well as two Ohio Arts Council grants. His poetry collections include Burning the Aspern Papers (Miami University Press, 2003), The Disappearing Town (Miami University Press, 2000), and a chapbook, The Stray Ghost (State Street Press, 1987). He is also the author of The Poetry Dictionary (Writer's Digest Books, 2006) and Creating Poetry (Writer's Digest Books, 1991). After studying at the University of Maryland and serving in the U.S. Army, he earned degrees at SUNY/Stony Brook, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Iowa. Since 1985 he has taught at the University of Cincinnati, where he is now a professor. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Lucrecia Guerrero, Afternoon Fiction Seminar

Lucrecia Guerrero's work has been anthologized and published in journals such as The Louisville Review. Chasing Shadows, her linked story collection, was published by Chronicle books, and she has completed a novel, Tree of Sighs. A Pushcart nominee, she has received grants from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District. Guerrero holds a MFA in Creative Writing and teaches writing at Antioch University McGregor.

Kevin Haworth, Afternoon Fiction Seminar
Kevin Haworth graduated with honors from Vassar College in 1992; it was at Vassar that he began writing fiction, studying with novelist Thomas Mallon. In 1995, Haworth received a teaching fellowship to Arizona State University, where he earned an MFA in Fiction Writing. While there, he taught fiction workshops and published his first story, "The Story of Jonah and the Whale," which won the Permafrost Fiction Prize. His second published story, "The Promised Land," won the David Dornstein Memorial Creative Writing Contest in 1998. His novel The Discontinuity of Small Things (Quality Words in Print, 2005) won The Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers. Haworth lives in Athens, Ohio, and teaches writing and literature at Ohio University.

John Lane, Morning Narrative Nonfiction Lecture
John Lane's outdoor adventure prose has appeared in Outside, American White Water, Canoe, South Carolina Wildlife, and many other periodicals. His long essays, "River Wild," on paddling 59 miles of the Youghiogheny River, and "Confluence: Pacolet River," appeared in the anthologies Heart of a Nation and Adventure America , both from National Geographic Books. An essay about Cumberland Island appeared in the widely distributed In Short: Short Creative Nonfiction (WW Norton & Co. 1996). Lane's natural history memoir, A Stand of Cypress, was the runner-up in the AWP creative nonfiction contest in 1995. His first collection of place-based personal essays, Weed Time, appeared from Briarpatch Press in 1993. In 1999, the University of Georgia (UGA) Press published The Woods Stretched for Miles: Contemporary Southern Nature Writing, an anthology of Southern nature writing that Lane co-edited. His second collection of place-based essays, Waist Deep in Black Water, appeared in 2002, and a book-length personal narrative, Chattooga, followed in 2004, both from UGA Press as well. His most recent book, Circling Home: Settlement on the Edge of a Southern Flood Plain, was published by UGA Press in Fall 2007. In 1995, Lane co-founded a community press and literary arts organization in Spartanburg, North Carolina, called The Hub City Writers Project.

Robert Morgan, Morning Poetry Lecture
Robert Morgan has had a long and distinguished career as a teacher and writer of poetry, short stories, and novels. In 2007, he was chosen for an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also been awarded the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the North Carolina Literature Award, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. Among his many works of poetry are At the Edge of the Orchard Country (1987), Sigodlin (1990), Green River: New and Selected Poems (1991), and Topsoil Road (2000). Morgan's other writings include the novels The Truest Pleasure, The Hinterlands, and the best-selling Gap Creek , a 2000 selection of Oprah Winfrey's Book Club. His first major nonfiction work, Boone: A Biography, about the frontiersman Daniel Boone, was published in 2007 and is a finalist for the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. Morgan is the Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Ron Stodghill, Afternoon Narrative Nonfiction Seminar
Ron Stodghill is an award-winning journalist whose career spans nearly two decades and includes roles as a staff writer for the New York Times, Midwest bureau chief for Time magazine, Washington correspondent for Business Week magazine, and editor-in-chief of Savoy magazine. Educated at the University of Missouri, Queens University of Charlotte, where he received an MFA in creative nonfiction, and Harvard University, where he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship, Stodghill is the author of Redbone: Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta (HarperCollins/ Amistad), a critically praised work of literary nonfiction published in 2007. He is also co-author of No Free Ride: From the Mean Streets to the Mainstream, former U.S. Congressman and NAACP president Kweisi Mfume's best-selling memoir (Ballantine Books, 1996). Stodghill's work has also appeared in the anthology, Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America  (Ballantine Books, 1995) as well as Readers Digest, Slate, Essence, Black Enterprise, and Emerge.  Stodghill resides with his wife and three sons in Charlotte, NC, where he currently serves as editorial director of a regional magazine publisher, while working on Tobaccoville, a collection of short stories.