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Guest Faculty: DOUG DORST, ROBIN HEMLEY, SHEROD SANTOS, MARIAN YOUNG
Resident Faculty: CAROL ANN DAVIS, BRET LOTT, EMILY ROSKO, ANTHONY VARALLO

Session Descriptions:
The Art and Craft of Poetry: Sherod Santos with Carol Ann Davis
The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction: Robin Hemley with Bret Lott
The Art and Craft of Fiction: Doug Dorst with Anthony Varallo
The Agent and Author: A Conversation with Bret Lott and Marian Young
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Fiction
Matthew Vollono   Samaritan   When Henry first saw the girl she was standing at the top of the exit ramp on Glisan Street, holding a cardboard sign and asking drivers for spare change. Her bag was a secondhand rucksack, the flaps held in place with safety pins and knotted twine, her dreadlocks tied behind her head in a towering bundle. Her name was Alana, and she was nineteen years old.

Ann Gelder   Origin   A man named Everill Gander was born in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1920. His father was an engineer and his mother a schoolteacher. He was the sixth of eight children. He often joked that his parents had given him his unusual first name so they would not forget about him completely.

Essays
Katharine Haake   Diptych: Chrysalis, Prayer   One winter when the boys were young we visited a friend of my sister who lives in the mountains near a small pond where we skated. Lacking neighbors, my sister’s friend rescues wild animals, especially birds of prey, and at the time we visited, was keeping one owl permanently in her home and two hawks, still mending before their release. All the birds had yellow eyes.

Poetry
"Train crosses the field, a page that erases heavy footsteps" Lan Lan translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain   Molly Bashaw   Steven Cramer   Hugh Martin   Lee Sharkey   Danniel Schoonebeek   Amy Fleury   Geffrey Davis   Christopher Salerno   Donika Ross "I am the sun and the sky / And the hot bruise     I squint against"   All this and more.

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Bathed in Yellow by Shanna Bruschi. 2010. Oil on canvas. 24 x 24 inches.
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