| Meet the workshop co-founders, Anne K. Ream and R. Clifton Spargo. |
Anne K. Ream is the founder of The Voices and Faces Project and the author of Lived Through This, a memoir of her global journey spent listening to the testimonies of gender-based violence survivors. Anne's writing has appeared in The New Republic, Los Angeles Times, The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A founding board member of Art Works for Change and an advisory board member of RAINN, the country's largest anti-sexual violence organization, Anne is also a founding co-chair at World Without Exploitation, where she created the nation's first-ever large scale archive of trafficking and exploitation testimonies.
R. Clifton Spargo is a novelist and cultural critic. An alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is author of the novel Beautiful Fools, as well as award-winning stories in venues such as The Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, and The Kenyon Review. His essays on literature, music, and culture have appeared in The Wall Street Journal., The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Newcity, and The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. An expert in ethics, testimony, and Holocaust studies, he is a former fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and author of two books of literary philosophy on ethics, mourning, and the cultural memory of injustice. He currently teaches creative writing at Yale University.
Special thanks to our workshop's co-sponsors.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Office for Child and Youth Protection; Carole Landis Foundation – Action for Social Change; and Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Science, Charles Widger School of Law – The Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women's Leadership. |
