2008 Master Class Faculty
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Stephen Dobyns |
Stephen Dobyns is the author of ten
books of poems, 21 novels, and a book of essays on poetry, Best
Words, Best Order. His books of poetry include Mystery, So
Long, The
Porcupine's Kisses, Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides
(Penguin, 1999); Common Carnage (1996); Velocities: New
and Selected Poems, 1966-1992 (1994); Cemetery Nights
(1987), which won a Melville Cane Award; Black Dog, Red Dog
(1984), which was a winner in the National Poetry Series; Heat
Death (1980); and Concurring Beasts (1972), which was the
1972 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets.
His fiction includes the short story collection Eating Naked,
the novel, The Church of Dead Girls, and the Saratoga
mysteries featuring Charlie Bradshaw. Stephen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. He is a guest writer
for the San Diego Weekly Reader and is on the faculty of
Warren Wilson College's MFA for Writers program. This is Stephen's
ninth visit to RopeWalk. |
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Sigrid Nunez |
Sigrid Nunez
has published five novels, including A Feather on the Breath of
God; For Rouenna; and, most recently, The Last of Her Kind.
She has also contributed stories and articles to various journals
such as The New York Times, The Believer, Harper’s, and O:
The Oprah Magazine. Sigrid’s work has been included in several
anthologies, including two Pushcart Prize volumes. Among other
honors she has received are a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Rome Prize
in Literature, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and a Fellowship from the
New York Foundation for the Arts. She has taught at Amherst College,
Smith College, Columbia University, and the New School. She has also
been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and at
RopeWalk twice. She is the Fall 2007 Sidney Harman Writer in
Residence at Baruch College, CUNY. |
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Bob
Shacochis |
Bob Shacochis' first collection of stories, Easy in
the Islands, won the National Book Award for First Fiction
in 1985, and his second collection, The Next New World,
was awarded the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters in 1989. Bob Shacochis is a former columnist for
Gentleman’s Quarterly and a contributing editor for both
Outside and Harper’s. A collection of his columns for
GQ, Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love,
was published by Scribner in 1994. Swimming in the Volcano,
the first book in a projected trilogy, was a 1993 National Book
Award Finalist. The Immaculate Invasion, a chronicle of
the 1994 military intervention in Haiti, was a finalist for
The New Yorker Magazine Award for best nonfiction of 1999.
He has also received a James Michener Fellowship and a grant
from the NEA. Bob is a Writer in Residence at the Bennington
Writing Seminars. His appearances at RopeWalk in our early
years were instrumental in shaping what we have become.
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