2011
Christina Shea
Christina Shea was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary and subsequently worked for the organization throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She is the recipient of a Radcliffe Institute fellowship from Harvard University. Her first novel, Moira’s Crossing, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers selection. She is also the co-author of the first Frommer’s travel guides to Budapest and Hungary. Now the mother of three boys, she holds the following positions: Visiting Writer at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Fiction Faculty in low- residency MFA program at Lesley University, and Writing Coach with WriteBoston.
Brian Bouldrey
Brian Bouldrey is the author, most recently, of The Sorrow of the Elves (GemmaMedia, 2011). He has written 3 nonfiction books--most recently, Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica, and 3 novels, and he is the editor of several anthologies. He is the North American Editor of Gemma Open Door, novellas for new readers. He teaches literature and creative writing at Northwestern University.
MT Anderson
Highly acclaimed author, M. T. Anderson, has written books for adults, teens, and children. His futuristic satirical novel Feed, was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature in 2002 and was winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; his novel of Revolutionary Boston, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party won the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award. His newest book is The Empire of Gut and Bone.
Partricia Fargnoli
Patricia Fargnoli, the New Hampshire Poet Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009, is the author of four books and two chapbooks of poetry. Her newest book, Then, Something, won the ForeWord Poetry Book of the Year Award Silver Award, the Shelia Mooton Book Award of the New England Poetry Club, and an Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her fifth collection, Duties of the Spirit, won the New Hampshire Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry and was a semifinalist for the Glasgow Prize. Her first book, Necessary Light, was awarded the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award.
“Pat”, a retired social worker, has been the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship. She has been on the residence faculty of The Frost Place Poetry Festival, and has taught privately at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in the Lifelong Learning program of Keene State College. She was the recipient of an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Art, has won the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and 6 Pushcart nominations. Twice a semifinalist for the Discovery, The Nation Awards, she has published widely in literary journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, Alaska Quarterly, and the Massachusetts Review.
Edie Clark
Edie Clark has been a writer and editor of books and magazines for almost 40 years. She has written extensively about New England in award-winning feature stories for Yankee magazine, where she served as Senior Editor and Fiction Editor for more than twenty years. Her ongoing column for the magazine, now titled “Mary’s Farm,” has been a popular feature of the magazine for many years. The New York Times Book Review described her memoir, The Place He Made, which has recently been reissued, as “a triumph of the human spirit [which] may take its quiet place among the best of the literature.” In 2001, she collaborated with the composer, Lawrence Siegel, to create Monadnock Tales, a fusion of music and poetry, which has been performed several times in the Monadnock Region, including one performance for the MacDowell Centennial celebration in 2008. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook Writers Colony, and has been a visiting writer at Northern Michigan University. She is currently a contributing editor to Yankee magazine. She has taught in the MFA program at Emerson College in Boston and now teaches at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire and at UMass/Amherst. She is a featured speaker for the New Hampshire Humanities Council and gives frequent talks throughout New England. Her other books include The View from Mary’s Farm, a collection of essays about her place in New Hampshire, Saturday Beans and Sunday Suppers, a food memoir with recipes from each decade, and her latest book, States of Grace: Encounters with Real Yankees, a collection of stories about ordinary people who lead extraordinary lives.
Rebecca Rule
Rebecca Rule gathers and tells stories in New England. Her books include The Best Revenge: Short Stories; Could Have Been Worse: True Stories, Embellishments, and Outright Lies; and Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire, and most recently, Headin’ For the Rhubarb: A New Hampshire Dictionary (well, kinda). She also hosts the NH Authors Series on NHPTV.
Tom Wessels
This program is based on Tom’s book, “Reading the Forested Landscape, A Natural History of New England”. It introduces people to approaches used to interpret a forest’s history while wandering through it. Using evidence such as the shapes of trees, scars on their trunks, the pattern of decay in stumps, the construction of stonewalls, and the lay of the land, it is possible to unravel complex stories etched into our forested landscape. This process could easily be called forest forensics, since it is quite similar to interpreting a crime scene.
Tom Wessels is an ecologist and founding director of the master’s degree program in Conservation Biology at Antioch University New England. He is the current chair of The Center for Whole Communities that fosters inclusive communities that are strongly rooted in place and where all people—regardless of income, race, or background—have access to and a healthy relationship with land. He served as an ecological consultant to the Rain Forest Alliance’s SmartWood Green Certification Program. In that capacity Tom helped draft green certification assessment guidelines for forest operations in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Tom has conducted landscape level workshops throughout the United States for over 30 years. His books include: Reading the Forested Landscape, The Granite Landscape, Untamed Vermont, The Myth of Progress, and Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape.
Christina Shea was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary and subsequently worked for the organization throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She is the recipient of a Radcliffe Institute fellowship from Harvard University. Her first novel, Moira’s Crossing, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers selection. She is also the co-author of the first Frommer’s travel guides to Budapest and Hungary. Now the mother of three boys, she holds the following positions: Visiting Writer at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Fiction Faculty in low- residency MFA program at Lesley University, and Writing Coach with WriteBoston.
Brian Bouldrey
Brian Bouldrey is the author, most recently, of The Sorrow of the Elves (GemmaMedia, 2011). He has written 3 nonfiction books--most recently, Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica, and 3 novels, and he is the editor of several anthologies. He is the North American Editor of Gemma Open Door, novellas for new readers. He teaches literature and creative writing at Northwestern University.
MT Anderson
Highly acclaimed author, M. T. Anderson, has written books for adults, teens, and children. His futuristic satirical novel Feed, was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature in 2002 and was winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; his novel of Revolutionary Boston, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party won the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award. His newest book is The Empire of Gut and Bone.
Partricia Fargnoli
Patricia Fargnoli, the New Hampshire Poet Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009, is the author of four books and two chapbooks of poetry. Her newest book, Then, Something, won the ForeWord Poetry Book of the Year Award Silver Award, the Shelia Mooton Book Award of the New England Poetry Club, and an Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her fifth collection, Duties of the Spirit, won the New Hampshire Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry and was a semifinalist for the Glasgow Prize. Her first book, Necessary Light, was awarded the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award.
“Pat”, a retired social worker, has been the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship. She has been on the residence faculty of The Frost Place Poetry Festival, and has taught privately at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in the Lifelong Learning program of Keene State College. She was the recipient of an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Art, has won the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and 6 Pushcart nominations. Twice a semifinalist for the Discovery, The Nation Awards, she has published widely in literary journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, Alaska Quarterly, and the Massachusetts Review.
Edie Clark
Edie Clark has been a writer and editor of books and magazines for almost 40 years. She has written extensively about New England in award-winning feature stories for Yankee magazine, where she served as Senior Editor and Fiction Editor for more than twenty years. Her ongoing column for the magazine, now titled “Mary’s Farm,” has been a popular feature of the magazine for many years. The New York Times Book Review described her memoir, The Place He Made, which has recently been reissued, as “a triumph of the human spirit [which] may take its quiet place among the best of the literature.” In 2001, she collaborated with the composer, Lawrence Siegel, to create Monadnock Tales, a fusion of music and poetry, which has been performed several times in the Monadnock Region, including one performance for the MacDowell Centennial celebration in 2008. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook Writers Colony, and has been a visiting writer at Northern Michigan University. She is currently a contributing editor to Yankee magazine. She has taught in the MFA program at Emerson College in Boston and now teaches at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire and at UMass/Amherst. She is a featured speaker for the New Hampshire Humanities Council and gives frequent talks throughout New England. Her other books include The View from Mary’s Farm, a collection of essays about her place in New Hampshire, Saturday Beans and Sunday Suppers, a food memoir with recipes from each decade, and her latest book, States of Grace: Encounters with Real Yankees, a collection of stories about ordinary people who lead extraordinary lives.
Rebecca Rule
Rebecca Rule gathers and tells stories in New England. Her books include The Best Revenge: Short Stories; Could Have Been Worse: True Stories, Embellishments, and Outright Lies; and Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire, and most recently, Headin’ For the Rhubarb: A New Hampshire Dictionary (well, kinda). She also hosts the NH Authors Series on NHPTV.
Tom Wessels
This program is based on Tom’s book, “Reading the Forested Landscape, A Natural History of New England”. It introduces people to approaches used to interpret a forest’s history while wandering through it. Using evidence such as the shapes of trees, scars on their trunks, the pattern of decay in stumps, the construction of stonewalls, and the lay of the land, it is possible to unravel complex stories etched into our forested landscape. This process could easily be called forest forensics, since it is quite similar to interpreting a crime scene.
Tom Wessels is an ecologist and founding director of the master’s degree program in Conservation Biology at Antioch University New England. He is the current chair of The Center for Whole Communities that fosters inclusive communities that are strongly rooted in place and where all people—regardless of income, race, or background—have access to and a healthy relationship with land. He served as an ecological consultant to the Rain Forest Alliance’s SmartWood Green Certification Program. In that capacity Tom helped draft green certification assessment guidelines for forest operations in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Tom has conducted landscape level workshops throughout the United States for over 30 years. His books include: Reading the Forested Landscape, The Granite Landscape, Untamed Vermont, The Myth of Progress, and Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape.