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Arts & Letters Festival Visiting Writers & Editors

	LI-YOUNG LEE is the author of several collections of poems, including most recently Book of My Nights, as well as a memoir, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Click here for more information about Li-Young Lee. Thursday night reading. Saturday morning workshop.
	ROSA SHAND is the author of the novel The Gravity of Sunlight, and many stories in such journals as The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Chelsea. Click here for more information about Rosa Shand. Friday afternoon reading. Saturday morning workshop.
	NATASHA TRETHEWEY’s most recent book of poems is Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf Press). Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry Poetry 2000 (edited, Rita Dove), Gettysburg Review and many others. Click here for more information about Natasha Trethewey. Saturday morning workshop. Saturday afternoon reading.
	CHUCK SPOLER’s play Blood Memory is the winner of the 2002 Arts & Letters Prize for Drama (selected by playwright John Guare). In January 2002 Chuck was awarded a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts for his play Gloriana. Click here for more information about Chuck Spoler. Friday & Saturday night play production. Saturday morning workshop with David Muschell.
	MARTIN LAMMON is editor of Arts & Letters and coordinator of the GC&SU MFA in Creative Writing program. His collection of poems News from Where I Live won the Arkansas Poetry Award, and he has recently completed a memoir about living in Costa Rica called Nine Degrees North. Click here for more information about Martin Lammon. Saturday morning workshop.
	SUSAN ATEFAT-PECKHAM is poetry editor of Arts & Letters. Her collection of poems That Kind of Sleep was a 2000 National Poetry Series Award winner (selected by Victor Hernandez Cruz). Her poetry and essays have appeared in such journals as North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, and many others. Click here for more information about Susan Atefat-Peckham. Saturday morning workshop (with Li-Young Lee).
	RUTH KNAFO SETTON is fiction editor of Arts & Letters. She is the author of a novel, The Road to Fez, praised by the Washington Post Book World and the American Book Review. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in such journals as Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, North American Review, and many others. Click here for more information about Ruth Knafo Setton. Saturday morning workshop (with Rosa Shand).
	DAVID MUSCHELL is drama editor of Arts & Letters. His plays have received a dozen national and regional awards, including recent prizes from MultiStages Theatre in New York City and the Stage3 Theatre in Sonoma, California. Two of his plays were recently published by Baker’s Plays of Boston. Click here for more information about David Muschell. Saturday morning workshop with Chuck Spoler.
	JOEL PECKHAM is an associate editor with Arts & Letters. He is the author of a collection of poems, Nightwalking, and has published poetry and prose in many journals, including The Black Warrior Review, Malahat Review, Nimrod, Passages North, and The Southern Review. He edits the on-line journal The Milkwood Review. Click here for more information about Joel Peckham.

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