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Submissions Subscriptions Prizes Workshops Visiting Writers Current Issue Back Issues Editors Endowment MFA @ GC&SU Links Read an interview with Brad Barkley. Read a feature article and interview with Alice Friman. Read an Interview with Sue William Silverman Visit the Ploughshares author site for Martin Lammon.				Brad Barkley teaches at Frostburg State University and also in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Low Residency MFA Program. More on Brad Barkley Alice Friman teaches poetry writing at GC&SU. For many years she taught at the University of Indianapolis. More on Alice Friman Sue William Silverman joins the workshops this year to teach Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. More on Sue William Silverman Martin Lammon is the editor of Arts & Letters and directs the MFA Program at GC&SU. More on Martin Lammon Allen Gee teaches fiction writing at GC&SU and is the fiction editor of Arts & Letters. More on Allen Gee Karen Salyer-McElmurray teaches creative nonfiction. Her most recent book, Surrendered Child, was the winner of the AWP Award Series for Nonfiction.
		Workshop Faculty Information Brad Barkley was one of Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers for his novel Money, Love and Alison's Automotive Repair Manual was a Book Sense 76 Choice (recommended by independent booksellers). In addition, he was named one of the Breakthrough Writers You Need to Know by Book Magazine. He has also won a creative writing fellowship from the NEA and published a collection of short stories, Circle View (SMU Press). His latest collection of short stories, Another Perfect Catastrophe: And Other Stories was published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2004. He currently lives in Maryland with his wife and two children, teaching creative writing at Frostburg State University. Alice Friman was born in New York City and is professor emerita of English and creative writing at the University of Indianapolis, where she taught for many years. Published in ten countries and anthologized widely, she has produced eight collections of poetry, including Inverted Fire (BkMk 1997) and Zoo (Arkansas 1999), winner of the Ezra Pound Poetry Award. Among Friman's other awards are three prizes from the Poetry Society of America and fellowships from the Arts Council of Indianapolis and the Indian Arts Commission. Sue William Silverman’s memoir Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You won the AWP award for Creative Nonfiction, and was published by the University of Georgia Press. Her second memoir, Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction, was published by W. W. Norton. She is also an associate editor of the literary journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in such publications as Redbook, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Writer's Chronicle, Lilith, Mid-America Poetry Review, Potomac Review, and Prairie Schooner. Martin Lammon’s book News from Where I Live: Poems (University of Arkansas Press, 1998) won the Arkansas Poetry Prize. His poems have also won a Pablo Neruda Prize, selected by W. S. Merwin for poems published in Nimrod. Poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Black Warrior Review, Chelsea, The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, and Ploughshares. Lammon holds the Fuller E. Callaway endowed Flannery O'Connor Chair in Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University. In 2003 he won The Chattahoochee Review’s Lamar York Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Allen Gee has recently completed a novel, Far from the Beautiful Country, about Chinese railroad workers in 1866 California. For his fiction, he has received fellowships from Yaddo and the Texas Commission on the Arts. He is the forming managing editor of Gulf Coast Literary Journal at the University of Houston, where he also taught writing and literature, and is currently the Fiction Editor of GS&SU’s Arts & Letters. He has also taught for La Nuestra Palabra, Houston’s foremost Hispanic literary organization. Karen Salyer-McElmurray teaches in GC&SU’s Creative Writing Program and is the author of a novel , Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, and most recently a memoir, Surrendered Child, winner in the AWP Award Series for Nonfiction and published by UGA Press.
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