These are the distinguished writers who will be visiting creative writing classes, meeting with students, talking about craft and the writing life, and reading from their work during two days of "Writes of Spring" events, Monday and Tuesday, March 20 and 21, 2006.
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ART HOMER was born in the Missouri Ozarks. He spent his childhood there and in the Pacific Northwest of California and Oregon. He worked on forest trail crews, as an animal caretaker, and as a journeyman ironworker before finishing his education at Portland State University (BA, 1977) and the University of Montana Graduate Program in Creative Writing (MFA in 1979) where he studied with Richard Hugo, Madeline DeFrees, and Tess Gallagher. He has been editor of Portland Review, CutBank, and SmokeRoot Press, and has taught at several colleges and universities. At the University of Nebraska at Omaha Writer's Workshop since 1982, he is the recipient of a 1998 NEA Writing Fellowship, a 1995 Individual Artist Fellowship from Nebraska Arts Council, and a Regents Professorship from the University of Nebraska. Homer's nonfiction book, The Drownt Boy: An Ozark Tale (University of Missouri Press, 1994) was published as a finalist for the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. His most recent of four poetry collections is Sight Is No Carpenter (WordTech Communications, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared in Agni, Georgia Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, Midwest Quarterly, North American Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Review. He received a 1995 Pushcart Prize.
DAVID JAUSS is the author of two short story collections, Crimes of Passion
and Black Maps, and two collections of poetry, Improvising Rivers and You Are
Not Here, and he has edited The Best of Crazyhorse: Thirty Years of Poetry and
Prose and co-edited (with Philip Dacey) Strong Measures: Contemporary American
Poetry in Traditional Forms. His stories have been reprinted in Best American
Short Stories and the O. Henry Award and Pushcart Prize anthologies. His awards
include the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction, the Fleur-de-Lis
Poetry Prize, a James Michener Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship. He teaches
at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and in the M.F.A. in Writing Program
at Vermont College.
ANNA MONARDO's forthcoming novel, Falling In Love With Natassia, will be published by Doubleday in 2006. Her first novel, The Courtyard of Dreams (Doubleday, 1993; reprinted by iUniverse.com, 2000), has been translated into German, Norwegian, and Dutch. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Indiana Review, Redbook, Other Voices, Clackamas Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, McCall's; and anthologized in A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers (University of Nebraska Press), The Dream Book Anthology of Writing by Italian-American Women (Schocken Books) and The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction (Berkley Books). Her fiction has also been included in the NPR reading series, "Selected Shorts." She is Associate Professor and Chair of the Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Originally from Pittsburgh, she received her BA from St Mary's College (Notre Dame, Indiana) and her MFA from Columbia University. She has also worked as an editor at McCalls, Time, and Random House. She is a 2000 and 2003 recipient of Merit Awards from the Nebraska Arts Council.
TIMOTHY SCHAFFERT grew
up on a farm in Hamilton County, Nebraska, and attended the University of Nebraska
at Lincoln as an undergraduate. He holds the MFA in creative writing from the
University of Arizona. His short stories have appeared in Prairie Schooner,
The Greensboro Review, Press, Natural Bridge, and other literary journals. His
work was "short-listed" in The Best of 1999: The O Henry Awards Prize
Stories, and he has received the Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award, the Mary
Roberts Rinehart Award, and two awards from the Nebraska Arts Council. His novel,
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters, was published by Blue Hen, a division
of Penguin Putnam, and won the Nebraska Book Award for Fiction in 2003. His
forthcoming novel, The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God, will be published
by Unbridled Books. He has served as Editor of The Reader and Omaha Pulp, two
arts and culture newsweeklies in Omaha.
For further details contact Professor Mary Helen Stefaniak,Director of Creative Writing, Creighton University, mhs@creighton.edu, (402) 280-5768