UNCW - Department of Creative Writing

	Meghan Barnes creative nonfiction hometown: Somers Point, NJ BFA: creative writing-fiction, UNC Wilmington Meghan has written for Bootleg magazine and the Island Gazette and currently works for the Beat magazine. Last year she was published in two anthologies and won second place in the UNC Wilmington Randall Library writing contest.

	Claire Bateman poetry hometown: Goldsboro, NC BA: English and creative writing, Wellesley College Claire was awarded the competitive Wing Memorial Prize for Lyric Poetry by the English department while a student at Wellesley College, and she is an active local book artist with hand bound journals for sale at Pomegranate Books. Her business website is www.americanbookarts.com

	Hope Bordeaux creative nonfiction hometown: Wilmington, NC BA: history, UNC Wilmington MA: global history, UNC Chapel Hill

	Erica Brindley creative nonfiction hometown: Fremont, OH BA: creative writing & English language and literature, Ashland University

	Asia Brown creative nonfiction hometown: Norfolk, VA B.A: communication studies, James Madison University

	Lee Armfield Cannon fiction hometown: Greensboro, NC BA: English literature, UNC Chapel Hill Lee taught EFL in west Japan for four years. She is a teaching assistant in the Publishing Laboratory.

	Tom Dunn fiction hometown: Mt. Carmel, IL BA: English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

	Alexis Finc poetry hometown: all of New Jersey BA: women and gender studies & English, Douglass College at Rutgers University Prior to UNCW’s creative writing program, Alexis worked in online media, most recently as an editor and community producer for the popular teen website gURL.com.

	Rachel Finkelstein poetry hometown: St. Louis, Missouri BA: poetry, Columbia College Chicago Rachel received the Elma Stuckey Award for Poetry in 2007 and 2008. She has published fiction in Grassroots and poetry in Columbia Poetry Review.

	Becky Germain creative nonfiction hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina BFA/BA: creative writing in professional writing, UNC Wilmington Becky’s journalism has appeared in Wrightsville Beach Magazine and her poem "Talin" was a finalist in the 2005 North Carolina State University Poetry Contest.

	Amanda González-Moreno creative nonfiction hometown: Guadalajara, Mexico. BS: communication sciences. MA candidate in liberal studies, UNC Wilmington Amanda is a teaching assistant in the Publishing Laboratory. In Mexico, she published a travel guide and is a guest columnist for the Informador newspaper. She interned as editorial assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, NY.

	Chris Guppy creative nonfiction hometown: Winchester, VA BA: English, College of William and Mary Before arriving in Wilmington, Chris worked as a freelance writer and graphic designer in the Washington, D.C. area. She does not miss D.C. traffic at all.

	Jeremy Hawkins fiction hometown: Durham, North Carolina BA: psychology, UNC Chapel Hill

	Kiki Vera Johnson poetry hometown: Cambridge, MA BA: English & studio art, Tufts University Kiki is a teaching assistant in the Publishing Laboratory. Her poetry has appeared in Queen's Head and Artichoke and the Lewis & Clark Literary Review. She was a winner of the 2010 Her Mark poetry competition.

	Lindsay Key poetry hometown: Boones Mill, VA BA: English and communication, Virginia Tech Before moving to Wilmington, Lindsay worked as a newspaper journalist in southwest Virginia. Her poetry has appeared in Brush Mountain Review and Fourteen Hills literary magazines.

	Keith Kopka poetry hometown: Providence, RI BFA: creative writing, UNC Wilmington Keith teaches with Writers in Action and is the guitarist for Spring Break 1931.

	Jamie La Londe-Pinkston poetry hometown: Houston, TX BA: English, creative writing, University of Houston Jamie won the senior honors thesis award as an undergrad and graduated as banner bearer for her college. She has been happily married for eight years, the achievement that makes her proudest. She owns two dogs, one of which is old and completely blind.

	Johannes Lichtman fiction hometown: Stockholm, Sweden/Thousand Oaks, CA BA: English, Cal Poly Johannes’ stories have appeared on several sheets of printer paper. His font choices have been described as "dazzling."

	Roderick Dale McClain fiction hometown: Auburn, Illinois BS: creative writing, Eastern Michigan University Rod’s writing has been featured in Pank Magazine, Maximum Rocknroll and Northern Journeys.

	Kristy A. McCoy creative nonfiction hometown: Seoul & Erie, PA BFA: Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

	Josh MacIvor-Andersen creative nonfiction hometown: Nashville, TN/Philadelphia, PA BA: journalism, Eastern University, St. Davids, PA Josh MacIvor-Andersen was formerly a Tennessee tree climbing champion, is currently a contributor to magazines such as Sojourners, National Geographic/Glimpse, and Geez, and was recently a finalist for the Hunger Mountain CNF prize, first runner up for Fourth Genre’s Editor Prize and winner of the Arts and Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction.

	Corinne Manning fiction hometown: Neptune, NJ BA: Sarah Lawrence College Corinne Manning is a teaching assistant in the Publishing Laboratory and co-coordinator of Writers in Action. Her writing has appeared in Busted Halo and Wilma. Before moving to Wilmington she lived in NY, where she founded the Other Means Reading Series.

	Nicholas Miller fiction hometown: Downingtown, PA BA: English, German, University of Iowa Nicholas holds a certificate in publishing from NYU and recently left a career in book publishing.

	Amelia Morris fiction hometown: Pittsburgh, PA BA: creative writing & Spanish, Johns Hopkins University Amelia’s short story "We Are Family" was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Fall 2007 Short Story Award for New Writers. She wrote a piece for McSweeneys.net that is being included in their book, McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes. She also runs a small business, www.istomachla.com.

	Erika Moya poetry hometown: Los Angeles, CA BA: history and philosophy, University of California Riverside Erika’s work has appeared in Qaartsiluni, The Smoking Poet, Holly Rose Review, SN Review, Toronto Quarterly, Mosaic: Art and the literary journal of the University of California Riverside.

	Joanna Mulder fiction hometown: Evanston, IL BA: English-writing, Illinois Wesleyan University

	Ashley Newman-Owens creative nonfiction hometown: Takoma Park, MD BA: English, Washington University in St. Louis

	Kara Norman fiction hometown: coastal Connecticut by way of North Caroliina BA: English literature, University of Richmond Before coming to Wilmington to study fiction, Kara taught wilderness skills and language arts in the mountains of North Carolina. She has been published in The L Magazine and Rolling Stone.

	Allison Reavis fiction hometown: Fayetteville, Arkansas BA: English & religious studies, University of Arkansas

	Meg Reid creative nonfiction hometown: Farmington, ME BFA: University of Maine at Farmington Meg moved to Wilmington from Maine to write nonfiction and is sure someday she’ll miss the ten-foot snow banks, but not right now.

	Nick Roberts fiction hometown: Durham, NC BA: English, Duke University Nick’s short story, "Head-on" is forthcoming in Talking River Review. His poetry has appeared in The Ecozoic Reader, and his journalism has been published in Duke Magazine and Wrightsville Beach Magazine.

	Carmen Rodrigues fiction hometowns: Lorain, Ohio and Miami, Florida BA: English, Florida State University Carmen’s debut young adult novel, Not Anything, was published by Berkley Books in February 2008.

	Rachel Schmidt poetry hometown: Fort Wayne, IN BA: English, Concordia University in Ann Arbor, MI

	Ashley Shivar poetry hometown: Kinston, NC BFA: creative writing, UNCW Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Lettered Olive, Main Channel Voices, SNReview and To The Bone. She is a co-coordinator of Writers In Action.

	Barbara Sullivan fiction Barbara’s book, Garden Perennials for the Coastal South, was published by the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Press in 2003.

	Daniel Terry poetry hometown: Dillon, South Carolina BFA: Creative Writing, UNC Wilmington Daniel Nathan Terry’s debut collection of poetry, Capturing the Dead, was selected by Jeff Gundy as the winner of the 2007 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Contest and was published in 2008 by NFSPS Press. His poetry has appeared in several journals, including Oberon, The Adirondack Review and Kakalak 2008: Anthology of Carolina Poets.

	Katherine Webb poetry hometown: Madison, Alabama BA: English, Auburn University Katherine will be teaching with Writers In Action.

	Lara Wooten fiction hometown: Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina BA: English, creative writing concentration, University of South Carolina

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