About

Instructors

Author	Biography
Joe Kulka	Joe Kulka is an award winning children’s book author and illustrator. Joe has illustrated over 20 books for children, 4 of which he also wrote. He is currently working on his 5th book as both author and illustrator. Joe teaches children’s book illustration at Moore College of Art and Design and at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. Workshop: Writing Children's Picture Books
Anne Kaier	Anne Kaier’s work, in nonfiction and poetry, appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Bellingham Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Apiary, Paradigm, and other venues. Poems and an essay are included in Beauty is a Verb: An Anthology of Poetry, Poetics, and Disability, which is on the American Library Association Notable Books list for 2012. Workshop: Tell Your Story: Memoir
Randall Brown	Randall Brown is on the faculty of Rosemont College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. He has been published widely, both online and in print, and blogs regularly at FlashFiction.net. He is also the founder and managing editor of Matter Press and its Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. Workshop: Fearless Flash Fiction
J.C. Todd	J. C . Todd has been chasing images since childhood. Her most recent collection of poetry is What Space This Body. Her poems have received awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Leeway Foundation, and Poetry Society of America. She teaches at Bryn Mawr College and in the MFA program at Rosemont and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Workshop: Writing the Wild Blue Yonder: Following Image into the Unknown
Elizabeth Mosier	Elizabeth Mosier is the author of The Playgroup, part of the Gemma Open Door series to promote adult literacy, My Life as a Girl (Random House) and numerous short stories and essays. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she teaches writing in a variety of settings, including Bryn Mawr College. Workshop: Writing for the Young Adult Audience
Curtis Smith	Curtis Smith’s stories and essays have appeared in over seventy-five literary journals. His work has been cited by The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, and The Best American Spiritual Writing. He is the author of the novels An Unadorned Life, Sound and Noise, and Truth or Something Like It. His story collections include In the Jukebox Light, The Species Crown, and Bad Monkey. His essay collection Witness was released in late 2011. This past spring, Press 53 published his most recent story collection, Beasts and Men. In 2015, his next novel, Lovepain, will be released. Workshop: Our Lives in Stories
Charles Holdefer	Charles Holdefer is the author of four novels, most recently Back in the Game. His novel The Contractor was an American Booksellers’ Association “Book Sense Pick.” He attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Sorbonne. His fiction has appeared in the New England Review, North American Review and Slice. He also writes essays and reviews. Workshop: Novel Fundamentals
Elise Juska	Elise Juska's short stories have appeared in numerous magazines including Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review and been cited as distinguished by The Best American Short Stories. Her fourth novel is forthcoming from Grand Central/Hachette in early 2014. She teaches and directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of the Arts. Workshop: The Whole Story: Exploring the Possibilities of Voice in Short Fiction
Liz Abrams-Morley	Liz Abrams-Morley is the author of Necessary Turns, winner of an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence, 2010, Learning the Calculate the Half Life, two chapbooks and numerous published stories and poems. Her poems and stories have been read on NPR. Liz is co-founder/director of Around the Block Writers’ Collaborative, and teaches on Rosemont’s MFA faculty. Workshop: Ordinary Genius: Engaging Your Muse and Writing Across Genres

Author

Biography

Joe Kulka

Joe Kulka is an award winning children’s book author and illustrator. Joe has illustrated over 20 books for children, 4 of which he also wrote. He is currently working on his 5th book as both author and illustrator. Joe teaches children’s book illustration at Moore College of Art and Design and at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design.

Workshop: Writing Children's Picture Books

Anne Kaier

Anne Kaier’s work, in nonfiction and poetry, appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Bellingham Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Apiary, Paradigm, and other venues. Poems and an essay are included in Beauty is a Verb: An Anthology of Poetry, Poetics, and Disability, which is on the American Library Association Notable Books list for 2012.

Workshop: Tell Your Story: Memoir

Randall Brown

Randall Brown is on the faculty of Rosemont College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. He has been published widely, both online and in print, and blogs regularly at FlashFiction.net. He is also the founder and managing editor of Matter Press and its Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.

Workshop: Fearless Flash Fiction

J.C. Todd

J. C . Todd has been chasing images since childhood. Her most recent collection of poetry is What Space This Body. Her poems have received awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Leeway Foundation, and Poetry Society of America. She teaches at Bryn Mawr College and in the MFA program at Rosemont and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College.

Workshop: Writing the Wild Blue Yonder: Following Image into the Unknown

Elizabeth Mosier

Elizabeth Mosier is the author of The Playgroup, part of the Gemma Open Door series to promote adult literacy, My Life as a Girl (Random House) and numerous short stories and essays. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she teaches writing in a variety of settings, including Bryn Mawr College.

Workshop: Writing for the Young Adult Audience

Curtis Smith

Curtis Smith’s stories and essays have appeared in over seventy-five literary journals. His work has been cited by The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, and The Best American Spiritual Writing. He is the author of the novels An Unadorned Life, Sound and Noise, and Truth or Something Like It. His story collections include In the Jukebox Light, The Species Crown, and Bad Monkey. His essay collection Witness was released in late 2011. This past spring, Press 53 published his most recent story collection, Beasts and Men. In 2015, his next novel, Lovepain, will be released.

Workshop: Our Lives in Stories

Charles Holdefer

Charles Holdefer is the author of four novels, most recently Back in the Game. His novel The Contractor was an American Booksellers’ Association “Book Sense Pick.” He attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Sorbonne. His fiction has appeared in the New England Review, North American Review and Slice. He also writes essays and reviews.

Workshop: Novel Fundamentals

Elise Juska

Elise Juska's short stories have appeared in numerous magazines including Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review and been cited as distinguished by The Best American Short Stories. Her fourth novel is forthcoming from Grand Central/Hachette in early 2014. She teaches and directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of the Arts.

Workshop: The Whole Story: Exploring the Possibilities of Voice in Short Fiction

Liz Abrams-Morley

Liz Abrams-Morley is the author of Necessary Turns, winner of an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence, 2010, Learning the Calculate the Half Life, two chapbooks and numerous published stories and poems. Her poems and stories have been read on NPR. Liz is co-founder/director of Around the Block Writers’ Collaborative, and teaches on Rosemont’s MFA faculty.