Faculty Biographies
(more faculty information will be available soon!)
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Liz Abrams-Morley (Multi-genre) is the author of two full-length poetry collections, (Necessary Turns, Word Press, 2010; Learning to Calculate the Half Life, Zinka Press, 2001) and two chapbooks. Her stories and poems have appeared in nationally distributed anthologies and journals and have been featured on NPR. Co-founder of Around the Block Writers’ Collaborative, (www.writearoundtheblock.org) Liz teaches MFA students at Rosemont College. She and her partners at ATB are currently completing a book of prompts to woo the muse. |
 | Bob Davis, Yoga Bob Davis has taught yoga since 1971. He integrates bodily movement and deep rhythmic breathing for a meditative approach to hatha yoga. He has practiced insight meditation for twenty-five years, and is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Vipassana Network and the Philadelphia Meditation Center. Bob has co-authored How to Achieve Peace of Mind: Finding Inner Peace No Matter What Life Brings. He teaches at The Awareness Center in Newark, Delaware, and the Hockessin Athletic Club. *Those attending yoga classes are encouraged to bring their own mats and not to eat before hand. Yoga will be offered during the Weeklong Retreat only. |
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Lise Funderburg’s (Creative Nonfiction) latest book is the memoir, Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home (Free Press), a contemplation of life, death, and barbecue. She has been a regular contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine and has written for The New York Times, TIME, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Nation, and Prevention. Lise is a graduate of Columbia University School of Journalism and a creative nonfiction writing instructor in at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers. |
 | Elise Juska (Short Story) has published three novels with Simon & Schuster: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy; The Hazards of Sleeping Alone; and Getting Over Jack Wagner, which was a “Critic’s Choice” in People magazine and optioned for feature film. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, Harvard Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Good Housekeeping, The Seattle Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Esquire.com. She teaches fiction writing at The New School in NYC and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she received the Director’s Award for Teaching Excellence. |
 | Elizabeth Mosier (Novel Writing) is the author of the novel, My Life as a Girl (Random House) and numerous short stories and essays published in magazines including Seventeen, Child, and Poets and Writers. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she teaches writing in a variety of settings, including Bryn Mawr College. More information is at http://www.ElizabethMosier.com. |
 | J. C. Todd (Poetry) is author of What Space This Body (Wind Publications 2008), Nightshade, and Entering Pisces, and has poems in APR, The Paris Review and other journals. Awards include fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Leeway Foundation, and artist colonies in Europe and the US with an MFA from Warren Wilson College, she teaches creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and in the graduate program at Rosemont. |