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2010 Faculty
View our previous authors from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 in the Faculty Archive.
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Dennis Lehane – Co-director, Fiction
Dennis Lehane grew up in the Dorchester section of Boston's inner-city. Since his first novel, A Drink Before the War, won the Shamus Award, he has published seven more novels with William Morrow & Co. that have been translated into more than 30 languages and become international bestsellers: Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone Baby Gone; Prayers for Rain; Mystic River; Shutter Island, and The Given Day. Morrow also published Coronado, a collection of five stories and a play, and both Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone have been made into award-winning films. In February 2010, Columbia Pictures will release the motion picture adaptation of Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, and Mark Ruffalo. He and his wife divide their time between St. Petersburg and Boston. www.dennislehanebooks.com |
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Sterling Watson – Co-director, Fiction
Sterling Watson is the author of five novels: Weep No More My Brother; The Calling; Blind Tongues; Deadly Sweet; and Sweet Dream Baby. Weep No More My Brother was nominated for the Rosenthal Award given annually by the National Academy Institute of Arts and Letters. Watson is the recipient of three Florida Fine Arts Council Awards for fiction writing. His short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Southern Review. He is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Eckerd College and holder of the Peter Meinke Chair in Creative Writing. |
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Denise Duhamel - Poetry
Denise Duhamel's most recent books are Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and Kinky (Orchises Press, 1997). A bilingual edition of her poems, Afortunada de mí (Lucky Me), translated into Spanish by Dagmar Buchholz and David Gonzalez, came out in 2008 with Bartleby Editores (Madrid). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami. |
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Beth Ann Fennelly - Poetry
Beth Ann Fennelly received a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Award and a 2006 United States Artist grant. She's written three books of poetry, Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables, as well as a book of essays, Great With Child, all with W. W. Norton. She has three times been included in The Best American Poetry Series and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright to Brazil. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi. |
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Tom Franklin – Fiction
Tom Frankin, from Dickinson, Alabama, is the author of the short story collection, Poachers, and the novels Hell at the Breech and Smonk, all published by William Morrow. Recipient of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, he has been the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell Univeristy, the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, the Tennessee Williams Fellow at Sewanee and currently teaches in the MFA program at Ole Miss and lives in Oxford. Married to the poet Beth Ann Fennelly, he is at work on a new novel, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. |
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Ann Hood - Non Fiction
Ann Hood was born in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Her books include: Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine; Waiting to Vanish; Three-Legged Horse; Something Blue; Places to Stay the Night; The Properties of Water; and Ruby. She has also written a memoir, Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time; a book on the craft of writing, Creating Character Emotions; and a collection of short stories, An Ornithologist's Guide to Life. Most recently, her essays and short stories have appeared in Good Housekeeping, The New York Times, Ladies Home Journal, More, Tin House, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. Ann has won a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, a Best American Food Writing Award and two Pushcart Prizes. She now lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her husband and their children. Her new novel, The Knitting Circle, was published by Norton in January 2007 and her memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, was published in May 2008.
www.annhood.us |
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Michael Koryta – Fiction/Nonfiction
Michael Koryta is the author of five novels, including Envy the Night, which won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery/thriller. His work has been translated into nearly 20 languages, won the Great Lakes Book Award, and earned nominations for the Edgar, Quill and Shamus awards. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter, Michael has also worked as a private investigator, and taught journalism at Indiana University.
www.michaelkoryta.com |
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Laura Lippman – Fiction
Laura Lippman was a reporter for 20 years, including 12 years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Her work has been awarded the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Shamus, Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe, Quill, and Barry awards. She also has been nominated for other prizes in the crime fiction field, including the Hammett and the Macavity. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor's Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association. Her works of fiction include: Baltimore Blues, Charm City, Butchers Hill, In Big Trouble, The Sugar House, In a Strange City, The Last Place, Every Secret Thing, By a Spider's Thread, To the Power of Three, No Good Deeds, What the Dead Know, Another Thing to Fall, Hardly Knew Her, and Life Sentences. She lives in Baltimore.
www.lauralippman.com |
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Stewart O'Nan – Fiction
Stewart O'Nan's award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying, and Last Night at the Lobster. Granta named him one of America's Best Young Novelists. He lives in Connecticut.
http://stewart-onan.com/ |
Guest Faculty
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Richard Matthews – Editor
http://www.ut.edu/detail.aspx?bio=1&id=5306 |
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Peter Meinke - Poetry
Peter Meinke currently is Distinguished Poet in Residence at Converse College, in Spartanburg, SC. He has published 15 books of poems, seven in the prestigious Pitt Poetry Series; and his most recent collection (2009) is Lines from Neuchatel, illustrated by his wife, Jeanne. His latest short story collection is Unheard Music. Last year he was appointed St. Petersburg's first ever Poet Laureate. www.petermeinke.com |
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Sheri Reynolds - Fiction
Sheri Reynolds is a professor of writing and literature at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is the author of The Rapture of Canaan (an Oprah's Book Club selection), Bitterroot Landing, A Gracious Plenty, and Firefly Cloak. She lives in Cape Charles, Virginia. For more information, visit her online at www.sherireynolds.com. |
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Ann Rittenberg - Literary Agent
Ann Rittenberg is president of her own literary agency in New York. In addition to Dennis Lehane (author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day), the agency's authors include C.J. Box, author of Blue Heaven, winner of the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Novel, and the Wyoming mystery series featuring game warden Joe Pickett; Adam Fawer (Improbable); Laura Whitcomb (A Certain Slant Of Light); Loren Pope (Colleges That Change Lives), Paul Doiron, editor of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, whose first novel, The Poacher's Son, will come out in June; and Debra Austin, author of Daughter Of Kura, a novel set in Africa 500,000 years ago recently published by Simon & Schuster. She lives in Brooklyn with the world's best husband, Paul Rittenberg, and three teenage daughters whose combined brilliance sometimes forces her to retreat to her iPod for private sessions with Missy Elliott and Gwen Stefani, music they are far too sophisticated to tolerate. Her dog, an extremely literate papillon called Ben Ben, has never peed on a manuscript.
www.rittlit.com |
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Amy Schiffman - Film Agent
Bio forthcoming. |
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Ben Sevier – Executive Editor
Ben Sevier joined Dutton in January 2007 with an interest in fiction, especially thrillers, crime fiction and quality commercial fiction. His list includes the #1 New York Times bestsellers Harlan Coben and Tami Hoag, as well as the bestselling and award-winning writers John Lescroart, Linda Fairstein, Raymond Khoury, T. Jefferson Parker, Meg Gardiner, and Marcus Sakey. Ben edited the debut New York Times bestsellers The Little Book by Selden Edwards and Daemon by Daniel Suarez, as well as Jonathan Tropper's breakout bestseller This Is Where I Leave You. Upcoming highlights include The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman (Summer 2010). |
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Anita Shreve - Keynote
Anita Shreve began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher. Although one of her first published stories, "Past the Island, Drifting," was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1975, Shreve felt she couldn't make a living as a fiction writer, so she became a journalist. She traveled to Africa and spent three years in Kenya, writing articles that appeared in magazines such as Quest, US, and Newsweek. Back in the United States, she turned to raising her children and writing freelance articles for magazines. Shreve later expanded two of these articles — both published in the New York Times Magazine — into the nonfiction books Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone. At the same time Shreve also began working on her first novel, Eden Close. With its publication in 1989, she gave up journalism for writing fiction full time, thrilled, as she says, with "the rush of freedom that I could make it up."
Since Eden Close, Anita Shreve has written thirteen other novels: Strange Fits of Passion; Where or When; Resistance; The Weight of Water; The Pilot's Wife; Fortune's Rocks; The Last Time They Met; Sea Glass; All He Ever Wanted; Light on Snow; A Wedding in December; Body Surfing and, most recently, Testimony. In 1998 Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction.
http://www.anitashreve.com/ |
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David Hale Smith - Agent
David Hale Smith is the founder and president of DHS Literary, Inc., a literary agency and entertainment media consultancy in Dallas, Texas. Since starting the company in 1994, Smith has been managing authors' careers and making deals for his clients, negotiating contracts with companies such as Alfred A. Knopf, Algonquin, Bantam Books, Columbia Pictures, HarperCollins, Morrow, Putnam, Random House, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Penguin Group, and many others. Representative books handled by Smith's agency include New York Times bestsellers The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook series; Take Time for Your Life and Life Makeovers, by Cheryl Richardson; Edgar Award-winning first novel Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel, and Edgar-nominated novel God is a Bullet, by Boston Teran; LA Times Award-winning Envy the Night, by Michael Koryta; Severance Package, by Duane Swierczynski; and the graphic novel thriller Whiteout, by Greg Rucka which has just been released by Warner Brothers/Dark Castle Pictures as a major motion picture starring Kate Beckinsale. www.dhsliterary.com |
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Johnny Temple – Publisher, Editor
www.akashicbooks.com |
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