2011 Faculty

View our previous authors from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the Faculty Archive.

	Dennis Lehane – Co-director 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 released 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
	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 Literature and Creative Writing.
	Julianna Baggott – Young Adult Writing Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Julianna Baggott has published 16 books, including national bestseller Girl Talk, Boston Globe bestseller The Miss America Family, and the Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, a Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reveiws) optioned by Richard Brown with Kate Winslet to star. She also writes under the pen name Bridget Asher, most recently, The Pretend Wife. She writes novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode, most notably The Anybodies trilogy, a Booksense selection. She has also recently published The Prince of Fenway Park and The Ever Breath for younger readers. Baggott's work has appeared in over 100 publications, including the The New York Times, The Boston Globe, NPR.org, and the Washington Post. She lives in Florida with her husband writer David G.W. Scott and their four children, and is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University. Along with her husband, Baggott co-founded the nonprofit organization Kids in Need - Books in Deed, that focuses on literacy and getting free books to underprivileged children in the state of Florida. www.juliannabaggott.com
	Jane Hamilton – Fiction Jane Hamilton lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's magazine. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club. Her second novel, A Map of the World, was an international bestseller. www.janehamiltonbooks.com
	Ann Hood - Fiction Ann Hood is the author of nine novels, including Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, The Knitting Circle, and most recently, The Red Thread. She has also written two memoirs, Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice and one of Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Non-Fiction Books of 2008. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, O, Glimmertrain, Tin House, and many other publications. The winner of two Pushcart Prizes, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, she lives in Providence , Rhode Island. www.annhood.us
	Laura Lippman – Fiction and Nonfiction 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 (Baltimore) 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; Life Sentences; and I'd Know You Anywhere. She lives in Baltimore. www.lauralippman.com
	Tom Perrotta – Fiction Tom Perrotta is the author of six previous work of fiction: Bad Haircut; The Wishbones; Election; the New York Times bestselling Joe College; Little Children;and The Abstinence Teacher. Election was made into the acclaimed 1999 movie directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. Little Children was released as a movie directed by Todd Field and starring Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly in 2006. Perrotta has worked as a screenwriter and a journalist, writing for several major publications including the New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone and GQ. He has taught writing at Yale and Harvard. He lives with his family outside Boston. www.tomperrotta.net
	Nic Pizzolatto – Fiction Nic Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He was educated at Louisiana State University and the University of Arkansas, where he received several awards for his writing. His work has been published in the Atlantic, Oxford American, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, and several other magazines. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and his collection of stories, Between Here and the Yellow Sea, was named by Poets & Writers magazine as a top five fiction debut of 2006. His first novel, Galveston, was published by Scribner in 2010. www.nicpizzolatto.com
	Les Standiford – Nonfiction Les Standiford is the author of 15 books, including the novels Bone Key and Havana Run and the critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, Last Train to Paradise; Meet You in Hell; Washington Burning; and The Man Who Invented Christmas. Last Train to Paradise was one of the History Channel's Top Ten picks. Meet You in Hell was the publisher's nominee for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. Washington Burning was the publisher's nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. The Man Who Invented Christmas was a New York Times "Editors' Choice" in 2008. He has received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami. In March 2011, Ecco Press will publish Bringing Adam Home, an account of Det. Sgt. Joe Matthews' 27-year quest to solve the 1981 kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh. www.les-standiford.com

2011 Guest Faculty

	Michael Koryta – Guest Speaker Michael Koryta is the author of six novels, most recently So Cold the River, and his work has won the Los Angeles Times prize for best mystery, Great Lake Books Award, and St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Novel prize, while also earning nominations for the Edgar, Quill, Shamus and Barry awards. His novel, Envy the Night, was selected as a Reader's Digest condensed book. His work has been translated into 20 languages. A former private investigator and newspaper reporter, Koryta graduated from Indiana University with a degree in criminal justice. He currently lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Bloomington, Indiana. His next novel, The Cypress House, will be released by Little, Brown and Co. in January 2011. www.michaelkoryta.com
Photo © Elena Seibert	Richard Russo – Keynote Richard Russo's previous works include six novels: That Old Cape Magic; Bridge of Sighs; Empire Falls; Straight Man; Nobody's Fool; The Risk Pool; Mohawk; and one collection of short stories, The Whore's Child. His 2001 novel, Empire Falls, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was also adapted into an HBO mini-series, starring Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Helen Hunt. Russo earned a bachelor's degree, a master's in fine arts, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He has two daughters and lives with his wife in Camden, Maine.
	Johnny Temple – Editor/Publisher www.akashicbooks.com