TEACHING JOBS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE FORECAST
10:00am – 11:30am
Award-winning author Faith Adiele began teaching as a diversity and community educator, transitioned into visiting professor at a small state college, became assistant professor in the nation’s oldest nonfiction program, spent four years as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College, and is now Associate Professor at California College of the Arts. She has taught writing workshops around the world.
Garrett Croker received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Mills College in 2012, after which he decided to postpone any thoughts of a PhD in favor of teaching immediately. He is currently teaching composition classes at Santa Rosa Junior College and Solano Community College. He’s very happy. Also, tired.
Jackie Graves is a tenured English Instructor at Laney College, where she has taught since 2004. At Laney, she co-founded the UBAKA African American Learning Community and the Community Voices Theater Project, and teaches Creative Writing, Intro to Poetry, African American Literature, Composition, and others. She is currently on leave from Laney working on a memoir.
Margaret Rhee is the author of Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011), School of Dreams (Forthcoming, 2013), and co-editor of Here is A Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press, 2010). She is managing editor of Mixed Blood, a literary journal of innovative poetics and race and the online anthology Glitter Tongue: Queer and Trans Love Poems (2012). Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in Ethnic Studies and New Media Studies at UC Berkeley where she teaches courses such as Asian American Reading and Composition, Queer Theories and Activist Practices, and Creative Non-fiction. She is co-lead of a feminist participatory digital storytelling project From the Center for women incarcerated in the San Francisco Jail: www.ourstorysf.org. She is a Kundiman Fellow.
Kara Wittman Bio forthcoming
PUBLISHING 101: THE MANY, MANY PATHS TO GETTING YOUR WORK IN THE WORLD
11:45am – 1:15pm
Michael Larsen Michael Larsen, AAR, is a partner Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency, which has sold books to more than 100 publishers and imprints. He represents nonfiction that will excite New York editors, consults with nonfiction writers, and wrote How to Write a Book Proposal and How to Get a Literary Agent.
Christine Lee Zilka is the Fiction Editor at Kartika Review. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies such as ZYZZYVA, Guernica,Verbsap, and Men Undressed. She was awarded a residency at Hedgebrook and her work placed as a finalist in Poets and Writers Magazine’s Writers Exchange Contest in 2007.
BRINGING IT – WRITER EDUCATORS AT WORK IN OUR COMMUNITIES
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Freddy Gutierrez. Recipient of the Kathileen A. Gallagher Award for Performing Arts and Social Justice. Currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry from Mills College. For 5 years Freddy has worked as a Teaching Artist with Arts Education non-profit organizations including Opera Piccola, Youth Speaks, Youth Together, and the Performing Arts Workshop. He teaches poetry and theatre, in school and after to youth K-12 Bay Area wide, as well as, at the juvenile detention center in San Rafael.
Josh Healey is a writer, activist, educator, comedian and author of the poetry collection Hammertime. Healey’s work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, Al-Jazeera, and NPR’s Snap Judgment. Co-founder of the award-winning First Wave program at the University of Wisconsin, he is currently the artist-in-residence for Bend the Arc. Healey lives in Oakland, and plays a mean game of spades. www.joshhealey.org
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is the artistic director of the HBO documentary “Brave New Voices”, a 2011 Alpert Award winner, 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award winner, and an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists’ Fellowship. He currently serves as Director of Performing Arts at Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. http://www.lifeisliving.org
Writer, performer, educator Aimee Suzara’s poetry has been published widely in journals. She is a part of the PlayGround Writer’s Pool and her play, A HISTORY OF THE BODY, will premiere in 2013. Suzara has performed her poetry nationally and teaches Creative Writing and Social Action at CSU Monterey. http://www.aimeesuzara.net
PULLING THE RABBIT: THE DAY JOB AND OTHER CURIOSITIES
3:45pm – 5:15pm
Ishmael A. Elias is an Oakland-based writer, completing his debut novel, the first chapter of which appears in Cherokee Writers from the Flint Hills of Oklahoma: An Anthology published by the Cherokee Arts & Humanities Council.
Constance Hale is the author of Sin and Syntax and Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch. She has been a journalist for 25 years, with articles and essays appearing in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wired, Health, Smithsonian, and various anthologies. To support herself she has tutored math, served cocktails, edited books, and run conferences.
Rose Linke is native to California and resides in Oakland. She has studied visual and material culture, literature, and information science. She cares most for things that don’t exactly have concrete form. Words as they are being spoken and filling the air. Skies and faces. Human memory and ruins.
Michael Nicoloff is a poet, critic, and wage laborer. His publications include “Punks” and “Punkses” (both from TAXT Press), and with Alli Warren he wrote Bruised Dick and Eunoia. His chapbook Mixed Grill is forthcoming from Where Eagles Dare. Work of the poetic or critical variety has appeared in 6X6, TRY!, The Brooklyn Rail, Frontier Psychiatrist, and elsewhere, as well as on 1630 AM KChung radio.
AGENT BIOS
Amy Cloughley is an agent with Kimberley Cameron & Associates. Keeping with the agency’s unique legacy of The Reece Halsey Agency, she strives to represent the highest quality writing. Amy came to the agency in 2012 with a background in editing, writing, and marketing. She seeks literary and commercial fiction as well as narrative nonfiction projects.
Michael Larsen Michael Larsen, AAR, is a partner Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency, which has sold books to more than 100 publishers and imprints. He represents nonfiction that will excite New York editors, consults with nonfiction writers, and wrote How to Write a Book Proposal and How to Get a Literary Agent.
Pooja Menon joined Kimberley Cameron & Associates as an agent in the fall of 2012. She represents both fiction and non-fiction for Adult and YA markets. She’s looking for writing that has an easy flow and a timely pacing, along with a unique perspective and a strong voice. In fiction, she is interested in literary, historical, commercial, young adult, and high-end women’s fiction. She’s most strongly drawn to stories with an international flavor, vibrant characters, multi-cultural themes, and lush settings.
Gordon Warnock is a founding Partner of Foreword Literary. He seeks to establish involved, long-term working relationships with talented and dedicated authors in such areas as: commercial fiction, graphic novels, contemporary YA and new adult, memoir, political and current affairs, pop-culture, self-help, humor and cookbooks. He is not looking for: religious fiction, genre fiction, new age, children’s, middle grade or anthologies.
Cirque du Work! 