Author Listings (Composition & Creative Writing)
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| Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[more] |
| Carol Adler, MFA’s first ghost-written book listing her name as co-editor, Why Am I Still Addicted? A Holistic Approach to Recovery, was endorsed by Deepak Chopra, M.D., and published by McGraw-Hill. Other publications include three novels, four books of poetry, and well over 200 poems in literary journals. She has gho....[more] |
| I was always reading, always writing. I learned to edit what I'd written early on: Whenever I'd say to my parents, "Listen to what I wrote," they'd ask, "How long will it take?" This was much more valuable than taking Creative Writing courses. (Though my own Creative Writing teacher, J. R. Salamanca, was wonderful. He ....[more] |
| Donna M. Brinton currently serves as Senior Lecturer in the Rossier School of Education and at USC’s American Language Institute. Prior to that, she served as Professor of TESOL at Soka University and at UCLA as Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Associate Director of UCLA’s Center for World Languages. She has taught ....[more] |
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Jim has spent his entire life in book publishing, as an editor, marketing director, publisher, literary agent, book packager and writer. For the past six years he was the publications director for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), a non-profit organization of more than 7,000 members. He was responsib....[more] |
| Although born in La Jolla, California, Patricia spent half her childhood in Washington, D.C., the home of several generations of her mother’s family. In 1961, her mother died. Only 18, Patricia returned to Vassar College with a year at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and earned a B.A. degree in Philosophy.....[more] |
| I identify myself primarily as a teacher and see my writing as reaching a wider audience than the individual classroom. I have published essays, college textbooks, poetry, and short fiction. |
| Mark David Gerson has taught and coached writing as a creative and spiritual pursuit for more than 15 years in the U.S. and Canada, helping both novice and seasoned writers to deepen their creativity, move through creative blocks and answer their call to write.
He is the author of two award-winning books: The Voice....[more] |
| Richard Goodman's new book, A New York Memoir, has just been published. He is also the author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France and The Soul of Creative Writing. He has written on a variety of subjects for many national publications, including the New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Harvard....[more] |
| Gotham Writers' Workshop is a leading creative writing school offering comprehensive workshops in more than a dozen forms of writing online and in NYC. |
| Born and educated in New York City, Michael Larsen worked for Bantam, William Morrow and Pyramid (now part of Berkley). He and his wife Elizabeth Pomada and started Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents in San Francisco in 1972. They are founding members of Association of Authors’ Representatives and have sold books,mostly by ....[more] |
| Evan Marshall is an internationally recognized expert on fiction writing and author of the “Hidden Manhattan” and “Jane Stuart and Winky” mystery series. A former book editor, for 29 years he has been a leading literary agent specializing in fiction. His Marshall Plan® Novel Writing Software, written with Martha Jewett....[more] |
| David Morrell is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which the character of Rambo was created. He was born in 1943 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. In 1960, at the age of seventeen, he became a fan of the classic television series Route 66, about two young men in a Corvette convertible traveling the Uni....[more] |
| Alexander Neubauer is the author of three works of nonfiction. Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets (Knopf, 2010); Conversations on Writing Fiction: Interviews with Distinguished Teachers of Fiction Writing in America (HarperCollins), and Nature's Thumbprint: The New Genetics of Personality ....[more] |
| What do you want to be when you grow up? Author Diane Lindsey Reeves has focused on answering that question in imaginative ways in dozens of books for students of all ages. Her company, Bright Futures Press, produces books and is working hard to become the place where nonfiction comes for fun. For more information, vis....[more] |
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