The Spoleto Writers' Workshop

Rosellen Brown is the author of four novels - The Autobiography of My Mother, Tender Mercies, Civil Wars, and most recently the critically acclaimed and best-selling Before and After. Her most recent novel, Half a Heart, received tremendous attention throughout the Untied States.  Her most recent book of poems is Cora Fry's Pillow Book. She has also published another collection of poetry, a book of short stories, and the Rosellen Brown Reader. Her stories have appeared frequently in O'Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. She has received an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Rosellen Brown was one of Ms. Magazine's twelve Women of the Year in 1984. Widely known and admired as a wise, experienced teacher, she is a member the creative writing faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

James Magnuson is the author of a dozen produced plays and seven novels, including Windfall, Without Barbarians, Open Season, Money Mountain, and Ghost-Dancing. He was playwright-in-residence at Princeton University for four years and has received an NEA grant for his fiction. His novel Orphan Train was adapted for a CBS movie. He has also done screen writing for television. His credits include "Class of '96," and "Sweet Justice."

A beloved professor of creative writing in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin since 1985, he now also directs the James A. Michener Center for Writers, an interdisciplinary MFA program in fiction, poetry, playwriting and screenwriting.

Marie Howe, poet.  Her first book of poems The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret Atwood for the 1987 National Poetry Series and was published by Persea Books in 1989.  She has edited, with Michael Klein, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic, published by Persea in 1995.  Marie has been a fellow at the fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe, and has recieieve grants from the Massachusetts Guggenheiim Foundation. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic-American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine and other journals and anthologies.

She teaches in the writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. Her most recent book of poems, What the Living Do, was published by W.W. Norton in 1987.  Marie Howe received her MFA from columbia Unverisity and currently lives in New York City with her four-year-old daughter Inan. Learn more about Marie Howe.

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