Translation Projects in Prose and Poetry Panel May 14-15, 2009

Cristina de la Torre Translator, professor Atlanta, GA Barbara Harshav Translator New Haven, CT Ilya Kaminsky Poet, translator, professor San Diego, CA Joyce Miller (Layperson) Editor New Orleans, LA Daniel Slager Publisher, translator Minneapolis, MN Michelle Yeh Professor, translator Davis, CA

Translation Projects in Prose and Poetry Panel B May 14-15, 2009

Cristina de la Torre  Translator/Professor Senior Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Emory University Atlanta, Georgia Barbara Harshav  Translator/Professor Department of Comparative Literature Yale University North Haven, CT Ilya Kaminsky  Poet/Translator/Professor Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature San Diego State University San Diego, CA Joyce Miller (Layperson) Editor Associate Editor, KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities New Orleans, LA Michelle Yeh  Translator/Professor Professor, Department of East Asian Languages University of California, Davis Davis, CA

Access to Artistic Excellence, Panel A August 5-6, 2009

Shannon Cain Short story writer Fiction editor Kore Press Tucson, AZ Valerie Martínez Poet Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature College of Santa Fe Albuquerque, NM Nancy S. Miller Executive Consulting Editor, Walker & Company Bloomsbury USA Larchmont, NY Dinty W. Moore Memoirist, essayist, short story writer Editor, Brevity  Professor of Creative Writing Ohio University Athens, OH Adrienne Su Poet-in-Residence Dickinson College Carlisle, PA Mary Wilder (Layperson) Retired English Professor Macon, GA

Access to Artistic Excellence, Panel B1 August 7, 2009

Francisco Aragón Poet, editor Director, Letras Latinas Institute of Latino Studies University of Notre Dame Arlington, VA Shannon Cain Short story writer Fiction editor Kore Press Tucson, AZ Marc Fitten Novelist Editor, Chattachoochee Review  Marietta, GA Nancy S. Miller Executive Consulting Editor, Walker & Company Bloomsbury USA Larchmont, NY Kathleen Smith (Layperson) Associate Director, Special Collections Associate University Archivist Heard Library Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

Access to Artistic Excellence, Panel B2 August 7, 2009

Shannon Cain Short story writer Fiction editor Kore Press Tucson, AZ Marc Fitten Novelist Editor, Chattachoochee Review  Marietta, GA Nancy S. Miller Executive Consulting Editor, Walker & Company Bloomsbury USA Larchmont, NY Kathleen Smith (Layperson) Associate Director, Special Collections Associate University Archivist Heard Library Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

Creative Writing Fellowships in Prose, Panel A September 9-11, 2009

Marie Arana  Novelist, memoirist Writer at Large Washington Post Washington, DC Michael Chabon   Novelist Berkeley, CA Nicholas Delbanco Novelist, literary scholar Robert Frost Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Marisa de los Santos  Novelist, poet Wilmington, DE Francisco Goldman  Novelist Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature Trinity College Brooklyn, NY Cheryl Hafer-Lott (Layperson)  Philanthropist, community volunteer Haiku, HI Lisa Howorth (Layperson) Bookstore co-owner Square Books Oxford, MS William Henry "Hank" Lewis  Short story writer Assistant Professor, English Department University of Maryland Washington, DC Kelly Link  Short story writer Publisher Small Beer Press Northampton, MA Bobbie Ann Mason   Fiction Writer Writer-in-Residence University of Kentucky Lawrenceburg, KY Antonya Nelson   Novelist Professor, Warren Wilson College Professor, University of Houston Las Cruces, NM Brad Watson  Novelist, short story writer Assistant Professor, Fiction University of Wyoming Laramie, WY

Creative Writing Fellowships in Prose, Panel B September 11, 2009

Marie Arana  Novelist, memoirist Writer at Large Washington Post Washington, DC Cheryl Hafer-Lott (Layperson)  Philanthropist, community volunteer Haiku, HI William Henry “Hank” Lewis  Short story writer Assistant Professor, English Department University of Maryland Washington, DC Kelly Link  Short story writer Publisher Small Beer Press Northampton, MA Bobbie Ann Mason   Fiction Writer Writer-in-Residence University of Kentucky Lawrenceburg, KY Brad Watson Novelist, short story writer Assistant Professor, Fiction University of Wyoming Laramie, WY

Access to Artistic Excellence, Panel #2A December 9-10, 2009

Mary Davis Fournier  Deputy Director, Public Programs Office American Library Association Oak Park, IL David Kener      Actor, Screenwriter Executive Director American Place Theatre New York, NY Paul Reyes Journalist, editor, memoirist Contributing Editor Virginia Quarterly Review Little Rock, AR Corby Skinner     Director, The Writer’s Voice Billings YMCA Billings, MT Russ Stoddard (Layperson)     Advertising Executive, arts patron Boise, ID Kao Kalia Yang      Memoirist, teacher Andover, MN

Access to Artistic Excellence, Panel #2B December 11, 2009

Janet Heller       Program Manager, WritersCorps San Francisco Arts Commission Oakland, CA Ravi Howard        Novelist, commentator Mobile, AL Paul Reyes Journalist, editor, memoirist Contributing Editor Virginia Quarterly Review Little Rock, AR Jane Shore Poet Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing George Washington University  Washington, DC Corby Skinner     Director, The Writer’s Voice Billings YMCA Billings, MT Russ Stoddard (Layperson)       Advertising Executive, arts patron Boise, ID