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A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I-J • K • L • M Kathy Abdul-Baki worked as a journalist and features writer for an English weekly newspaper in Bahrain before devoting her time to writing fiction. Her published works include a collection of short stories, Fields of Fig and Olive: Ameera and Other Stories of the Middle East, and a novel, Tower of Dreams. (3/25 7 p.m.) Jennifer Ackerman's first book, Notes from the Shore is a blend of memoir, natural history, and science. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and other publications. She is currently working on a book about the genetic similarities between humans and other species, The Longest Thread. (3/27 4 p.m.) Karl Ackerman is the author of a novel, The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women, and editor of a two-volume edition of the classic travel adventures of early Maya explorer John Lloyd Stephens. He has adapted both of these works for the screen and just completed a second novel entitled Dear Will. (3/27 10 a.m.) Bruce Adelson, a former trial lawyer, is the author of both children's books and sports books. In addition to co-authoring The Minor League Baseball Book, Adelson has been a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition and CBS Radio's Major League Baseball Game of the Week, and the contributing editor for The Four Sport Stadium Guide. (3/27 10 a.m.) Ai is the award-winning poet of four books of poetry: Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, and Fate. Part African American, Asian American, and Native American, Ai is known as the foremost poet of urban terror. Her new book, Vice : New and Selected Poems, include poems from Ai's four early books along with seventeen new poems. (3/26 8 p.m.) Alex-Zan is an entertainer/motivator for children, young adults and parents. He is the creator of the successful "I Feel Good About Me" campaign, Dazzles character and "Just Think" seminars. He has presented countless motivational programs around the country to assist people to feel good about themselves. (3/27 2:30) Terri Allard is a nationally known singer/songwriter who blends folk, country, and acoustic pop. Her most recent CD is Loose Change and Spare Parts. (3/27 8 p.m. ) Henry Allen has been a staff writer for The Washington Post since 1974 and is currently the editor of the Style section. He is the winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize, the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for commentary, and was a finalist in 1995 for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Author of a novel, Fool's Mercy, a cultural commentary, and a book of poems, Glare, Allen's second book of poems is forthcoming. 3/26 6 p.m. Kay Allison is the owner of The Quest Bookshop in Charlottesville. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) John Alton has studied martial arts for 24 years. His teaching experience at Beijing University gave him the background for his first book about Chinese martial arts and philosophy. Alton is the chief instructor for The Three Emperors School of Chinese Health and Physical Culture in Charlottesville. (3/26 10 a.m.) T. J. Anderson III is an assistant professor of English at Hollins University. A poet, author, and literary critic, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in English and Creative Writing. He has published poems in numerous literary journals and, in 1996, a book of poems titled At Last Round Up. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) Mary Anne Andrei is a Research Assistant at The Papers of George Washington. (3/26 6 p.m.) Natalie Angier joined the New York Times in 1990 as a science writer. The very next year she won a Pulitzer Prize for her science articles. Author of two previous books, Angier's newest book, Woman: An Intimate Geography, is a celebration of the female body and geography. (3/27 4 p.m., 3/28 1:30 p.m.) Talvikki Ansel won the 1996 Yale Younger Poets Award for her book of poems My Shining Archipelago (1997). She has poems forthcoming in the anthology Imperfect Paradise: American Poets Born After 1960, and is very pleased to have her work included in Meridian. (3/26 2 p.m.) Bernard Asbell is a broadly published nonfiction author specializing in social issues. His most recent book, The Pill, is about the social impact of contraceptives. (3/25 4 p.m.) Bulent Atalay is an artist and scientist who lectures on these two topics as well as archeology. His one-man exhibits are shown in Europe and the U.S. and his lithographs were published in Lands of Washington: Impressions in Ink, among others. Nancy Atherton is known for her beloved mystery series about a friendly ghost--Aunt Dimity. Having released her fourth novel in the series, Aunt Dimity Digs In, in 1999, Atherton lives in central Illinois. (3/26 2 p.m.) P. M. H. Atwater began her work in 1978 as one of the original researchers of the near-death phenomenon. She has written Coming Back to Life, Beyond the Light, Future Memory, and Goddess Runes. Her latest book, Children of the New Millennium, is due out in Fall 1999. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) Edward Ayres has taught the history and culture of the American South at the University of Virginia since 1980. His The Promise of the New South won the Owsley Prize for the best book on the history of the South and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. (3/25 8 p.m.)
Eldridge Bagley is an artist who paints the rural South in spirit and detail. His book, Eldridge Bagley: Son of Soil, Soul of an Artist was published in 1997. (3/28 3:30 p.m.) Edwin Barber is vice-chairman and senior editor at W.W. Norton & Co. Over the course of his 30 year career he has published such authors as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Feynman, Martin Cruz Smith, George Plimpton, and Walter LeFeber. (3/27 4 p.m.) Robin Barlett, Berlitz International. (Publishers' Day) Stefan Bechtel's published titles include The Good Luck Book and The Practical Encyclopedia of Sex and Health. His work has appeared in Esquire, Reader's Digest, and the Washington Post among other publications. He is the founding editor of Men's Health magazine. (3/25 4 p.m., 3/28 3:30 p.m.) Josef Beery is a graphic designer in Charlottesville and co-founder of the McGuffey ABC. (3/27 10 a.m.) Pinckney Benedict is an associate professor in the creative writing program at Hollins College. He has published two collections of short fiction and a novel, Dogs of God. He has adapted the John Buell novel, Four Days, into a feature film to be released this summer. (3/26 4 p.m.) Robert Benson is the author of Between the Dreaming and the Coming True and other books of spirit. His newest book, Living Prayer was published in 1998. (3/25 6 p.m.) Rosalyn Berne, Ph.D. is the head of Tandem School in Charlottesville. An educational leader, inspirational speaker and teacher of ethics, communications, and management, she has written, taught and made presentations on medical and business ethics, diversity in the workplace, values in education, and women's issues. (3/25 4 p.m.) Maxine Bersch is an author and storyteller. (3/26 7 p.m.) Caroline Bertrand is a French teacher with L'Alliance Française of Charlottesville. (3/28 2:30 p.m.) Dan Bieker writes poetry and short fiction and is a member of the Apple Mountain Poets. He lives on a farm and makes his living as a home builder and natural sciences instructor at PVCC. (3/26 4 p.m.) Ned Bittinger is a Virginia portraitist and children's book illustrator. Bittinger's book Rocking Horse Christmas, was the American Booksellers "Pick of the List." Reproductions of his work have been included in such publications as People Magazine, Land's End Catalog, and The Artist's Magazine. (3/23 8:15, 3/24 1 p.m.) Pam Black has been an adjunct lecturer in painting, drawing and design at Piedmont Virginia Community College since 1992. She has taught life drawing at UVa and was co-author of the art curriculum for Albemarle County Public Schools. (3/25 2 p.m.) Staige Blackford was born in Charlottesville and was a Rhodes Scholar before pursuing a career as writer and editor. He has served as the editor of the prestigious literary quarterly, the Virginia Quarterly Review, for many years. (3/26 2 p.m.) Peter Blair has won three national chapbook contests, most recently the Defined Providence Press 1998 Prize for Furnace Greens, poems about working in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Poetry East, and West Branch. He has also received two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants. (3/26 6 p.m.) Sydney Blair is the author of the acclaimed novel Buffalo and has published short fiction in numerous literary quarterlies. She is co-sponsor of the literary journal Meridian and teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia. (3/26 6 p.m., 3/27 4 p.m.) Jerry Bledsoe is a highly acclaimed writer best known for his gripping chronicles of true crimes. He has written Bitter Blood, Blood Games, and Before He Wakes. Bledsoe's latest book, Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes and Execution, was released last October. He twice received the National Headliner Award. He has also received the Ernie Pyle Memorial Award and his work has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize four times. (3/26 2 p.m.) Chris Bolgiano is the author of The Appalachian Forest: A Search for Roots and Renewal. She has also written Mountain Lion: An Unnatural History of Pumas and People, as well as numerous travel and nature articles. (3/27 2 p.m.) Carolyn Bond is a local storyteller with years of experience. (3/25 1 p.m., 3/26 1 p.m.) Edward H. Bonekemper, III is the author of How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War and has published several articles. He is a noted historian and lecturer and currently works as an attorney for the Federal government. (3/27 12 noon) Fran Boninti is a Master Gardener with the Piedmont Master Gardeners. (3/25 2 p.m.) Fred Boyce runs the Prism. (3/27 10 p.m.) Jody Brady won the 1998 F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest. Her fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including A More Perfect Union: Poems and Stories about the Modern Wedding, At Our Core: Women Writing About Power, and The Adoption Reader. (3/25 7 p.m.) Emily Paine Brady is an editor and writer who has worked on such publications as Freshwater Natural Products Handbook from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Sea Grant Program. (3/25 6 p.m.) Muriel Miller Branch is a writer, storyteller, and retired school librarian. She has spent the past 15 years researching and writing about neglected historic personalities and events in African-American history. She is currently collaborating with Mary E. Lyons on a scrapbook novel set in Richmond during the Civil War. (3/24 9:30 a.m., 3/25 4:00 p.m.) Wali Brandon, Historical Impressions (3/24 9:30 a.m.) Rosemary Bray is a writer and former editor for The New York Times Book Review, Essence, The Wall Street Journal, and Ms., as well as the author of a children's book, Martin Luther King. Her new book, Unafraid of the Dark, is a memoir. (3/26 4 p.m.) Barbara Brodie, Ph.D., RN, is the Director of the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. (3/25 4 p.m.) Laura Browder has been the playwright-in-residence for the New Ehrlich Theatre in Boston, the Freelance Players in Brookline, and the Fayreweather Street School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent play is Spitting Into the Wind. (3/28 3:30 p.m.) Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, and Southern Discomfort. She also collaborates on the Mrs. Murphy mystery series with her cat, Sneaky Pie. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, she lives in Charlottesville, VA. Her books to be published in 1999 include, Loose Lips, Sneaky Pie's Cookbook, and Cat on the Scent. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) C. Allan Brown has written numerous publications, and is currently researching and writing a book-length study on Thomas Jefferson's garden designs and the idea of the villa in piedmont Virginia, 1770-1830. Brown has also been a Fellow of Dumbarton Oaks and of the Huntington Library. (3/25 4 p.m.) Carrie Brown graduated from Brown University and earned and MFA from the University of Virginia, where she held a Henry Hoynes Fellowship. She has been awarded the Commonwealth of Virginia's Commission for the Arts Fellowship for fiction. Her first novel, Rose's Garden, was the winner of the 1998 Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award. Her new novel, Lamb in Love, will be released during the Festival. (3/27 8 p.m.) Kathi Ann Brown founded Milestones Historical Consultants in 1986. Her professional work includes books, museum exhibits, and other initiatives to help clients preserve or publish their past. A specialist in corporate history, Brown is co-author of the business biography, The Spirit to Serve: Marriott's Way. (3/28 3:30 p.m.) Juanita Brunk who grew up in Virginia, won the prestigious Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press for her collection of poems, Brief Landing on the Earth's Surface. (3/25 6 p.m., 3/26 4 p.m.) Jimmy Bryant is the author of Man of the River: Memoir of a Brown Water Sailor in Vietnam, 1968-1969. He served in the US Navy and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal, with Combat "V" for Meritorious Service. (3/27 12 noon) David Bunn lives and works in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts and at the School of Art at the University of Southern California. He constructs "found poems" from the library card catalog using sequences of titles or subjects as they occur in the catalog cards, and assembles the poems and the cards from which they are drawn into book form. (3/23 2 p.m., 3/25 8 p.m., 3/28 3:30 p.m.) Heather Burns was a Henry Hoynes Fellow at the University of Virginia. Her poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Antietam, Southern Poetry Review, New Virginia Review, and other publications. (3/26 8 p.m.) Mecca Burns is a drama therapist and the co-creator of a drama program called Earth Drama. She is currently at work on Transforming People: Moral Leadership and Social Change. (3/26 4 p.m.) Brian Burwell is the host of HBO's "Real Sports" and "Inside the NFL." He has written for USA TODAY and is currently a columnist for Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal. (3/27 10 a.m.)
Caroline W. Casey is a Visionary Activist Astrologer based in Washington, D.C.. She practices astrology using all media to guide people to discern and collaborate with the unfolding patterns of the Universe. She created and hosts the weekly Visionary Actionary show on Pacifica radio and lectures internationally. She is the author of Making the Gods Work for You and the forthcoming Harmonia's Agents. (3/26 4 p.m.) Rosamond Casey is a professional calligraphic designer who works for both commercial and private commission. A graduate of the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Ms. Casey continues to exhibit her work regularly. She has been a member of the McGuffey Art Center since 1981. (3/27 1 p.m.) Sharon Castlen, Integrated Book Marketing. (Publisher's Day) Robert Chapel is a professor and the chair of UVa's Drama Department. He has directed and acted in over 130 theatrical productions in New York, Los Angeles, and regional theaters. He also serves as Producing Artistic Director for the Heritage Repertory Theatre. (3/25 4 p.m.) Dr. Philander D. Chase is the Editor-in-Chief of The Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia. He is the editor of the Revolutionary War series and the assistant editor of the Diaries of George Washington and the Papers of George Washington: Colonial Series. (3/26 6 p.m.) Griffeth Chaussee is a lecturer in the Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. He translation of Karachi and Other Poems: A Selection was published in the Annual of Urdu Studies in 1996. (3/26 4 p.m.) Avery Chenoweth has written for Harpers, The New York Times Magazine, People, The LA Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, and the Sewanee Review. His first collection of short stories, Wingtips, was published in 1999, and has been nominated for the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction and for the Library of Virginia Prize. Wingtips recently became a bestseller in the world of university press fiction, selling 2500 copies in five weeks. (3/25 2 p.m., 3/27 4 p.m.) Alan Cheuse is a fiction writer, essayist and book commentator for National Public Radio's evening news-magazine All Things Considered. He is the author of 3 novels and several collections of short stories. Cheuse is a member of the writing faculty at GMU. His newest book, Lost and Old Rivers, was published 1998. (3/27 10 a.m., 4 p.m.) Catherine Clinton is the author of several books, including Tara Revisited and Civil War Stories, a book recounting actual accounts of the war's impact on the lives of women and children, black and white, on both sides of the conflict. In 1998, Clinton was a visiting professor of history at the University of Richmond. (3/27 2 p.m.) Paul Coates, Black Classic Press. (Publishers' Day) Jacqui Dempsey Cohen is the Public Programs Coordinator of the Virginia Discovery Museum. (3/26 4 p.m.) Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole have collaborated on several celebrated alliterative tales, including Some Snug Slug, Five Famished Foxes and Fosdyke, and Dinorella: A Prehistoric Fairytale. They are also creators of many other popular picture books that educate as well as entertain. Their latest picture book is Honk!: The Story of a Prima Swaneria. (3/25 10, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.) Martine Combemale, Milan Press. (3/28 2:30 p.m.) Ishmail Conway, speaker and well-known community leader in Charlottesville, is Assistant Dean and Director of the University of Virginia's Luther P. Jackson House of Cultural and African American Affairs. Mr. Conway serves on a number of community boards. He is a graduate of Hampton University, and is currently a candidate for his PhD. from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education. (3/27 8 p.m.) Nancy Cook is a children's librarian at Jefferson-Madison Regional Library in Charlottesville. (3/27 12 noon.) While working as a freelance writer/editor, Martha Cooley wrote short fiction and her first novel, The Archivist. The novel was selected as the May 1998 Discovery Title by the New England Booksellers Association and was a national bestseller in hardcover. Ms. Cooley was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Arts in 1991 and at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 1998. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is working on her second novel. (3/25 2 p.m., 3/27 8 p.m.) Patrick Cribben is a movie critic for The Daily Progress and a recipient of the Virginia Prize for Playwriting and the Southern Playwriting Award. (3/26 6 p.m.) Pat Crook is a Professor Emeritus of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where she taught Children's Literature. (3/27 12 noon) Gene Crotty drafted his manuscript on Jefferson's forty-year struggle to create The University of Virginia in 1977. This text was the first single volume devoted to Jefferson's spirited and passionate labor in the founding of his own university. Crotty's second book on Mr. Jefferson will be printed by UVa in the spring of 1999. (3/28 3:30 p.m.) Stephen Cushman is Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the critical studies, William Carlos Williams and the Meanings of Measure, and Fictions of Form in American Poetry, as well as a collection of poems, Blue Pajamas, which was published in 1998. His newest book, Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle, is forthcoming from University Press of Virginia in fall 1999. (3/26 4 p.m.) Jane Cutler loved to write and eventually found her niche in children's books. She is the author of numerous books, including Family Dinner, No Dogs Allowed and My Wartime Summers which was an NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. Her newest book, The Song of the Molimo, was published in 1998. (3/26 10 a.m.)
Daryl Cumber Dance grew up among black women whose humor spoke to everything that affected their lives: hair, men, white folk, black people, and their nation. Dance has given this humor voice in the pages of her new anthology, Honey, Hush! Dance is a professor of English at the University of Richmond. (3/25 4 p.m.) Martin Davidson, associate professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, is an expert on the management of diversity in the U.S. and international workforce. His consulting and research focus on organizational, team, and individual strategies for managing intercultural differences and the conflicts that arise from them. (3/27 8 p.m.) Jim Davis is a reporter at WVTF-Public Radio in Roanoke. He is also the editor of the station's frequent and award-winning essays. (3/26 6 p.m.) Tom De Haven is the author of four novels, a collection of three related novellas, and three-novel series. His latest novel for young adults, The Orphan's Tent, was published in 1996, and his latest graphic novel, Green Candles, in 1997. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) Eleanor Foa Dienstag, president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, writes on business, travel, and social issues. Her latest book was In Good Company: 125 Years at the Heinz Table. (3/25 4 p.m.) Gregory Donovan is an author of poetry and short fiction. Donovan's poetry collection, Calling His Children Home, was the 1993 Devins Award winner from the University of Missouri Press and a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award. (3/28 3:30 p.m.) Rita Dove is a former Poet Laureate of the United States and is a Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She earned the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Thomas and Beulah. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Ms. Dove the 1996 Charles Frankel Prize. In addition to writing poetry, she has written a play (which will play in London this spring), and composed a song cycle. Her most recent book of poetry, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, was published in 1999. (3/25 6 p.m.) Teresa Dowell-Vest is a playwright, actress, and director who has performed in and directed productions, both written by herself and others. She recently directed Seven Guitars at Live Arts in Charlottesville. (3/25 4 p.m.) Christopher Drew is an award-winning investigative reporter and special projects editor at The New York Times. He has won several major awards from the White House Correspondents' Association and other press organizations and is the co-author of the best-selling book, The Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage. (3/27 8 p.m.) Joe Durham took his athletic skills on the road after graduation, playing for the Negro American League's Chicago American Giants in 1952. In 1954 Durham was promoted to the major leagues by the Baltimore Orioles, and on September 12th of the same year he made team history when he became the first African American player to hit a home run for the Orioles. (3/27 10 a.m.)
Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole have collaborated on several celebrated alliterative tales, including Some Snug Slug, Five Famished Foxes and Fosdyke, and Dinorella: A Prehistoric Fairytale. They are also creators of many other popular picture books that educate as well as entertain. Their latest picture book is Honk!: The Story of a Prima Swaneria. (3/25 10, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.) Lolis Eric Elie has been a metro columnist for The Times Picayune in New Orleans since 1995. He wrote for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for three years as a business reporter and was the Assistant Managing Editor of Callaloo, a quarterly journal of African and African American arts and letters from 1989-90. His book on the southern tradition and culture of barbecue, Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country, was written in collaboration with the photographs of photographer Frank Stewart. (3/26 6 p.m., 3/27 12 noon, 2 p.m.) Formerly with the Washington Post, Garrett Epps is a native of Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of two novels, The Shad Treatment and Floating Island. Epps is also an attorney and, at the present time, serves on the law faculty of the University of Oregon. (3/26 2 p.m.) Barbara Esstman and Virginia Hartman have compiled an anthology of wedding stories and poems by 43 writers including Anne Tyler, Alice McDermott, and Carson McCullers in A Perfect Union: Poems and Stories about the Modern Wedding. Esstman is the author of two novels, The Other Anna and Night Ride. She teaches outside of Washington, D.C. (3/25 7 p.m.) Janet Ewert is the Director of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. (3/25 4 p.m.)
Edith Fisher is a kindergarten teacher at Bright Beginnings. (3/23 9:30 a.m.) William O. Foss of Virginia Beach is the author of eleven books. During the 1960s and early 1970s, Foss was a writer-editor for the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D. C., and a public information specialist at Fort Monroe, Virginia. (3/26 10 a.m. ) Greg Foster is an union printer and the artist-in-residence at the McGuffey ABC. (3/27 12 noon) Matt Frey is a student at the University of Virginia who successfully uses taped texts. (3/25 4 p.m.) Bob Friedman is the president of Hampton Roads Publishing Company. (3/26 4 p.m., Publishers' Day) J. Ron Furqueron has worked at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia; the New York Historical Society in New York City; and was the executive director of the Edgar Allen Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia from 1992-1995. Furqueron writes, lectures, and performs on various aspects of the 19th century. (3/24 9:30 a.m.)
Nancye Brown Gaj founded Motheread, Inc. in 1987 and has worked in all areas of its programming including teaching classes, writing curriculum, and providing training. She is a 1998 recipient of the White House National Humanities Award. (3/26 4 p.m., 3/27 10 a.m.) Gary W. Gallagher is a Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of 18 books relating to the era of the Civil War, including Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General, The Confederate War, and Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Gallagher received the 1990 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, the 1991 Nevins-Freeman Award, the 1999 Fletcher Pratt Award, and shared the 1998 Lincoln Prize (with three other authors). He was co-founder of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Studies and served as a member of the Board of the Civil War Trust. (3/25 8 p.m.) Forrest Gander is the editor of Mouth to Mouth, a bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poets, and the author of four poetry books, most recent of which is Science & Steepleflower. He has been the recipient of two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Writing, an NEA Fellowship, and a Whiting Award. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) George Garrett is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at UVa. He is the author of over 25 books including fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism, and is the editor and co-editor of 17 others. Garrett is the Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. His newest works, a volume of poetry entitled Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments and Bad Man Blues: A Portable George Garrett were published in 1998. (3/26 4 p.m., 6 p.m.) Betsy Gehman is the author of Twins: Twice the Trouble, Twice the Fun and a freelance magazine writer. She is currently working on a memoir and a play. (3/25 6 p.m.) Ted Genoways is a published poet and the founder and editor of UVa's literary magazine, Meridian. (3/26 2 p.m.) David Germano is an Associate Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He has been published in Religions of Tibet in Practice, Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet, and in Tantra in Practice. His book, Prophetic Histories of Buddhas, Dakins, and Saints in Tibet is forthcoming from Princeton Press. (3/26 10 a.m.) John Gibson is artistic director of Live Arts in Charlottesville. His directing credits include, Threepenny Opera, Chicago, The Visit, Marvin's Room, and The Waiting Room. He has worked as a designer, director, actor, and manager for theaters in NC, WV, Washington DC, and San Francisco. (3/25 4 p.m.) Sandra Gilbert is the co-author (with Susan Gubar) of The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, a landmark feminist study and the author of two volumes that address issues of medical mistakes, personal loss and bereavement. Her newesy book of poetry is Ghost Volcano: Poems. (3/24 12:30 p.m., 3/25 2 p.m.) Roxane Gilmore, First Lady of Virginia, is also a professor of classics at Randolph-Macon College. As First Lady, Ms. Gilmore is working with the Department of Education and the new Department of Technology to promote the Standards of Learning by creating an internet clearing-house of resources for teachers, parents, students, and the business world. She is also a partner of the Virginia Literacy Foundation. (3/26 12 noon) John Gilstrap is an international best-selling author, whose work has been published in numerous foreign countries. His debut thriller was Nathan's Run, and his second novel, At All Costs. In addition to writing novels, he has written the script for Nathan's Run, which is being developed into a major motion picture. (3/26 4 p.m.) Miriam Goderich is Vice President of Jane Dystel Literary Management. She also works closely with Jane Dystel in generating non-fiction projects and bringing in new clients. (3/27 10 a.m.) Marita Golden is an author, lecturer, novelist, essayist and literary institution builder. She is the author of four novels, including the bestseller Long Distance Life, and several non-fiction works. Currently the director of the graduate creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University, Ms. Golden is the executive director of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation which presents the nation's only national award for African American college fiction writers. (3/27 8 p.m., 3/28 1:30 p.m.) An activist in the women's and peace movements, Beverly Gologorsky lives in New York and works in legal and medical publishing. Her first novel, The Things We Do to Make It Home, is about the legacy of the Vietnam War on the lives of the women and children of the men who fought there. (3/27 10 a.m.) Stephen Goodwin teaches in the Department of English at George Mason University. He is the author of several novels, including Kin and The Blood of Paradise, and is a frequent contributor to journals. His many awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. 3/26 2 p.m. (3/26 2 p.m. ) Vesta Lee Gordon is the owner of the antiquarian book shop, The Book Broker. (3/25 2 p.m.) Maryemma Graham is the Langston Hughes Professor of English at the University of Kansas. Founder and director of the Project on the History of Black Writing, she is the author of numerous books and articles, including Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice (1998). She is currently completing the biography of poet and novelist Margaret Walker. (3/26 2 p.m.) Nan Graham has been Editor-in-Chief of Scribner since September 1994 and was recently named one of the 200 most influential women in America by Vanity Fair. Prior to Scribner, she worked at Ballantine Books, Pantheon and, most recently, Viking Penguin, where she was Executive Editor. Over the years, she has edited many authors, including Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, Witold Rybczynski, Stephen King, and John le Carre. Among literary memoirists, she has published Mary Karr (The Liars' Club), Anne Truitt (Daybook: The Journal of an Artist), Mary Gordon (the forthcoming Seeing Through Places), Horton Foote (the forthcoming Farewell), and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes and the forthcoming sequel Tis). (3/27 2 p.m.) Doris S. Greiner, Ph.D., RN has a long commitment to understanding the ethical dilemmas embedded in clinical practice and to challenging professionals to seek informed answers to complex questions. She taught psychiatric nursing for many years and continues a practice in that area. (3/25 4 p.m.) Allan Gurganus is the author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, which was awarded the Sue Kaufmann Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters as best first work of fiction. His collection of stories and novellas, White People, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the L.A. Times Book Prize. Gurganus's Plays Well With Others was published in 1997. His newest book, Angels are Among Us, is forthcoming in March 1999. (3/25 8 p.m.)
Josiah Haig currently serves as Special Assistant to the Superintendent of the Charlottesville City Schools. He has twenty-nine years of experience in education, and spent some of them as Superintendent of Hartford Connecticut Schools and East Orange, New Jersey Schools. He has a doctorate in education from Boston College, a juris doctor degree from The University of Florida, and a honorary doctorate from Upsala College, as a community leader. In 1990, he was nominated as Commissioner of Education for the State of New Jersey. (3/27 8 p.m.) Cathryn Hankla teaches at Hollins University and is a poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Her novel Blue Moon in Poorwater has been re-released by the University Press of Donald Harington is the author of nine novels, including The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks and The Choiring of the Trees, and one non-fiction book, Let Us Build Us a City, which won the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence. His latest book is When Angels Rest. (3/27 8 p.m.) William Harlow was appointed Director, Public Affairs Staff of the Central Intelligence Agency in August 1997 after a career of 25 years with United States Navy. He previously served as the Deputy Director of the American Forces Information Service at the Department of Defense. His first novel, Circle William, a military thriller, was published in February, 1999. (3/27 8 p.m.) Chuck Harmon played baseball and basketball during his school years. In 1953 he became the first African American to play for Tulsa in the Texas League; and made history in 1954 as the first African American to play for the Cincinnati Reds. (3/27 10 a.m.) Harrington & Young and the Afton Mountain String Band performs regularly at festivals and venues playing old-time songs and Harrington originals. The Band won first and second place at the Mt. Airy (NC) Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention in 1996. (3/27 8 p.m.) Tommy Hays grew up in South Carolina, and graduated from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His second novel, In the Family Way, will be published in July. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and two children. (3/27 10 a.m.) Peter Lauchlan Heath is an author and translator of numerous books, including The Philosopher's Alice. A collector of editions Alice in Wonderland, Heath is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. (3/27 4 p.m.) Robert R. Hemphill has received numerous honors, including a Purple Heart (for Combat Wounds), a Silver Star (for Gallantry in Action), and Bronze Stars with "Vs" for Valor in Ground Combat, for service in the US Army. He is a lecturer and the author of Platoon: Bravo Company. (3/27 12 noon) Susan Heyer, Director of Development for Harpo Films, oversees the creative development of films for television for the "Oprah Winfrey Presents" venue in connection with ABC Entertainment. Among the titles currently in development are film adaptations of Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons. Prior to joining Harpo Films, Heyer served on the creative staff at HBO Pictures and as Vice President at Lion's Gate Films. (3/27 10 a.m.) Meg Hibbert writes for a business journal in Roanoke and a weekly newspaper. (3/25 6 p.m.) Susan Tyler Hitchcock writes a column for Albemarle magazine called "Letters from Home" and has written five books, including Coming About: A Family Passage at Sea and Gather Ye Wild Things: A Forager's Year. Her next book will be a pictorial history of the University of Virginia. (3/25 4 p.m., 3/27 12 noon, 3/28 3:30 p.m. ) Tami Hoag has set a publishing record with five New York Times bestsellers in just twenty months-A Thin Dark Line, Dark Paradise, Guilty As Sin, Night Sins, and Cry Wolf. With over 5 million copies of her 23 books in print, Tami Hoag is one of today's fastest rising and bestselling suspense writers. Her next book, Ashes to Ashes, will be published in March. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) Elva Mason Holland is a partner in the Charlottesville office of the Washington D.C. based law firm of Baise, Miller & Freer, P.C. where she practices in the areas of arts/entertainment and media law. She represents music composers (among them Stu Gardner), writers, television production companies, and other performing artists. Active in the Charlottesville community, she has served on numerous boards. (3/28 3:30 p.m.) Pat Hommel is the owner of Business and Marketing Developers, a business development firm in Charlottesville and founder of The Writer's Circle at FOCUS. (3/27 2 p.m.) James P. Horn is the Director of the International Center for Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. A scholar of early American studies, he has published numerous articles and contributed to several books. (3/25 4 p.m.) Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard has worked as a teacher of children's literature and as a children's librarian. She is the author of six children's books based on stories from her family. She has won several awards including, American Bookseller Pick of the List and Parents' Choice Picture Book Award, for Aunt Flossie's Hats (And Crab Cakes Later). Three more of her books are due to be published in 1999 and 2000, including Lulu's Birthday, Virgie Goes to School, and When Will Sarah Come? (3/26 10 a.m., 3/27 12 noon) Robert Hueckstedt is a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia and the author of The Style of Bana: An Introduction to Sanskrit Prose Poetry. He won third place in a translation competition sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association for translating The Perplexity of Hariya Hercules from Hindu. (3/26 4 p.m.) Susan Hull is a member of the Apple Mountain Poets, and has published poems in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the New Virginia Review, and Timbuktu. (3/26 4 p.m.) T. R. Hummer is the author of six volumes of poetry, including Translation of Light, The Angelic Orders, The Passion of the Right-Angled Man, Lower-Class Heresy, The 18,000 Ton Olympic Dream, and Walt Whitman in Hell. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship two Pushcart Prizes, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. (3/28 3:30 p.m.)
Janis Jaquith is a columnist for the Charlottesville The Daily Progress who writes essays for Public Radio and novels, including Licking the Beaters and Follow Me. (3/25 6 p.m.) Allyson Johns is the Educational Outreach Director for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. (3/25 4 p.m.) Kimberly Johnson is the author of The Adventures of the Itty Bitty Frog, a book for young readers. She is a flight attendant for USAirways and is currently pursuing her degree in early childhood education. (3/25 9:45 a.m., 12:45 p.m.) Madison Jones is the author of ten novels, most recently Nashville 1864 The Dying of the Light, which is a historical narrative set during the Civil War. He has received both Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, and the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War fiction. (3/26 4 p.m.) Peter Jones is the creator of the classic Too Much Sugar radio drama, as well as program director of the children's radio program Kid n' Kaboodle on 91.1 FM WTJU. With a background in theatre sports and storytelling, Jones is recognized for his improvisational skill and characters. (3/28 12 noon) Born in 1950 in northern Alabama, Rodney Jones was educated at the universities of Alabama and North Carolina and is now a professor of English at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. Jones is a recipient of the AWP writing prize given by Elizabeth Bishop and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His newest book, Elegy for the Southern Drawl, was published in 1999. (3/26 8 p.m.) Monty Joynes is an experienced magazine publisher and founded the successful Insiders' Guide travel series. He has also published three novels, Naked into the Night, Lost in Las Vegas, and Save the Good Seed. He is currently working on his fourth novel, Dead Water Rights. (3/26 4 p.m.)
Jennifer Kane is a teacher of English and Drama at The Miller School in Charlottesville. (3/26 7 p.m.) Zachary Karabell is the author of Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World and the Cold War, 1946-1962 (Eisenhower Center Studies on War and Peace) and What's College For? : The Struggle to Define American Higher Education. (3/25 10 a.m.) Natalie Hevener Kaufman is the author of G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone, winner of the Edgar award by the Mystery Writers of America, and a political scientist who specializes in international law and gender politics. (3/26 2 p.m.) Randall Kenan published his first novel A Visitation of Spirits, in 1989; and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, in 1992. His newest book, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century and he is currently working on a novel, The Fire and the Baptism. (3/25 6 p.m.) Andreé Madec King is the President of L'Alliance FranÁaise of Charlottesville. (3/28 2:30 p.m.) Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is a student at the University of Virginia. (3/26 4 p.m.) Michelle R. Kisliuk is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Virginia and the author of Seize the Dance!: BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance and numerous articles. (3/27 5 p.m.) John Kneebone is director of the Division of Publications and Educational Services at the Library of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia and has been widely published in the fields of southern and Virginia history. He is one of the editors of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. (3/25 2 p.m.) Michael Knight is the author of a novel, Diving Rod, and Dogfight and Other Stories. He was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award and the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and was given the New Writing Award by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Paris Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. (3/25 2 p.m., 3/27 4 p.m.) Phyllis Koch-Sheras has worked in state hospitals, university counseling centers and private practice for more than 20 years. She is President of the Creative & Healing Arts Institute in Charlottesville and co-host of the television program, Couple Power, with her husband. Author of three books, her newest, co-authored by her husband, is The Dream Sharing Sourcebook: A Practical Guide to Enhancing Your Personal Relationships. (3/25 8 p.m.) Priya Kumar is a professor at the Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. Her article entitled "Testimonies of Loss nad Memory: Partition and the Haunting of a Nation" is forthcoming in Interventions: An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. (3/26 4 p.m.) Kelly Kyle is the owner of Narnia Children's Books in Richmond, VA.
Sharon Leiter is a poet and fiction writer. She is the author of a volume of poetry, The Lady and the Bailiff of Time, and a literary study, Akhmatova's Petersburg. In 1990 she won a Virginia Prize for Fiction for her short story collection, Dream Fatigue. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) Clay Lewis is the author of Battlegrounds of Memory. Born and raised in the South, Lewis has published work in the Southern Review, Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Carolina Quarterly. After teaching for many years, he now lives in Washington, D.C. (3/26 4 p.m.) Dr. Edna Lewis is lauded as one of the great women of American cooking. A specialist in Southern Cooking, she has been the chef at Café Nicholson on Manhattan's East Side, owned a restaurant in Harlem and worked as Executive Chef at Fearrington House in NC, Middleton Place in Charleston, SC, and Gage & Tollner in Brooklyn, NY. She has received an honorary Ph.D. in Culinary Arts from Johnson & Wales University and received numerous culinary honors. The author of three cookbooks, Ms. Lewis is currently working on a fourth cookbook, When We Come Together to Cook, with chef Scott Peacock. (3/27 2 p.m.) Joe Lieberman is the author of Sentimental Journeys: Images from a Lifetime of Observation, a collection of his reader's favorite columns from his senior's column in the Charlottesville Daily Progress. (3/26 10 a.m.) D.S. Lliteras has published five novels including The Thieves of Golgatha. His sixth novel, Judas the Gentile, is to be released in August, 1999. He currently divides his time between being a professional firefighter and writing. (3/26 4 p.m.) Jeff Lodge currently teaches writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. His first novel, Where This Lake Is, was released in 1997 as the first book in White Pine's New American Voices series. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) Judy Longley is the author of Parallel Lines, My Journey Toward You: Poems, and Rowing Through Eden. (3/26 4 p.m.) J. Jefferson Looney is a senior editor in the Division of Publications and Education Services at the Library of Virginia. He has published widely on educational history, and served as an associate editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. (3/25 2 p.m.) Jacki Lyden is a regular substitute host on NPR's Weekend Edition and All Things Considered. She was part of the award-winning NPR team that covered the Persian Gulf War. Her autobiography, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, is about her life with her manic-depressive mother and their incredible mother-daughter relationship. (3/27 2 p.m.) Katie Letcher Lyle is the author of 13 books including poetry, novels, historical non-fiction, and nature. A writer, teacher, folksinger, and speaker, she has taught courses in creative writing, Virginia folklore, folklife and history at several Virginia colleges. Her short fiction has been published in Viva, Shenandoah and The Virginia Quarterly Review. (3/26 4 p.m.) Elizabeth D. Lyman is a student at the University of Virginia. (3/26 4 p.m.) Mary E. Lyons lives in Charlottesville and is the author of more than 10 children's books. Catching the Fire was a 1997 American Library Association Best Books for Children selection. Her forthcoming book is Ellen Bee: A Scrapbook Novel of the Civil War, written with Muriel Branch. (3/22 12:30 p.m., 3/25 4 p.m. )
Judy Mandell is the author of numerous books about the publishing industry, including Book Editors Talk to Writers, Magazine Editors talk to Writers. Her newest book, What to Expect in Your Fifties: A Woman's Guide to Health, Vitality, and Longevity, was published in 1998. (3/26 2 p.m.) Mando Mafia is a band that has its roots in old-time string band traditions but plays a wide variety of music. It won the non-traditional band competition at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival. (3/27 8 p.m.) A renowned scholar of American and British history, Dr. Alf J. Mapp Jr. is the author of several historical-based works, including Frock Coats and Epaulets and Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity, making him one of the world's three principal living authorities on Thomas Jefferson. Dr. Mapp's current release, Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and American's Founding, forges new paths into the creation of three visionary societies. (3/28 3:30 p.m.) David Maraniss is a columnist for The Washington Post and author of First in His Class: The Biography of Bill Clinton and The Clinton Enigma: A Four-And-A-Half Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life. (3/25 10 a.m.) Kenny Marotta is the author of a novel, A Piece of the Earth, and a collection of short fiction, A House on the Piazza. His short stories have been published in various journals. (3/26 6 p.m.) Stephen Hawley Martin won the Writer's Digest Book Award for Fiction for Out of Body, Out of Mind: A Metaphysical Adventure and for Death in Advertising. In 1998 Out of Body, Out of Mind was rereleased under the new title, The Mt. Pelee Redemption. (3/26 4 p.m.) Charlotte Matthews. To Come. (3/26 4 p.m.) James McBride graduated from Oberlin College and the Columbia School of Journalism. A former staff writer for the Boston Globe, People and the Washington Post, McBride is also a professional saxophonist and composer. His novel, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, spent more than a year on the New York Times Bestseller List. (3/27 2 p.m., 4 p.m.) Ed McClanahan is author of A Congress of Wonders, The Natural Man, and a collection of nonfiction essays, Famous People I Have Known. He has taught writing at several universities and has been a frequent contributor to Esquire, Playboy, and Rolling Stone. His latest book is My Vita, If You Will. (3/25 4 p.m.) Sharyn McCrumb is a best-selling novelist whose lyrical portrayal of the Southern mountains has won her critical acclaim and many awards. She Walks These Hills won the Agatha, Nero and Macavity Awards in 1994. The Rosewood Casket was a New York Times Bestseller, and her 1998 novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. (3/25 4 p.m., 8 p.m.) Alice McDermott won the 1998 National Book Award for fiction with her fourth novel, Charming Billy. Her second novel, That Night, was nominated for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. McDermott grew up on Long Island in New York, lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University. (3/25 8 p.m., 3/26 12 noon, 2 p.m.) Deborah McDowell is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of several scholarly books and articles, including The Changing Same: Studies in Fiction by Black Women, and a memoir, Leaving Pipe Shop. (3/26 4 p.m.) Rosalind McKnight is the author of Cosmic Journeys: My Out-of-Body Explorations with Robert A. Monroe, a book about her research at The Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia. (3/27 4 p.m.) Ann Hunter McMillan has written book reviews for the Richmond-Times Dispatch and numerous articles for other publications. Her first novel, Dead March, was released March, 99 and is a Civil War mystery set in Richmond. (3/26 2 p.m.) Pat McNees writes on business, economics, social policy, and consumer issues. She has written a biography of industrialist William Warren and edited several anthologies, including Dying: A Book of Comfort. (3/25 4 p.m.) Charles McRaven is a writer/teacher/restorer of historic buildings. He and his wife Linda published his first book Building the Hewn Log House in 1977. His three books presently in circulation have been exceptionally well-received: Building and Restoring the Hewn Log House, Stonework, and Building with Stone. (3/27 10 a.m.) Kate Meyer is a Master Gardener with the Piedmont Master Gardeners. (3/25 2 p.m.) Phil Midland is a political analyst for the U.S. State Department who spent 17 years in the East Asian theater, including the U.S. naval attachÈ to China. He has published many internal documents on East Asia, especially China, for the State Department, the Pentagon, and other government agencies. (3/26 10 a.m.) John Montgomery is publisher of the Roanoke Valley Sports Journal and general manager of the Blue Ridge Business Journal. (3/25 6 p.m.) Opal Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Spelman College. Moore's fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications including Calloloo Magazine and African American Review, as well as in Honey Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor. During a Fulbright year abroad, she presented poetry readings across Germany, including the American Embassy in Bonn. She has just completed a collection of poems, Leaving Mississippi. (3/25 8 p.m.) Robin Moran is a fine arts major at Piedmont Virginia Community College who wants to teach art. (3/25 2 p.m.) Elizabeth Seydel Morgan is the author of three collections of poetry: Parties, The Governor of Desire, and On Long Mountain. In 1996 her short story, a VQR Balch Prize winner, was included in the Harcourt Brace anthology, Downhome. (3/26 4 p.m.) Melvin Murphy is the author of the book Barbershop Talk, The Other Side of Black Men, which has been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines, and on television. (3/27 8 p.m.)
Robert O'Connell has lived with his wife and family in Charlottesville for nearly 30 years. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia and has published three histories prior to turning to fiction. Fast Eddie is his first novel and will be published in 1999. (3/25 2 p.m.) Bill Oliver is a writer whose short fiction has appeared in numerous publications. Women & Children First, his collection of stories, won the First Series Award for Short Fiction. Oliver has also co-authored a book of interviews with short-story writers, Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers. (3/27 4 p.m.) Charles M. (Tod) Oliver is the editor of The Hemingway Newsletter and owner of Oliver & Co. Books. (3/27 4 p.m.) Gregory Orr is an acclaimed poet and critic and the author of six collections of poetry, two collections of essays and one memoir, including City of Salt. He is currently at work on a memoir, Cain: A Memoir, and Three Strange Angels: Poetry and Survival. Orr is Professor of English at UVA and teaches in the creative writing program. (3/27 12 noon)
Linda Pastan has published 10 volumes of poetry. PM/AM: New and Selected Poems was a nominee for the National Book Award. Her latest book, Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998, was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Award. Pastan received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maryland Arts Council. She was on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference for 20 years and served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991-95. (3/26 8 p.m.) Scott C. Patchan is the author of The Forgotten Fury : The Battle of Piedmont, Virginia and several other civil war titles. (3/27 12 noon) Kay Peaslee is currently working on a biography of Virginia novelist Ellen Glasgow of Richmond (1873-1945). She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 20 novels, most of them set in Virginia. Peaslee is also a writer of poetry, memoirs and short stories. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) Pamela Peltier is a Master Gardener with the Piedmont Master Gardeners. (3/25 2 p.m.) Donna Plasket is the Associate Director of the University of Virginia Women's Center. (3/27 4 p.m.) Michael Plunkett is the Director of Special Collections at Alderman Library at the University of Virginia. (3/27 4 p.m.) Kathy Lingle Pond is the author of The Professional Guide and the co-president of the Charlottesville chapter of the Virginia Writers Club. She is a freelance travel writer and a professional tour guide and operator. (3/28 3:30 p.m.) Kathy Pories has taught English Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill and at Eton College. She has been with Algonquin books since 1995, where she edit fiction and cookbooks. (3/27 12 noon) Connie Porter is perhaps best known for her Addy books, a series of historical children's novels from Pleasant Company. Her 1991 novel, All Bright Court, was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. Porter has been both a fellow and scholar at Bread Loaf and has taught at Milton Academy, Emerson College and the University of Southern Illinois. She lives in Virginia. Her second novel, Imani All Mine, was published in 1999. (3/26 8 p.m., 3/27 10 a.m.) Browning Porter's poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry East, New England Review, and numerous other journals. He is the co-founder and Acting Director of the Charlottesville Writing Center and the lead singer and lyricist of the music group Nickeltown. (3/25 8 p.m.; 3/26 6, 8 p.m.; 3/27 8, 10 p.m.) Russ Pottle, Lightning Press. (Publishers' Day) Arlene A. Carter-Pounds, author, poet, educator, earned her doctorate in Reading from the University of Virginia in 1996. She is founder of Poetry Pizzazz Plus, an interactive program in which the language of poetry is explored through dramatizations. (3/26 8, 10 a.m., 1 p.m.) Dylan Pritchett is a nationally-known storyteller who performs annually over 200 times in schools, libraries and museums. He has three times been an artist in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education touring program and recently completed a project with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (3/22 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 3/25, 3/27 11 a.m.) Deborah Prum writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Her book Rats, Bulls and Flying Machines: A Young Reader's History of the Renaissance, will be released this spring. (3/28 1:30 p.m.)
Stephen Ramsey is the Assistant Director of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. (3/26 4 p.m.) Priscilla Randolph, author of Lifehunter: Selected Stories, Poems and Essays, is a writer, editor and publisher living in Charlottesville. (3/26 2 p.m., 3/28 1:30 p.m.) Dr. William Rasmussen is the Curator of Art at the Virginia Historical Society. He wrote George Washington: The Man Behind the Myths with Robert Tilton. (3/27 6 p.m.) Esther Ready is the producer of the PBS series Reading Rainbow. (3/27 10 a.m.) Carolyn Reeder writes historical fiction for young people. Shades of Gray won numerous awards including the ALA Notable Book Award. She has also written Foster's War, a World War II home front story, and Captain Kate (1999), a novel of the C & O Canal. (3/25 9 a.m., 1 p.m.; 3/26 10 a.m.) Juanita Reigle, RN, MSN, ACNP-CS is assistant professor at the University School of Nursing. Ms. Reigle has worked and published extensively in the area of biomedical ethics and heart failure. (3/25 4 p.m.) Kristen Staby Rembold is the author of a novel, Felicity, and a chapbook entitled Coming Into This World. (3/26 4 p.m.) Dr. Susan Reverby is the winner of the 1999 Agnes Dillon Randolph Award. She has won numerous awards for her writing and research. Reverby co-edited Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History, edited Health Care in America, and wrote Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 (Cambridge History of Medicine). (3/25 4 p.m.) Frank Riccio, a Charlottesville artist, has illustrated more than a dozen children's books including Hiawatha, Johnny Appleseed, and The Fables of Aesop. His most recent projects include Curriculum of Love: Cultivating the Spiritual Nature of Children, A Spirited Alphabet, and The Little Soul and the Sun. (3/26 1 p.m.) Barbara Rich is a local theater critic for The Daily Progress, The Observer, and C'Ville Weekly. She won the VA Press Assoc. award for Critical Writing in 1991 & 1995. (3/25 4 p.m.) David Rigsbee is the author of 10 books, including Your Heart Will Fly Away, and A Skeptics's Notebook: Longer Poems. His work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Southern Review, and the Prairie Schooner, among others. His newest book, The Dissolving Island, was published in 1999. (3/26 6 p.m.) Rob Riordan is the Director of Communications at The Nature Conservancy in Charlottesville. (3/27 2 p.m.) James I. Robertson, Jr. is an Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and the author of such award-winning books as General A.P. Hill, Soldiers in Blue and Gray, and Civil War! America Becomes One Nation. He has won every major award given in the field of Civil War hsitory and teaches the largest college Civil War history course in America. Robertson appears regularly in Civil War programs on the Arts and Entertainment Network, the History Channel, and public television and does a weekly broadcast carried by eleven public radio stations. His latests book, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend, has won eight national awards and movie rights for the book have been sold. (3/25 8 p.m.) Frederic W. Rohm, author of No Braver Man, served 30 years in the US Navy and commanded two nuclear submarines and the Naval Maritime Intelligence Center. He currently serves on the Director's staff of the Applied Research Laboratory of Pennsylvania State University. (3/27 12 noon) Jeff Romano is a guitarist and composer and a member of the musical duo Nickeltown. He has produced numerous CDs, among them Nickeltown's Presto Change-O, Brady Earnhart's After You, and Lily's Quilt, a collection of songs written by children at the UVa Children's Medical Center and performed by area musicians. (3/25 8 p.m.; 3/26 8 p.m.; 3/27 8 p.m., 10 p.m.) Sibylle Rotach-Hunt is the Head Teacher at La Petite École. (3/28 2:30 p.m.) Michele Rubin has been in the publishing for 10 years, working as a literary agent and rights representative for 8 years. She represents non-fiction, mainstream and literary Steven Rubin is a retired professor of English and a former boating writer and book reviewer. (3/27 8 p.m.) Christine Ruotolo is a student at the University of Virginia. (3/26 4 p.m.)
Sonia Sanchez is the author of fourteen books including Homecoming, We BaddDDD People, and most recently, Shake Loose My Skin. She is a winner of the 1995 American Book Award for her book, Homegirls and Handgrenades, and was nominated for both the NAACP Image and National Book Critics Circle Awards in 1997 for Does Your House Have Lions? (3/25 8 p.m.) Gary Sange is the author of Sudden Around the Bend. He also has two volumes of poetry in manuscript, Joy Boss and Out in the Oy. His long poem, Maud, was performed as an oratorio at Carnegie Hall and is available on compact disc. (3/28 3:30 p.m.) Tim Sanjule is the education coordinator at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Charlottesville. (3/24 4 p.m.) Karin Schulze sells foreign rights for Writers House, a literary agency, representing such authors as Ken Follett, Nora Roberts, and Stephen Hawking, as well as such publisher clients as Hampton Roads, Bridge Works, Zoland Books, Ten Speed Press, and Wildcat Canyon Press. (3/27 10 a.m., Publishers' Day) Anne Scott is the author of The Laughing Baby, and Serving Fire: Food for Thought, Body and Soul, and has written for many publications worldwide. Scott lectures and leads workshops throughout the United States with a focus on the feminine, dreamwork, and the spiritual journey. (3/26 6 p.m.) James Scott was a stand-up comic for over 20 years. Now he combines his comedy with poetry and delivers his act as "the Loud Poetry Guy" to schools, libraries, and festivals across the country. (3/23 12:45, 1:30, 7 p.m.; 3/24 8:45, 9:45 a.m., 7 p.m.) Ronald R. Seagrave is the author of numerous military history books including Civil War Books: Confederate and Union and A Boy Lieutenant : Memoirs of Freeman S. Bowley 30th United States Colored Troops Officer. He is the founder and director of Sergeant Kirklands Museum and Historical Society, Inc. and the Sergeant Kirklands Press. (3/27 12 noon) Mary Lee Settle is originally from Charleston WV. She attended Sweet Briar College and went on to do wartime service in the WAAF. Her many works of fiction include the Beulah Quintet of novels as well as the National Book Award winning Blood Tie, and award winning Choices. In 1998 she published a memoir, Addie, and is currently writing an autobiography of Roger Williams of Rhode Island. (3/25 12 noon, 3/27 2 p.m.) Dr. Garrett Sheldon wrote The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, the first American book on the third President to be translated into Russian and published in Moscow in 1996. He has authored two college textbooks: The History of Political Theory and Religion and Politics. In 1998, his book What Would Jefferson Say? was published. Sheldon also wrote the Christian novel What Would Jesus Do? (3/25 4 p.m.) Peter Sheras is an Associate Professor in the Curry Programs in Clinical & School Psychology at UVa. He specializes in working with adolescents, couples & families. With his wife he co-hosts the television program, Couple Power, and co-authored The Dream Sharing Sourcebook: A Practical Guide to Enhancing Your Personal Relationships. (3/25 8 p.m.) A former journalist and television producer, Daniel Silva has covered everything from Washington politics to the conflicts in the Middle East. His first two novels, The Unlikely Spy and The Mark of the Assassin, place Silva in the company of the world's leading writers of spy fiction. The Marching Season, his latest thriller, takes place in Northern Ireland. (3/27 8 p.m.) Dan Smith is editor of the Blue Ridge Business Journal in Roanoke. He has been a journalist for 35 years and has won awards for writing news, editorials, columns, and sports; for photography; for design; and for broadcast commentary with his Public Radio essays. (3/25 6 p.m.) Kathryn Smith is finishing her degree in philosophy at Hollins University and working as a house painter. (3/25 6 p.m.) Betty Smith is an author of Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer Among Singers and a folksinger. She has received numerous ballad and dulcimer awards and taught courses on folk and Appalachian music. (3/25 4 p.m.) Eliezer Sobel is the creator and leader of The Courage of Self-Expression, a creative arts workshop. He has written the inspirational book Wild Heart Dancing: A Personal One-Day Quest to Liberate the Artist and Lover Within. (3/27 2 p.m.) Lisa Russ Spaar teaches poetry writing at UVa, where she also administers the MFA Program in Creative Writing. She is the author of Acquainted With The Night: Insomnia Poems and Glass Town (a poetry collection), both forthcoming in fall 1999. (3/26 4 & 6 p.m.) Ross Spears produced, directed, and wrote Prophets and Poets, the second in a three-part series about Southern literature. The first part of Tell About the South premiered at VABook! in 1997 and was aired by PBS in 1998. His other films include the Academy Award-nominated AGEE (1980), The Electric Valley, Long Shadows, and To Render A Life, which was nominated for Best Documentary of the Year by the International Documentary Association. (3/24 8 p.m.) Cinder Stanton is Shannon Senior Research Historian at Monticello, where she has worked for over twenty years, ten of them as Director of Research. She is the author of Slavery at Monticello, co-editor of Thomas Jefferson's Memorandum Books, and has written articles on Jefferson and science, agriculture, and traveling in the south of France. She is just completing a book on six enslaved families at Monticello and is Director of Monticello's African-American oral history project called Getting Word. (3/27 4 p.m.) Mary Stanton, author of the new book, From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo, is a freelance writer. In 1994, she co-authored the book Coping with the Male Ego in the Workplace with Sandra Grymes. Stanton has also had numerous articles published. (3/26 2 p.m.) Douglas Starr is the author of the critically-acclaimed BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce. The book has been named as one of the Best of Books of 1998 by both Publisher's Weekly and Booklist. The book will be the basis for a PBS documentary. A former newspaper reporter and field biologist, Starr has written on medicine, science and the environment for a variety of publications including Time, Smithsonian, and The Christian Science Monitor. (3/27 4 p.m.) Sibyl Steinberg, Senior Editor, Fiction, Publisher's Weekly. (Publishers' Day) Sharan Strange has taught poetry workshops throughout the country and currently teaches at an alternative school in Washington, D.C. which focuses on experiential learning. Educated at Harvard, Strange has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Callaloo and American Poetry Review. (3/25 8 p.m.) Nora Strejilevich is the author of Una sola muerte numerosa, Letras de Oro Literary Award 1996. The English version, A Single, Countless Death, will be published in 1999. She has also won literary awards for her Survivals and A Version of Myself. (3/27 12 noon) Lee Strong is a marketing director, former journalist, and a nationally-published writer who lives in Charlottesville. (3/25 6 p.m.) Connie and Mayo Stuntz, authors of This Was Vienna, Virginia: Facts and Photos (1987) and This Was Tysons Corner, Virginia: Facts and Photos (1990), are native Virginians and educated at Duke University and Cornell University, respectively. Their current book, This Was Virginia 1900-1927: As Shown by the Glass Negatives of J. Harry Shannon, The Rambler (1998), features over 500 black and white photographs of Virginia taken by J. Harry Shannon, a 1920's reporter and editorial staff member of the Washington Evening Star. (3/26 10 a.m.) Patty Summers, animal communicator and author of award-winning Talking with the Animals, has worked professionally with animals since 1985. She has many clients across the U. S. and abroad. (3/27 1 p.m.)
Brent Tarter is an assistant director of the Division of Publications and Educational Services at the Library of Virginia. He was an editor of the documentary series, Revolutionary Virginia, The Road to Independence (1973-1983). (3/25 2 p.m.) A truly motivational speaker, Clifton Taulbert draws upon his own insightful experiences in both his writings and lectures. In his latest book, Eight Habits of the Heart, Taulbert shares the lessons he was taught by his elders in the segregated south. This book was USA Today's 1998 year-end choice as the inspirational book to give. Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored was released as a critically-acclaimed film in 1996, and The Last Train was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. (3/27 2 p.m.) L.B. Taylor, Jr. is the author of numerous books covering topics from the nuclear arms race to southeast Africa to the ghosts. He has written books on ghosts of Virginia cities and recently published the fourth volume of The Ghosts of Virginia. (2/23 2 p.m., 7 p.m.) William Tester is the author of the novel Darling. Stories from his collection, Head, have appeared in numerous publications. (3/28 1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m.) Merry Fleming Thomasson is the bestselling author/publisher of the Look At Me Window Books for young readers. (3/23 11 a.m.) Kenneth Thompson is the editor of Key Quotations in Sociology and, most recently, The Budget Deficit and the National Debt (The Miller Center Series on the Budget Deficit and the National Debt, V. 1). (3/25 10 a.m.) Edith and Joshua Thornhill are the parents of a student who successfully uses tapes. (3/25 4 p.m.) Sandra Gioia Treadway is deputy director of the Library of Virginia. She is one of the editors of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography and has published several works on Virginia and on southern women's history. (3/25 2 p.m.) Valli Anne Trusler, Historical Impressions. (3/24 9:30 a.m.) Vernon Kitabu Turner was initiated into the Bushido warrior tradition by a Zen master in 1967. He is a published poet and novelist, his latest book being Soul Sword. The Power of Still Waters will be released in the fall of 1999. (3/26 4 p.m.) M. Rick Turner has served as Dean of the Office of African American Affairs since August of 1988. He has also served as a consultant/speaker to numerous education foundations, higher education institutions, public schools, community organizations and city and federal agencies. (3/27 10 a.m.)
Reetika Vazirani was born in India and raised in Maryland. She received the 1995 Barnard New Women Poets Prize for her first book, White Elephants. Her other awards include the prestigious "Discovery" award from The Nation, as well as prizes from Kenyon Review and Prairie Schooner. She is currently the Margaret Bannister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College. (3/26 2 p.m.) Pete Vigour is a folk musician. (3/24 12 noon)
Daniel Wallace's short stories have been published in numerous literary quarterlies and magazines. He has an illustration business called Kfloyd and has been the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Fellowship and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Big Fish is Wallace's first novel. (3/26 8 p.m.) Nahum J. Waxman owns Kitchen Arts & Letters in Manhattan, a bookstore devoted to food and wine. Before opening the bookstore, he was a nonfiction editor with Harper & Row and Crown Publishers. (3/27 12 noon, 3/28 1:30 p.m.) Allen Weinstein is the author of numerous books including The Haunted Wood: Espionage in America and The Stalin Era and Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. (3/25 10 a.m.) Jim Weiss is an award-winning storyteller whose performances of classic children's tales and audio recordings of these stories have won numerous awards including awards from The American Library Association, Parents' Choice Foundation, and Parents' Council, Ltd.. He has also starred as host and storyteller in a storytelling pilot for PBS television (KQED, San Francisco) that is the recipient of a Northern California Emmy for Best Children's Show. (3/23 7 p.m., 3/24 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 6:30 p.m., 3/25 9 a.m.) Camille Wells is the Director of Research for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. (3/25 4 p.m.) Educated at Yale, Johns Hopkins and Columbia, Rachel Wetzsteon has received numerous fellowships. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 1998, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review. Her first book, The Other Stars, was selected for the 1993 Poetry Series by John Hollander. She lives in New York City, where she teaches at Columbia and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. (3/26 2 p.m.) Henry Wiencek is the author of The Hairstons-An American Family in Black and White, published by St. Martin's Press and scheduled to be broadcast as a mini-series by CBS next February. He edited the 12-volume Smithsonian Guide to Historic America, recently updated and re-issued. (3/25 4 p.m.) Jean O. Wilhelm has developed programs, classes and workshops for young people and teachers that integrate drama and other art forms with language arts and social studies curricula. She received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education and the 1993 Education Award from Piedmont Council of the Arts. (3/27 11 a.m., 12 noon) Roger Wilkins is Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University. Before joining the faculty in 1988, Mr. Wilkins had a varied career in law, government, philanthropy and journalism. His work on the editorial page staff at The Washington Post was awarded the Gold Medal for Public Service to The Post for Watergate. He is author of an autobiography examining the complexities of race, A Man's Life, and has a book about the founding fathers forthcoming in 1999. (3/27 4 p.m.) Lisa Williams earned her M.F.A. from the University of Virginia where she studied with Charles Wright and Greg Orr. Her previous work has appeared in Raritan, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other literary magazines. She has won an Academy of American Poets' Prize (1995) and the May Swenson Poetry Award (1998) for her first full-length book of poems, The Hammered Dulcimer. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) Nick Weir-Williams, Northwestern University Press. (Publishers' Day) Richard Guy Wilson is a frequent lecturer for universities, museums and professional groups. He has also published widely with some 200 articles and reviews to his credit. Wilson is the author or joint author of several books, among them, The Prairie School in Iowa, McKim, Mead & White, Architects, and The AIA Gold Medal. (3/25 4 p.m.) Garvey Winegar has been the senior outdoors columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch for more than a decade. He has been widely published in outdoors magazines and has won numerous state and national awards. Winegar and his wife are co-authors of Highland Guide to the Virginia Mountains and Natural Wonders of Virginia: A Guide to Parks, Preserves and Wild Places. (3/27 2 p.m.) Kim Basile Wood is a pre-K teacher at Bright Beginnings Pre-School. (3/26 9:30 a.m.) Joia Wood. To come. (3/25 & 3/26 8 p.m.) Helen Worth is the author of award-winning cookbooks (reprinted many times). Her magazine and newspaper features merited an Outstanding Journalism award. At UVa, she taught a course – Food and Wine Appreciation – that she had pioneered at Columbia University.
Howard Yoon is a Literary Agent and the Editorial Director of the Gail Ross Literary Agency in Washington, DC. He handles both fiction and non-fiction. (3/27 10 a.m.) Fred Zengel has completed three novels, one screenplay, and numerous short stories. (3/28 1:30 p.m.) Boyd Zenner is the acquiring editor for regional and paperback books at the University Press of Virginia. She has contributed articles and book reviews to many publications. Zenner is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a regular columnist for the on line journal Archipelago. (3/27 12 noon) |