Author Services
Want to polish your work before an agent sees it at The Muse and the Marketplace? Want immediate, one-on-one feedback from a member of the Grub Street faculty? Use our author services to get personal feedback on your projects, advice on furthering your literary career, or even a motivating kick in the butt.- Rigorous, energizing feedback that includes...
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- An intensive reading of your manuscript by an experienced, highly-qualified reader.
- 1-3 pages of thoughtful written feedback, with suggestions for revision and next steps ahead.
- Heavy line edits of at least one page of your manuscript to demonstrate patterns on the sentence, paragraph, and/or word level.
- A 30-60 minute meeting to discuss your work, either in person, over the phone, or over email (whichever is preferred, and wherever is convenient for both writer and consultant).
- All of the following...
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- Short Fiction
- Flash Fiction
- The Novel
- The Novella or Short Novel
- Poetry
- Memoir
- Individual Essay
- Book-Length Nonfiction
- Journalism
- Feature Writing
- The Graphic Novel
- Comics
- Screenwriting
- Playwriting
- Genre Fiction (Horror, Science Fiction, Romance, etc.)
- Young Adult Fiction
- Children's Literature
- Very reasonable...
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1-100 pages: $75/hour
Over 100 pages: $3.50/page All custom and hourly consultations: $75/hour - For big projects and ventures...
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Preparing the MFA Application~$400
Writer receives full consultation on a 20-25 page story or 10-page poetry collection to be submitted to MFA programs, plus a 30-minute discussion of the work and a 30-minute discussion of the writer's program interests. The consultant then provides a list of recommended programs based on the writer's interests and style, and will give tailored suggestions for submitting the strongest application possible. Submitting to Literary Magazines~$400
Writer receives full consultation on a 20-25 page story or poetry series to be submitted to print and/or online literary magazines, including a 30-minute discussion of the work. The consultant then provides a list of recommended literary magazines and journals based on the writer's interests and style of work. Submitting to Agencies and/or Editors~$400
Writer receives full consultation on the 10 first pages of a book-length manuscript and 1-page query letter to be submitted to literary agents and/or editors. Includes a 45-minute discussion of the work and recommendation for how to make the submission "sell" the manuscript most strongly. If the consultant judges that the writer is ready to submit his/her work, then the consultant provides a list of recommended agents and/or editors to submit to, based on the writer's interests and style of work. If not, the consultant will provide revision suggestions and guidance on how to get the manuscript ready for submission. Submitting Non-Fiction Book Proposals~$550
For those who have formulated a book proposal (30-70 pages) including an overview, market analysis, publicity section, author bio, chapter outlines, sample chapters, clips, etc. Consultation provides help with the following: refining, developing, and editing all of the above; honing the market analysis and positioning; choosing most effective sample material; polishing the submission package, and advice on approaching agents. Applying for Awards, Fellowships, Conferences, and Retreats~$400
Writer receives full consultation on a 20-25 page story or poetry series to be submitted for awards, fellowships, conferences, or retreats. Includes a 45-minute discussion of the work and tailored suggestions for submitting the strongest application possible. - Plan, stay on task, and be savvy...
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Personal Writing "Coaching"
Ongoing planning, deadline-setting, reading and consulting as desired.
Intensive Line-Editing
Sentence- and paragraph- level suggestions for the narrative, which may include specific advice on dialogue, tone, diction, description, voice, pace, etc.
Author Research Assistance
Experienced librarian providing tailored research support in historic, biographic, geographic, etc. background for content and character development, fact checking, article retrieval and any additional research assistance requested.
Career Planning for Writers
Planning, strategizing, and advising to reach your long-term writing goals.
Self-Publishing Guidance
For those considering or embarking on self-publishing. Consultant will help you navigate through the many available options to result in the best-written, best self-published book possible.
Author Website Production
Guidance and feedback on issues such as:
- What kind of content should you put on your author site?
- Identifying a clear agenda for your site.
- Creating a strong persona on the site to project that agenda.
- Organizing an author site for intuitive navigation, basic legibility, and visual interest.
- Pros and cons of static vs. dynamic sites.
- Overview of website creation methods, from doing it yourself to hiring a designer.
- What fellow writers are saying...
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"The unique one-on-one consultant experience that Grub Street offers has helped my writing and thought process more than just about anything else."
--Kelly Shaw "Christina McCarroll's critiques always show that she is a close reader and an insightful critic, but the also express her enthusiasm and her willingness to enter the piece of writing and respond to it personally as well. You would need an additional superlative column to adequately gauge my appreciation of her performance. She does her work to facilitate our group in the most comfortable way, while respectfully challenging us to make it better. Couldn't ask for more, except maybe a 28 hour day."
--John Giangregorio "Constructive advice from a professional, Beth Glass, who has been through the process and actually been published."
--Ann Falcone - It's so very easy...
- 1.) Fill out the form below. 2.) Wait to hear from us! Within three days you'll receive an e-mail from Grub Street with price quote and any other necessary information. 3.) Pay for your consultation with a Visa or Mastercard through this secure webpage! 4.) Sit back and enjoy your consultation. You'll get an email from your consultant to introduce him or herself, and to arrange a timeline for the work. If you'd like to keep working with that person after the consultation is over, simply contact rowan@grubstreet.org.
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Find your perfect match! The following consultants are available.
Kim Adrian
Click Here to Read Bio:- Kim Adrian's short stories, essays, and memoir excerpts have appeared in Tin House, Gettysburg Review, Agni, Raritan, Crazyhorse, New England Review, /nor, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a P.E.N. New England Discovery Award, an Artist's Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Editor's Prize in Nonfiction from the New Ohio Review, as well as residencies at the Edward Albee Barn, Ragdale, and the VCCA. She teaches creative writing at Grub Street, reads nonfiction for Agni magazine, and serves on the admissions board for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her essay, "Questionnaire for My Grandfather" will appear in the upcoming anthology YOU: Essays in the Second Person (Welcome Table Press, 2012). Currently, she is at work on a book-length memoir. More at kimadrian.com. Kim is the founder of Thumbtack, a website production company for authors.
Thematic Interests: I admire work that has a strong sense of authority and a playful, experimental, or in any other way intriguing approach to story-telling in either fictional or non-fictional modes. Subject matter is less important to me than earnest engagement with the subject at hand, whatever it may be. In my own writing and in everything I consult on, I seek to cultivate a lively, authentic voice and an organic structure.
Ian Bassingthwaighte
Click Here to Read Bio:- Ian Bassingthwaighte's fiction and non-fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Esquire, Guernica, Glimpse/National Geographic, Tin House online, and more. He holds a degree from the University of Montana and was a Fulbright fellow in fiction to Egypt, where he researched and wrote his first novel, entitled Night Owls Eat Early Birds. It was recently picked up for representation by the Renée Zuckerbrot Literary Agency along with Beware of Loons, his short story collection. During his time in Egypt he was also a Glimpse/National Geographic writing correspondent and was a finalist for the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative. He's been a reader for McSweeney's and an editor for Opium. He's also been hit by a car, been chased by both an elephant and a swan, and had a jellyfish stuck to his face. You can learn more about him online at www.flimsywhipped.com.
Thematic Interests: Literary or commercial fiction with a strong, unique voice; foreign settings; travel; bold and/or quirky characters; stories told from multiple points of view; stories driven by plot and character; drama driven by comedy; balancing action, description, and dialogue.
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
Click Here to Read Bio:- Jasmine Beach-Ferrara taught at Grub Street while she lived in Boston and is thrilled to continue her work as a consultant now that she's living in Asheville, North Carolina. Jasmine received an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a MDiv from Harvard Divinity School. Her first collection of stories is forthcoming in 2013 and she was awarded a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review and other publications. Her writing about politics has appeared in The Democratic Strategist. Jasmine's day job is as the Executive Director of the Campaign for Southern Equality, which promotes LGBT rights in the South.
Thematic Interests: Character-driven fiction, the South, LGBT issues, essays related to political issues and commentary.
Christopher Boginski
Click Here to Read Bio:- Christopher Boginski is a graduate from the MFA program at the University of Washington, where he taught creative writing and English as a second language and where he was a research assistant for David Shields. He lives in Jamaica Plain and is in the process of finalizing his first novel, The Etymologist, the story of a man reinventing himself during his impending divorce and deep fear of losing the one thing he still loves, teaching. He is also working on a collection of personal essays, What it Means to be Known, exploring memory loss and identity. To learn more, visit cjboginski.com and click on “Creative Writing.”
Thematic Interests: None specified
Jami Brandli
Click Here to Read Bio:- Jami Brandli is an award-winning playwright who has had productions across the country. She was a Visiting Artist at the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive, a contributing writer for the Elliot Norton Award-Winning production of PS: Page Me Later, a Finalist for the Disney ABC's TV Writing Fellowship, and a Visiting Playwright for the 2009 ATHE Conference. She also has short plays published with Smith & Kraus. Her play, Technicolor Life, was awarded the 2010 John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award and developed at the 2010 WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab. In addition to being a winning play at the 2010 Ashland New Plays Festival, Technicolor Life was also a finalist for the 2010 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, the 2010/2011 Global Age Project New Works Program at The Aurora Theatre and the 2011 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her play, The Sinker, was nominated for a 2010 Kevin Kline award for “Outstanding New Play,” which world premiered at HotCity Theatre, St. Louis. She is a contributing playwright for Loyola Marymount University’s production of “Hidden Heroes: Service to the World,” and her latest play, BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!), was recently presented as a MainStage selection for the 2012 Great Plains Theatre Conference. Jami lives in Pasadena, CA where she’s at work on scripts for both stage and screen and a novel. For her day job, she teaches dramatic writing at Lesley University’s low-residency MFA program in Boston. She is also a Respondent for The Kennedy Center's National Playwriting Program, Region 8. For more information, visit www.jamibrandli.com.
Thematic Interests: Character-driven pieces-- drama or comedy or dramedy, modern day and historical pieces, indie as well as stories with a smart, high concept.
Darla Bruno
Click Here to Read Bio:- Darla Bruno studied methods of critique, literary form, and fiction writing at Emerson College in Boston, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She’s a former college instructor, tutor, and writing mentor who won several awards for her work in journalism, poetry, and essays. She’s read fiction for Ploughshares, where she was also an editorial assistant, actively participated in local writers’ groups, and published her poetry, fiction, and travel writing in a variety of literary magazines and online. An avid reader with a love for both contemporary and classic literature, Darla brings an informed perspective, as well as creative enthusiasm to her work. Learn more at darlabruno.com.
Thematic Interests: Self-help, bloggers, health, literary, women's, chick lit, memoir.
Steve Brykman
Click Here to Read Bio:- Steve Brykman left medical school in '93 to write fart jokes as Managing Editor of National Lampoon. Since then, his work has appeared in Playboy, Cracked, Nerve, Boston Magazine, and The New Yorker, where he was featured in Talk of the Town. He has written for and/or appeared on Prairie Home Companion, Huffington Post, Comedy Central, G4TV, and the Food Network and has performed standup and improv comedy in clubs all across the country. His writing has recently been featured in Awake: a Reader for the Sleepless. As a writing fellow at UMass, Amherst, his fiction was awarded the Harvey Swados prize. He has been thrown out of both the 2000 Democratic National Convention and the Smithsonian Museum and has on more than one occasion performed standup comedy naked.
Thematic Interests: Humor writing.
Chip Cheek
Click Here to Read Bio:- Chip Cheek's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Harvard Review, Washington Square, Night Train, Quick Fiction, and Minnetonka Review, among other publications. His stories also appear in the current edition of the textbook What If: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter (Longman, 2009), and Brevity and Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories (Rose Metal Press, 2006). He is the recipient of a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for 2011, as well as scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop. He is currently at work on a novel.
Thematic Interests: Character-driven fiction of any subject or style, with a special affinity for historical or research-based fiction.
Suzanne Cope
Click Here to Read Bio:- Suzanne Cope is an author and writing professor living in the Boston area. She earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and a Ph.D. in Adult Learning with a specialization in creative writing pedagogy, both from Lesley University. Recent publications on local and sustainable food, family, travel, and pop culture can be found in Edible Boston, New Plains Review, & Flashquake. Suzanne's memoir, Locavore in the City, will be published by Michigan State University Press in 2013. Please visit suzannecope.com and locavoreinthecity.com for more information.
Thematic Interests: None specified.
John Cotter
Click Here to Read Bio:- John Cotter's first novel, Under the Small Lights, was published in the summer of 2010 by Miami University Press. He is a founding editor of the online arts magazine Open Letters Monthly and has published short fiction in Hanging Loose, Lifted Brow, Lost, and genre fiction in New Genre (forthcoming) and Lifted Brow.
Thematic Interests: The Northeast, coming-of-age fiction, historical fiction, literary and lyrical work.
Jennifer De Leon
Click Here to Read Bio:- Jennifer De Leon is the winner of the 2011 Fourth Genre Michael Steinberg Essay Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Brevity, Ms., Briar Cliff Review, Poets & Writers, Guernica, The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010, and elsewhere. She has published author interviews in Granta and Agni, and she has been awarded scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Blue Mountain Center, and the Sandra Cisneros Macondo Writers’ Workshop. The editor of the anthology, Wise Latina: Writers on Higher Education (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), she is also working on a memoir and a novel.
Thematic Interests: Cross-cultural, international, family, feminism, travel, literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Cheryl Eagan-Donovan
Click Here to Read Bio:- Cheryl Eagan-Donovan is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She studied writing and literature at Goddard College, has a BS from Boston University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She has published poetry and articles about Shakespeare, screenwriting, and film. She teaches screenwriting at BU’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts and at Northeastern University. Her new film, Nothing is Truer than Truth, is based on the book Shakespeare By Another Name. Cheryl is a lecturer at Shakespeare conferences around the country. Her new ten-minute play, Ve-Ri-Tas, had its first staged reading at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in January. Her debut documentary, All Kindsa Girls, screened at art house theaters and film festivals in London, Toronto, and throughout the US, is featured in Paul Sherman’s book Big Screen Boston, and was short-listed for the PBS series POV. The film’s theatrical screenings included the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, and the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Boston. She served as President of Women in Film & Video/New England for several years, and was the 2012 Judge for the WIFVNE Annual Screenwriting Competition. She also served as a panelist for the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 2012 Play/Screenwriting Fellowship. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Next Door Theater in Winchester, Massachusetts.
Thematic Interests: None specified
Kate Flora
Click Here to Read Bio:- Attorney Kate Flora’s eleven books include seven series mysteries, two gritty police procedurals, a suspense thriller and a true crime. Finding Amy was a 2007 Edgar nominee and has been filmed for TV. Her current projects include Death Dealer, a true crime involving a Canadian serial killer, a screenplay, and a novel in linked stories. Flora’s short stories and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. She spent seven years as editor and publisher at Level Best Books. Flora is former international president of Sisters in Crime, and a founding member of the New England Crime Bake conference. She has taught writing at Brown, the Cape Cod Writers Conference, for the Maine Writers and Publishers Association, and at many national conferences. She teaches writing for Grub Street in Boston. Her third police procedural, Redemption, will be published in February.
Thematic Interests: Mystery, suspense, true crime.
Lana Fox
Click Here to Read Bio:- Lana Fox became a sex writer when she realized she couldn't shut up about the subject. As well as publishing in both literary and commercial magazines, Lana has been an online sex columnist for both Boston Magazine and the Nervous Breakdown, and her short stories appear in a variety of anthologies, including Best Women's Erotica 2011 and Best Bondage Erotica 2012. She is represented by the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency in New York and can be found online at www.lanafox.com.
Thematic Interests: Erotica, romance, sex scenes, and sex nonfiction (including nonfiction book proposals).
Ethan Gilsdorf
Click Here to Read Bio:- A journalist, memoirist, critic, poet, teacher and geek, Ethan Gilsdorf is the author of the award-winning travel memoir investigation Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms. Based in Somerville, Massachusetts, he publishes travel, arts, and pop culture stories, essays and reviews regularly in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Salon.com, wired.com and Christian Science Monitor, and has published hundreds of articles in dozens of other magazines, newspapers, websites and guidebooks worldwide, including Playboy, National Geographic Traveler, Psychology Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today Washington Post and Fodor's travel guides. He is a book and film critic for the Boston Globe, former bicycling culture columnist for the Boston Globe, and is the film columnist for Art New England. He is a core contributor to the blog "GeekDad" at wired.com and his blog "Geek Pride" is seen regularly on PsychologyToday.com. He also writes for blogs at Boston.com's Globetrotting; Tor.com; ForcesofGeek.com, and TheOneRing.net. As a poet, he is the winner of the Hobblestock Peace Poetry Competition and the Esme Bradberry Contemporary Poets Prize, and has published poems in Poetry, The Southern Review, The North American Review, Exquisite Corpse and several anthologies. He is co-founder of Grub Street's Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP), volunteers as a guest speaker in the Boston Public Schools and teaches creative writing workshops at Grub Street, Emerson College, Media Bistro and, for younger students, in schools and community centers. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Grub Street. Follow Ethan’s adventures at www.ethangilsdorf.com.
Thematic Interests: Travel, pop culture, family/medical trauma, childhood, adolescence, food, personal narrative.
Beth Raisner Glass
Click Here to Read Bio:- Beth Raisner Glass is a children's book author, newspaper writer and teacher. She has taught in the Massachusetts public school system, and was Associate Professor of Education at Wellesley College. Her first picture book, Noises at Night, was published to wide acclaim and was featured on the Today Show's "Best Books for Children" segment. Her next picture book, Blue Ribbon Dad, was published in 2010. Her middle grade novel, A Date for Honey Moone is currently under consideration. She received her Bachelors in Education from Lesley College, and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Lesley University. You can follow her online on her website www.bethglass.com and on Facebook.
Thematic Interests: Writing for Children through Young Adult: All themes, genres and subject matter welcome. Fiction, non-fiction, historical fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, picture books, chapter books, middle grade, young adult and child memoir.
Lynne Griffin
Click Here to Read Bio:- Lynne Griffin is the author of the novels Sea Escape (Simon & Schuster) and Life Without Summer (St. Martin’s Press), and the nonfiction parenting guide, Negotiation Generation (Penguin). In addition to teaching at Grub Street, Lynne teaches in the graduate program of family studies at Wheelock College. She is the family life contributor for Boston’s Fox Morning News and writes for The Writer magazine, Parenting magazine, and Psychology Today. For more about Lynne’s work, visit her website, www.LynneGriffin.com or her blog, Field Guide to Families.
Thematic Interests: Upmarket fiction, memoir, young adult, family and relationships, mental health, medical trauma, childhood, adolescence.
Debbie Hagan
Click Here to Read Bio:- Debbie Hagan is book reviews editor for Brevity literary magazine. She is the former editor-in-chief of Art New England and managing editor of New England Home. She has taught creative writing at New Hampshire Institute of Art and other schools. A writer for more than thirty years, Hagan has written for Boston Globe Magazine, American Style, Robb Report, and many other publications. Holding an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College, Hagan wrote the narrative nonfiction book Against the Tide (Hamilton Books, 2004). She has assisted dozens of writers in editing and shaping their books and manuscripts.
Thematic Interests: Art, home decor, travel, food, social justice, mental health, and legal issues.
Amy Hoffman
Click Here to Read Bio:- Amy Hoffman’s memoir, An Army of Ex-Lovers, about the Boston weekly Gay Community News and the lesbian and gay movement of the late 1970s, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in November 2007. It was a finalist for the Lambda Book Award and the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn award. Her AIDS memoir, Hospital Time (Duke University Press,1997), was short-listed for the American Library Association Gay Book Award and the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award. Hoffman is editor of Women’s Review of Books and teaches in the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program at Pine Manor College. She has been an editor at Gay Community News, South End Press, and the Unitarian Universalist World magazine. She taught writing and literature at the University of Massachusetts and Emerson College and served as development director for the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and the Women’s Lunch Place, a daytime shelter for homeless women. Hoffman has a BA in English from Brandeis University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Learn more at www.amyhoffman.net.
Thematic Interests: I’m particularly interested in work that has political, feminist, and LGBT themes; and as the editor of a book review publication, I’m experienced in editing reviews and well-informed about publishing industry trends and quirks.
Michelle Hoover
Click Here to Read Bio:- Michelle Hoover is a full-time instructor at Boston University and teaches many novel courses at Grub Street, including Grub's intensive year-long novel program, the Novel Incubator. She was a finalist for the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Essay Prize and has published short stories and novel excerpts in numerous journals, including Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, StoryQuarterly and Confrontation, StoryQuarterly. She has been the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell, a MacDowell Fellow, and in 2005 the winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published in Best New American Voices. Her debut novel, The Quickening, was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, was a Finalist for the Indies Choice Debut of 2010 and Forward Magazine's Best Literary Book of 2010, and is a 2010 Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" pick. For more, go to www.michelle-hoover.com.
Thematic Interests: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Horror/Suspense, Travel Writing, Personal Essay/Creative Nonfiction/Memoir. I've worked with and enjoy all themes, though rural stories, or stories of big landscapes and strong voices, stories where characters might get a little muddy, are often my favorite. Still, the quick-witted urbanite with philosophical leanings can trip my trigger too. It's all about the writing for me.
Alden Jones
Click Here to Read Bio:- Alden Jones holds degrees in literature and creative writing from Brown University, New York University and the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has received numerous awards for her work, including fellowships from NYU and the Summer Literary Seminars, a Bread Loaf Scholarship in Nonfiction, and artists' grants/residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Julia and David White Artists' Colony in Costa Rica. Her short stories and travel essays have appeared in journals and anthologies including AGNI, Time Out New York, Post Road, the Barcelona Review, the Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, The Smart Set, Gulf Coast, and the Best American Travel Writing. Alden has traveled widely, including as a Visiting Professor of English on Semester at Sea and three summers teaching creative writing in Cuba, and her photographs often accompany her travel writing. Her travel memoir, The Blind Masseuse: A Memoir of Exoticism, is forthcoming from Terrace Books/The University of Wisconsin Press. She is on the faculty of Writing, Literature and Publishing and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College.
Thematic Interests: Literary travel writing, literary fiction, memoir, fiction with travel themes, exoticism, GLBT literature, alternative forms of prose. As an editor, I am interested in helping writers find the tightest structure for their short-form work and addressing ways to tell story through scene.
Jessica Keener
Click Here to Read Bio:- Jessica’s debut novel, Night Swim, (Jan. 2012) was hailed by The Boston Globe as "thrilling and "exhilarating" and The New York Times as "earnest" and "moving." Her short fiction has been listed in The Pushcart Prize under “Outstanding Writers.” Her stories, novel excerpts and essays have appeared in scores of literary magazines and online, most recently: Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, The Nervous Breakdown, Night Train, Eclectica, Wilderness House Literary Review, Design New England and The Huffington Post. Writing awards include: a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Grant Program, a Joan Jakobson Scholarship from Wesleyan Writers Conference; a Chekhov Prize for Excellence in Fiction by the editors of Wilderness House Literary Review; and second prize in Redbook magazine’s fiction contest. For more than a dozen years she has been a features writer for The Boston Globe, Design New England, O, The Oprah Magazine and other national magazines. She is the co-author of the successful memoir, Time to Make the Donuts, the definitive story of Dunkin' Donuts’ founder William Rosenberg’s extraordinary life, which she sold on proposal. She has taught writing at Boston University, Brown University, and U. of Miami, FL and has been reading and selecting fiction for award-winning Agni magazine since 2007. For additional links and details, explore her website: www.jessicakeener.com and her blog: Confessions of A Hermit Crab.
Thematic Interests: Literary fiction, relationship and emotion-centered issues; lifestyle subjects including health, people profiles, education, business, travel, home design, family, spirituality, music, aging.
Judah Leblang
Click Here to Read Bio:- Judah Leblang is a Boston-based writer, teacher and storyteller. His radio essays have appeared on 160 NPR and ABC-network stations around the US, and on several college and community radio stations. His column, "Life in the Slow Lane," appears regularly in Bay Windows, a Boston-area newspaper. His memoir, "Finding My Place: One Man's Journey from Cleveland to Boston and Beyond," was published in December 2009.
Thematic Interests: Identity, sense of place, writing about the Midwest/regional writing, sports writing, gay and lesbian topics, coming of age, Jewish identity and culture. Performance pieces (i.e. spoken word and developing a one-person show), consulting on self-publishing.
Ron MacLean
Click Here to Read Bio:- Ron MacLean is author of the story collection Why the Long Face? (2008) and the novel Blue Winnetka Skies (2004). His fiction has appeared in GQ, Greensboro Review, Prism International, Night Train, Other Voices and other quarterlies. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction and a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee. He holds a Doctor of Arts from the University at Albany, SUNY, and has been a proud part of team Grub since 2004.
Thematic Interests: Literary, mystery, and particularly experimental fictions, loosely defined.
Nick Mamatas
Click Here to Read Bio:- Nick Mamatas is the author of three-and-a-half novels—- Move Under Ground, Under My Roof, Sensation, and with Brian Keene The Damned Highway—- and over eighty short stories. He formerly edited the magazine Clarkesworld, and edited the acclaimed anthology Haunted Legends with Ellen Datlow. Currently, he edits Haikasoru, an imprint dedicated to Japanese science fiction and fantasy in translation. His fiction and editorial work in the field of science fiction and fantasy has been nominated for the Hugo award twice, the World Fantasy award, the Shirley Jackson award, the International Horror Guild award, and the Bram Stoker award four times, winning once. Nick's non-fiction essays and reportage have been published in The Smart Set, The Writer, Poets & Writers, Village Voice, The New Humanist, H+, In These Times, and many other magazines and anthologies.
Thematic Interests: Science fiction, fantasy, horror, experimental ficion, literary journalism, "indie" films and comics, erotica, crime fiction.
Michael Marano
Click Here to Read Bio:- Michael Marano is a literary horror and dark science fiction writer, with stories in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11 and Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories from the Edge; his first novel Dawn Song won the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards. He is the former Fiction Editor of the award-winning dark fiction magazine Chiaroscuro and in that capacity has worked one-on-one with authors in the development of their short fiction, some of which have been selected for "Year's Best" anthologies. Stories From the Plague Years, a collection of Marano's new and reprinted short fiction, was published to great acclaim by Cemetery Dance Publications, and was named one of the Top 10 Horror Publications of 2011 by Booklist. Since 1990, he has also been reviewing movies and doing pop culture commentary for the Public Radio Satellite System program Movie Magazine International, syndicated in more than 111 markets in the US and Canada. Mike is a former Writing instructor in the SUNY system, and his non-fiction has appeared in venues like The Boston Phoenix, The Weekly Dig, SuicideGirls, The Independent Weekly, Paste Magazine, and Science Fiction Universe.
Thematic Interests: Genre fiction that has literary heft and/or that attempts to break genre conventions. Literary fiction that is character-motivated but also plot-driven. The application of techniques from playwriting and screenwriting to prose fiction.
Amy Marcott
Click Here to Read Bio:- Amy Marcott has published fiction in Necessary Fiction, Salt Hill, DIAGRAM, Dogwood, Memorious, Juked, and elsewhere. She has earned fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Somerville Arts Council as well as a scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won third place in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest, among other honors. She received a BA in English from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Penn State University, where she also taught creative writing and composition. She's currently the director of multimedia communications for MIT's Alumni Association, where she's an active blogger and social media marketer and assists with incorporating new technologies into online strategies. She belongs to the Writers' Room of Boston and is at work on a novel.
Thematic Interests: Literary fiction, family dynamics, relationships, pop culture, travel, mental health, psychology, and experimental forms.
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Click Here to Read Bio:- Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is writing a book of combined family memoir and literary journalism about a Louisiana murder, in support of which she has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation, as well as a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She earned her MFA at Emerson College and her JD at Harvard Law School. Her essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly Online, Bellingham Review (as the winner of the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction), and elsewhere, and her fiction appears in Southeast Review and Minnetonka Review. She teaches creative writing at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA, and at Grub Street. Visit her online at www.alexandria-marzano-lesnevich.com.
Thematic Interests: Memoir, Family, Childhood, Trauma, Legal Narratives, Personal Narratives.
Tara L. Masih
Click Here to Read Bio:- Tara L. Masih is author of Where the Dog Star Never Glows: Stories (a National Best Books Award finalist), and is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (a ForeWord Book of the Year) and The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (a Skipping Stones Honor Book). She has published fiction, poetry, and essays in numerous anthologies and literary magazines (such as Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, New Millennium Writings, The Los Angeles Review, Night Train, and The Caribbean Writer), and her essays have been reprinted in college textbooks and read on NPR. Awards for her work include first place in The Ledge Magazine’s fiction contest, a finalist fiction grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and Best of the Web nominations. She judges the intercultural essay prize for the annual Soul-Making Keats Literary Contest, and has taught flash at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and at Grub Street. She received her MA in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College, and now works as a freelance book editor. For more information, visit www.taramasih.com.
Thematic Interests: I'm interested in all genres, but for horror and graphic violence. However, my main contacts are in the area of literary publishing. I'm trained at every level, from development to editing, proofreading, and production. I have experience with submitting proposals to journals, agents, and publishers, and I teach courses on the subject because I love passing on what I've learned in the trenches.
Jennifer Mattson
Click Here to Read Bio:- Jennifer Mattson is a former producer for NPR's nationally syndicated program "The Connection" and worked as an editor for National Public Radio. She spent over six years as a producer for CNN, where she was responsible for CNN's daily live newscasts and producing CNN's international coverage. Jennifer came to CNN to work in the Washington bureau's political unit during the 1996 U.S. presidential election. She later moved to Atlanta, where she worked first as a writer and then as a newscast producer at CNN International. Prior to joining CNN, Jennifer worked as a reporter based in Budapest, Hungary covering Eastern Europe, where she reported on a number of regional stories for USA TODAY including a piece on George Soros and the Clinton-Yeltsin CSCE Summit. She has also reported, most recently, from Asia. Her work has appeared in TheAtlantic.com, USA TODAY, The Boston Globe, The Women's Review of Books, AsianCorrespondent.com, Tablettalk.com and CNN.com. She is the former Managing Editor of AsiaSociety.org. Follow her on Twitter at @jennifermattson
Thematic Interests: Memoir, essay, radio reported pieces, spirituality, travel, fiction, radio storytelling, nonfiction, commentary and opinion.
Thomas McNeely
Click Here to Read Bio:- Thomas McNeely has taught fiction writing at Stanford University, Emerson College, and many other institutions, including the early Grub Street Writers Workshops. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, and other publications, and has been anthologized in The Best of the South and What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. A recipient of a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and many other awards, he lives with his wife and daughter in Cambridge.
Thematic Interests: I am interested in working with writers who are attentive to language and character, who are serious about the craft of writing, and who are willing to work hard to improve their work. That said, I am also interested in students at all levels-- beginning to advanced. I appreciate work that has something to say, and says it vividly, from coming-of-age stories to philosophical novels. No genre fiction, please.
Nicole Miller
Click Here to Read Bio:- Nicole Miller has published both fiction and non-fiction in the US and the UK, with two appearances in the May Anthology of Short Stories, edited by Jill Paton Walsh and Sebastian Faulks. After completing an M.Phil in English Literature at Oxford, she worked at The New Yorker and The Oxford English Dictionary, where she still serves as a scholarly reader for the department of etymology, with a specialty in British Dialects. At Emerson College, she held the Emerson Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing for three years, gaining her MFA in 2012. She was also awarded a PhD in Victorian Literature from University College, London in 2012 and publishes criticism on the works of Charles Dickens. She has taught in the Harvard College Writing Center since 2010 and edits faculty manuscripts for Harvard’s English Department. Her interests span the novel, short story, essay, and memoir form and the translation of Modern Greek poetry. Nicole is thrilled to share her love of words, literature, story-writing, and life-writing with the students of Grub Street this winter.
Thematic Interests: I am happy to consult on any form of literary fiction, creative non-fiction, and writing about literature. My particular interests are dramatic novels and long stories which relish style, language, setting, and deep character, coming-of-age narratives, family-based memoir, travel memoir, writing about illness, and historical biography. I have broad experience in editing non-fiction books and articles for publication, and can help writers choose, edit and prepare creative writing samples for MFA applications, fellowships and grants.
Wendy Mnookin
Click Here to Read Bio:- Wendy Mnookin's fourth book of poems, The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, was published by BOA Editions in 2008. Her previous collection, What He Took, won the book prize from the New England Poetry Club. She is also the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches a poetry workshop at Emerson College and has taught courses and workshops for children and adults throughout the Boston area. She received her BA from Radcliffe College and her MFA in Writing from Vermont College. You can find out more at www.wendymnookin.com.
Thematic Interests: Family; coping with loss; struggles with addiction; how to translate personal history into poetry; arrangement of poems in a manuscript.
Nina Louise Morrison
Click Here to Read Bio:- Nina Louise Morrison is a playwright, actor, director and dramaturg. Her plays include Mad Props, House Rules, The Red Plague, Constitution and Three Patriotic Acts. She is a Richard Rodgers Fellow, a Shubert Foundation grantee, and an affiliated artist with Free Hands Theatre Company, Boston Bohemia, Playwrights Commons' Freedom Art Retreat and Company One’s Playground. Before moving to Boston, Nina was the Senior Program Associate at the Philadelphia Theater Initiative. Training: MFA Columbia University, the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the New Actors Workshop, and Oberlin College. More info at ninalouisemorrison.wordpress.com.
Thematic Interests: I'm interested in consulting on 10 Minute, One Act and Full Length plays of all genres including comedy, tragedy, historical fiction, one-person shows, musical theatre book writing and everything in between.
Kathleen Willis Morton
Click Here to Read Bio:- Kathleen Willis Morton holds an MFA in Creative Writing. Her first book, The Blue Poppy and the Mustard Seed, was published by Wisdom Publications. She has been published in Shambhala Sun Magazine, Hip Mama Magazine, and the anthology, Best Buddhist Writing 2009 published by Shambhala/Random House Publications. She can be reached at www.thebluepoppyandthemustardseed.com.
Thematic Interests: Narrative and subject-focused nonfiction, spirituality, food, travel, literary fiction, poetry, memoir.
Lesléa Newman
Click Here to Read Bio:- Lesléa Newman is the author of 62 books for adults and children including the novel, The Reluctant Daughter, the short story collection, A Letter to Harvey Milk, the poetry collection, Nobody's Mother, the young adult novel Jailbait, the middle-grade novel, Hachiko Waits, the children's book, Heather Has Two Mommies, and the writing guide, Write From the Heart. Her literary awards include creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, a James Baldwin award in cultural achievement, a Parents' Choice Silver Medal, and four Pushcart Prize nominations. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award finalists. From 2008-2010, she served as the poet laureate of Northampton, MA. Her latest poetry collection, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard is forthcoming. Visit www.lesleanewman.com for more information.
Thematic Interests: GLBT literature, Jewish literature, feminist literature, literature with strong female protagonists, historical fiction, humor, formal and free verse poetry, cross-genre (a novel told in verse, for example), children's books for alternative families.
Celeste Ng
Click Here to Read Bio:- Celeste Ng’s debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, is forthcoming from Penguin Press. Her stories and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, the Bellevue Literary Review, The Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she has been awarded the Pushcart Prize, the Hopwood Award, and a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan and is a blogger for the Huffington Post, as well as editor-at-large for the writing website Fiction Writers Review. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is currently at work on a second novel and a collection of short stories.
Thematic Interests: I'm especially drawn to family stories, coming-of-age fiction, cross-cultural stories, and character-driven fiction. As a trained copyeditor and proofreader, I'm available to help sharpen language and develop your style in addition to dealing with character, plot, and structural concerns.
Ogi Ogas
Click Here to Read Bio:- Dr. Ogi Ogas received his PhD in computational neuroscience from Boston University and was a Department of Homeland Security Fellow. His writing has been published in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Wired, and Seed Magazine. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker called his first nonfiction book, A Billion Wicked Thoughts, "a goldmine." His next book, A Billion Angry Brains, (Dutton, 2013) explores the misunderstood emotion of anger. He's presently collaborating with the president of the American Psychiatric Association on a popular book about contemporary psychiatry. He writes the Billion Wicked Thoughts blog for Psychology Today. He also used his knowledge of cognition to reach the million dollar question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and battle Ken Jennings in the finals of Grand Slam. For more information on Ogi, visit www.billionwickedthoughts.com.
Thematic Interests: Psychology, social sciences, medicine, health, policy, politics.
Catherine Parnell
Click Here to Read Bio:- Catherine Parnell is the author of the memoir The Kingdom of His Will (Arrowsmith Press, 2007), and her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Post Road, The Baltimore Review, slush pile, roger, Dos Passos Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Stone’s Throw Magazine, and Consequence Magazine, among others. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous newspapers and newsletters. She’s the fiction editor for Salamander and an associate editor for Consequence Magazine. She received her BA from Boston University and her MFA from Bennington College. She teaches writing and literature at Suffolk University, and she recently completed a collection of short stories and is working on a novella.
Thematic Interests: None specified.
KL Pereira
Click Here to Read Bio:- KL Pereira is a teaching artist who lives mostly in her head; she's interested in the creaky, creepy underbelly of life and whatever lies beyond. She holds a BA in Literature and Languages from Bard College, an MA in Gender/Cultural Studies from Simmons College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Mythic Deliruim, Jabberwocky, The Medulla Review, Bitch Magazine, Clamor Magazine, and other fine magazines, anthologies, chapbooks, and journals. You can read her column: Slaying Genre: A Monthly Column on Horror, Noir, Fantasy, and the Other Red-Headed Step-Children of the Literary World here. Pereira publishes erotic horror under a different name and is currently working on a collection of flash fiction fairy tales, a mytho-punk noir, and some zombie apocalyptica. For more information, visit www.darknesslovescompany.com.
Thematic Interests: All forms of speculative fiction (including horror and other genre fiction), literary fiction, Cross-Genre/Experimental writing (or any writing that plays with form), fiction and nonfiction that is concerned with popular culture (particularly music, television, and film).
Kate Racculia
Click Here to Read Bio:- Kate Racculia is a writer and researcher living in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her first novel, This Must Be the Place, was published by Henry Holt & Company in 2010 and named a Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her second novel, Bellweather Rhapsody, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2014. You can find her online at www.kateracculia.com.
Thematic Interests: Character-based, imaginative fiction; dialogue and description; visual and performing arts, pop culture, camp and kitsch; revision technique. I love stories about outsiders, weirdos and dreamers, rendered vividly through close attention to language, details and style.
Rebecca Givens Rolland
Click Here to Read Bio:- Rebecca Givens Rolland is the author of The Wreck of Birds (Bauhan Publishing, 2012), which won the 2011 May Sarton New Hampshire First Book Prize and has just been published in conjunction with the May Sarton Centennial Symposium, as well as the chapbook On the Refusal to Speak (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). She has recently been named the winner of the 2011 Dana Award in Short Fiction. The recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, the Clapp Fellowship from Yale University, and an Academy of American Poets Prize, she has work upcoming in The Kenyon Review and has been published in journals including the Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Witness, and the Cincinnati Review. Currently she is a doctoral student at Harvard.
Thematic Interests: Poetic series, poetry in translation, philosophic poetry, prose poems.
Kathleen Rooney
Click Here to Read Bio:- Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of the critical study Reading With Oprah: the Book Club that Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005; paperback 2008), the memoir Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (University of Arkansas, 2009), and the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (fCounterpoint in 2010). Her poetry collection Oneiromance (an epithalamion) won the 2007 Gatewood Prize from Switchback Books, and her collaborative collection That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (co-written with Elisa Gabbert) came out with Otoliths in 2008. Learn more at www.kathleenrooney.com.
Thematic Interests: Feminism, pop culture, personal essays, hybrid and cross-genre projects.
Aviv Rubinstien
Click Here to Read Bio:- Aviv Rubinstien is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter. He has worked in Narrative, Experimenta, Documentary film and Music Video. He has an MFA from Boston University and has taught at the BU Academy of Media Production since 2007. Aviv also guest lectures at the university of Rhode Island.
Thematic Interests: Screenwriting for features, shorts, and television. I can also consult on film production for writers looking to actually make their screenplays.
Trish Ryan
Click Here to Read Bio:- Trish Ryan is the author of two memoirs, A Maze of Grace: A Memoir of Second Chances (Hachette 2010) and He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: A Memoir of Finding Faith, Hope, and Happily Ever After (Hachette 2008). This fall she will be an Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artist at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. Trish lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband Steve and their genetically improbable mixed-breed dog. You can visit Trish online at www.trishryanonline.com.
Thematic Interests: I love working on stories about relationships, family, and personal transformation.
Shuchi Saraswat
Click Here to Read Bio:- Shuchi Saraswat received her MFA from Emerson College, where she primarily worked on a novel. She is the recipient of The 2012 Gulliver Travel Research Grant from The Speculative Literature Foundation and has received fellowships to Writers Omi at Ledig House and The Writers' Room of Boston and scholarships to Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. While at Emerson, Shuchi served as the nonfiction editor and then the fiction editor at Fringe Magazine, and worked as an editorial assistant in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's adult trade division. She currently helps manage the fiction section and hosts author readings at Brookline Booksmith.
Thematic Interests: International fiction and nonfiction, travel writing, nature writing, family memoir, literary fiction, magical realism fiction, historical fiction, linked stories, novellas.
Mike Scalise
Click Here to Read Bio:- Mike Scalise's articles and essays have appeared in Agni, Post Road, Ninth Letter, HTMLGiant, The Rumpus and a number of other magazines and websites. He's received fellowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Corporation of Yaddo, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. He updates infrequently at www.mikescalise.net.
Thematic Interests: Memoir, essays, humor, illness, popular culture, first person reportage, dispatches, and profiles.
Katrin Schumann
Click Here to Read Bio:- Katrin Schumann is the co-author of The Secret Power of Middle Children and Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too. She has been featured on the TODAY show, Talk of the Nation and in The Times, as well as other newspapers, magazines and radio, nationally and internationally. Schumann’s latest projects include a historical novel set in the Baltic, various non-fiction books in development, and on-going editorial work for editors, agents and writers. For the past ten years she has been teaching fiction and non-fiction, most recently at a local women’s prison, and running parenting focus groups and surveys. Before going freelance, she helped produce talk shows at NPR, where she won the Kogan Media Award. Schumann has been granted writing residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Norman Mailer Writer's Colony. Awarded scholarships to Oxford and Stanford Universities, she studied literature, language and journalism. Schumann was born in Freiburg, Germany, grew up in New York City and London, and now lives in Massachusetts.
Thematic Interests: Historical and literary fiction, short stories on all topics, memoir and book-length narrative nonfiction. I'm especially intrigued by themes that explore the conflict between the individual and the environment, whether political or personal. I love working with novices helping them find their voice and story, and I do significant work with seasoned writers preparing their material for submission. I help writers find the right tone and content for their query letter; choose the right material to showcase; and/or put together a compelling and relevant nonfiction book proposal. Agents and editors often hire me to work with their writers. While most of my editing is big picture, I also line edit and ghostwrite.
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Click Here to Read Bio:- James Scott's debut novel, The Kept, will be published by Harper in 2014. He earned his MFA from Emerson College and his BA from Middlebury College. His fiction has been published in Ploughshares, Post Road, One Story, American Short Fiction, and Memorious among others, anthologized by flatmancrooked, and nominated for the Best New American Voices Anthology and the Pushcart Prize. He has received awards from Yaddo, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the St. Botolph's Club, the Tin House Writers' Conference, the New York State Summer Writers' Institute, VCCA, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. James has worked for various production companies and publications, Bob Vila productions, and the Boston Red Sox. A former fiction editor of Redivider and issue editor for One Story, he currently writes for the magazine Under the Radar. Learn more at www.jamesscottwriter.com.
Thematic Interests: All types of fiction, but lean more towards literary novels and short fiction. Non-fiction interests are pop culture (music, film), sports, and history.
Michelle Seaton
Click Here to Read Bio:- Michelle Seaton has been an instructor with Grub Street since 2000, teaching such classes as 6 Weeks-6 Essays, Tour of the Essay, and Master Narrative Nonfiction. She is also the lead instructor and created the curriculum for Grub Street's Memoir Project, a program that offers free memoir classes to senior citizens in Boston neighborhoods. The project has visited ten Boston neighborhoods and produced three anthologies. Twenty-two participants on Nantucket have also completed a Memoir Project class, and that anthology is forthcoming. Seaton’s nonfiction work has been published in Bostonia, Yankee, Robb Report and The Pinch. Her essay, “How to Work a Locker Room” appeared in the 2009 edition of Best American Nonrequired Reading. It is based on her experience covering the National Hockey League for National Public Radio's Only a Game, a program for which she has been a frequent contributor for 14 years. For the show, she has reported on topics ranging from asthma camp to professional wrestling to bird watching. Her fiction has appeared in the Sycamore Review and Quiddity International Journal. She is the coauthor of The Way of Boys (William Morrow, 2009). Her other book projects include The Cardiac Recovery Handbook, coauthored with Dr. Paul Kligfield, Medical Director of Cardiology at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center of the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Thematic Interests: None specified
Clara Silverstein
Click Here to Read Bio:- Clara Silverstein is the author of the memoir White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation (University of Georgia Press), and three cookbooks, most recently A White House Garden Cookbook, a chronicle with recipes of the first year of Michelle Obama's vegetable garden. A former food writer and editor at the Boston Herald, Silverstein's articles have also been published in Health magazine, Prevention, Runner's World, the Boston Globe, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She directs the summer Chautauqua Writers' Center, and has led writing workshops at Grub Street, Boston University, and Emerson College. She recently completed an M.A. in History.
Thematic Interests: Food writing and cookbooks, personality profiles, historical research, writing about race.
Adam Stumacher
Click Here to Read Bio:- Adam Stumacher's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, Night Train, Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere, was anthologized in Best New American Voices, and won the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He holds degrees from Cornell University and Saint Mary's College and was a fiction fellow at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He has been awarded a tuition scholarship from Bread Loaf and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Spiro Arts, and others. He has taught creative writing at MIT, the University of Wisconsin, Saint Mary's College, and Grub Street, and has many years experience as an educator in urban high schools. He is the author of a short story collection, The Neon Desert, and is currently working on a novel, entitled A Liar's Opus.
Thematic Interests: Travel, politics, education, and, music. Much of my own writing been inspired by my experiences living and traveling in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, as well as working with immigrants and refugees in inner city communities, so I am particularly interested in assisting on projects dealing with diverse settings and characters.
Mary Sullivan
Click Here to Read Bio:- Mary Sullivan is the author of two novels, Stay and Ship Sooner, and she has ghostwritten for the Beacon Street Girls series. She has received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Literature, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a St. Botolph's Award. She was also chosen as one of the Borders' Original New Voices. Her young adult book, Dear Blue Sky, is forthcoming from Penguin in May 2012. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and their three daughters.
Thematic Interests: I am open to all types of fiction, but I especially like literary fiction, adult and YA. My interests include the environment, parenting, Africa, Iraq, education, homelessness, music, mysteries, and family trauma of all sorts (esp. the young adult as the outsider).
Cam Terwilliger
Click Here to Read Bio:- Cam Terwilliger's stories have appeared in many magazines, including The Mid-American Review, Post Road, West Branch, and Narrative, where he was selected as one of the magazine's "15 Under 30." His fiction has also been supported by a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, as well as fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the American Antiquarian Society. A graduate of Emerson College's MFA, he now teaches at Louisiana State University.
Thematic Interests: I'm curious about the whole spectrum of novels and short stories, both literary and genre. Through my own writing, I have a lot of experience working with historical fiction, as well as magic realism, fantasy, and other forms of speculative fiction.
Becky Tuch
Click Here to Read Bio:- Becky Tuch has received literature fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and The Somerville Arts Council, awards from Briar Cliff Review, Byline Magazine, and The Tennessee Writers Alliance, and her fiction has been short-listed for a Pushcart Prize and Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Award. Other stories, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, Hobart, Quarter After Eight, Folio, HTMLGiant, and elsewhere. In 2011 and 2012 her work was included in The Drum's audio series at The Boston Book Festival. Additionally, she is the founding editor of The Review Review, a website which reviews literary magazines and interviews journal editors. The Review Review has twice been listed by Writer's Digest as "Best of the Best" among 101 Best Websites for Writers. She is also one of the founders of the writing and publishing blog, Beyond the Margins.
Thematic Interests: All types of literary and commercial fiction.
Ben H. Winters
Click Here to Read Bio:- Ben H. Winters is the author, most recently, of The Last Policeman, which was selected as an Amazon “Best Book” of July 2012 and for the Indy NEXT List of the American Bookseller’s Association. His other works of fiction include the New York Times bestseller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and the middle-grade novel The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman, an Edgar Award nominee and a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of 2011. Winters’ other books include the science-fiction Tolstoy parody Android Karenina, the Finkleman sequel The Mystery of the Missing Everything, and the supernatural thriller Bedbugs, which has been optioned for the screen by Warner Brothers.
Thematic Interests: None specified
Amy Yelin
Click Here to Read Bio:- Amy Yelin has published essays and memoir in the Boston Globe, Globe Magazine, the Gettysburg Review, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. Her essay “The Memoirist” (LunchTicket.com) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and “Torn” (The Baltimore Review), was recognized as a notable essay of 2006 in the Best American Essays 2007. She also has essays in the anthologies Mamas and Papas and Tarnished: True Tales of Innocence Lost. In 2008, she won the Skirt magazine and WEKU (an NPR station) “This We Believe” contest and recorded her piece “On Magic” for a radio special. Recently she was awarded a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship from The Vermont Studio Center, and has received scholarships from the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony and the Prague Summer Writing Program. Amy completed her MFA in creative writing at Lesley University in 2005 and she has been mentoring students in the program ever since. Her website is www.yelinwords.com.
Thematic Interests: Family and relationship stories, parenting essays, coming-of-age, mental health, humor, experimental forms in creative nonfiction.
Laura van den Berg
Click Here to Read Bio:- Laura's first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, longlisted for The Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Award. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Boston Review, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV, among others. She is also the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences and the 2009 Julia Peterkin Award for excellence in the short story. Laura has taught writing at Emerson College, Gettysburg College, as the 2009-2010 Emerging Writer Lecturer, the Gilman School, as the 2010-2011 Tickner Fellow, George Washington University, and in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University; in 2012 she will be the Mary Wood Fellow at Washington College. Formerly an Assistant Editor at Ploughshares, she is currently a Fiction Editor at West Branch.
Thematic Interests: I’m open to all styles and voices, but lean toward the literary for short fiction, novellas, and novels, with a particular affinity for complex characters, strong voices, and a vibrant sense of place. Particular thematic interests include magical realism, linked stories, foreign landscapes/travel, family and relationships, coming-of-age, feminism, scientific exploration, and the supernatural. In addition, I am experienced with consulting on professional matters, such as preparing MFA Applications and submitting to literary magazines and agents.