Carolyne L. Wright, Poetry
January – March 2008 – Thornton Writer (Poet) in Residence at Lynchburg College in Virginia.
March – mid-June 2008 – Distinguished Northwest Poet at Seattle University
Just published translation: Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women anthology (White Pine Press, 2008).
PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS
A Change of Maps , Lost Horse Press, 2006
Nominated for the LA Times Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Idaho Prize and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. It won the 2007 Independent Book Publishers Bronze Award for Poetry
Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire Eastern Washington UP/Lynx House Books, 2nd edition 2005)
Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize, Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry, and American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
Premonitions of an Uneasy Guest (AWP Award Series)
Stealing the Children (Ahsahta Press)
Carolyne Wright: Greatest Hits 1975-2001 (Pudding House)
A Choice of Fidelities: Lectures and Readings from a Writer’s Life (Ashland Poetry Press)
and volumes of poetry translated from Spanish and Bengali.
Website for C. Wright

David Wagoner, Poetry
PUBLICATIONS
David Wagoner has published 18 books of poems. Most recently: A Map of the Night, U. of Illinois Press, 2008.
He is also the author of ten novels, one of which, “The Escape Artist”, was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Lilly Prize in 1991 and has won six yearly prizes from POETRY (Chicago).
His poetry continues to appear in numerous prestigious publications.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets for 23 years.
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize (once) and the National Book Award (twice).
Editor of POETRY NORTHWEST from 1966 to its end in 2002.
Professor Emeritus of English at the U. of Washington.
His first professionally produced play, FIRST CLASS, a one-man show about his teacher, Theodore Roethke, had a successful run at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle in the summer of 2007 and by Bainbridge Island Theatre in 2009.
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, one of about 100 from all disciplines.
Website for D. Wagoner

Wayne Ude, Fiction, Director of Whidbey Island MFA Program
PUBLICATIONS
Becoming Coyote, a novel, Lynx House Press
Buffalo and other stories, Lynx House Press
Three Coyote Tales, Lone Oak Press, hand-printed, hand- bound, hand illustrated limited edition
Maybe I Will Do Something: Seven Stories of Coyote (ages 10 and up), Houghton Mifflin
HONORS
Previous to the MFA program on Whidbey Island, Wayne Ude co-designed (with Bill Tremblay) the Colorado State University MFA program and was lead designer of the Old Dominion University MFA program. For seven years he served as fiction and managing editor of the Colorado State Review (now Colorado Review) literary magazine.
In 1998 Ude was among the founding members of the Whidbey Island Writers Association.
In 2002 and 2003, he led the design team for the Whidbey Writers Workshop low-residency MFA Program which he now directs. Ude holds a Masters in Not-for-Profit Leadership from Seattle University.
Website for W. Ude

Ana Maria Spagna, Non-fiction
PUBLICATIONS:
Where You Find It: Lost and Found in Community, Oregon State University Press, 2011.
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey, University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
*Winner 2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw, Oregon State University Press, 2004.
*A Seattle Times Best Book of 2004
ANTHOLOGIES: The Face of the Earth (Ed. SueEllen Campbell, University of California Press, 2011), Telling It Real: The Best of Pilgrimage Magazine (Ed. Peter Anderson, Pilgrimage Press, 2009), Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North (Ed. Michael Engelhard, University of Alaska Press, 2009), City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary (David Oates, Oregon State University Press, 2006), A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild (Ed. Jennifer Bove, Travelers Tales 2006), Best Essays NW (University of Oregon Press 2003)
Ana Maria Spagna lives and writes in Stehekin, Washington, a remote community in the North Cascades. Her writing on nature, work, and life in a small community has appeared in Orion, High Country News, North American Review, Under the Sun, Mountain Gazette, Pilgrimage, Backpacking, Fine Homebuilding, and elsewhere.
Website for A. M. Spagna

PUBLICATIONS (selected)
The Keyhole Opera, (collected stories) introduction by Michael Bishop, Wheatland Press, 2005.
Thirteen Ways to Water, (collected stories) Wheatland Press and Panisphere Books, 2004.
Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer, (non-fiction) Invisible Cities Press, Montpelier, VT. 2002.
Lifeboat on a Burning Sea and other stories, (collected stories e-book) Alexandria Digital Literature, 2001, adapted for television by the Showtime cable company as “The Other Side.” Screenplay by Mary Stuart Masterson, directed by Mary Stuart Masterson. Starring Anthony LaPaglia. Premiered 29 June, 2001.
Flaming Arrows, (collected stories) introduction by Kate Wilhelm, IFD Publishing, 2001.
Bones of the World: Tales from Time’s End, (editor, anthology) SFF Net, Plano, Texas, 2001.
Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales, (collected stories)introduction by Alan Rodgers, Wildside Press, 2000.
Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams, (editor, anthology) IFD Publishing, Eugene, Oregon, 1999.
Ashes of the Sun, a novel in the Magic: The Gathering Universe (bylined Hanovi Braddock, pseudonym), HarperPrism, February 1996.
Mind Games, book number ten in the new Tom Swift series (bylined Victor Appleton, house pseudonym), Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Other film adaptation: “Fear of Falling” has been adapted for a KulaMedia film of the same title. Screemplay by Bradd Graves. In current production.
Over 200 works of short fiction in numerous prestigious literary publications
HONORS (selected)
Fulbright Teaching Fellowship – In 2010, Bruce Holland Rogers will travel to Eotvos Lorand University, ELTE in Budapest, Hungary to teach writing.
First Annual Micro Award for “Reconstruction Work,” 2008.
World Fantasy Award for The Keyhole Opera, 2006.
World Fantasy Award for “Don Ysidro,” 2004.
Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, 1999.
Pushcart Prize for “The Dead Boy at Your Window,” 1999.
Bram Stoker Award for “The Dead Boy at Your Window,” 1998.
Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Short Story of 1998
Website for B. Rogers