Contributors

Teachers & Writers Magazine
Spring 2013 Issue
Volume 44, Number 3

Adriana Añon was born in Uruguay but has since called Japan, Canada, Brazil, and the U.S. her home.  Today she lives in New York with her husband and two children, and is currently taking a year off, knowing she will miss the United Nations International School, where she has worked as kindergarten teaching assistant, third grade teacher, and first grade teacher.  She has always been fascinated by the way her students’ writing unfailingly reveals their personal stories.  She hopes her writing will do the same. 

Marcia Chamberlain has been teaching with Writers in the Schools (WITS) in Houston, Texas, since 1998. She has published essays about medieval nuns and Chicano revolutionaries and is working on a collection of nonfiction. She lives with her partner, two children, and numberless pets.

Joanna Fuhrman, a T&W teaching artist, is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Pageant (Alice James Books 2009) and Moraine (Hanging Loose Press 2006). She teaches poetry at Rutgers University and in New York City public schools. Visit her at joannafuhrman.com for more information.

Autumn Hayes is a freelance writer, creative writing teacher, and poet; her poetry and short fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Midtown, Defenestration, Southern Women's Review, Jersey Devil Press, and the micro-fiction anthology 140 and Counting. Find her on twitter @autumnatic_daze 

Merna Ann Hecht, storyteller, poet, and essayist teaches creative writing and humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Formerly a teaching artist with the Seattle WITS program, Merna co-directs The Stories of Arrival Poetry Project with immigrant and refugee youth as a poetry partner with the Institute for Poetic Medicine and with Jack Straw Productions of Seattle. She has recently completed a book titled Companions for the Crossing: Storytelling and Poetry in Bereavement Work with Children. For information on the book’s availability contact Merna through the Seattle Storytellers Guild, www.seattlestorytelling.org

Susan Karwoska is the editor of Teachers & Writers Magazine. She was recently awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fiction fellowship and a residency at the Ucross Foundation for her novel-in-progress.

Peter Markus is the senior writer with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project of Detroit. He is also a 2012 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow. He is the author of the novel Bob, or Man on Boat, along with three books of short fiction, the most recent of which is We Make Mud. A new book, The Fish and the Not Fish, is forthcoming in 2014.

John Rybicki's latest book of poems, When All the World is Old, is available on Lookout Books.  In addition to his work with hospice, he is Associate Professor of English at Alma College.  He also works with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project teaching poetry writing to high school children in Detriot, Michigan.

Matthew Sharpe is the author of the novels You Were Wrong, Jamestown, The Sleeping Father, and Nothing Is Terrible, and the short-story collection Stories from the Tube. He has taught writing and literature at Wesleyan University, Columbia University, New College of Florida, the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and, thanks to Teachers & Writers Collaborative, in various New York City public schools.

David Surface has designed and led writing programs in public schools, mental health centers, homeless programs, and other community settings for over twenty years. As a teaching artist for Teachers & Writers Collaborative he leads writing residencies and professional development programs for students and teachers in the New York City public school system. He is lead instructor for the F.E.G.S. Writing Project, designing and implementing writing programs for mental patients throughout New York City.He is also Director of the Veterans Writing Workshop, which provides free writing workshops for all U.S. veterans in the NY Metropolitan area. For more information: visit http://www.veteranswritingworkshop.org, call 866-933-7780, or email info@veteranswritingworkshop.org

Ibi Zoboi’s short stories and essays have been anthologized in The Caribbean Writer and Haiti Noir edited by Edwidge Danticat, among others.  “The Fire in Your Sky” was a named a Notable Story of 2011 by storySouth.  She is a T&W teaching artist, founded the Daughters of Anacaona Writing Project for Haitian teen girls, and is studying Writing for Children & Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.  She’s recently been named a finalist for Tu Books’ New Vision Award.