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Summer 2010 Workshop Teachers:
Denise Pattiz Bogard (Novel, Short Fiction, Business Writing) is founder
and coordinator of the St. Louis Writers Workshop. Denise has been writing professionally for 33 years and has been published in Oklahoma Literary Review, Lady's Circle, Teacher Magazine, St. Louis Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, P-D Magazine and the anthology, Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women's Encounters with Health Care in America. Denise coordinates the writing program and teaches writing at Lift for Life Charter Middle and High School. Denise also conducts professional development teacher workshops on how to teach writing, and she serves as a writing coach and editor. She is certified as a "Distinguished Teacher" in English/Language Arts, 5th-12th; and she received her Masters in Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has won both writing and professional development awards. Denise's first novel is in the hands of her New York agent, and she is completing her second novel.
Jeff May (Short Fiction, Novels) is an award-winning writer with short stories, poems, and articles published in the US, UK, and Canada. His 2008 novel, Where the River Splits, was favorably reviewed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and his story "The Wells Creek Route" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. With degrees in English, psychology, education, writing, and more than 30 years experience, he is well-grounded in traditional techniques and open to experimental work. He enjoys working with experienced and aspiring authors. Jeff climbed mountains from Alaska to Colombia, wrote and performed a short story for Washington University radio, and was a consultant to a St. Louis theatre company. As an educator, he published feature articles and appeared in radio and television spotlights. As a technical data engineer, he wrote corporate procedure and writing guides. Jeff is a freelance editor, speaker, writing coach, and fly-fishing guide and instructor. His website is www.askwritefish.com.
Katherine (Kat) Newman (Fiction) graduated from the University of Vermont with a BA in English Literature, and is currently working at Lift for Life Academy as a substitute teacher and part-time writing instructor. Previously, she worked as an administrative assistant, substitute teacher and coach at Soldan High School for three years. Kat grew up in St. Louis, and was graduated from Crossroads College Prep, where she got her first (and by no means last) encouragement to pursue Creative Writing from an English teacher who, according to Kat, “knew I could do more than what I was showing her in class. She was right, but at 16 I didn't want to admit that.” Since then, Kat has taken several workshops, not only through St. Louis Writers Workshop, but also with Washington University's Summer Writer's Institute. She is working on her third novel, the second Young Adult piece. “Once I graduated from university, I knew that I wanted to work with young adults; I never forgot my high school English teacher telling me that I could write, no matter what the grade at the top of my paper said, and then telling me next time she expected an A.”
One-On-One Editor/Coach:
Emily Barth (Editing, Novels, Creative Non-Fiction,
Essay Writing) graduated from Bard College with a
bachelor's degree in creative writing, and earned a master's
degree in English literature at Washington University. Her
poetry and short fiction have been published in journals including
the Cafe Review, Bard Papers, and Sui Generis; and she is
currently revising her first novel, titled After the
Death. Emily has several years of experience teaching
university-based writing courses, and currently works
as a freelance writing coach and editor. She loves editing,
is comfortable working in a range of styles and genres,
and is particularly interested in the relationship between
form and content.
Our Other Teachers, Editors, Coaches, and Consultants:
Debra Finkel (Corporate Communications, Public Relations) has 30 years of experience as a public relations practitioner, editorial consultant and media writer. She is owner, founder and principal of her own public relations/marketing communications firm and teaches media writing as an adjunct instructor at Webster University. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Journalism, Debra has won numerous local, regional and national awards over the years for her writing and public relations campaigns. Her work continues to appear extensively in a wide variety of corporate and consumer magazines, newspapers, newsletters, Web sites and marketing publications.
Janet Goddard (2001, Fiction). Janet’s works include short stories, essays, her first novel, Shake the Middle Tree, which received honorable mention for novel excerpt in the 2006 Charles and Lois Cook Writing Prize (KOMENAR Publishing). Janet’s short stories, “Beare’s Widow” and “Old Tyme” have been recognized by the University of Missouri-St. Louis’ annual “Best Fiction” competition. Her story “I.A.C. Technical Support” was a finalist for Hourglass Books. The Associated Writing Programs recognized Janet’s creative non-fiction piece “The Bee Weeks” in their “New Beginnings” competition. Janet has been teaching English and writing courses in a variety of venues for the past 10 years, including University of Missouri-St. Louis, Washington University, St. Louis Community Colleges at Meramec and Forest Park, along with serving as creative writing Resident Artist for Young Audiences of St. Louis. Presently, Janet tutors for One-on-One Tutoring and teaches English and creative writing full time at Visitation Academy. Janet is working on her second novel, The Mechanical Cat.
James Stone Goodman (Poetry, Creative Non-fiction, Essay Writing) is a rabbi who serves two congregations in the St. Louis area, Neve Shalom Congregation and Central Reform Congregation. He is a poet, an essayist, and a musician. His special field of interest is the Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. Rabbi Jim has toured widely with a photography and performance art show combining visual images, story, and music. He received his MFA degree in poetry from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is working on the integration of music with poetry, and has just finished his fifth CD.
Colleen McKee (Poetry, Personal Essay) earned her MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL). She has taught and tutored writing at UMSL and Webster, Washington, and Lindenwood Universities. Her essays have appeared in anthologies such as Under the Arch: St. Louis Stories (Antares) and Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (Seal/Avalon). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Delmar, Eclipse, and Confluence.
Patti Smith-Jackson (Creative Non-fiction, Fiction) has been a working writer in St. Louis for the past 25 years. She earned her bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1982, and a master of fine arts in creative writing from University of Missouri-St. Louis just this year. While pursuing her MFA, Patti was a runner up for UMSL's annual Graduate Fiction Prize. Recently, one of her short stories was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Stories' Emerging Writer's contest. Patti's first prose-love, however, is creative nonfiction. In 2003, she earned a publishing credit when her writers group came out with a book of personal essays, Guilty Pleasures.
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