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Summer 2008 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 30 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 forthcoming 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 School. Denise also conducts professional development teacher workshops on how to teach writing, and she serves as a writing coach and editor. She received her MFA 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 at work on her second novel.
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.
Jeff May (Short Fiction, Novels) is a writer with short stories, poems, and articles published in the
US, UK, and Canada, several short fiction awards, and
a novel, Where the River Splits, released in 2008.
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 iswww.askwritefish.com.
Our Other Teachers, Editors, Coaches, and Consultants:
Julie Failla Earhart (Short Fiction, Essays, Feature Writing) has a bachelor's degree in journalistic and creative writing and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.She has been widely published in short fiction, creative non-fiction, and feature articles. Among her publications was a short story that was included in Milliken Publishing Company's CD-ROM Knowledge Works; and five of her stories have been published in India, some of which have been anthologized. Her work has also been published in The Storyteller (in press); Well-Versed 2003 & 2004; Stirrings: A Literary Collection; Palimpsest (inaugural issue); Gigantic; Watermark; Words and Dreams, Part XII; An Archer's Dream; and Steps Astray. Her first collection of short stories, Home Sweet Home & Other Dangerous Places, is ready for publication, and she is working on an as-yet-untitled second collection. Her creative non-fiction has been published in PopCobbler Magazine; and she was a runner-up in 2000 Book magazine's "Don Quixote Essay Contest." Julie is the "Chef Talk" columnist of Sauce Magazine and former editor-in-chief of Saint Louis Events Magazine. She has been a reviewer of fiction for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Charlotte Austin Review, Booksights (in the UK), Amazing Authors Showcase, and Word Museum. Julie has taught feature writing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, composition classes at St. Charles Community College, and composition and literature at St. Louis Community College-Meramec. Currently, she is a freelance writer, teacher, speaker, and editor.
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.
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.
Susan Newman (Features, Profiles, Editing, and Business Writing) has been a freelance writer/editor since the mid '90s and has the unusual distinction of having practiced as a clinical social worker in her first career, with experience in medicine and psychiatry. Susan is a feature writer for Barnes-Jewish Cornerstones Magazine, has written for St. John's Mercy Medical Center and edits health-related material for the general public. She specializes in helping professionals express themselves more comfortably to either a professional or lay audience when English is their second language. In addition, Susan writes lifestyle and shelter features, focusing on interior design, architecture and what's happening in St. Louis. She contributes regularly to St. Louis Magazine, as well as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, Ladue News and various trade magazines. Susan received her MSW from Virginia Commonwealth University and was graduated with a BA degree in sociology from the University of Texas
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.
Linda Wendling (Novels, Short Fiction) is a Best New Writers of the South winner, a James Joyce First Novel Fellowship finalist, and a Bellwether Prize for the Novel finalist (Literature for Social Change, Harper/Collins). She has won the Heartland Fiction Prize (New Letters), the World's Greatest Short Short Story Award (Florida State University Press), and was a finalist for Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops anthology and the AWP Writers Award. She has been honored in the Carson McCullers Fiction Prize (Story Magazine) and the Writer's Digest Literary Fiction Prize. Her stories and novel excerpts have been published in a number of literary magazines and have been anthologized in such books as Microfiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories (W.W. Norton) and New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (Algonquin Press). Wendling taught editing and writing courses at the University of Missouri-St. Louis for ten years. She has been an editor, an agent's manuscript analyst, and a private writing coach since 1989 and enjoys teaching fiction and the novel for St. Louis Writers Workshop. |
