The Winter Getaway is well known for its challenging and
supportive workshops led by accomplished writers and artists. We hope you will get to know our faculty, first online, and then in person in January.
 Renée Ashley
is the author of four collections of poetry—Salt (Brittingham
Prize in Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press), The Various
Reasons of Light, The Revisionist's Dream, and Basic
Heart (X. J. Kennedy Prize in Poetry, Texas Review Press). She
also has published two
chapbooks, The Museum of Lost Wings (Hill-Stead Poetry Prize)
and The Verbs of Desiring (New American Press Chapbook
Award), and a novel (Someplace Like This). She teaches in the
low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson
University and has received fellowships from the New Jersey State
Council on the Arts and the NEA. Her website is
reneeashleyatwork.com.
** Renée will lead the fiction portion of the
Creative Writing Sampler and a section of
Advanced Poetry Writing.**
 Nancy Falkow is an Ireland-based (formerly Philadelphia)
singer-songwriter. She has shared stages, taxis, dressing rooms,
and guitars with nationally touring musicians from Donovan to
Daniel Lanois to Richie Havens. Songs of hers have appeared in
TV and in film. She has been collaborating with musicians and
writing in genres from pop to rock to folk for many years, but
was always a teacher and a poet first, and draws from that well
of experience with every song and workshop. With three
successful albums under her belt, after the birth of her
daughter, she began writing for what is her most successful
album—"Under the Stars"—which she released under the project
name
Sunflow.
This is her 15th year at the Getaway and she always looks
forward to a trip home to run the Song Writing Workshop to see
familiar faces and meet new enthusiasts. Her website is www.nancyfalkow.com
and you can listen
to some songs here.
** Nancy will lead the
Song Writing Workshop.**
 Douglas
Goetsch is the author of three books of poems and four
prizewinning chapbooks. His work has appeared in The New Yorker,
The Gettysburg Review, Poetry, The Southern Review,
and Best American Poetry. Among his honors are fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation
for the Arts, and a Pushcart Prize. He has been on faculty at dozens
of conferences and programs throughout the U.S., including the Iowa
Summer Writing Festival, and is the 2012 Distinguished Visiting
Professor of Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University.
Previously he was a New York City public school teacher for 21
years. Goetsch is also the founding editor of Jane Street Press in
New York City. Read a
recent interview with Doug in Verse Wisconsin and some
of his
poems.
** Doug will lead the
Free-Writing Intensive workshop.**
 Mimi
Schwartz is the author of two memoirs: Good Neighbors, Bad Times—Echoes
of My Father's German Village (a Bison book, University of Nebraska Press,
2008; paper, 2009), and Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed (an American Lives
Series book, University of Nebraska Press, 2002; paper, 2004). She is co-author
of Writing True, the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (2006, Houghton
Mifflin), which is used in over 250 undergraduate and MFA programs nationwide
(written with Sondra Perl). She is Professor Emerita in Writing at Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey, where she taught nonfiction for 22 years. Her
short work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Agni, Creative
Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Calyx, The New York Times,
Tikkun, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Florida Review,
Brevity, The Writer's Chronicle, The Writer, among others.
Seven of her essays have been Notables in Best American Essays, and she's
been a MacDowell Fellow and a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellow. To read some of her
work visit www.mimischwartz.net.
** Mimi will lead the memoir portion of the
Creative Writing Sampler workshop.**
 BJ
Ward is the author of Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems 1990-2012,
forthcoming in September, 2013, as part of the IO Poetry Series
(North Atlantic Books). His other books are Gravedigger's
Birthday, 17 Love Poems with No Despair, and Landing
in New Jersey with Soft Hands. His poems have been featured on
Poetry Daily, NPR's "The Writer's Almanac," and New Jersey Network's
"State of the Arts," as well as in publications such as Poetry,
TriQuarterly, and Painted Bride Quarterly. He is the
recipient of a Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist
Fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts. He co-directs the
Creative Writing degree program at Warren County Community College.
To read some of Ward's work visit the
Poetry Foundation or
Painted Bride Quarterly.
** BJ will lead the poetry portion of the
Creative Writing Sampler, a section of
Advanced Poetry Writing, and the
Algonquin-style Poetry Workshop.**
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