Faculty
Prose Faculty

Christian Bauman is the author of the novels In Hoboken(coming March, 2008), Voodoo Lounge, and The Ice Beneath You. He is a regular contributor to NPR's All Things Considered, and his short work has appeared in numerous anthologies including most recently Living On The Edge Of The World: New Jersey Writers Take On The Garden State (Simon & Schuster) and Bookmark Now (Basic Books). His novels have not been published in hundreds of different countries, but Voodoo Lounge was released in mainland China this year and no one is quite sure why. Christian lives in New Hope, PA, with his family.

http://www.christianbauman.com

Anndee Hochman's essays, articles, and short fiction have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Working Mother, Health, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Glimmer Train Stories, and elsewhere. She is the author of Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador USA, 2000) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions. A two-time recipient of creative non-fiction grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, she has also received fellowships from the Leeway Foundation and the Astraea Foundation. Anndee has taught poetry and creative non-fiction to children, teens, and adults in a variety of settings--including schools, shelters, prisons, and a Mexican fishing village--since 1993.

www.anndeehochman.com

Sondra Perl is the author of five books including Felt Sense: Writing with the Body (2004) and Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (2006). Her memoir, On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate (2005) describes a ten-year odyssey during which she traveled to Austria, Hitler’s birthplace, and engaged in post-Holocaust dialogue with teachers whose parents had been Nazis. A professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and director of the newly-formed Holocaust Educators Network, Sondra also leads writing workshops at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, and the Hollyhock Educational Center in British Columbia.

Carol Plum-Ucci is the author of The Body of Christopher Creed (2000), which was named a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and is the 2004 One Book New Jersey selection for young adult readers. What Happened to Lani Garver, her second novel, was named to the 2003 Best Books for Young Adults List, sponsored by the American Library Association and her fourth novel, The Night My Sister Went Missing was a finalist in the 2007 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. She will lead Finishing Your Novel at the Getaway.

http://carolplumucci.com/

David G. Schwartz is a writer, historian, and Director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. An Atlantic City native, Schwartz earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees (Anthropology and History) from the University of Pennsylvania before getting his Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA. He has published three books including Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond (Routledge, 2003), Cutting the Wire: Gambling Prohibition and the Internet ( University of Nevada Press, 2005), and the just-released Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling ( Gotham, 2006) favorably reviewed in the New York Times (October 6, 2006). He also regularly writes about local history and current issues in Casino Connection and Las Vegas Business Press,and on keeps a running blog on his website.

http://www.dieiscast.com

Mimi Schwartz is author of six books, most recently, Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village (University of Nebraska Press, 2008). Other books include Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed, a memoir about life in a long marriage (2002) and Writing True, The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (2006). Five of her essays have been Notables in Best American Essays. She is Professor Emerita of Richard Stockton College in New Jersey and teaches adult writing workshops nationwide. She will lead Writing True, the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction at the Getaway.

http://mimischwartz.net

Robbie Clipper Sethi has published two novels in stories, The Bride Wore Red (Picador, 1997) and Fifty-Fifty (Silicon Press, 2003). She's published short stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. She's had poetry most recently in the New Jersey State Museum in the Visions and Voices Show with New Jersey artists. She teaches fiction and expository writing at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. She will lead Revising a Short Story Toward Publication at the Getaway.

www.robbieclippersethi.com

Richard K. Weems is the author of Anything He Wants (Spire Press, 2006), winner of the Spire Fiction Award.  He has also published a chapbook of fiction, The Need for Character (Revelever Publications, 2004). His short story publications include North American Review, The Gettysburg Review, Other Voices, The Florida Review, The Mississippi Review, and The Beloit Fiction Journal. He was a contributing writer for Pif Magazine (www.pifmagazine.com), and he runs the Creative Writing Division of the New Jersey Governor's School of the Arts.

www.weemsnet.net