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.
 Michelle
Cameron's debut historical novel, The Fruit of Her Hands: the
story of Shira of Ashkenaz, was published by Simon & Schuster's
Pocket Books in September 2009. Publisher's Weekly praised the
novel's "powerful immediacy" and Library Journal its "rich
details." Michelle's novel in verse, In the Shadow of the Globe, was
published by Lit Pot Press in late 2003. It received excellent
critical reviews, was named the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's
2003-4 Winter Book Selection, and was dramatically performed in
several venues, including the Stella Adler School of the Arts and
the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway. Michelle is also Associate
Director of The Writers Circle, creative writing workshops for
children and adults.
 Robbie Clipper has published two novels-in-stories under
the name Robbie Clipper Sethi, The Bride Wore Red (Picador, 1997) and Fifty-Fifty
(Silicon Press, 2003) as well as short
stories in
The Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, the Philadelphia Inquirer
and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Her
fiction has won a National Endowment for the Arts award and two
fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Robbie
teaches fiction, poetry, expository writing and literature at Rider
University in Lawrenceville, NJ and on a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship
spent a "monsoon semester" (August-December 2009) teaching creative
writing at the International Institute of Information Technology in
Hyderabad, India. She is eager to inspire your revisions in
Visions
and Revision at the Getaway.
 Anndee Hochman writes feature articles, profiles and
essays about education, health and the wide, quirky spectrum of
family and community life, including issues of adoption, foster
care, reproductive technology, same-sex couples and intentional
community. In addition to her regular pieces in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, her work has appeared in O, the
Oprah Magazine, Health, Working Mother,
Marie Claire and online in Literary Mama. She is the
author of Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador 2000)
and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing
Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press,
1994). For the past 18 years, Anndee has taught writing to
children, teens and adults in a variety of settings, including
schools, senior centers and a small fishing village on Mexico's
Pacific coast.
 Barbara Hurd is the author of Walking the Wrack
Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (2008), Entering
the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, a Library
Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (2003), The
Singer's Temple (2003), Stirring the Mud: On Swamps,
Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of
2001 (2001), and Objects in this Mirror (1994). Her
work has appeared in numerous journals including Best
American Essays 1999, Best American Essays 2001,
The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Orion,
Audubon, and others. The recipient of a 2002 NEA Fellowship
for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club’s National
Nature Writing Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and a 2010 Maryland
State Arts Council Award for Fiction, she teaches in the
Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.
www.barbarahurd.com
 Thomas
Peele is an investigative reporter and lecturer at the
University of California, Berkeley, who has won more than 45
journalism awards during a career on both coasts. His first book,
Killing The Messenger, an examination of Black Muslim cults and
the 2007 murder of Oakland, Calif. journalist Chauncey Bailey, will
be published by the Crown Books division of Random House in February
2012. Peele's essay on the collapse of the Knight Ridder newspaper
company, "Oligarchies I Have Known," won the 2006 Association of
Writers and Writing Programs' Intro Journals Award and was published
in Controlled Burn. His work has also appeared in Columbia
Journalism Review, Newsday, the San Francisco Bay
Guardian. Peele holds an MFA in writing from the University of
San Francisco and lives in Oakland, Calif. with his wife and, twin
daughters.
 Carol Plum-Ucci
is the author of six Harcourt novels and a memoir, Homeschooling
Abbey: Your Basic Mom Tries Home Education & Tells All
(2008). Her latest novel, Fire Will
Fall, is the sequel to the
9/11 inspired Streams of Babel (2008) and is slated for release in 2010. The Body of
Christopher Creed (2000) was named a Michael L. Printz Award
Honor Book by the American Library Association. Carol has twice
been a finalist in the Edgar Allan Poe Awards and was a Book One
New Jersey author in 2004. She will lead Finishing Your Novel at the Getaway.
 Pamela
Curtis Swallow’s first book was published in 1986. She’s been
writing ever since, and for a wide reading audience—elementary,
middle grade, and young adult. Her fiction and non-fiction books
include: Groundhog Gets A Say (Putnam/Scholastic); It Only
Looks Easy (Roaring Brook Press/Scholastic); the Melvil and
Dewey Series (Libraries Unlimited), which includes an activity guide
entitled Melvil and Dewey Teach Literacy; A Writer's
Notebook (Scholastic), a guide for aspiring young writers;
Wading through Peanut Butter (Scholastic); No Promises
(Putnam/Scholastic); and Leave It to Christy
(Putnam/Scholastic). Pam recently completed a biography of her
relative, Ellen Swallow Richards, founder of Ecology. Currently
she’s revising Tangled Lines, her fifth middle grade novel.
In addition to writing, Pam has spent many years as a teacher and
school librarian.
 Richard K. Weems
is the author of Anything He Wants, winner of the
Spire Fiction Award and finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book
Award, as well as the Cheap Stories eBook series, available
at
Amazon,
Barnes & Noble,
Smashwords and iBooks. His short story publications
include North American Review, The Gettysburg
Review, Other Voices, The Mississippi Review,
Crescent Review, Pif Magazine, The Florida
Review, Barcelona Review and The Beloit
Fiction Journal.
www.weemsnet.net
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