Nonfiction

Cory Fosco

Cory Fosco

Cory Fosco received his MA, Creative Writing from Northwestern University in June 2008. His thesis, “Arizona Stories,” was a collection of essays that was inspired by the two years he lived in Arizona. He received a BA, Creative Writing from Loyola University Chicago in 1992. His previous work has been published in Is Greater Than, Chiron Review, Cadence Literary Magazine, riverbabble and other small press publications. He recently completed a year-long blog project, "A Year Till 40," where he chronicled his 39th year of life in daily essays.

Cory Fosco

Cory Fosco

Cory Fosco received his MA, Creative Writing from Northwestern University in June 2008. His thesis, “Arizona Stories,” was a collection of essays that was inspired by the two years he lived in Arizona. He received a BA, Creative Writing from Loyola University Chicago in 1992. His previous work has been published in Is Greater Than, Chiron Review, Cadence Literary Magazine, riverbabble and other small press publications. He recently completed a year-long blog project, "A Year Till 40," where he chronicled his 39th year of life in daily essays.

Cory
Fosco

Diana Raab

Diana Raab

Diana Raab, MFA is author of seven books of nonfiction and poetry, including, Healing With Words: forthcoming in 2010. Her memoir, Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal won the 2008 National Indie Excellence Award for Memoir and the 2009 Mom's Choice Award for Adult Nonfiction. She's editor of the anthology, Writers and Their Notebooks (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). Her award-winning writing has been widely anthologized and published in literary journals. She teaches in the UCLA Writers' Program and in various venues around the country. She frequently lectures on journaling and keeping a notebook for both writers and non-writers.

Diana Raab

Diana Raab

Diana Raab, MFA is author of seven books of nonfiction and poetry, including, Healing With Words: forthcoming in 2010. Her memoir, Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal won the 2008 National Indie Excellence Award for Memoir and the 2009 Mom's Choice Award for Adult Nonfiction. She's editor of the anthology, Writers and Their Notebooks (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). Her award-winning writing has been widely anthologized and published in literary journals. She teaches in the UCLA Writers' Program and in various venues around the country. She frequently lectures on journaling and keeping a notebook for both writers and non-writers.

Diana
Raab

Dinah Lenney

Dinah Lenney

Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir, excerpted in the New York Times, and the co-author of Acting for Young Actors. Her essays have or will soon appear in publications that include the Kenyon Review Online, Defunct, Water~Stone Review, Agni, Brevity, the Coachella Review, and the Los Angeles Times. She serves as core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainer Writing Workshop, and the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California.

Dinah Lenney

Dinah Lenney

Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir, excerpted in the New York Times, and the co-author of Acting for Young Actors. Her essays have or will soon appear in publications that include the Kenyon Review Online, Defunct, Water~Stone Review, Agni, Brevity, the Coachella Review, and the Los Angeles Times. She serves as core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars, the Rainer Writing Workshop, and the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California.

Dinah
Lenney

Jerry Eckert

Jerry Eckert

Jerry Eckert's first career spanned 40 years working on agricultural development, income inequality and poverty in Africa and south Asia. He wrote over 150 articles and policy analyses to guide governments in South Africa, Lesotho, The Gambia, and Pakistan. Two papers won Best Published Article awards, five op-eds in the Christian Science Monitor changed America's South African policies, his monograph restructured Lesotho's agriculture. His most influential writing, however, became the first economic policies of the Mandela government. He now devotes his second career to an old love which has been waiting for him all these years—creative nonfiction writing.

Jerry Eckert

Jerry Eckert

Jerry Eckert's first career spanned 40 years working on agricultural development, income inequality and poverty in Africa and south Asia. He wrote over 150 articles and policy analyses to guide governments in South Africa, Lesotho, The Gambia, and Pakistan. Two papers won Best Published Article awards, five op-eds in the Christian Science Monitor changed America's South African policies, his monograph restructured Lesotho's agriculture. His most influential writing, however, became the first economic policies of the Mandela government. He now devotes his second career to an old love which has been waiting for him all these years—creative nonfiction writing.

Jerry
Eckert

Marcus Banks

Marcus Banks

Marcus Banks is the Manager of Education and Research Services at the UC San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management. Previous positions include a fellowship at the National Library of Medicine and work as a reference librarian at the New York University Medical Center. His writing has appeared in professional journals, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Gotham Gazette.

Marcus Banks

Marcus Banks

Marcus Banks is the Manager of Education and Research Services at the UC San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management. Previous positions include a fellowship at the National Library of Medicine and work as a reference librarian at the New York University Medical Center. His writing has appeared in professional journals, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Gotham Gazette.

Marcus
Banks

Marie Mockett

Marie Mockett

Marie Mockett was born in Carmel, California to a Japanese mother and American father. Her Japanese family owns a Zen Buddhist temple where she often played as a child, and which, among other things, performs exorcisms. In 2009, Marie attended the Bread Loaf Conference as a Bernard O'Keefe Scholar in Nonfiction. Marie's essay "Letter from a Japanese Crematorium" was published in Agni 65, cited as distinguished in the 2008 Best American Essays, and anthologized in Creative Nonfiction 3, edited by Lee Gutkind. Marie's debut novel, Picking Bones from Ash, was published by Graywolf Press on October 1st, 2009.

Marie Mockett

Marie Mockett

Marie Mockett was born in Carmel, California to a Japanese mother and American father. Her Japanese family owns a Zen Buddhist temple where she often played as a child, and which, among other things, performs exorcisms. In 2009, Marie attended the Bread Loaf Conference as a Bernard O'Keefe Scholar in Nonfiction. Marie's essay "Letter from a Japanese Crematorium" was published in Agni 65, cited as distinguished in the 2008 Best American Essays, and anthologized in Creative Nonfiction 3, edited by Lee Gutkind. Marie's debut novel, Picking Bones from Ash, was published by Graywolf Press on October 1st, 2009.

Marie
Mockett

Sherry Simpson

Sherry Simpson

Sherry Simpson is the author of two essay collections, The Accidental Explorer and the Chinook Award winning The Way Winter Comes. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors, In Fact, Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild. Her acclaimed writing has also been featured in several journals including Creative Nonfiction, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Pilgrimage, Brevity, and Orion. She teaches creative nonfiction for the University of Alaska Anchorage's MFA program and Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writing Workshop.

Sherry Simpson

Sherry Simpson

Sherry Simpson is the author of two essay collections, The Accidental Explorer and the Chinook Award winning The Way Winter Comes. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors, In Fact, Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild. Her acclaimed writing has also been featured in several journals including Creative Nonfiction, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Pilgrimage, Brevity, and Orion. She teaches creative nonfiction for the University of Alaska Anchorage's MFA program and Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writing Workshop.

Sherry
Simpson