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Ludington Writers Conference 2009

Faculty

 

Jack Ridl  -  Poetry

Jack Ridl’s newest collection, Losing Season, was published in September, 2009 by CavanKerry Press. His collection Broken Symmetry, published in 2006 by Wayne State University Press, was selected by the Society of Midland Authors as the best book of poetry for 2006.  Ridl, who has taught at Hope College for more than 37 years, was named “Michigan Professor of the Year.” by the Carnegie Foundation in 1996.  In the past 15 years, more than 50 of Jack’s former students have gone on to MFA programs and have published work nationally.  For more information on Jack, go to  http://ridl.wordpress.com/

 

Anne-Marie Oomen  -  Creative Nonfiction

Anne-Marie Oomen writes haunting lyrical stories of farm, fields and family. With rural culture as its heart, her first nonfiction collection, Pulling Down the Barn, a Michigan Notable Book, is now in its second printing. House of Fields (Wayne State University Press) and Un-coded Woman, (Milkweed Editions); two chapbooks of poetry, Seasons of the Sleeping Bear, and Moniker (with Ray Nargis) all offer insight into country living at its quirkiest and most tender. Anne-Marie is on the Creative Writing faculty at Interlochen Arts Academy.  For more information on Anne-Marie, go to the website - http://www.anne-marieoomen.com/

 

Bonnie Jo Campbell  -  Fiction

Bonnie Jo Campbell's second story collection, American Salvage, was released by Wayne State University Press in May, 2009.  She was named a Barnes and Noble Young Writer to Watch for her 2003 novel Q Road.  Her collection Women & Other Animals won the prestigious Associated Writing Programs prize for short fiction; her story “The Smallest Man in the World” has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. For fifteen years she has put together a personal newsletter The Letter Parade which was written up in the Village Voice.  Find more about Bonnie Jo at www.bonniejocampbell.com.

 

Lisa Enos  -  Screenwriting

Lisa Enos co-authored (with Bernard Rose, writer/director of Immortal Beloved) the screenplay for the award-winning feature film ivans xtc (2000), and also starred in the film.  She also produced and starred in the horror satire, Snuff Movie, (2004). Enos wrote a film version of Tolstoy’s, The Kreutzer Sonata, (directed by Rose) which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2008 and was sold to Independent Film Channel in a deal announced January 20 at the Sundance Film Festival.  She has also written scripts for Phoenix Pictures, Fox Television and other producers.

 

Patricia Clark  -  Special Guest Poet

Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of two books of poetry: My Father on a Bicycle and North of Wondering. Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Poetry, Mississippi Review, The Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Pennsylvania Review, North American Review, Seattle Review, and Iowa Woman. She has also co-edited an anthology of contemporary women writers called Worlds in Our Words.  For more information on Patricia go to http://patriciafclark.com/