From bottom left: Joy Baglio (Founder/Director), Aine Greaney, Sara Rauch, Carolyn Zaikowski, Kate Senecal. Top Left: Rose Martula, Jennifer Rosner, Debra Jo Immergut, Meg Granger, Liz Bedell, Celia Jeffries, Drew Johnson, & Gail Thomas. Not the full team!
Meet the PVWW Team!
Founder/Director
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JOY BAGLIO is the founder/director of PVWW. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review, PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. She's the recipient of fellowships and grants from Yaddo, The Elizabeth George Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Speculative Literature Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and has been recognized by numerous contests and awards, including the Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest (Honorable Mention) and the Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions. Joy holds an MFA from The New School and is a contributing editor at Bucknell University's literary magazine, West Branch. She's currently at work on both a collection of short stories and her first novel and is represented by Peter Steinberg at YRG Partners. Follow her on twitter at @JoyBaglio or visit her online at www.joybaglio.com. |
Assistant Director
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KATE SENECAL is the Assistant Director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop and the Director of PVWW's Year-Long Manuscript Group Program. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the former fiction editor of Storychord. She's received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s 2019 Short Fiction Contest, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2016. Kate’s fiction has been published in The Laurel Review, The Foundling Review, and in Storychord.com. In addition to her work at PVWW, she teaches writing at Grub Street and Umass, Amherst. She is at work on a first novel. |
Marketing Director
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SARAH JANE CODY is the Director of Marketing at PVWW, in addition to her role as an instructor. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Washington Square Review, The Cincinnati Review, Pembroke Magazine, No Tokens, and Necessary Fiction. She was a finalist for Pleiades’s 2018 G.B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction. She reads prose submissions for Pigeon Pages. She’s a graduate of the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College and an alumnus of Tin House’s Summer Workshop. Currently, she’s at work on a novel. Find her online at www.sarahjanecody.com |
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LIZ BEDELL's recently completed novel, The Space Between, was shortlisted in the 2019 William Faulkner William Wisdom Competition, Novel-in-Progress category. She is a co-editor of Embody, a weekly feature column at The Maine Review. She holds an MFA Fiction and Translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and an MA in English from Middlebury College. She writes and teaches in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. |
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JAMES CAMBIAS is a science fiction writer and game designer, with four novels and eight full-length game sourcebooks published, along with two dozen short stories, and scores of game articles and collaborations. Some of his game projects are particularly relevant: in GURPS Space Fourth Edition for Steve Jackson Games (2006), Star HERO for HERO Games (2002), and his contributions to the Star Trek Roleplaying Game for Last Unicorn Games (1998-1999). He wrote extensively on worldbuilding for science fiction. In short, he literally wrote the book on worldbuilding, three times. He also holds a degree in History of Science from the University of Chicago. |
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ANDERS CARLSON-WEE is the author of The Low Passions (W.W. Norton, 2019), a New York Public Library Book Group Selection as well as the 2019 Connecticut Poetry Circuit Selection. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, BuzzFeed, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, he is the winner of the 2017 Poetry International Prize. His work has been translated into Chinese. Anders holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and lives in Cincinnati. www.anderscarlsonwee.com |
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OLIVIA KATE CERRONE's writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Rumpus, and New South, among other publications. Her novella The Hunger Saint won an American Fiction Award and was praised by Kirkus Review as “a well-crafted and affecting literary tale.” She won Crab Orchard Review's Jack Dyer Fiction Prize and various other honors, including fellowships from the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (Scotland), the Ragdale Foundation, VCCA, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, where she received a "Distinguished Fellowship" from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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LARA EHRLICH is the author of the short story collection Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, 2020), which won Red Hen’s Fiction Award, judged by Ann Hood. Lara’s stories are published in F(r)iction, Hunger Mountain, StoryQuarterly, The Normal School, and elsewhere, and she is the winner of a 2019 IHAF In-House Creativity Award and numerous Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) awards for her feature writing. Lara has received scholarships from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Midwest Writers Workshop, and the Garret on the Green. Lara earned her BA from Boston University and her MA from the University of Chicago, and lives in Connecticut, where she is the director of marketing for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. |
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ANITA GILL is a writer, editor, and recent Fulbright fellow in Spain. Her essays, memoir, and satire have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, The Baltimore Sun, and elsewhere. Her writing has been listed as Notable in Best American Essays and has won The Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction. Anita is a member of Women Who Submit, an organization that educates and encourages marginalized genders to get published. She currently serves as Nonfiction Editor for Hypertext Magazine. Follow her on Twitter at @anitamgill or visit her website at www.anitagill.ink. |
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ÁINE GREANEY is an Irish born author now living in eastern Massachusetts. In addition to her five published books, she has published personal and opinion essays in publications such as Creative Nonfiction, The Boston Globe Magazine and WBUR/Cognoscenti and an essay collection, Green Card & Other Essays. Her work has been cited in Best American Essays, and she has led writing workshops in New England, New York and Ireland and has presented on writing at two national conferences. |
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SIMON HAN is the author of Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead Books). His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Texas Observer, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Electric Literature, and LitHub. He has received scholarships and fellowships from MacDowell, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Vanderbilt University, where he received his MFA. Born in Tianjin, China, he lives in Carrollton, TX. |
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BEN JACKSON holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. His nonfiction writing has appeared in The London Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Awl, and The Guardian, among others, and his short fiction has appeared in West Branch and is forthcoming in American Short Fiction. He's received grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Banff Center, and is working on his first novel. Find him online at www.bhjackson.com. |
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CELIA JEFFRIES holds an MA from Brandeis and an MFA from Lesley University. Her work has appeared in numerous newspapers and literary magazines including Westview, Solstice, and Puerto del Sol, as well as the anthology Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Turkey Land Cove Foundation, and La Muse. Her debut novel Blue Desert will be published April 2021. She is currently at work on a memoir. |
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DREW JOHNSON's stories have appeared in Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, The Cupboard, Gulf Coast, New England Review, and elsewhere. Reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming at Literary Hub, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from the University of Virginia. |
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CINDY LITTLEFIELD's fiction has appeared in Inside the Bell Jar, Litro, Dogzplot, and the Rose & Thorn Journal, and she was a former finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University. She is a freelance writer, editor, and writing coach who has developed and edited online and print content for a variety of publishers, including Disney Interactive Media, EDDA, and Storey Publishing. Find out more at cindylittlefield.com. |
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ASHLEY LOPEZ is a literary agent and rights manager at Waxman Literary Agency, in NYC. She received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and is a founder and the managing editor of Pigeon Pages Literary Journal. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Cosmonauts Avenue, Columbia Literary Journal, and elsewhere, and her work has been nominated for Best American Short Stories. Ashley represents literary and young adult fiction, narrative nonfiction, and memoir. She seeks authors with a strong point of view, a unique story, and an eye for language. |
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ROSE MARTULA was selected as one of "50 Playwrights To Watch" by the Dramatists Guild Magazine and is a former winner of the NYC Young Playwrights Festival. A recipient of two Audrey Skirball Playwriting Awards, she was nominated for the LARK Pony Fellowship in its inaugural year, and was a semi-finalist at PlayLabs at The Playwrights Center in MN, the Princess Grace Awards & The Chesterfield Film Project. Martula co-wrote with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Lanford Wilson, an adaptation of his play, Balm And Gilead, the year before his passing. She most recently wrote/directed & edited the web series It Girls. |
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KEN MONDSCHEIN is a writer, scholar, and college professor, as well as a professional fencing coach. He received his PhD in history from Fordham University, was a Fulbright scholar to France and has taught, inter alia, at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His work has appeared in print publications such as Renaissance Magazine and the late, lamented New York Press; online outlets such as McSweeney's and Medievalists.net; and in Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland's DODO files. He's written around a dozen academic and non-academic books, including On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping (Johns Hopkins), Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War (McFarland), several translations of medieval and early modern fencing treatises, and also introductions to Canterbury Classics literature.
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NAILA MOREIRA's middle-grade novel THE MONARCHS OF WINGHAVEN, about two children who bond over their love of nature-watching as they try to save a plot of land in their town, while recording their observations in illustrated journal pages throughout, is forthcoming from Walker Books US in spring 2022. Moreira teaches at Smith College and has been writer-in-residence at the Shoals Marine Laboratory and Forbes Library in Northampton MA. Her second chapbook, Water Street, won the New England Poetry Club Jean Pedrick Prize. She’s also worked as a journalist, environmental consultant, and Seattle Aquarium docent, and holds a doctorate in geology. |
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GIULIETTA NARDONE has been leading writing programs on-line and in person since 2008. Her personal essays and short memoirs have been featured in publications such as Psychology Today, Spirituality & Health Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine, Purple Shamrock, Christian Science Monitor, Chicken Soup For the Soul and broadcast on public radio. Her non-fiction book, Feel More Alive! 30 Brilliant Ways To Reignite Your Inner Spark was released by Citrine Publishing in October 2020. |
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LAWRENCE “DOC” PRUYNE is the author of two novels and about 900 short pieces, including fiction, teaching exercises, journalism and creative non-fiction, interested in the interplay between writing and film. He's taught at the university level for seven years, and holds a PhD in Writing, Teaching and Literature. His dissertation explored the process of adapting fiction for the screen. He was the first to lead a seminar dedicated to screenwriting at the University at Albany. Subsequently, he earned a certificate in digital film-making from the Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts, after which his thesis film debuted at the S.N.O.B. Film Festival. His screenplays have placed in many competitions, and he's the winner of a number of writing awards. In the last twenty-five years Pruyne has also worked on dozens of media productions and consulted on many writing projects.
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FRANCINE PUCKLY is a contemporary YA writer, management consultant, trainer, blogger and co-founder of 24CarrotWriting.com. She is life-long avid user of planning and goal-setting strategies and has faithfully kept a writer’s notebook for nearly two decades. Francine is a long-time member of SCBWI. She co-directed the 2007 and 2008 SCBWI New England conferences and served as an Assistant Regional Advisor for SCBWI New England from 2009-2018. Her publishing credits include more than 50 humor essays which have appeared in numerous regional magazines and newspapers. For more goal-setting and writing strategies, visit Francine at www.francinepuckly.com. |
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SARA RAUCH's prose has appeared in Hobart, Gravel, Split Lip, So to Speak, Luna Luna, and more. She holds an MFA from Pacific University, and her debut story collection, What Shines From It, is forthcoming in early 2019 from Alternating Current Press. She lives with her family in Holyoke MA. Find her online at www.sararauch.com. |
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JENNIFER ROSNER is the author of the novel, The Yellow Bird Sings (Macmillan/Flatiron Books, forthcoming March 2020) and the memoir, If A Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard (Feminist Press). Her children's book, The Mitten String (Random House), is a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable. Jennifer's writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, The Forward, Good Housekeeping, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University. She currently teaches the Bard-sponsored Clemente Course in the Humanities, a college-level course for women living in economic distress, at The Care Center in Holyoke, MA. |
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ARYA SAMUELSON is the winner of the CutBank’s 2019 Montana Prize in Non-Fiction, awarded by Cheryl Strayed. Her work has also been published in Columbia Journal, New Delta Review, Entropy, and The Millions. She is a proud graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program from Mills College and has been studying at Lidia Yuknavitch’s school of Corporeal Writing since 2017. She teaches with LitReactor, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and through her own teaching series, Writing as Ritual. Arya writes across all genres and is currently working on a novel. www.aryasamuelson.com |
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RUTH SANDERSON is an author and illustrator with over 85 published children’s books. She is a graduate of the Paier College of Art. Among her many picture books for children are A Castle Full of Cats, The Enchanted Wood (winner of the Bank Street College Award and the Young Hoosiers Award), The Snow Princess, and The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring (winner of the Texas Bluebonnet Award). She is currently working on writing and illustrating a picture book biography of nineteenth century artist Rosa Bonheur, and a retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves for young adults. Ruth teaches in the summer MFA program in Writing and Illustrating for Children at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She lives with her husband in Easthampton, MA. Her website is www.ruthsanderson.com |
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CAROLINE BELLE STEWART's stories can be found in Fairy Tale Review, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Hobart, No Tokens, Big Big Wednesday, Mistress, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook "Husbandly Things" (Factory Hollow Press) and co-author of a deck of narrative divinatory birding flashcards called "Mast Year: A Mystical Field Guide" (Mount Analogue Press). A recipient of fellowships from Monson Arts, I-Park, and the MacDowell Colony, she lives in Northampton, MA. |
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DENNIS JAMES SWEENEY is the author of In the Antarctic Circle, winner of the Autumn House Press Rising Writer Prize (forthcoming in 2021), as well as four chapbooks of poetry and prose. His nonfiction has appeared in The Southern Review and Witness; his poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review and The New York Times; and his fiction has appeared in Crazyhorse and Indiana Review, among others. A Small Press Editor for Entropy and former Fulbright grantee, he holds an MFA from Oregon State University and a PhD from the University of Denver. Find him online at www.dennisjamessweeney.com |
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FUNGAI TICHIWANGANA is a writer, journalist, and web developer who has lived in Western MA since 2018. In June 2020 he launched Valley of Writers, a project aimed at sharing tools, ideas and success stories with writers in the Pioneer Valley and beyond. He has managed numerous online projects to support art & culture initiatives and in 2015 was awarded a Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard. He is passionate about teaching artists and creatives how to use online tools to expose their work to new audiences. |
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GAIL THOMAS published books are: Odd Mercy, Waving Back, No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley, and Finding the Bear. Odd Mercy, chosen by Ellen Bass, won the Charlotte Mew Prize of Headmistress Press, and Waving Back was named a Must Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and Honorable Mention by the New England Book Festival. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Calyx, The North American Review, Italian Americana, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Individual poems have won national prizes, and she has been a fellow at The McDowell Colony and Ucross. You may read more about her work at www.gailthomaspoet.com. |
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ERIC MAX WILLIAMS is a fiction and software writer who teaches workshops in Scrivener, for writers. He aims to distill his years using and beta testing Scrivener to demonstrate workflows for both short-form and longer writing. His goal is to help you finish your story before he finishes his own (but only by a day or two). He promises it’s not that scary. |
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CAROLYN ZAIKOWSKI is is the author of the hybrid novels In Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, West Branch, DIAGRAM, Everyday Feminism, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and is currently an English professor and volunteer death doula. Find her online at www.carolynzaikowski.com. |
Community Partners
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