Visiting Writer Series

2008 - 2009

Rick Barot

September 18, 2008

7:00pm Museum of Art, Pullman, WA

Rick Barot

Photograph by David Borrelli

RICK BAROT was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first book, The Darker Fall, was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and was published by Sarabande Books in 2002. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New England Review, The New Republic, Poetry, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has also appeared in many anthologies, including The New Young American Poets, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, and Legitimate Dangers. In 2001 he received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught at Stanford University, California College of the Arts, The George Washington University, and Lynchburg College. He lives in Tacoma,Washington, and teaches both in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at Pacific Lutheran University.

Reference: http://sarabandebooks.org/Authors/Rick%20Barot/downloads

Brandon Schrand

October 16, 2008

7:00pm Museum of Art, Pullman, WA

Brandon Schrand

Photograph by Krysta Ficca, 2007.

Brandon R. Schrand is the author of The Enders Hotel: A Memoir, the 2007 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize winner and a summer 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Dallas Morning News, The Utne Reader, Tin House, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, River Teeth, Ecotone, Oklahoma Review, Isotope, and numerous other publications. He has won the Wallace Stegner Prize, the 2006 Willard R. Espy Award, a Pushcart Prize, two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and his essay, “The Enders Hotel,” the title piece from his memoir, was a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays 2007. A two-time grant recipient of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, he lives in Moscow, Idaho with his wife and two children where he coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Idaho.

Reference: http://brandonrschrand.com/about-the-author/

Buddy Levy

November, 6, 2008

7:00pm Museum of Art, Pullman, WA

Buddy Levy

For nearly two decades Buddy Levy’s writing has appeared in national, international, and regional publications, as well as on a variety of web sites. Levy specializes in books, essays, profiles, and features on history, sports and the outdoors, as well as feature articles on travel, lifestyle, and culture. He is the author of, most recently, American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (Putnam, 2005). His newest book, in production, is Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Conquest of the Aztec Nation (Bantam Dell/Random House, 2008). His first book was Echoes on Rimrock: In Pursuit of the Chukar Partridge (Pruett, 1998).

As a journalist, Levy has covered the Arctic Team Challenge, Greenland 2004; the World Ride and Tie Championships 2004; the Chugach Mountain Festival and World Free Ski Championships 2003; the Discovery Channel World Championships Adventure Race (Switzerland 2001) the Marathon des Sables Morocco 2000; the Eco-Challenge (New Zealand 2001, Borneo 2000, Patagonia 1999, Morocco 1998); the Elf Authentic Adventure (Brazil 2000, Philippines 1999). He has written for GRB Entertainment, Eco-Challenge Productions, the Discovery Channel, and has been a correspondent for MountainZone.com. His feature writing has appeared in a wide range of magazines and literary journals, including the Utne Reader, SKI, Northern Lights, TV Guide, Big Sky Journal, Backpacker, Paddler, Runner’s World, Poets & Writers, River Teeth, and Writer’s Digest.

Levy ’s essay “Leaps of Faith” was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize. A clinical assistant professor, Buddy Levy teaches writing and literature at Washington State University.

Reference: http://www.buddylevy.com/biography.html

Sherry Simpson

Spring 2009

Llya Kaminski

March 2008

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