Alabama Writers' Conclave Conference July 17-19, 2009
Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park
8 Perimeter Park South, Birmingham AL 35243
MEET THE FACULTY
Gloria Ballard (creative nonfiction) is a native of Nashville, Tenn. where she enjoyed a 32-year career in journalism as a feature writer and editor at The Tennessean before leaving the newspaper business to become a freelance writer. During her career, she covered fashion, home design, gardening, travel and other features, and was Travel Editor at The Tennessean from 1998 until 2006. Currently, Gloria writes a weekly garden column for The Tennessean, garden and travel features, stories and essays, and leads writing workshops in travel writing and creative non-fiction. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee. Gloria also writes fiction, and was a 2005 participant at Sewanee Writers Conference. She is currently working on a variety of writing projects, serves on the Wilson County Black History Committee in Lebanon, Tenn., and is a member of Davidson County Master Gardeners.
Pamela Duncan (fiction) was born in Asheville and raised in Black Mountain, Swannanoa and Shelby, NC, and currently lives in Cullowhee, NC, where she teaches creative writing at Western Carolina University. She holds a BA in Journalism from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in English/Creative Writing from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Her first novel, Moon Women, was a Southeast Booksellers Association Award Finalist, and her second novel, Plant Life, won the 2003 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. She is the recipient of the 2007 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, awarded by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her third novel, The Big Beautiful, was published in March 2007.
Peter Huggins (poetry) teaches in the English Department at Auburn University. His books of poems are South, Louisiana Literature Press, 2009, Necessary Acts, River City Publishing, 2004, Blue Angels, River City Publishing, 2001, and Hard Facts, Livingston Press, 1998. In addition, he is the author of a novel for younger readers, In the Company of Owls, NewSouth/Junebug Books, 2008, and a picture book, Trosclair and the Alligator, Star Bright Books, 2006. For 2006 he won a literature fellowship in poetry from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Trosclair and the Alligator was selected as one of the best children's books in 2007 by the Cooperative Children's Book Center at UW-Madison and by the Bank Street College of Education; Trosclair was scheduled to appear on the fall 2008 season of the PBS show Between the Lions.
Thomas Lakeman (fiction) is the author of The Shadow Catchers (St. Martin's Press, 2006) and Chillwater Cove (2007). After earning his B.A. from the University of the South (Sewanee), Thomas studied Theatre in Great Britain and Ireland on a Thomas J. Watson fellowship, then received my M.F.A. in Playwriting from Carnegie-Mellon University. He spent some time in California where he worked in the entertainment marketing field and produced the Internet's first fully animated series, Madeleine's Mind. Thomas also taught literature and creative writing at the University of South Alabama for four years and currently writes full-time at his home on the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Gin Phillips (writer in residence) is a freelance writer whose stories have appeared in Southern Living, American Profile, American Spirit, Platinum, and Woman's World. Her first novel, The Well and the Mine, was published by Hawthorne Books in February 2008. The book has been reviewed in the L.A. Times, Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers, and O Magazine. It was also named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Gin lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
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