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Algonkian Faculty 2006
Kathleen Anderson
 Agent Kathleen Anderson has been in the publishing business since 1979--first as an editor at W.W. Norton, and then as a senior editor at Poseidon. Her agency, Anderson Grinberg Literary Management, represents more than 100 authors, and they are actively looking for literary fiction, general women's fiction, and commercial fiction (psychological suspense, romantic suspense, historical romance, and chick-lit).
Lisa Bankoff
 Lisa Bankoff has been a major force on the literary book scene for twenty years as an agent for International Creative Management (ICM). Her current clients include Elizabeth Berg, Doug Brinkley, Claire Cook, John Colapinto, Chris Hedges, Laura Kasischke, J. Robert Lennon, David Lipsky, Ann Patchett, Mike Perry, Anne Roiphe, and Anne Ursu, nearly all of whom she has repped since book one.
Robert Bausch
 Robert Bausch has taught literature and creative writing at George Mason University, The University of Virginia, and The American University. He is the author of six novels, including ON THE WAY HOME, THE LIVES OF RILEY CHANCE, A HOLE IN THE EARTH, THE GYPSY MAN (winner of the 2003 DLB Award for Distinguished Fiction). His collection of short stories, THE WHITE ROOSTER AND OTHER STORIES won the DLB Award for Distinguished Short Fiction in 1995.
Walter Cummins
 Walter Cummins is Emeritus Professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University as well as editor emeritus of THE LITERARY REVIEW. He has published approximately 100 stories in such magazines as KANSAS QUARTERLY, OTHER VOICES, CROSSCURRENTS, FLORIDA REVIEW, SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, and many more. His story collections are titled WITNESS and WHERE WE LIVE. Early in his career, two novels, A STRANGER TO THE DEED and INTO TEMPTATION, came out as paperback originals. He also has published memoirs, essays, articles, and reviews.
Elise Capron
 Elise Capron is an agent for the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency--widely regarded as the best on the west coast. Their authors include Amy Tan, Kate White, Janell Cannon, and many more. Elise is list-building and looking for new manuscripts. She is Sandra's assistant and specializes in literary and women's fiction.
Elizabeth Evans
 Award winning author Elizabeth Evans has published three novels with HarperCollins:SUICIDE'S GIRLFRIEND, ROWING IN EDEN, and CARTER CLAY, which was selected by The Los Angeles Times for "The Best Books of 1999." Other works include THE BLUE HOUR (Algonquin) and the story collection LOCOMOTION (New Rivers). Her awards include an NEA Fellowship and a James Michener Fellowship.
Alex Glass
 Alex Glass began his publishing career at the Putnam Berkley Publishing Group. He served three years in the NEA literature department where he helped award over seventy federal grants to American writers. He joined Trident Media Group in 2001 as an assistant to Robert Gottlieb. His interests include literary and select commercial fiction. He was a fellow in creative writing at American University, where he received an MFA . Recent sales include TWINS, a first novel by Marcy Dermansky to William Morrow; GOODBYE STRANGER, a first novel by Matt Bondurant to Hyperion; and RUBY TUESDAY, a first novel by Jennifer Anne Kogler to HarperCollins.
Deborah Grosvenor
 Deborah Grosvenor has worked in the book publishing industry for over twenty years, as an agent, an editor, and selling foreign and subsidiary rights. As an editor, her best-known acquisition was a first work of fiction, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy, when she was director of book acquisitions and subsidiary rights at the Naval Institute Press. Deborah also signed up best-selling author Homer Hickham's first work, TORPEDO JUNCTION, and helped launch best-selling author Stephen Coonts's first novel, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER. The Grosvenor Literary Agency was formed in 1996, and has a stable of about three dozen authors. It handles commercial and literary fiction and nonfiction.
Donna Levin
 Donna Levin has published two novels with major New York houses, and has also published two books about writing, GET THAT NOVEL STARTED and GET THAT NOVEL WRITTEN. She has taught fiction writing for ten years at University of California and hosts the Literary Luncheon series at "A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books" in San Francisco.
JoAnn Mapson
 Best selling author JoAnn Mapson has written eight mainstream fiction novels including HANK AND CHLOE, THE WILDER SISTERS, and BAD GIRL CREEK--a 2002 Booksense 76 pick, as well as an alternate selection for Doubleday, Literary Guild, and Book of the Month Clubs. JoAnn authors a monthly column on the writing life for Art Matters and teaches in the MFA Program at UAA.
Darlin Neal
 Darlin Neal's fiction has appeared in THE SOUTHERN REVIEW, SHENANDOAH, PUERTO DEL SOL, NIGHT TRAIN, and other literary journals. She has taught writing and fiction at University of Mississippi, University of Arizona, JMU, New Mexico State, and is currently on the Artist Roster for the Mississippi Arts Commission. She served as a writer-in-residence for the NEA and Mississippi Arts Commission's AllWrite Program for literacy. She holds a doctorate from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MFA from the University of Arizona. Her students have gone on to win O'Henry and Mary McCarthy awards. Darlin will be leading the short fiction workshop.
Michael Neff
 Michael Neff is Editor-in-Chief of DEL SOL REVIEW, the founder and director of WEBDELSOL.COM (#10 in the Writer's Digest Fiction Top 50 and the largest publisher of periodical contemporary literature in the U.S.) and the founder and chief editor of ALGONKIAN WORKSHOPS. He is publisher of several national literary magazines at WEBDELSOL including IN POSSE REVIEW, DIAGRAM, LA PETITE ZINE, 5_TROPE, and DEL SOL REVIEW. His own work has appeared in THE LITERARY REVIEW, NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, MUDLARK, QUARTERLY WEST, PITTSBURGH QUARTERLY, CONJUNCTIONS, AND AMERICAN WAY MAGAZINE. In 2001, he served as the Writer's Digest Finalist Fiction Judge.
Kaley Noonan
 Kaley Noonan is a professional arts and entertainment writer who holds an M.A. in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College. Several of her short stories have appeared in 3AM MAGAZINE and DUCTS MAGAZINE and her first novel, THE GHOST TRAP, is currently being reviewed by literary agents. A veteran of several Algonkian workshops, she works closely with Michael Neff as an online editor for the e-workshops. She resides in Maine where she hosts "Fiction Nuggets," zine-inspired mini-fiction slams.
Charles Salzberg
 After graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in English, Charles broke into the world of magazine writing: NEW YORK MAGAZINE, ESQUIRE, NEW YORK, GQ, and a variety of others. This experience eventually led to books, the most recent ghostwritten book making the NYT bestseller list. Charles has been a Visiting Professor of writing at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence, The New York Writers Workshop, and the Writer's Voice. His clients for editorial work include such publishers and literary agencies as Viking/Penguin, Dell, Simon and Schuster, Henry Holt, St. Martin's, M. Evans, Trident Media Group, Peter Rubie Agency, Graybill & English, and the Spieler Agency, among others.
Terese Svoboda
 Terese Svoboda is the author of nine books. TIN GOD, her latest, is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press, spring 2006. She is the recipient of an O'Henry Prize, a Pushcart Award, three NYFA grants in poetry and fiction, the John Golden Award in playwriting, and the Iowa Prize in poetry. Currently Writer-in-Residence at Fordham, she has taught at William and Mary, SFSU, Sarah Lawrence, and FDU's program in Russia.
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