MFA in Creative Writing Program
802-322-1693 I am deeply committed to the kind of transformational learning. Read More....
I advise my playwriting students to read plays, see plays in performance, write honestly and rewrite bravely. Read More....
I am a First Amendment absolutist. I believe in creative freedom. Let the writing answer to the writer's vision, and damn the torpedos. Read More....
I like to rip apart plays and movies to see how they work technically and I encourage my students to do the same. Read More....
I have currently been collaborating a lot with artists in different disciplines. Read More....
I always keep in mind the lessons of critical consciousness and democratic dialogue. Read More....
I love the stage picture and all the elements of performance that one can bring into an evocative piece of theatre. Read More....
Much of my work has been concerned with the
body, as both subject and metaphor. Read More....
As a teacher, I try and discern where a writer is going, and then guide them towards the best form to carry the story. Read More....
Individuality, authenticity, and risk are the three qualities that interest me the most. Read More....
I support my students both in the space before writing begins and at the places where their work approaches some kind of limit. Read More....
 Susan Kim, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Teaching dramatic writing isn’t like instructing someone how to ride a bicycle or mend a broken pipe. Read More....
I was in love with the possibilities in the genres we were teaching because so many students were making manuscripts they couldn’t call one thing. Read More....
I am a screenwriter and playwright. My film credits include the popular comedy Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Read More....
What a writer needs to hear is not so much what a teacher likes as what works, and what doesn't. Read More....
Writing enlarges us so that we can imagine other futures, or simply better understand what is now. Read More....
micheline.aharonianmarcom@goddard.edu I believe that those of us who us who spend our lives using words to make art and story benefit greatly from collaboration and exchange. Read More....
In teaching I focus on an open exchange and sharing of ideas, a critical empowering through prompting self-questioning. Read More....
I encourage writers to make decisions and not to brood. I am a big believer in the bold theatrical moment. Read More....
I hesitate to give any sweeping delcaration about pedagogy because I believe an individual approach is best. Read More....
I begin working with a student by asking what she or he most passionately wants to do. Read More....
Genres can be opened up, reshuffled, combined into meta-genres. Read More....
The editor said, “Think of it as an essay,” and I haven’t looked back. Read More....
Rachel Pollack, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option Against the familiar dictum to 'write what you know best,' I advise people to write what they care about most deeply. Read More....
As a teacher, my initial focus is to help each student strip away analysis (and self consciousness) and find the unique urgency in her or his work. Read More....
selah.saterstrom@goddard.edu I resonate with the notion that the writer dreams on behalf of culture. Read More....
I like it when students bring outside concerns into their writing so as to expand their work outward beyond emotion or self exploration. Read More....
In teaching I focus on close readings of master stories. Read More....
I concentrate on the intersections between art and craft, the interaction between the individual's vision and portrayal of that vision. Read More.... |
Paul Selig, Program Director
Kyle Bass, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Ryan Boudinot, Plainfield, Vermont & Port Townsend, Washington Residency Options
Deborah Brevoort, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option 
Rebecca Brown, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Jan Clausen, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Darrah Cloud, Port Townsend, Washington Residency Option
Kenny Fries - On Leave for Spring 2010, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Beatrix Gates, Port Townsend, Washington Residency Option
Elena Georgiou, Plainfield, Vermont & Port Townsend, Washington Residency Options
Bhanu Kapil, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Michael Klein - On Leave for Spring 2010, Washington Only, Plainfield, Vermont & Port Townsend, Washington Residency Options
Neil Landau, Port Townsend, Washington Residency Option
Aimee Liu, Port Townsend, Washington Residency Option
Jeanne Mackin - On Leave for Spring 2010, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Port Townsend, Washington Residency Option
Douglas A. Martin, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Rogelio Martinez, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
John McManus, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Nicola Morris, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option
Victoria Nelson - Port Townsend, Washington Residency Option
Richard Panek, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option 
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Plainfield, Vermont & Port Townsend, Washington Residency Options
Selah Saterstrom, Port Townsend, Washington Residency Option
Juliana Spahr, Port Townsend, Washington Residency Option
Darcey Steinke, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option 
Jane Wohl, Plainfield, Vermont Residency Option