FACULTY

Holly Black is the author of contemporary fantasy novels for teens and younger kids. Her books include The Modern Faerie Tale series, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and the graphic novel series, The Good Neighbors. She lives in Amherst with her husband, Theo, in a house with a secret door.

Kelly Link is the author of Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and the young adult collection, Pretty Monsters (Penguin). With her partner, Gavin J. Grant, Kelly runs Small Beer Press and co-edits the zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet as well as the fantasy half of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martins). Her short stories have won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and James Tiptree, Jr. Awards. Recent work has appeared in Firebirds Rising, Tin House, The Restless Dead, and Best American Short Stories. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Alex Phillips is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Dean's Book Course at Commonwealth College, the honors college at the University of Massachusetts.  His poetry and translations have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Open City, jubilat,and in Ted Kooser's newspaper column American Life in Poetry.  His chapbook Under a Paper Trellis is published by Factory Hollow Press.

Shauna Seliy is the author of the novel When We Get There (Bloomsbury). Her work has appeared in Other Voices, Meridian, New Orleans Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. From 2003-2004 she was the Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. She teaches creative writing at Northwestern University.

Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts. Factory Hollow Press published her chapbook Disposition for Shininess. She received a Poets & Writers grant in 2008 and was awarded the 2007 Pavel Strut Fellowship in Poetry. In 2006 she received a Walker Foundation Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a writing residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. In 2005, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Third Coast, The Drunken Boat, Meridians, and African Voices. Additionally, her poems are featured in the anthology and staged production of Fingernails Across A Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora.