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Shara McCallum
Director
Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of This Strange Land (Alice James Books, 2011), Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999). A fourth book, The Face of Water: New & Selected Poems, is forthcoming (Peepal Tree Press, UK, September 2011). She is the recipient of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, individual artist grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and an Academy of American Poets Prize, and has been a Cave Canem Fellow and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. McCallum was on the permanent faculty of the MFA program at the University of Memphis and the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine and has served as visiting faculty for the Catskill Poetry Workshop, the West Virginia Writers Workshop, the Frost Place, and the Chautauqua Writer's Center. She lives with her family in Pennsylvania, where she teaches and directs the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University.
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Andrew Ciotola
Operations Manager
Ciotola received his BA from Gettsyburg College, where he graduated with honors in English literature, and his MA in English from Bucknell University. As operations manager, he oversees the daily business of the Stadler Center. He is also the managing editor and book review editor for West Branch, Bucknell's nationally distinguished literary journal. Though a native of New York state, Ciotola is a longtime resident of Central Pennsylvania.
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Jamaal May
Stadler Fellow 2011-12
Jamaal May is a Cave Canem Fellow, Callaloo Fellow, and graduate from Warren Wilson's MFA for writers. He is the author of a poetry chapbook, The God Engine (Pudding House Press, 2009), and editor of the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Series. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Indiana Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Blackbird, and Verse Daily among other magazines and anthologies. May has received two scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, an International Publication Prize from Atlanta Review, and was a finalist for the 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship.
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Diana Park
Stadler Fellow 2011-12 (Second Year)
Diana Park grew up in New Jersey and Guam, attended Johns Hopkins University, and earned an MFA at Arizona State University, where she co-founded the International section of Hayden's Ferry Review. She is a recipient of a Kundiman fellowship, a Fulbright fellowship, and a MacDowell Colony residency. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Indiana Review, and elsewhere.
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G. C. Waldrep
Editor, West Branch & Director, Seminar for Younger Poets
G. C. Waldrep is the author of four full-length collections: Goldbeater's Skin (winner of the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry); Disclamor (2007); Archicembalo (2009, winner of the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press); and, in collaboration with John Gallaher, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, 2011). His work has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Academy of American Poets, the Campbell Corner Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, as well as a Pushcart Prize and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Waldrep holds a Ph.D. in American history from Duke University and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. At Bucknell, he is the Margaret Ley Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing, editor of West Branch, and director of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. He also serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.
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Associated Faculty & Staff
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Christopher Camuto
Associated Faculty
Christopher Camuto is the author of four works of nonfiction, A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge (1990), Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains (1997), Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains (2003), and Time & Tide in Acadia: Seasons on Mount Desert Island (2009) and numerous essays. He lives at Wolftree Farm where he manages an 80-acre eco-restoration project about which he is writing in Works & Days: Notes on a Woodland Farm. He is also at work on a memoir about travel in southern Italy and Sicily, a meditation on the relation of pre-Socratic philosophy and landscape, as well as two volumes of verse—A Hunter's Book of Hours and Learning to Travel. He joined the faculty of Bucknell in 2004.
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Paula Closson Buck
Associated Faculty
Paula Closson Buck is the author of two books of poems, The Acquiescent Villa (1998) and Litanies Near Water (2008), both from Louisiana State University Press. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Laurel Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Gettysburg Review, among other magazines. She is at work on new poems as well as a novel, set in Greece and West Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and some personal essays on wintering in Greece. A professor of English at Bucknell, she teaches creative writing (poetry, fiction, and nonfiction).
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Carmen Gillespie
Associated Faculty
Carmen Gillespie is a professor of English, director of the Griot Institute for Africana Studies, and University Arts Coordinator. In addition to article and poem publications, she is the author of the scholarly works A Critical Companion to Toni Morrison (2007), A Critical Companion to Alice Walker (2011), and the editor of The Clearing: Forty Years with Toni Morrison, 1970 - 2010 (2011). Carmen has also published a poetry chapbook, Lining the Rails (2008) and a poetry collection, Jonestown: A Vexation, which won the 2011 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize. Carmen's awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Excellence in Poetry and grants from the NEH, the Mellon Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and a Fulbright scholar. Essence named Carmen one of its 40 favorite poets in commemoration of the magazine's 40th anniversary.
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Deirdre O'Connor
Associate Director, Seminar for Younger Poets
Deirdre O'Connor's book, Before the Blue Hour, was the winner of the Cleveland State Poetry Prize for 2001. Her work has appeared in Poetry, NaturalBridge, Painted Bride Quarterly, and other journals. Her new manuscript of poems, "The Mouth of the Sparrow," is seeking a publisher and has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Vassar Miller Prize, and others. She is director of the Bucknell Writing Center and associate director of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets.
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Robert Rosenberg
Associated Faculty
Robert Rosenberg is Assistant Professor of English and teaches fiction courses at Bucknell. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan, as a Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, and has taught in both Istanbul and on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. His short fiction has appeared in Witness, Cimarron Review, and Copper Nickel. His novel, This is Not Civilization (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), was a Borders Original Voices, a BookSense, and a New York Times Paperback Row selection. He is currently at work on a novel set in Istanbul, for which he was awarded a 2010 NEA Literature Fellowship.
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Claire Watkins
Associated Faculty
Claire Vaye Watkins is a Nevadan whose fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, One Story, The Paris Review and elsewhere. She holds a BA from the University of Nevada, Reno and an MFA from Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Watkins' collection of short stories, Battleborn, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books.
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