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Shara McCallum, Director
Shara McCallum has published two books of poems, Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003) and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999, winner of the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize) and personal essays in The Antioch Review, Creative Nonfiction, Witness, and elsewhere. Her poems appear in literary journals in the US and abroad, have been reprinted in over twenty anthologies of American, African American, Caribbean, and World poetry, and have been translated into Spanish and Romanian. Originally from Jamaica, she directs the Stadler Center and teaches creative writing and literature at Bucknell University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.
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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 distributed literary journal. Ciotola is a native of New York's Hudson Valley.
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Will Schutt, Stadler Fellow, 2009-10
Will Schutt is a poet and translator from New York City. He earned his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA from Hollins University, where he was a teaching fellow and editorial assistant at The Hollins Critic. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Faultline, FIELD, Harvard Review and The Southern Review. In 2003, he co-founded Verso, a culture and arts magazine based in Siena, Italy, where he was a contributing editor and translator until 2007. He guest edited the “Focus” section of the summer 2008 issue of A Public Space, which featured a selection of his translations of contemporary Italian fiction. He is also the recipient of the 2008 Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
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Katie Hays, Stadler Emerging Writer, 2009-10
A native of southeast Pennsylvania, K. A. Hays is the author of Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009). Poems from the book appear or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2009, The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry, The Missouri Review, Best New Poets 2007, and Southern Review. Her verse translations and fiction have appeared in GulfCoast, Hudson Review, Fugue, and elsewhere. An MFA graduate of the literary arts program at Brown, she currently holds the Stadler Emerging Writer Fellowship.
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Associated Faculty & Staff
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Christopher Camuto, Associate Faculty
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). He is a contributing editor to Gray’s Sporting Journal, whose book review column he has written since 1995. He has written the “Watersheds” column in Trout Unlimited’s Trout since 1998. Among other projects, he is currently restoring the native ecology of a 78-acre woodland farm in central Pennsylvania, labor he is chronicling in a work-in-progress tentatively entitled “Works & Days: Redeeming Nature.” He joined the faculty of Bucknell’s English Department and Creative Writing program in 2004.
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Paula Closson Buck, Editor, West Branch
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, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. She is also at work on a novel and a memoir. An associate professor of English at Bucknell, she teaches creative writing.
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Carmen Gillespie, Associate Faculty
Carmen R. Gillespie, a professor of English at Bucknell, is a scholar of American, African American, and Caribbean literatures and cultures and a creative writer. Her book publications include A Critical Companion to Toni Morrison (2007), A Critical Companion to Alice Walker (2009), and a poetry chapbook, Lining the Rails. Among her honors are poetry fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and awards and grants from the Fulbright Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. She is fortunate to share her life with her husband, Harold Bakst, and daughters, Chelsea and Delaney.
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Deirdre O'Connor, Associate Director, Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets
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, "Notes on Disappearance" 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, Associate Faculty
Rosenberg is Assistant Professor of English and teaches fiction courses at Bucknell. He holds an M.F.A. 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 first novel, This is Not Civilization (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), was a Borders Original Voices Selection, a BookSense selection, and a Powell's #1 Staff Pick of the Year. He is currently at work on a novel set in Istanbul. His fiction and reviews have appeared in places as diverse as Witness, The Miami Herald, and The Moscow Times.
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Porochista Khakpour, Associate Faculty
Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader, Paper, Flaunt, Nylon, Bidoun, Canteen, nerve.com and FiveChapters.com, among others. She has been awarded fellowships from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, Northwestern University, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Yaddo. Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic) -- a New York Times "Editor's Choice," Chicago Tribune "Fall's Best," and 2007 California Book Award winner -- is out in paperback. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell.
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G. C. Waldrep, Director, Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets; Associated Faculty
G. C. Waldrep is the author of Goldbeater's Skin (winner of the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry), Disclamor (2007), and Archicembalo (winner of the 2008 Dorset Prize, just out in spring 2009 from Tupelo Press). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, APR, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, New England Review, New American Writing, and other journals. 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. He held a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. At Bucknell, he teaches creative writing and directs the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets.
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