Ron Tanner, President, Northeast Representative
Loyola College
Ron Tanner has published stories widely in such magazines as the Iowa Review and Story Quarterly. His work has also appeared in the Pushcart Prizes and other anthologies. Most recently, he won the 2007 Jack Dyer Prize for Short Fiction and the 2007 Towson Prize in Literature. His collection of stories, A Bed of Nails, is in its second printing. He is the chair of the Writing Department at Loyola College-Maryland.
Rane Arroyo, Vice President, Midwest Representative
University of Toledo
Rane Arroyo is the author of four poetry books: Home Movies of Narcissus; Pale Ramón; The Singing Shark; and Columbus’s Orphan. His new book, The Portable Famine, won the 2004 John Ciardi Poetry Prize. His first book of short stories is entitled How To Name A Hurricane. He has written numerous plays that have been performed nationally and internationally, and his work has been published in anthologies and literary magazines. His awards include: the 1997 Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize and Pushcart Prize, Stonewall Books Chapbook Prize; the Sonora Review Chapbook Contest Award; the George Houston Bass Award; the Hart Crane Memorial Award for “Le Mal de Siam”; and the 2004 Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for a Poem for “The Immigrants (Winter Wear).” He is a Professor at the University of Toledo, where he is the Director of Creative Writing, and he teaches at Spalding University’s Brief-Residency MFA Program.
Catherine Brady,
Vice President,
Pacific West Representative
University of San Francisco
Catherine Brady’s first collection of stories, The End of the Class War, was a finalist for the 1999 Western States Book Award in Fiction. Her second collection, Curled in the Bed of Love, is cowinner of the 2002 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories 2004 and numerous literary journals. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco and serves as AWP Board Member Elect.
Donald Morrill, Treasurer, Southeast Representative
University of Tampa
Donald Morrill is the author of two volumes of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky and With Your Back to Half the Day, as well as three books of nonfiction, The Untouched Minutes (winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Award), Sounding for Cool, and A Stranger's Neighborhood. He has served as a foreign expert at Jilin University, Peoples Republic of China, and as a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Lodz, Poland. Recently, he was the Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. For many years, he directed the Writers at the University series at the University of Tampa, and has been a poetry editor of Tampa Review and the University of Tampa Press Poetry Series. Currently, he is Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa.
Dinty W. Moore, Secretary, Individual Membership Representative
Ohio University
Dinty W. Moore is Professor of English at Ohio University and a low-residency instructor for the University of New Orleans' San Miguel de Allende Summer Writing Workshops. He has published three books of creative nonfiction, Between Panic and Desire, The Accidental Buddhist and The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, a short story collection, Toothpick Men, and the textbook, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. His essays and stories have been published in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Utne Reader, Arts & Letters, and Crazyhorse, among others. He also edits Brevity, the on-line journal of concise creative nonfiction. He is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Francisco Aragón, Individual Members' Representative
Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
Francisco Aragón is the author of Puerta del Sol and the Editor of an anthology, The Wind Shifts: The New Latino Poetry. His poems have appeared in a range of anthologies, including: Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies; American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement; Bend, Don’t Shatter; Evensong: American Poets on Spirituality; and Deep Travel: Contemporary Poets Abroad. In the area of literary translation, he has published a number of books, including three by Francisco X. Alarcon: Body in Flames, Of Dark Love, and Sonnets to Madness and other Misfortunes. His limited edition chapbooks include Tertulia and Light, Yogurt, Strawberry Milk. His honors include an Academy of American Poets Prize and an AWP Intro Journals Project Award. Francisco Aragón is currently the Director of Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he oversees, among other projects, Momotombo Press.
Terry Blackhawk, Individual Members' Representative
InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Terry Blackhawk is the author of three collections of poems—Body & Field, Escape Artist, and The Dropped Hand; two chapbooks (including a Greatest Hits from Pudding House Press); and poems and essays featured in anthologies from Teachers & Writers Collaborative and elsewhere. Her honors include the Foley Poetry Award, a National Endowment for the Humanities Teacher-Scholar Award, the Michigan Governors' Award in Arts Education, four Pushcart Prize nominations, and a Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs Artist-in-Residence grant. Terry Blackhawk is the Executive Director and founder of InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a writers-in-schools program serving students in Detroit's public schools.
Kathryn Kysar,
Individual Membership Representative
Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Kathryn Kysar is the author of a book of poetry Dark Lake and the editor of a collection of essays, Riding Shotgun: Women Writing about Their Mothers. Her poems have been heard on A Writer's Almanac and published in many literary magazines including Great River Review, Midland Review, Mizna, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Talking Stick. A winner of the Lake Superior Writer's and SASE poetry contests, Kysar has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Norcroft, The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts.
Roger Lathbury, AWP/GMU Liaison
George Mason University
Roger Lathbury teaches at George Mason University & he is the publisher of Orchises Press.
Denise Low-Weso, Individual Members' Representative
Haskell Indian Nations
Denise Low is the author of a collection of essays, Words of a Prairie Alchemist, and two collections of poems, Thailand Journal and New & Selected Poems, 1980-1999. She edited Wakarusa Wetlands in Word & Image for the Lawrence Arts Center’s Imagination & Place Committee. In 2004, she was the guest co-editor of Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, a special issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, UCLA, 28.1. Her articles, essays, and reviews of American Indian literature appear in Studies in American Indian Literature, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Indian Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, Kansas City Star, and others. Denise Low is a member of the Prairie Writers Circle of The Land Institute and the chair of the English Department at Haskell Indian Nations University, where she also teaches creative writing and American Indian Studies courses.
Kevin McIlvoy, West Representative
New Mexico State University
Kevin McIlvoy is Regents Professor in the New Mexico State University Writing MFA and has taught undergraduate and graduate writers for twenty-three years. He has published four novels, A Waltz, The Fifth Station, Little Peg, and Hyssop. His story collection, The Complete History Of New Mexico, is forthcoming. His short fiction has recently appeared in various literary journals, and in the anthology, The Story Behind The Story.
Advocacy
David Fenza, Chair
Francisco Aragon
Terry Blackhawk
Professional Standards
Catherine Brady, Chair
Rane Arroyo
Kevin McIlvoy
Don Morrill
Ron Tanner
Nominations and Documents
Dinty W. Moore, Chair
Kate Kysar
Denise Low
Don Morrill
David Fenza
Matt Burriesci
Development
David Fenza, Chair
Terry Blackhawk
Kate Kysar
Matt Burriesci
Publications
Roger Lathbury, Chair
Denise Low
Dinty Moore
Don Morrill
Supriya Bhatnagar
Personnel
Ron Tanner, Chair
Roger Lathbury
Kevin McIlvoy
Membership
Ron Tanner, Chair
Terry Ryan
Christian Teresi
Conference
Rane Arroyo, Co-chair
Randy Albers, Co-chair
Quraysh Ali-Lansana
Francisco Aragon
Catherine Brady
Kate Kysar
Ellen Marks
Don Morrill
David Fenza
Alycia Tessean
Strategic Planning
Ron Tanner, Chair
Rane Arroyo
Terry Blackhawk
Roger Lathbury
David Fenza
Matt Burriesci
Finance
Don Morrill, Chair
Roger Lathbury
Dinty Moore
David Fenza
Matt Burriesci
Josh Baugher
Pedagogy
Kevin McIlvoy, Chair
Kate Brady
Translation and International Literature
Kate Kysar, Chair
Francisco Aragon
Rane Arroyo
Denise Low-Weso
