Literature: FY 2012 Grants Panelists

Translation Projects in Prose and Poetry Panel A May 18-19, 2011

Cyrus Cassells Poet, Translator Professor of English Texas State University – San Marcos Austin, TX William Coyle Poet, Translator Staff Assistant to the English Department  Salem State University Somerville, MA Cristina de la Torre  Translator Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Emory University Atlanta, GA Olga Grushin Novelist, Short Story writer, Interpreter Silver Spring, MD Michael Henry Heim Translator Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Seetha Srinivasan (Layperson) Director Emerita University Press of Mississippi Jackson, MS

Translation Projects in Prose and Poetry Panel B May 20, 2011

Cyrus Cassells Poet, Translator Professor of English Texas State University – San Marcos Austin, TX Cristina de la Torre  Translator Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Emory University Atlanta, GA Jason Grunebaum  Translator, Short Story Writer Senior Lecturer University of Chicago Chicago, IL Seetha Srinivasan (Layperson) Director Emerita University Press of Mississippi Jackson, MS Wang Ping  Translator, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet Associate Professor of English Macalaster College St. Paul, MN

Art Works, Panel A1 August 3-4, 2011

Francisco Aragón Editor, Poet Director, Letras Latinas Institute for Latino Studies University of Notre Dame Arlington, VA Marc Fitten  Novelist, Editor Marietta, GA Pam Jolley (Layperson)  Arts Patron, Copyeditor Director Saratoga Charitable Foundation Seattle, WA Nicole Mary Kelby  Novelist, Blogger  St. Paul, MN Lisa Page  President PEN/Faulkner Foundation Visiting Professor George Washington University Takoma Park, MD Ira Silverberg Literary Agent Sterling Lord Literistic New York, NY

Art Work, Panel A2 August 4, 2011

Francisco Aragón Editor, Poet Director, Letras Latinas Institute for Latino Studies University of Notre Dame Arlington, VA Marc Fitten  Novelist, Editor Marietta, GA Pam Jolley (Layperson) Arts Patron, Copyeditor Director Saratoga Charitable Foundation Seattle, WA Nicole Mary Kelby  Novelist, Blogger  St. Paul, MN Ira Silverberg  Literary Agent Sterling Lord Literistic New York, NY

Art Works, Panel B1 August 5, 2011

Sandra Beasley  Poet, Essayist Faculty Member Writer's Center Washington, DC Marc Fitten  Novelist, Editor Marietta, GA Pam Jolley (Layperson)  Arts Patron, Copyeditor Director Saratoga Charitable Foundation Seattle, WA Lisa Page  President PEN/Faulkner Foundation Visiting Professor, George Washington University Takoma Park, MD Michael Shay  Fiction Writer, Essayist Literature, Visual and Performing Arts Specialist Wyoming Arts Council Cheyenne, WY Cynthia Shearer  Novelist, blogger Writing Consultant Texas Christian University  Forth Worth, TX

Art Works, Panel B2 August 5, 2011

Marc Fitten  Novelist, Editor Marietta, GA Pam Jolley (Layperson)  Arts Patron, Copyeditor Director Saratoga Charitable Foundation Seattle, WA Lisa Page  President PEN/Faulkner Foundation Visiting Professor, George Washington University Takoma Park, MD Michael Shay  Fiction Writer, Essayist Literature, Visual and Performing Arts Specialist Wyoming Arts Council Cheyenne, WY Cynthia Shearer  Novelist, Blogger Writing Consultant Texas Christian University  Forth Worth, TX

Art Works, Panel B3 August 5, 2011

Pam Jolley (Layperson)  Arts Patron, Copyeditor Director Saratoga Charitable Foundation Seattle, WA Lisa Page  President PEN/Faulkner Foundation Visiting Professor, George Washington University Takoma Park, MD Michael Shay  Fiction Writer, Essayist Literature, Visual and Performing Arts Specialist Wyoming Arts Council Cheyenne, WY Cynthia Shearer  Novelist, Blogger Writing Consultant Texas Christian University  Forth Worth, TX

Creative Writing Fellowships in Prose, Panel A September 14-16, 2011

Betsy Burton (layperson)  Bookseller The King's English Bookshop Salt Lake City, UT Michael Dirda  Critic, Essayist, Memoirist Visiting Professor University of Maryland Silver Spring, MD Debra Magpie Earling Fiction Writer Professor, Fiction and Native American Studies University of Montana Missoula, MT Barry Gifford  Fiction Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist  Berkeley, CA Eric Goodman  Novelist, Essayist Director of Creative Writing  Miami University Oxford , OH Carol Grossmeyer (Layperson) CEO and Partner 800 CEO Read Shorewood, WI Frances Hwang  Fiction Writer Assistant Professor of English St. Mary's College South Bend, IN Reginald McKnight Fiction Writer Hamilton Holmes Professor of English University of Georgia Athens, GA Ladette Randolph  Fiction Writer  Editor-in-Chief, Ploughshares Distinguished-Publisher-in-Residence Emerson College Boston, MA Roxana Robinson  Fiction Writer, Journalist, Biographer, Educator New York, NY Matt Ruff  Fiction Writer Seattle, WA Luis Alberto Urrea  Fiction Writer, Essayist, Poet Professor of Creative Writing University of Illinois-Chicago Naperville, IL 

Creative Writing Fellowships in Prose, Panel B September 16, 2011

Betsy Burton (Layperson)  Bookseller The King's English Bookshop Salt Lake City, UT Barry Gifford  Fiction Writer, Screenwriter, Essayist  Berkeley, CA Eric Goodman  Novelist, Essayist Director of Creative Writing  Miami University Oxford , OH Carol Grossmeyer (Layperson) CEO and Partner 800 CEO Read Shorewood, WI Frances Hwang Fiction Writer Assistant Professor of English St. Mary's College South Bend, IN Reginald McKnight Fiction writer Hamilton Holmes Professor of English University of Georgia Athens, GA Matt Ruff  Fiction Writer Seattle, WA

Art Works II, Panel A1 November 30-December 1, 2011

Richard Blanco Poet, Nonfiction Writer Bethel, ME Jane Friedman (Innovator) Media Professional, Writer Assistant Professor, e-media University of Cincinnati  Cincinnati, OH Christine Higashi Program Manager, Washington Center for the Book Seattle Public Library Seattle, WA Diem Jones Spoken Word Artist, Arts Administrator Executive Director and Co-Founder Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Mountain View, CA Terri Merz (Layperson) Arts Patron  Former Bookstore Owner Washington, DC Amy Swauger Director Teachers & Writers Collaborative  New York, NY

Art Works II FY 2012, Panel A2 December 1, 2011

Richard Blanco Poet, Nonfiction Writer Bethel, ME Christine Higashi Program Manager, Washington Center for the Book Seattle Public Library Seattle, WA Diem Jones Spoken Word Artist, Arts Administrator Executive Director and Co-Founder Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Mountain View, CA Terri Merz (Layperson) Arts Patron  Former Bookstore Owner Washington, DC

Art Works II, Panel B December 2, 2011

Jane Friedman Media Professional, Writer Assistant Professor, e-media University of Cincinnati  Cincinnati, OH Christine Higashi Program Manager, Washington Center for the Book Seattle Public Library Seattle, WA Diem Jones Spoken Word Artist, Arts Administrator Executive Director and Co-Founder Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Mountain View, CA Terri Merz (Layperson) Arts Patron Former Bookstore Owner Washington, DC Stewart Moss Poet Executive Director The Writer's Center Annapolis, MD Banu Valladares Poet, Actress Arts in Education Director North Carolina Arts Council Chapel Hill, NC