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Attic Atheneum: Faculty
Faculty for the Atheneum Class of 2011
Fiction
Merridawn Duckler has published in Carolina Quarterly, Georgia State Review, & Main Street Rag among others with current work in Isotope, Green Mountains Review, Narrative & Night Train. A former Attic student, she is a two-time winner of Society of Professional Journalists Award & was nominated for Best Creative Non-Fiction Anthology 2009 and a Pushcart Prize. Reviews of her work have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Her original scripts have been preformed at the NOW Festival at Red Cat at Disney Hall and other venues in Los Angeles, Stanford, & New York in conjunction with the performance troupe Collage Dance Theatre of Los Angeles. She has been in residency at Centrum, Caldera, and Yaddo, among others. She was a non-fiction runner-up at Writers@Work in Salt Lake City & has won fiction fellowships to the Squaw Valley Writers Community, Wesleyan Writers conference, & Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has taught at the Attic for nearly ten years & is an Associate Editor at Narrative magazine.
G. Xavier Robillard's first novel, Captain Freedom, A Superhero's Quest for Truth, Justice and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves (Harper Collins) was published in 2009. In addition to writing fiction he produces humiliating videos, writes music and has performed comic monologues for local shows True Stories and LiveWire Radio. A former Attic student, his work has appeared on National Public Radio, in McSweeney's, Cracked Magazine and Comedy Central.com.
Non-Fiction
Karen Karbo is the author of three novels and a memoir, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books. Her memoir The Stuff of Life, won the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and was a People Magazine Critics’ Choice. Her latest book is The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman forthcoming in September.
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the memoir, Wild, to be published by Knopf in 2011. Her novel, Torch, was published by Houghton Miflin in 2006 and was selected by the Oregonian as one of the top ten books of the year by writers living in the Pacific Northwest. Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times magazine, The Washington Post magazine, the Sun, Allure, Self, Brain, Child, and other places and have twice been included in the Best American Essays.
Poetry
David Biespiel's publications are Shattering Air, Pilgrims & Beggars, Wild Civility, & The Book of Men and Women which was named Best Poetry of the Year for 2009 by The Poetry Foundation. He has been honored with a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, a Lannan Fellowship, & a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. David has been, since 2002, the columnist on poetry for The Oregonian, making his the longest-running newspaper column on poetry in the country. In 2010 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle.
Paulann Petersen’s books of poetry are The Wild Awake, Blood-Silk, A Bride of Narrow Escape, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, & most recently Kindle. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of the 2006 Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts, she serves on the board of Friends of William Stafford, organizing the annual January Stafford Birthday Events. She’s been on the faculty for Summer Fishtrap, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, Mountain Writers Series, OCTE and NCTE Conferences, and the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College.
