Charles Lambert, Fiction Workshop.
Charles Lambert was born in Lichfield, the
United Kingdom, in 1953. He moved to Milan in 1976 and, with brief interruptions in Ireland,
Portugal and
London, has lived and worked in
Italy ever since. Currently a university teacher and freelance editor for international agencies, he now lives in Fondi, exactly halfway between
Rome and Naples. His first novel,
Little Monsters, was published by Picador in 2008. His collection of prize-winning short stories,
The Scent of Cinnamon, appeared later that year. His second novel,
Any Human Face, also published by Picador, comes out in May 2010.
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Moira Egan, Poetry Workshop.
Moira Egan’s books are
Cleave;
La Seta della Cravatta/The Silk of the Tie;
Bar Napkin Sonnets (The Ledge); and
Spin (forthcoming 2010, Entasis Press). Poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including
Best American Poetry 2008. With Damiano Abeni, she published
Un mondo che non può essere migliore: Poesie scelte 1956-2007, a substantial selection of poems by John Ashbery (Sossella Editore, Rome, 2008), which won a Special Prize of the Premio Napoli (2009). She has been a Mid Atlantic Arts Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Writer in Residence at St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Malta; a Writing Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Center; and most recently she has been awarded a Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (summer 2010).
For more information about Moira Egan, click
here.
Damiano Abeni, The Art of Literary Translation
Damiano Abeni, MD, MPH, is an epidemiologist who has been translating American poetry into Italian since 1973. In Italy, he has published volumes of Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, Mark Strand, Charles Simic, and many others. With Mark Strand, he edited West of your Cities, a bi-lingual anthology of contemporary American poets. His translations appear in numerous Italian journals and he is among the editors of the journal Nuovi Argomenti. With Moira Egan, he published a substantial selection of poems by John Ashbery (Un mondo che non può essere migliore: Poesie scelte 1956-2007, Sossella Editore, Rome, 2008), which won a Special Prize from the Premio Napoli. He has been a Literature Fellow at the Liguria Study Center of the Bogliasco Foundation, and was recently awarded a Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (summer 2010).
Elizabeth Geoghegan, nonfiction workshop.
Elizabeth Geoghegan earned an MFA in Writing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Colorado at Boulder where her graduate thesis
The Sound of Skin was selected for the Ruth Murray Underhill Award. Her writing has been published in
The Cream City Review and several other journals. At present she is completing a story collection called
The Book of Boys and a work of nonfiction about the real Rome. She has lived in Italy since 1999.
Carlos Dews, How to Read Like a Writer.
Carlos Dews, Institute Director, is the chairperson of the Department of English Language and Literature at John Cabot University. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Minnesota and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from the New School University.
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here.