Authors’ and Artists’ Biographies
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is the Program Director of the Spencer Workshops at the Chautauqua Institution. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, The Writer's Compass, Sightings, Out, Bandicoot, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Byzantium, and Fourteen Hills. He received his M.F.A. in Writing from the Graduate Program in Writing at Columbia University and is on the Board of Directors of the Lockport City Ballet.
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’ poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Christian Science Monitor, The London Review of Books, London Magazine, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. The latest of her eight collections is Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA, 2004). In addition to poetry, Ms. Haskins has written Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner’s Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters Press, 2007), and Solutions Beginning with A, fables about women, images by Maggie Taylor (Modernbook, 2007). Her awards include two NEA fellowships, narrative poetry prizes from New England Review and Southern Review, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from PSA. She has been teaching privately for over twenty years, and is currently on the faculty of the low residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.
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The youngest but tallest of three creative sisters. Born to Henry and Jeanne, deceased, but very much with us. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of them and want to show them my latest creation, be it writing or a painting.
I am a lover of curiosity and thrive on watching how the world works, voicing my opinion, then often changing it, sharing what I have learned along my journey with others, I love to make people laugh and not feel alone.
My technical skills include having small enough hands to be the one digs chicken bones out of the garbage disposal, being a dynamite navigator while traveling, and juggling the birthday and holiday schedules for a husband, four grown children and four grandchildren while carving out a part of the world that is my own ... writing and painting.
On the real technical side, I have been a professional writer for over thirteen years. My work has been published in the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, Poets and Writers, the Writer, Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, Family Circle, Baltimore Sun, Cincinnati Post, Notre Dame Magazine, Sasee Magazine, Science and Spirituality Magazine, Cincinnati Magazine, among many others.
My chapbook of poetry called Strip Searched was published in 2007 by Pudding House. Cleaning Closets, my novel, was published in September 2007 by Dialogue Publishing.
I have taught writing workshops in Ireland, Arizona, South Carolina, Ohio. My greatest writing joy at this part of my career is working with other writers to teach them what I have learned.
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is lead Teaching Artist for Just Buffalo Literary Center. She is a contributing editor (literature and poetry) for award winning Traffic East magazine. She is a fellow of the Banff Centre's Wired Writing Studio. In 2007 her innovative "Picturing Poetry" project at Native American Magnet School (with CEPA gallery teaching artist Amy Luraschi) was the subject of a documentary by filmmaker Jon Hand. Her mentor is Don Domanski, who received Canada's Governor General's Award for poetry in 2008. She is currently working on a poetry manuscript entitled "The Sheer Veneer of Days."
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holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a doctorate from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for writers. Her story collection, Rattlesnakes and the Moon, was a 2007 finalist for the GS Sharat Chandra Prize. In the last two years, her work has been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize, and appears in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol and numerous other magazines. Her nonfiction piece, "The House in Simi Valley," which first appeared in storySouth, has been selected for the forthcoming anthology, Online Writing: The Best of The First Ten Years. Among the numerous awards she has won for her fiction are a $5000 Literary Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a Henfield Transatlantic Review Award, and a Frank Waters Fiction fellowship. She has taught fiction at the University of Arizona, The University of Southern Mississippi, James Madison University, and Ole Miss as well as in communities throughout the country. Her students have gone on to win such awards as the Mary McCarthy and O' Henry. Currently she teaches creative writing and lit at Clemson University and lives in Greenville, SC with her dog Catfish, two calicos and the curator of the Greenville Zoo. She welcomes you to the nurturing writing haven of Chautauqua.