THE
SARA LURA MATHEWS SELF DISTINGUISHED WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
 Each
January, Converse College features The Sara Lura Mathews
Self Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, a distinguished
visiting writer who serves on the faculty for Winter
Term. The visiting writer teaches Advanced Tutorial in
Creative Writing, a course that combines weekly
one-on-one tutorials with a series of master class
workshops.
Writer-in-Residence
for 2005
 Leslie Pietrzyk
This year’s Sara Lura Mathews Self Distinguished Writer-in-Residence,
Leslie Pietrzyk, will present a public reading on January
18, 2005 at 8:00 pm at the Cleveland Alumnae House as part of her month-long residency at Converse.
Pietrzyk is the author of the novels A Year and a
Day, and Pears on a Willow Tree. Her fiction has appeared in many journals including
TriQuarterly, Iowa Review, New England
Review, and The Gettysburg Review. Awards for her short fiction include the Jeanne Charpiot Goodheart Prize for Fiction from Shenandoah, The Whetstone Prize and The Julia Peterkin Award. She has been a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has received a fellowship to the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia where she is at work on a new novel and teaches courses in the art of the novel at The Writer’s Center.
For more information regarding the writer-in-residence, contact
Rick Mulkey, Director of Creative Writing, at (864) 596-9099 or send an e-mail to
rick.mulkey@converse.edu
Recent Distinguished Writers-in-Residence include:
Kathryn Stripling Byer
is author of The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest
(AWP Poetry Winner), Wildwood Flower (Lamont Poetry Prize Selection),
Black Shawl, and Catching Light. She is the former Poet-in-Residence at Western Carolina University (1990-98).
Thomas E. Kennedy is an internationally acclaimed novelist, storywriter and
critic. He is the author of 13 books, including
Unreal City, The Book of Angels, and Realism & Other Illusions: Essays on the Craft of
Fiction. His work has been
published in a number of anthologies and in many
journals.
Peter Meinke is the
author of 13 books, including Zinc Fingers
(2000), which received the SEBA Award for the "best
poetry book of the year." His short story
collection, The Piano Tuner, won the 1986
Flannery O'Connor Award. His work has appeared in such
magazines as The New Yorker, The New Republic,
The Atlantic Monthly, and The Nation.
Robert Olmstead,
director of the MFA program at Boise State University,
is the author of numerous books of fiction, including America
by Land, River Dogs: Stories, and the highly
regarded writing text Elements of the Writing Craft
from Story Press.
Julie Fay, Associate
Professor of English at East Carolina University, is the
author of several books of poetry, including The
Woman Behind You, Portraits of Women, and In
Every Mirror. Her work has been published in
numerous journals and anthologies.
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