Summer 2016 Writers
Jennifer Clements
Jennifer Clements is a writer based in Washington, DC, whose work has been featured or is forthcoming in publications including Barrelhouse, Hippocampus, WordRiot, Psychopomp, and The Intentional. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, as well as nominations for the Pushcart Prize, the Larry Neal Writer’s Award, and the Best of the Net Award, among other honors. Currently, Jennifer writes theatre reviews for DC Theatre Scene and serves as prose editor for ink&coda. She volunteers as both a judge for the Helen Hayes Awards and a teaching artist for the Sitar Arts Center. She is currently working on a collection of creative nonfiction.
Read the original writing piece Jennifer produced during her time at Woodlawn!
Christine Stoddard
Christine Stoddard is a writer and artist originally from Arlington, Virginia. Her writings, comics, photos, collages, and films have appeared in Marie Claire, Bustle, Cosmopolitan, The Southeast Review, The Feminist Wire, The Huffington Post, the New York Transit Museum, the Poe Museum, the Ground Zero Hurricane Katrina Museum, and beyond. She is a recipient of a national emerging artist grant from the Puffin Foundation and was named one of Folio Magazine's top 20 media visionaries in their 20s for founding Quail Bell Magazine. In addition to being the author of Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia (The History Press) and the co-author of Images of America: Richmond Cemeteries (Arcadia Publishing), Christine is a proud graduate of VCUarts and the VCU da Vinci Center in Richmond, Virginia.
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Nicole Tong
Nicole Tong is a recipient of a Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in poetry and fellowships from George Mason University, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the associate editor of The Northern Virginia Review out of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) where she is an Associate Professor of English. Her writing has been published in American Book Review, CALYX, Cortland Review, Still: The Journal, and Yalobusha Review among others. She is a recipient of this year's NOVA President's Sabbatical Award and will spend the fall writing a full-length collection of poems tackling environmental justice issues.
Read the original writing piece Nicole produced during her time at Woodlawn!