Summer 2017 Writers

Susan Lutz

Susan Lutz is a food journalist, educator, and television producer whose work focuses on exploring and chronicling heritage foodways and food preservation techniques. She has produced over 300 hours of documentary and nonfiction television programming for numerous cable networks including Food Network, HGTV, A&E, and History on topics that range from food chemistry to knitting. Her photography and video installation work has been shown throughout the US and Europe and is held in the permanent collections of the Long Beach Museum of Art and The New Museum in NYC.She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and Les Dames d’Escoffier Washington DC Chapter. Raised in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley (where her father still cures his own hams), she currently lives Washington, DC metro area.

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Sarah Ann Winn

Sarah Ann Winn’s first full length poetry collection, Alma Almanac, won the Barrow Street Book Prize, and will be published by Barrow Street Press in 2017. She is the author of five chapbooks, the most recent of which is Ever After the End Matter (Hermeneutic Chaos, 2017). She currently serves as Reviews Editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal and Poetry Editor at Cider Press Review. She is the founder of Poet Camp, a roving residency for women writers. She lives in Manassas, Virginia with her husband, two lovely dogs, and one bad cat. While at the Arcadia residency, she hopes to continue a set of works responding to Frank Lloyd Wright houses she has visited around the country. Visit her at bluebirdwords.com or follow her @blueaisling.

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Kate Reed Petty

Kate Reed Petty is a Baltimore-based writer. Her children's graphic novel, “Chasma Knights,” with artist Boya Sun, is forthcoming from First Second Books in May 2018, and her fiction and nonfiction has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Ambit, and Nat. Brut. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, she holds a master’s in fiction writing from the University of St. Andrews, and her work has been recognized with a Narrative Magazine “30 Below” award and a Pushcart nomination. She is currently working on a novel; during her residency, she’s exploring the idea of “protest through work” through the Quaker history of Woodlawn.

Tanya Paperny

Tanya Paperny is a writer, editor, and translator living in Washington, D.C. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Literary Review, PANK, VICE, Pacific Standard, and elsewhere. Tanya is the recipient of fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Vermont Studio Center, and OMI International Arts Center. Her collection "Short Shorts" was a semifinalist in the Gazing Grain Press 2014 Poetry Chapbook Contest. She is at work on a collection about violence, trauma, and resilience.

Shanon Lee

Shanon Lee is a Survivor Activist & Storyteller with features on HuffPost Live, The Wall Street Journal, TV One and the REELZ Channel. Her work appears in publications including The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, ELLE, Marie Claire and Redbook. Shanon is a Women’s Media Center SheSource Expert and an official member of the Speakers Bureau for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN). She is the writer, producer and director of MARITAL RAPE IS REAL, a short film that raises awareness for survivors of sexual assault.

Caroline Bock

Caroline Bock is the author of two critically acclaimed young adult novels: LIE and BEFORE MY EYES from St. Martin’s Press. Her short fiction is included in the 2016 Abundant Grace anthology published by Paycock Press and the 2017 District Lines anthology published by Politics & Prose bookstore. Her poetry was nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize and her short story, “Gargoyles and Stars,” was the 2016 winner of The Writer Magazine short story competition judged by Colum McCann. Her short stories and poetry also have been published or are forthcoming with Akashic Press, Fiction Southeast, Gargoyle, 100 Word Story, F(r)iction, Ploughshares, Vestal Review, and Zero Dark-Thirty. After a twenty-year career as a television executive, she returned to her first passion: creative writing, and in 2011, she earned her MFA in Fiction with honors from The City College of New York.

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