JANUARY 2009 RESIDENCY ARCHIVES:
Visiting writers and guests, Deborah Kovacs, Kendra Marcus,
Alison McGhee & Ellen Levine joined our returning faculty and students for another intense and exciting residency. Our founding class presented their critical and creative work alongside faculty lectures, workshops and readings over the the course of the residency, culminating in our largest graduation appreciation ceremony so far. At the ceremony, Kate DiCamillo moved everyone with her emotional and humorous address, Delivering the Uppercut.
JULY 2008 Residency Archives
Older Residencies:
January 2009 Guests:
Deborah Kovacs is Senior Vice President of publishing at Walden Media. Since joining the company in 2001, she has overseen all publishing activities for Walden Media, a film studio specializing in the adaptation of children’s classics such as Because of Winn-Dixie; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Holes; and Bridge to Terabithia. She was instrumental in the 2005 formation of Walden Media’s publishing joint venture with Penguin Young Reader’s Group and is currently the editorial lead on behalf of Walden Media at Walden Pond Press, a new imprint at HarperCollins. Prior to joining Walden, Debbie co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief at Turnstone Publishing Group, a company that created nonfiction books for young people in partnership with leading science research institutions. Earlier she held positions at Scholastic, Inc., and Children’s Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), where she served as editor of Sesame Street Magazine. She is the author of more than thirty children’s books, both fiction and nonfiction. Most recently she has written Catie Copley and Catie Copley's Great Escape for David R. Godine. www.walden.com
Kendra Marcus started BookStop Literary Agency in 1984 and was one of the first agents to represent children’s book writers and illustrators exclusively. BookStop clients and their work have earned national recognition from such organizations as the American Library Association’s Notable committee, the American Booksellers, and ‘Young Reader’ committees in a number of states. BookStop specializes in all categories of children’s books, from very early picture books to middle-grade to young adult. Kendra gravitates toward texts and illustrations for quirky and funny picture books. She is also interested in stories with Hispanic or Latino characters. BookStop is always thrilled to find manuscripts with unforgettable and vivid voices.
www.bookstopliterary.com
Alison McGhee is the author of six novels for adults and young adults, including Shadow Baby, Was It Beautiful?, and Falling Boy. Her latest children’s books are Little Boy and Bye-bye Crib, both picture books, and Julia Jillian (And the Art of Knowing), a novel for children. Forthcoming are Always and Song of Middle C, both picture books. Alison and her work have won multiple awards, including the GLCA National Fiction Award, three Minnesota Book Awards, the Oppenheim Gold Toy Portfolio Award, a Parents’ Choice Award, and City Pages Artist of the Year. Her books are also listed on numerous “Best” lists: Library Journal’s Best First Novels, Borders Original Voices pick, Kirkus Review’s best novels, Junior Library Guild selection, Booksense pick, Talking Volumes selection, and a Today Show Book Club selection. Alison is an associate professor at Metropolitan State University, where she coordinates the creative writing program. She was also one of the original faculty in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Hamline. www.alisonmcghee.com
Ellen Levine is the award-winning author of over twenty books of nonfiction and fiction for young readers, including Henry’s Freedom Box, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, a Caldecott Honor Book; Up Close: Rachel Carson; Darkness Over Denmark; Freedom’s Children; The Tree That Would Not Die; and A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II. Her books have won multiple awards and honors, including the Golden Kite Award, the Jane Addams Peace Award, the Parenting Reading Magic Award, the Storytelling World Award, the Parents’ Choice Award, and the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. She has also been listed on numerous “Best” and “Notable” lists: Booklist’s Top Ten Historical Fiction for Youth, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, the New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year, and Bank Street College’s Best Children’s Books of the Year. Levine has worked in film and television, taught adults and immigrant teenagers in special education and ESL programs, and served as staff attorney with a public interest law group. She now devotes her time to writing, lecturing, and teaching.
July 2008 Residency Archive:
Visiting Writers & Guests
Master Schedule of Events
Visiting Writers & Guests:
Virginia Buckley has been an editor at Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin, since 1997. Formerly editor-in-chief at Lodestar Books, she has acquired and edited books in all genres from picture books to fiction and nonfiction for young adults. She has been award-winning author Katherine Paterson’s editor for thirty years. She is also the editor for Gary Schmidt.
Andrea Cascardi has more than twenty years experience as an editor and publisher of children’s and young adult books, having worked with Scholastic, Knopf, Crown/Random House, Hyperion, and Houghton Mifflin. Currently she is working as a literary agent in the USA office of Transatlantic Literary Agency, Inc. Her authors include Mary Casanova, Faith Ringgold, Karen Hesse, John Coy, Julia Alvarez, Tim Burton, Raffi, and Wendy Wasserstein.
Nikki Grimes is the recipient of the 2006 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Her many award-winning books for children and young adults include the novels Bronx Masquerade, winner of the 2003 Coretta Scott King Author Award; Jazmin’s Notebook, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and Bank Street College Book of the Year; Dark Sons and The Road to Paris, both Coretta Scott King Honor Books; and the popular poetry collection Meet Danitra Brown. Her numerous other awards include a Parents’ Choice Gold Award, an ALA Notable Book, and the Horn Book Fanfare Book Award. She lives in Corona, California. http://www.nikkigrimes.com/
Amanda M. Jenkins is the award-winning author of six novels for young adults. Her most recent novel, Night Road, was awarded a PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. The novel Repossessed, published by HarperCollins in 2007, was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. Her books have won the Golden Spur Award, the Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and the California Young Reader Medal, and have made multiple “best” lists, including ALA Best Books for Young Readers and Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age. In addition to her novels, she has published numerous scripts for Reader’s Theater. She lives in Benbrook, Texas, with her three sons.
Brian Malloy is the author of three novels, two of them crossover novels and the most recent, Twelve Long Months, written expressly for young adults. His first novel, The Year of Ice, won the American Library Association's Alex Award, and his second, Brendan Wolf, was just named a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award. Brian teaches fiction in the MFA programs at Hamline University and the University of Minnesota and is the Education Director for the Loft Literary Center. http://www.malloywriter.com/
Raymond Singer is an actor, screenwriter, editor, and director. He has written screenplays for Disney, Dreamworks, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, TNT, USA, and HBO. Several have been made into successful films, including Disney’s Mulan, winner of an Annie Award; Dreamworks’ Joseph: King of Dreams; and HBO’s Iron-Jawed Angels, nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Humanitas Prize. He has edited feature films and documentaries; created music videos and films for non-profits; and directed award-winning plays in both L.A. and New York.
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January 2008 Residency Archive:
Visiting Writers & Guests:
Emily Jenkins
Eleanora Tate
Lois Lowry
Ann Rider
Susan Marie Swanson
Mary Casanova
Residency Activities:
January 2008 master schedule
January 2008 schedule of lectures
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Emily Jenkins
writes board books, picture books, and middle-grade fiction. She has also published a book of essays and a novel for adults,
Mister Posterior and the Genius Child, winner of a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” award. Under the name E. Lockhart she writes novels for young adults, including
The Boyfriend List and her most recent,
Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything, both Junior Library Guild selections. Her picture books have won multiple awards, including a BCCB Blue Ribbon Award, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor, a Parents’ Choice Award, ALA Notable Book, and a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award. Emily has a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University and has taught literature and writing since 1992 at Columbia University, Barnard College, and New York University. She publishes regularly in
Salon magazine and reviews picture books for the
New York Times Book Review. She and her family live in New York City.
www.emilyjenkins.com
Eleanora Tate is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction for young readers and dozens of poems, essays, and short stories. Several of her books have been adapted for audiotape, and one, Just an Overnight Guest, was adapted as a film and broadcast on the Wonderworks Series (PBS) and Nickelodeon. Her awards include a Parents’ Choice Gold Seal Award, a Zora Neal Hurston Award, a North Carolina Book Award, a Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and an American Booksellers’ “Pick of the Lists.” An award-winning journalist, she has worked for such newspapers as The Des Moines Tribune and The Jackson Sun Newspaper. She is a much sought-after speaker and presenter, and has taught at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching and at Coastal Carolina College. Born in Canton, Missouri, she currently lives in Knightdale, North Carolina. http://www.eleanoraetate.com/
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Lois Lowry
is the award-winning author of fourteen novels, including two that won the Newbery Medal:
The Giver and Number the Stars. She has also published four series for young readers: (i.e., the Anastasia series, the Sam Krupnik series, books about the Tates, and the Gooney Bird books). In addition to the Newbery Medal, her books have won a
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, a Golden Kite Award, a Jewish Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, and a Sidney Taylor Award. Her next novel,
The Willoughbys, is due out in spring 2008. A native of Hawaii, Lois Lowry has traveled extensively and now spends her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an 1840’s farmhouse in Maine.
http://www.loislowry.com/
Susan Marie Swanson
is a poet and writer of children’s books who recently co-curated the exhibit
Astrid Lindgren’s Kids at the American Swedish Institute to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Astrid Lindgren’s birth. Susan Marie presented some of her work on Lindgren at the Astrid Lindgren Centennial Conference in Stockholm last May and will publish an article, “Astrid Lindgren’s Swedish Legacy” in the November/December issue of
Horn Book Magazine. She is the author of five books for young readers, including
The First Thing My Mama Told Me, named one of the
New York Times’ Best Illustrated Books of the Year and winner of a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and
Getting Used to the Dark, a book of poetry. A teacher with the COMPAS program, Susan is also a regular reviewer of children’s books. She lives and works in St. Paul.
Ann Rider works as an executive editor for Houghton Mifflin Books for Children from her home in Lutsen, Minnesota. Partial to books that celebrate nature, she has edited Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin with illustrations by Mary Azarian; Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root, with art by Beth Krommes; and Song of the Water Boatman by Joyce Sidman, with art by Beckie Prange. She also was the editor of Team Moon by Catherine Thimmesh; Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez; Runner by Carl Deuker; The Troll With No Heart in His Body by Lise Lunge-Larsen, with art by Betsy Bowen; The Klipfish Code by Mary Casanova; and Carmine by Melissa Sweet.
Mary Casanova is an award-winning author of over nineteen novels and picture books. Her most recent books include The Klipfish Code, a middle-grade novel that explores the experiences of a twelve-year-old girl living in Norway under Nazi occupation, and Some Dog!, a picture book. Her many awards include two Minnesota Book Awards, a Parents’ Choice “Gold” Award, a Booklist Editor’s Choice, Aesop Accolades by the American Folklore Society, a Children’s Book-of-the-Month Selection, and an American Library Association “Notable” Book Award. Originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, Mary now lives in Rainer, Minnesota, with her husband and children. http://www.marycasanova.com/
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July 2007 Residency Archive:
Visiting Writers & Guests:
M.T. Anderson
Curtis Crisler
Lee Galda
David LaRochelle
Stephen Roxburgh
Anita Silvey
Residency Activities:
July 2007 Master Schedule of Events
July 2007 Schedule of Lectures
July 2007 Schedule of Readings (open to public)
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M. T. Anderson is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party, winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and a Michael L. Printz Honor Award; Feed, finalist for the National Book Award in 2002 and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, a biography of eighteenth-century composer George Frederic Handel, which was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner.
Curtis Crisler is the author of Tough Boy Sonatas, a book of poetry published by Boyds Mills Press. He is a Cave Canem Fellow at Indiana University-Purdue where he teaches creative writing. His work has appeared in such literary journals as The Fourth River and Black Arts Quarterly. His chapbook, Burnt Offerings of a City, won the Kathryn Young Chapbook Award.
Lee Galda is a reading and literacy professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of numerous articles and books on children’s and adolescents’ responses to literature, including the well-respected college textbook, Literature and the Child (co-authored with Bernice Cullinan). She is published widely in journals ranging from Reading Research Quarterly to Language Arts and Reading Teacher.
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David LaRochelle is an award-winning author and illustrator of twenty-five books, including Absolutely, Positively Not, a young adult novel that won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award and was was a Booklist Top Ten Debut Novel. His most recent picture books are The Best Pet of All and The End.
Stephen Roxburgh has been involved with children’s books and publishing for thirty years, first as an academic, then as senior vice president and publisher of Books for Young Readers at Farrar, Straus and Giroux; as founder of Front Street Books; and now as publisher of Boyds Mills Press. He has worked with such authors and artists as Felicia Bond, Nancy Eckholm Burkert, Brock Cole, Carolyn Coman, Roald Dahl, Martine Leavitt, Madeleine L’Engle, An Na, Marilyn Nelson, Adam Rapp, Alvin Schwartz, George Selden, Uri Shulevitz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Garth Williams, and Margot Zemach.
Anita Silvey has spent more than thirty years in the children’s book field, including several years as the vice president and publisher of children’s books for Houghton Mifflin, and eleven years as editor-in-chief of The Horn Book Magazine. She is the author of 100 Best Books for Children and 500 Great Books for Teens and the editor of Children’s Books and Their Creators. She is a professor in the children’s literature master’s degree program at Simmons College and the editor of the Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series.
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January 2007, Hamline's first low-residency program.
Visiting Writers & Guests:
Anita Silvey
Joyce Sidman
Pete Hautman & Mary Logue
Becky Prange
Linda Sue Park
Joy Neaves
Carolyn Coman
Karen Ritz
Residency Activities:
January 2007 Master Schedule of Events
January 2007 Schedule of Readings & Open Lectures
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