FACULTY
The faculty for SLS Montreal 2010 is as follows:Elizabeth Bachinsky
Kevin Canty
Martin Espada
Chuck Klosterman
Louis Patrick Leroux
Padgett Powell
Mac WellmanGuests, Lecturers and Panelists will include:
Robert Coover
Keith Gessen
Caron Levis
Sam Lipsyte
Douglas Messerli
Jeff Parker
Gary Shteyngart
Christopher Sorrentino
Deborah Treisman
Faculty is still being added for the 2010 SLS Program, so keep checking back!
Fiction
Kevin Canty's seventh book, a novel called Everything, will be published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday in summer 2010. He is also the author of three previous collections of short stories (Where the Money Went, Honeymoon, and A Stranger In This World) and three novels (Nine Below Zero, Into the Great Wide Open, and Winslow in Love). His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Tin House, GQ, Glimmer Train, Story, the New England Review and elsewhere; essays and articles in Vogue, Details, Playboy, the New York Times and the Oxford American, among many others. His work has been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian and English. He lives and writes in Missoula, Montana.
Padgett Powell has published four novels and two collections of short stories, his latest the novel Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men from Houghton Mifflin. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Paris Review, Grand Street, Esquire, The New York Times Book Review and Magazine, Oxford American, and elsewhere. His work appears in the Best American Short Stories and Best American Sportswriting anthologies. He has won the Prix de Rome and a Whiting Writers Award. He teaches writing at the University of Florida. He has taught also at the Sewanee Writers Conference and at the Summer Literary Seminar in Russia. Non-Fiction
Chuck Klosterman is the author of Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota (2001), Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (2003), Killing Yourself to Live (2005), the collection Chuck Klosterman IV (2005), the novel Downtown Owl (2007), and Eating the Dinosaur(2009). He has been a senior writer for SPIN, a columnist for Esquire, a contributor to ESPN and the New York Times Magazine, and has also written for GQ, The Believer, and The Washington Post. He previously worked as a staff writer at The Forum newspaper in Fargo, N.D., and the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio. Poetry Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of three collections of poetry, CURIO (BookThug, 2005), HOME OF SUDDEN SERVICE (Nightwood Editions, 2006), and GOD OF MISSED CONNECTIONS (Nightwood Editions, 2009). Her work has been nominated for the Kobzar Literary Award (2009), the Governor General's Award for Poetry (2006), and the Bronwen Wallace Award (2004) and has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and on film in Canada, the United States, France, Ireland, England, and China. She is a poet whose work "[straddles] both sides: formal and experimental, personal and mathematical, with a keen ear for the erotically ridiculous (Globe & Mail)." George Elliott Clarke calls her work "full of guts and verve, spunk and nerve.…straight-shooting, straight-talking" while the Quill and Quire simply finds her poems "enviably good." She lives in Vancouver where she is an instructor of creative writing and Poetry Editor for Event magazine.
Called “the Latino poet of his generation” and “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors,” Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published seventeen books in all as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including two collections of poems last year: Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas (Smokestack, 2008), released in England, and La Tumba de Buenaventura Roig (Terranova, 2008), a bilingual edition published in Puerto Rico. The Republic of Poetry, a collection of poems published by Norton in 2006, received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Another collection, Imagine the Angels of Bread (Norton, 1996), won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other books of poetry include Alabanza: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2003), A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen (Norton, 2000), City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (Norton, 1993), and Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (Curbstone, 1990). He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Robert Creeley Award, the Antonia Pantoja Award, the Charity Randall Citation, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, the Premio Fronterizo, two NEA Fellowships, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. His poems have appeared in the The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation and The Best American Poetry. He has also published a collection of essays, Zapata’s Disciple (South End, 1998); edited two anthologies, Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press (Curbstone, 1994)and El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry (University of Massachusetts, 1997); and released an audiobook of poetry called Now the Dead will Dance the Mambo (Leapfrog, 2004). His work has been translated into ten languages. A former tenant lawyer, Espada is now a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and the work of Pablo Neruda.
PlaywritingMac Wellman’s recent plays are: Bitter Bierce, at P S 122; Jennie Richee, with the Ridge Theater, at The Arts at St Ann; Anything's Dream at Mulhenberg College; and Antigone, with Big Dance Company at Dance Theater Workshop. He has published two novels with Sun & Moon Press: The Fortuneteller and Annie Salem; Sun & Moon also published A Shelf in Woop's Clothing, a book of poems, From the Other Side of the Century II, an anthology of plays (co-edited with Douglas Messerli), Two plays: The Land Beyond the Forest, and Crowtet 1 and 2, the latter two volumes under the Green Integer imprint. Roof Books has recently published his Miniature, a book of poems. He has received numerous award: NEA, NYFA, Rockefeller, McNight and Guggenheim Fellowships. In 1990 he received an Obie for Best American Play (Bad Penny, Crowbar and Terminal Hip). In 1991 He received another Obie for Sincerity Forever. He has received a Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Writers Award, and most recently the 2003 Obie for Lifetime Achievement. He is the Donald I. Fine Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College. Visit his website for more information.
Contact Zone Montreal Louis Patrick Leroux
Playwright and academic Louis Patrick Leroux holds a cross-appointment in both English and French Studies at Concordia University in Montreal where he teaches creative writing, dramatic literature, and Québec drama and literature. He has degrees in French Literature, Arts Management, and Theatre from the University of Ottawa, HEC-Montreal, and the Sorbonne in Paris. Current academic research projects include self-reflective and autobiographical drama in Québec and the Cirque du Soleil’s presence in the U.S. His most recent publication is Ludwig & Mae, a collection of three plays with Talonbooks. He taught playwriting at SLS Saint-Petersburg in 2005.
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Robert Coover's first novel, The Origin of the Brunists, won the 1966 William Faulkner Award. His other works include the collection of short fiction, Pricksongs and Descants, a collection of plays, A Theological Position, such novels as The Public Burning, Spanking the Maid, Gerald's Party, Pinocchio in Venice, John's Wife, Ghost Town and Briar Rose. His latest honor is the Dugannon Foundation's REA award for his lifetime contribution to the short story. As a university professor, Mr. Coover teaches courses in electronic writing and mixed media as well as standard workshops.
Keith Gessen Bio coming soon
Caron A. Levis is a teaching artist in NYC where she uses creative drama and writing to teach social, emotional, communication, and literacy skills to kids of all ages, teachers, and parents. She has a BA from Tufts University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School, and has studied acting at the Moscow Arts Theatre. Her plays have been performed in NYC & Boston.
Sam Lipsyte
Bio coming soon Douglas Messerli 
Publisher of Green Integer and (formerly) Sun & Moon Press, Messerli has published several books of poetry and fiction, as well as editing the ongoing PIP series of World of Poetry of the 20th Century and numerous other titles.
Jeff Parker
Jeff Parker is the author of the novel Ovenman and the collection of stories The Taste of Penny. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Walrus, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Ploughshares, Indiana Review, Matrix, and others. He co-edited the anthologies Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia and Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States. He teaches at the University of Toronto. Bio coming soon
Bio coming soon Deborah Treisman Bio coming soon
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