Mc Mcllvoy

Kevin McIlvoy has taught creative writing for over twenty-five years, and recently served as Interim Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Warren Wilson College. He  was Editor in Chief of the national literary magazine, Puerto del Sol at New Mexico State University, and has served on the Board of Directors of two national writing organizations, Council for Literary Magazines & Presses and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. His published works include A Waltz, The Fifth Station, Little Peg,Hyssop, and The Complete History of New Mexico. He counts among his most significant mentors older writers who have attended his community classes.

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Marjorie Hudson

Marjorie Hudson grew up in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Chatham County, NC. Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, a Novello Literary Award Finalist, is her first book of fiction. Hudson’s fiction, poetry, and personal essays have been collected in five anthologies, and her work has been published in magazines and journals, including Story, Storytelling Magazine, Garden & Gun, Yankee, West Branch, National Parks, American Land Forum, and North Carolina Literary Review. Honors and awards include a Fiction Syndicate Prize, two Pushcart Special Mentions, Writer in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers, a Blumenthal Award, and Sarah Belk Gambrell Artist Educator of the Year. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.