Fred D'Aguiar

male, 49 years old
Academic of the University of Cambridge, Virginia Tech faculty, University of Miami faculty, English, teacher, Writing Teacher…creativewriting, MFA in Creative Writing
Fred D'Aguiar (born February 2, 1960) is an author of poetry, novels, and drama. D'Aguiar was born in London of Guyanese parents. He spent his...
John Burnside

John Burnside

male, 54 years old
2000 Whitbread Awards, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, Encore Award, Forward Poetry Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize…creativewriting
John Burnside (19 March 1955 -) is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline. Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of...

James N. Frey

male, 66 years old
novelist, writer, creativewriting, American, University of California, Berkeley, How to Write a Damn Good Novel
James N. Frey (born March 15, 1943 in Syracuse, New York USA) is an American writer and creative writing teacher. Frey has written both fiction and...
Ron Padgett

Ron Padgett

male, 67 years old
New York School poet, Great Balls of Fire, The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms, The Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman, Ted A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan, The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Ron…creativewriting
Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator, and a member of the New York School. His books...
Gillian Clarke

Gillian Clarke

female, 72 years old
Welsh poet who writes in English, second world war, Penarth, Academic of the University of Glamorgan, Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, Poetry Book Society…Welsh poet writing in English, creativewriting
Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937) is a Welsh poet who writes in English. She was born and brought up in Cardiff and Penarth, though for part of the...
Colum McCann

Colum McCann

male, 44 years old
novelist, Zoli, hunter college, creativewriting, Irish, writer
Colum McCann (born 1965) is an Irish-born writer of literary fiction, whose novels include "This Side of Brightness", "Dancer", and "Zoli". McCann...
James Kelman

James Kelman

male, 63 years old
first-person narrative, novelist, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Tom Leonard, Glaswegian speech patterns, How late it was, how late…creativewriting
James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories, plays and political essays. His novel "A...
Philip Hensher

Philip Hensher

male, 44 years old
Philip Michael Hensher, Tapton Comprehensive School, PhD, the guardian, English, journalism…creativewriting
Philip Michael Hensher (born February 20 1965) is an English novelist, critic and journalist. Hensher was born in South London, although spent the...
Alice Fulton

Alice Fulton

female, 57 years old
Cornell University, macarthur foundation, Master of Fine Arts, Empire State College, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles…creativewriting
Alice Fulton (born January 25, 1952 in Troy, New York, USA) is a United States poet, author, and feminist. She received her undergraduate degree in...
Ellen Gilchrist

Ellen Gilchrist

female, 74 years old
University of Arkansas, Arkansas writer, From Fayetteville, Arkansas, millsaps college, National Book Award for Fiction, plantation…creativewriting
Ellen Gilchrist (born February 20, 1935) is an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and raised on a...