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Meet the Staff

The Frostburg Center for Creative Writing staff is working hard to advocate the literary arts in the greater Frostburg Community. Along with the university's English Department, the Center's staff is coordinating literary events on campus and beyond.

Gerry LaFemina, Director

Gerry LaFemina's numerous collections of poetry include Graffiti Heart, winner of the 2001 Anthony Piccione/MAMMOTH Books Poetry Prize, The Window Facing Winter, and The Parakeets of Brooklyn, which received the 2003 Bordighera Prize and was published in a bilingual edition of English and Italian. A noted writer and teacher, LaFemina was nominated for the Michigan Governor's Arts Educator of the Year award in 2000, served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), and has published essays, fiction, and poetry in a variety of journals.

Candace Meredith, Center Intern

Candace is an English major with a concentration in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Bittersweet, the campus literary magazine. She looks forward to submitting more work in the new upcoming edition.

 

  

FSU Creative Writers

Brad Barkley’s books Money, Love and Alison’s Automotive Repair Manual are both “BookSense 76” selections and the latter has been optioned for film by Meg Ryan. Short fiction by Brad Barkley has appeared in over two dozen magazines, including Southern Review, Georgia Review, the Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Book Magazine and the Virginia Quarterly Review, which twice awarded him the Emily Balch Prize for Best Fiction.

Barbara Hurd is the author of Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, The Singer’s Temple and Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination which was the Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001. Her essays have appeared in numerous journals including Best American Essays 1999, Best American Essays 2001, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Orion, Audubon and others. She is the recipient of a 2002 NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction and winner of the Sierra Club’s National Nature Writing Award and a 2004 Pushcart Prize.

 

 

 
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