Frostburg Center for Creative Writing

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

Gerry LaFemina's five full-length collections of poetry include The Parakeets of Brooklyn, which received the 2003 Bordighera Prize and was published in a bilingual edition of English and Italian and he’s also the author of two collections of prose poems. His collection of short stories, Proofreading America, is forthcoming in 2009, and The Vanishing Horizon, a collection of poems, will be out in 2010. A noted writer, editor 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), has been awarded numerous awards for his work, including a Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs grant and an Pushcart Prize.

Jessica Palumbo, Center Intern

Jessica is an English major with a concentration in Creative Writing who will graduate this coming December. She is the former President of the 3 A.M. Society and now serves as secretary during her last semester.

Kimberly Brown, VISTA Community Outreach Coordinator

Kimberly is a recent graduate from Frostburg State Univeristy with a degree in English Literature. She has recently relocated to the Frostburg area and currently works with the Center to coordinate outreach programs that involve students and the community.

FSU Creative Writers

Brad Barkley is the author of the novels Alison's Automotive Repair Manual (St. Martin's) and Money, Love (Norton), which was named one of the best books of 2000 by the Washington Post and the Library Journal. Brad was named one of the "Breakthrough Writers You Need To Know" by Book Magazine. He has published two collections of short stories, Circle View (SMU Press) and Another Perfect Catastrophe (St. Martin's). His short fiction has appeared in nearly thirty magazines, including the Virginia Quarterly Review, which twice awarded him the Emily Balch Prize for Best Fiction. His work was anthologized in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2002. His first YA novel, Scrambled Eggs At Midnight, co-authored with Heather Hepler, was published in May 2006 by Penguin. His second YA novel, Dream Factory, published in spring 2007, was a Library Guild "Book of the Month, pick" and voted the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters "Best Young Adult Book" for 2007.

Barbara Hurd is the author of Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (2008), Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, a Library Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (2003), The Singer's Temple (2003), Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 (2001), and Objects in this Mirror (1994). 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. The recipient of a 2002 NEA Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club's National Nature Writing Award and Pushcart Prizes in 2004 and 2007, she teaches creative writing at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD, and in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.

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