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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 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, came out in 2009, and The
Vanishing Horizon, a collection of poems, came 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, AmeriCorps Community Outreach Coordinator
Jessica is a recent graduate from Frostburg State University
with a degree in English. She is from the Frostburg area and currently
works with the Center to coordinate outreach programs that involve students
and the community.
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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 taught creative writing at Frostburg
State University in Frostburg, MD, until her retirement at the completion
of the 2009-2010 academic year.
Andy Duncan is a full-time journalist
for 12 years, Andy Duncan, author of Beluthahatchie and Other Stories,
has published short fiction since 1996, winning two World Fantasy
Awards and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science
fiction story of the year. His nominations for Hugo, Nebula, World
Fantasy, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards total 15. Upcoming
are "On 20468 Petercook," at Tor.com, and a second collection,
The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories. A 1994 graduate of the
Clarion West writers' workshop, he has taught at both Clarion West
and Clarion and served as a juror for the Philip K. Dick and Shirley
Jackson awards.
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