Advisors and Staff
Board of Advisors
The duties of the Board of Advisors include:
- Advising the CLA director on the activities, publications, budget, and goals of the Center
- Increasing the readership of the Centers’ publications and attendance at Center events
- Enhancing fundraising
- Developing key alliances with arts and educational groups
- Advocating the value and importance of creative writing and the genres of contemporary poetry, fiction, children’s literature, and creative nonfiction
- Facilitating public discussions
- Volunteering and organizing other volunteers to serve the goals of the CLA
Meet the Staff
The Frostburg Center for Literary Arts 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.
Jennifer Browne
Director
Browne's professional life has been devoted to the teaching of writing and to educational advocacy for underserved populations. She writes poetry and creative nonfiction with a particular focus on nature, the environment, science, and language.
FSU Creative Writers
Andy Duncan
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.
Gerry LaFemina
Gerry LaFemina's six 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, Graffiti Heart, which received the Anthony Piccione/MAMMOTH Books prize in poetry, and most recently Vanishing Horizon (2011, Anhinga Press) His other books include two collections of prose poems and Wish List, a book of stories. In 2013 two new books will be released: Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist (prose poems, Mayapple Press) and Clamor (a novel, Cordorus Press). A noted writer, editor, teacher, and literary arts activist LaFemina was nominated for the Michigan Governor's Arts Educator of the Year award in 2000, was a finalist for a Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award and was a nominee for the AWP George Garrett award for literary service. In 2012 he received the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Award for Service for his work at the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing.