The 28th Napa Valley Writers’ Conference July 27—Aug 1, 2008

Faculty & staff, 2007

We can best be reached at (707) 967-2900 x1611; or at writecon@napavalley.edu.

John Leggett, Program Director

John Leggett’s biography of William Saroyan, A Daring Young Man, was published this year. A former editor with Houghton Mifflin and Harper and Row, Leggett was Director of the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa for 17 years. The author of five novels, he is in his seventeenth year as Program Director.

Anne Matlack Evans, Program Director

Anne Matlack Evans, now in her thirteenth year managing the conference, received her MFA in fiction from Bennington College, and teaches writing and literature. Her fiction has appeared in Eclipse and her nonfiction in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Ruminator Review.

Nan Cohen, Poetry Director

Nan Cohen is the author of Rope Bridge (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005), and her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry International, Tikkun, Prairie Schooner, and other publications. A past Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, she received a 2005 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and a 2003 NEA fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches at various institutions, including the B.A. in Liberal Studies program at Antioch University Los Angeles and the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. Nan’s blog

Andrea Bewick, Fiction Director

Andrea Bewick is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford and was a runner-up for the Nelson Algren Award. Her fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction and Epoch. She teaches English at Napa Valley College.

Willa Rabinovitch, Fiction Consultant

Willa Rabinovitch’s stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, The Ontario Review, and elsewhere. She received the Sewanee Review’s Editor’s Prize and was a finalist for the The Missouri Review and Glimmer Train prizes. Fellowships include the MacDowell Colony and Ucross Foundation.

Lorraine Wasowicz, Business Manager

Lorraine is a writer of fiction who received her M.A. in English from University of Utah. She teaches literature and composition at Napa Valley College and has served on the conference staff for five years.

Lisa Yanover, Poetry Assistant

Lisa Yanover’s poems and essays have appeared in New England Review, Ploughshares, Image, and The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Napa Valley College. 707-253-3335 x1487.

Lakin Khan, Fiction Assistant

Lakin Khan is a graduate of the MFA Program at Antioch Los Angeles. Her fiction, poems and essays have been published by zaum, Crimson Crane, the anthology Zebulon Nights, and Tiny Lights, A Journal of Personal Essay. She writes a monthly column, “Nature’s Way,” concerning the interaction of the campus community and the surrounding natural environment for Newsbytes, a publication of Sonoma State University, and an idiosyncratic blog, Rhymes with Bacon.

Ann Holmes, Housing Coordinator

Charlotte Morgan, Administrative Assistant

Charlotte lends her indispensable help in her fifth year with the Conference. 707-967-2900 x1611