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Valerie Acosta-Gonzalez Ron Amato Erica Bodwell Gabrielle Calvocoressi Angela Cappetta M.P. Carver Laura Cresté Jennifer Franklin January Gill O'Neil Pete Hocking Ann Hood Zehra Khan Jen Levitt Jen Liese Annell López Kevin McLellan Tyler Mills Bushra Rehman Laura Shabott Susanna Sonnenberg Lena Wolff Jenny Xie

Valerie Acosta-Gonzalez is a Puerto Rican, multi-disciplinary artist based in Virginia. Her preferred mediums include paint, pottery, photography and poetry. Her art has been exhibited at the Arches Gallery in the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia and the Capital One Center in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. She is a visual arts facilitator and advocate with Mission Belonging (Veteran Charity Organization) and the Veterans and the Arts Initiative at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia. She is a retired US Air Force Veteran and DoD-certified Master Resilience Trainer who loves to teach resiliency skills that can support mental health and replace misery with happiness.

 

Teaching: Make Your Own Gel Printed Journal - a Mission Belonging Workshop
Gel Printed Journals & Mindful Journaling - a Mission Belonging Workshop

Ron Amato is a Professor in the Photography and Related Media Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In addition to his extensive career in commercial photography, Ron has published three monographs, and his work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. His most recent book, *Artists of Provincetown* (2024), is a collection of eighty-four portraits of artists with strong connections to Provincetown, Massachusetts, created over an eight-year period. This work culminated in an exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in the summer of 2024. Ron holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, and an MFA in New Media Art and Performance from Long Island University.

Teaching: Building a Strong Photography Portfolio or Project

Erica Bodwell is a painter working in oil and watercolor for close to ten years. Working in the example of artists such as Atel Adnan, Zoey Frank and Joan Mitchell, Erica's work engages still life, figuration and abstraction, using color as a primary subject to interrogate the emotional, political, and phenomenal world. She focuses on "the close view" of subjects, including the gazes of girls and women she's known and been throughout her life, and the natural world around her. Her work often places the viewer in its midst, whether at eye-level with squares and squiggles, wildflowers in a meadow, or the subject's gaze. Erica's work asks, Are we present? Are we paying attention now?

Erica studied with Fran O'Neil and Catherine Lepp at the New York Studio School, as well as at the Kimball-Jenkins School of Art, the Currier Art Museum, and the New Hampshire Technical College Fine Arts program and is a member of the juried New Hampshire Art Association. She is also an accomplished poet with two books of poems, Up Liberty Street (Finishing Line 2017), and Crown of Wild (Two Sylvias 2020), which won the 2018 Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize. The mother of two grown sons, she works as a healthcare attorney and lives with her husband and two dogs in Concord and Tamworth, New Hampshire. Her first solo show was held at the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, New Hampshire in February 2024. Her work was included in a group show in March 2025 at the Glimpse Gallery in Concord, New Hampshire, and in a group show at the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Her next show is at the Glimpse Gallery in December 2025.

Teaching: Studio Practice for Busy People

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer's Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. Calvocoressi's poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler, The New York Times, POETRY, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a non-fiction book entitled, The Year I Didn't Kill Myself and a novel, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi was the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2022 - 2023. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry, The New Economy, will be released from Copper Canyon in October, 2025.

Teaching: "Miss You. Would Like to _______ with you." Composting Missing & Memory into Generative Practice

Angela Cappetta is a NYC based documentary-style photographer, three time MacDowell Fellow and NYFA Fellow. Her work is collected internationally by major museums and private collectors and has been profiled widely in esteemed publications such as The New Yorker, Blind, W Magazine and Dazed. Her first monograph, published by L’Artiere Edizione, was shortlisted for the prestigious Arles Prix du Livres. Angela is a proud, minority woman who runs her own studio. In addition to her renowned independent projects, Angela has shot commercially for some of the world’s most respected brands such as Refinery 29, VICE, Wired, NY Mag, The Cut, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The London Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Vogue, Arnold Worldwide, BBDO, Havas, and Saatchi. Early in her career, Angela apprenticed with some of the greatest geniuses of our time — Mary Ellen Mark, Graciella Iturbide and Arthur Elgort. Through this education, she learned about dedication, hard work and talent. Moreover, she learned that making a career in photography can touch so many. Through her life as a full-time, professional artist, storytelling is Angela’s truest joy.

Teaching: Finding Your Edge: the Art of the Photo Project

M.P. Carver is a poet and visual artist from Salem, MA. She is the Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, a miCrO-Founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag, and a teacher of creative and digital writing at Salem State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Mantis, Jubilat, Love’s Executive Order, and elsewhere. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Essex Community Foundation. In 2023 her poem "In Vitro" was named a finalist in the Connecticut River Review's Experimental Poetry Contest, and in 2022 her poem “You & God & I” was awarded the New England Poetry Club’s E.E. Cummings Prize. Her chapbook, Selachipmorpha, was published by Incessant Pipe in 2015, and her chapbook Hard Up is available now from Lily Poetry Review Books.

Teaching: Cut, Shape, Shine: a Summer Program Extension Workshop

Laura Cresté is the author of In the Good Years, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2025, and You Should Feel Bad, winner of a 2019 Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America. She holds an MFA from New York University and has received fellowships and other support from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Community of Writers, Monson Arts, and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, The Cortland Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in western Massachusetts.

Teaching: Writing Accountability Group (WAG) - August 2025
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) - September 2025

Jennifer Franklin is the author of four poetry collections, including If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, 2023), finalist for the Paterson Prize and Julie Suk Award. Poems from her forthcoming collection, A Fire In Her Brain, (epistolary poems to Virginia Woolf, Lucia Joyce, and Sylvia Plath) have been published in American Poetry Review, The Bennington Review, Poetry Northwest, The Montreal International Poetry Anthology, Prairie Schooner, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and as a "poem-a-day” on poets.org. Her work has been commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum and published in The Paris Review, The Nation, The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, and as part of the Poetry Society of America’s “Poetry in Motion” series. Her work has been supported by The T.S. Eliot Foundation, NYFA/City Arts Corp, Poetry by the Sea (Jon Tribble Editing Fellowship), and Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation. She was interviewed for the forthcoming documentary, Poetry is Not a Luxury, along with poets Jane Hirshfield, Joy Harjo, and Marie Howe. She is cofounder and cohost of “Words Like Blades,” an online reading series that amplifies new work by marginalized emerging writers and their mentors. Franklin is coeditor of the anthologies Braving the Body (Small Harbor Publishing, 2024) and The Big Brutal Act (Small Harbor Publishing, 2026). She teaches in Manhattanville's MFA program and her own manuscript revision workshops.

Teaching: The Art of the Epistolary Poem: a Generative Workshop

January Gill O'Neil is a professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Glitter Road won the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize in poetry from the Boston Authors Club; was a finalist for the New England Book Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and the Julie Suk Award; and is finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. From 2012 to 2018, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Sierra, and more. Her poem “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial” won a 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O’Neil was the 2019–2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, and chairs the AWP Board of Directors (2022–2025).

 

 

 

 

Teaching: What the World Needs Now: A Generative Poetry Workshop

Pete Hocking is a painter, teacher & writer on Cape Cod. His work is concerned with nature, place, poetics, and identity. He's a founding board member of Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the creative economy. He taught part-time at RI School of Design from 1997- 2022. From 2003-2021 he was full-time faculty in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. He was director of RISD’s Office of Public Engagement (2007-11), and Associate Dean of the College & Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University (1992-2005). On Cape Cod he is represented by AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet.

 

Teaching: Painting Between Place & Memory: a Summer Program Extension Workshop
Painting Life/Painting Your Life in 9 Months

Ann Hood is the author of over a dozen novels, including the international bestsellers The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer, and The Book That Matters Most. She has also written five memoirs, including Fly Girl and Comfort: a Journey Through Grief, which was a NYT Editors’ Choice and was named one of the top ten non-fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. She has won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing awards, a Best American Travel Writing award, and a Best American Spiritual Writing award. Hood’s most recent book is the novel The Stolen Child. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Michael Ruhlman.

Teaching: Bringing Our Stories to Life: a Fiction Workshop

Zehra Khan is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and painting — the latter often on her fellow humans. She received an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 2007, and a BS from Skidmore College. Khan loves traveling to art residencies including Yaddo, the Studios of Key West, Ox-Bow, I-Park, the Vermont Studio Center, Art Space Sonahmoo in Korea, and Space A in Kathmandu. Khan lived year-round in Provincetown from 2007-2018, and now lives in Chicago.

 

 

 

 

Teaching: Trash Art: a Multimedia Exploration

Jen Levitt is the author of So Long (2023) and The Off-Season (2016), both published by Four Way Books. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Adroit Journal, Boston Review, Tin House, and The Yale Review. She lives in New York City.

Teaching: The Good Thief: Writing Poems Inspired by Marie Howe’s Lyric Narratives

Jen Liese is Director of the Center for Arts & Language (A&L) at Rhode Island School of Design, where she teaches graduate thesis writing, leads workshops on writing as a studio practice, and advises student publications. She has been an editor at Provincetown Arts, Cabinet, and Artforum, and her published essays include “Toward a History (and Future) of the Artist Statement” (Paper Monument, 2013) and “Ways of Speaking and Listening: The Artist Talk” (Archives of American Art Journal, 2021). Her book, Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 (Paper Monument, 2016), an anthology of contemporary artists’ writings with a critical introduction, was named one of the best art books of the decade by ARTnews.

Teaching: Words & Work: Writing About & Around Your Art

Annell López is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of the short story collection I’ll Give You a Reason, a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for best debut short story collection. Named a best short story collection of 2024 by Electric Literature, I’ll Give You a Reason has been longlisted for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the Reforma Latinx Book Award, and the Clark Fiction Prize. López was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Workshops. Her work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, The Common, Brooklyn Rail, Refinery29, and TIME. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans, where she was awarded the Joanna Leake Fiction Prize. She is the Creative Writing Chair at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. López is working on a novel.

Teaching: The Short Story: Generative Writing & Craft Intensive

Kevin McLellan is the author of Sky. Pond. Mouth., winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry. He has also published: in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection), Ornitheology, Tributary, Round Trip, and the book objects, Hemispheres and [box] which reside in several special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. Kevin also makes videos which have appeared in numerous film festivals including the Berlin Short Film Festival, Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival where "Dick" won Best Short Form Short. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Teaching: Writing Accountability Group (WAG) – January 2026

Tyler Mills is a poet, essayist, and educator. Her most recent poetry books are the poetry guidebook Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets (University of Akron Press 2024) for new and experienced poets and City Scattered (Tupelo Press 2022). She is also the author of the memoir The Bomb Cloud (Unbound Edition Press 2024), which received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, the Kenyon Review, The Believer, and Poetry. Her essays have appeared in AGNI, Brevity, Lit Hub, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She has served as a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers  Workshop and has been awarded residencies from Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Bethany Arts Community. She is also the author of the poetry books Hawk Parable (University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions 2021). Empathy, rigorous questions, and embracing process are central to her approach to poetry and art making. She teaches for the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.

Teaching: Let’s Move: a Generative Poetry Workshop

Bushra Rehman’s novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, a modern classic about being Muslim and queer was noted as a Best Book and Editor’s Choice by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, among others. Rehman is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and author of the poetry collection Marianna’s Beauty Salon and the novel Corona, chosen by the NY Public Library as one of its favorite books about NYC. She received the Queens Public Library award in 2024. Rehman has led writing workshops for Poet’s House, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Teaching: Two Truths & a Lie: Writing Memoir & Autobiographical Fiction - in partnership with Kundiman

Laura Shabott's work is sparked by a deep need to capture the life force with color, composition, and form, either working with a model, who is sometimes herself, or with objects and plants. The canvas, collage or drawing contains the energy and the history of the process.

Provincetown based, she is a graduate of School of Museum of Fine Arts at TUFTS, Boston, with multiple self-directed Returning Residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown. She was part of the inaugural cohort for the Building Capacity Grant through the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. She is represented by Berta Walker Gallery and her art is in the Permanent Collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. 

Teaching: Ninth Street Women: a Seminar

Susanna Sonnenberg is the author of two memoirs, Her Last Death and She Matters: A Life in Friendships. Her recent essay "Mirage" was a Notable selection in 2024's Best American Essays. The recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Djarassi Foundation, among many others, she has taught widely and been on the Summer Faculty of FAWC since 2017. She lives in Missoula, Montana.

Teaching: Q&A for Groundwork: The First Draft of Your Memoir in 9 Months
Groundwork: The First Draft of Your Memoir in 9 Months

Lena Wolff is an artist, craftswoman, independent teacher, and activist for democracy who has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1990’s. Her work extends out of American folk-art and quilt making traditions while at the same time being connected to minimalism, geometric abstraction, Op art, social practice, feminist and political art. Lena’s broad interconnected artistic output includes drawing, collage, sculpture, frequent collaboration, and public projects. Her work is in the permanent collections of ONE National Lesbian and Gay Archives, the Berkeley Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Oakland Museum of California, among others. She lives with her wife, artist Miriam Klein Stahl, in Berkeley, California.

Teaching: Color Studies: Developing Palettes

Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level and The Rupture Tense, both finalists for the National Book Award in Poetry. She has been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Xie is an assistant professor of Written Arts at Bard College, and lives in New York City.

Teaching: Unique & Imitable: On Poetic Style
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