FAWC Online
Instructors and Moderators
Tim Green & Katie Dozier
Valerie Acosta-Gonzalez
Angela Cappetta
M.P. Carver
Laura Cresté
January Gill O'Neil
Pete Hocking
Jen Levitt
Annell López
Laura Shabott
Susanna Sonnenberg
Jenny Xie
Timothy Green is the editor of Rattle magazine, host of the weekly Rattlecast and Critique of the Week, and co-host of The Poetry Space_, with his wife, Katie Dozier. His radio programming has aired regularly on KPFK-Los Angeles and his articles on poetry appear in the Press-Enterprise newspaper. Green is the author of American Fractal and Hot Pink Moon, which was co-written with his wife Katie Dozier. He’s also the co-founder of the Wrightwood Arts & Wine Festival and the Wrightwood Arts Center. Find him on X @timothygreen. He lives in The Woodlands, Texas.
Katie Dozier’s love of poetry first bloomed as a child. She memorized Robert Frost sitting on a tree stump and bathed in Edgar Allan Poe as an adolescent. While studying words at Florida State University, she also played with chips and became a professional poker player. She’s passionate about encouraging others to discover and share contemporary poetry through her X account (@Katie_Dozier), her Substack, and NFTs. Dozier is the author of Watering Can, and co-authored Hot Pink Moon with her husband Timothy Green. She hosts the top-rated podcast The Poetry Space_, is the Haiku Editor for ONE ART, and an editor at Rattle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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