Dave Madden
Full-Time Faculty, Academic DirectorDave Madden is the author of the story collection If You Need Me I'll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy, a book of nonfiction. His shorter work has appeared in Harper's, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He's received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Read interviews with Dave Madden at the Rappahannock Review at at Sundog...
Education:
PhD (Creative Writing), University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Micah Ballard
Administrative DirectorAuthor of three full-length collections of poetry, Afterlives (Bootstrap Press, 2016), Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books, 2011), which was nominated for a California Book Award, and Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press, 2009), and over a dozen small books, including Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter, 2014), Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006) and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press, 2001). His writing has appeared in Ameraucana, Bay Poetics, Blue Book, Boog City,...
Education:
MA in Poetics, New College of California, MFA in Poetics, New College of California