Adjunct Fellow in Fiction
Emily Chenoweth is the author of the novel, Hello Goodbye. She's a former fiction editor of Publishers Weekly. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Bookforum, and People, among other publications. Emily teaches in the Atheneum program.
Adjunct Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters
Lila Cutter teaches poetry at Oregon State University. She has been awarded a Spring Creek Fellowship, International Writing Program Fellowship, and has been semifinalist for the Jane Underwood Poetry Prize. Lila’s poetry can be found in The Shore Journal, Sugar House Review, Mystic Yarn Podcast, The Citron Review, Miniskirt Magazine, Ursus Americanus Press, and The Racket Journal, among others.
Adjunct Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters
Kate Carroll de Gutes is a wry observer and writer who started her career as a journalist and then got excited by new journalism which became creative nonfiction and is now called essay (personal, lyric, and otherwise). Kate's book, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Memoir. Kate writes on a wide range of topics, but her obsession is to focus on sexuality and gender presentation, and living an authentic life. Learn more at katecarrolldegutes.com.
Writing Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters
Susan DeFreitas’s work has appeared in The Utne Reader, The Nervous Breakdown, Story Magazine, Southwestern American Literature, and Weber—The Contemporary West, along with more than twenty other magazines, journals, and anthologies. She is the author of the novel, Hot Season, and the chapbook Pyrophitic, as well as a regular contributor at Litreactor.com. She holds an MFA from Pacific University and lives in Portland, Oregon, where she serves as a collaborative editor with Indigo Editing & Publications.
Senior Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters
Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Visiting Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters
Michael Dickman is the author of four books of poems, The End of the West (2009), Flies (2011, winner of the James Laughlin Award), Green Migraine (2015) and most recently, Days & Days. He is also the coauthor, with his twin brother, of 50 American Plays (Poems) (2012), and Brother (2016). He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is on the faculty at Princeton University.
Senior Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters
A prose writer, playwright, poet, and artist, Merridawn Duckler is a senior fellow at the Attic Institute, a member of the Atheneum faculty, and a leader of the Individual Consult Group. Her recent work appears in: TAB: Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Blast Furnace, Zone 3, The Psychoanalytic Review, The Offing, The Meadow, Rivet, Really System, Poetica and Defenestration. She was a finalist for the 2016 Sozoplo Fiction Fellowship. Her work has been performed at Red Cat at Disney Hall, as well as in other venues in Arizona, California, New York, Oregon, Washington and Valdez Alaska. Her verse play appeared in the Emerging Female Playwright Festival Manhattan Shakespeare Project. She is a member of the Blackfish Gallery collective. Fellowships and awards include Best Creative Non-Fiction Anthology and Pushcart nomination, winner Writers@Work, Yaddo, Squaw Valley, NEA, SLS in St. Petersburg, Russia, Southampton Poetry Conference with Billy Collins, and others. She is an editor at Narrative and the international philosophy journal Evental Aesthetics.
Visit Merridawn's website.
Read the The New York Times review on her libretto Copera.
Read Merridawn's report on the "The Problem of Fiction."
Teaching Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters
Patrick Dundon is the author of the chapbook The Conspirators of Pleasure (Sixth Finch Books). He’s a graduate of the MFA program at Syracuse University where he served as Editor-in-Chief for Salt Hill Journal. His work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, BOAAT, Cosmonauts Avenue, DIAGRAM, Hobart, The Journal, Vinyl and elsewhere.
http://www.theadroitjournal.org/issue-eighteen-patrick-dundon-the-adroit-journal/
http://www.boaatpress.com/i-am-trying-to-forget-his-chest
http://thediagram.com/16_3/dundon.html
http://sixthfinch.com/dundon.html
http://www.birdfeastmagazine.com/thirteen/dundon.html
https://vinylpoetryandprose.com/2019/05/patrick-dundon/
https://cosmonautsavenue.com/patrick-dundon-nonfiction/
Writing Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters
Omar El Akkad's debut novel, American War, received the 2018 Oregon Book Award for fiction. Omar was born in Cairo, Egypt and grew up in the Middle East before moving to Canada. In a ten-year career as a reporter, he covered stories across the planet — from the war in Afghanistan to the military trials in Guantanamo Bay, the Arab Spring revolutions in the Middle East and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Omar is a recipient of the National Newspaper Award for investigative reporting for his coverage of the “Toronto 18” terrorism arrests. He has also won the Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize for young Canadian journalists, and has been nominated for several National Magazine Awards. He is a graduate of Queen's University.
Writing Fellows offer workshops in fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, or poetry, as well as in general literary subjects such as publishing or literature. These fellows bring fresh perspectives and special energy to Attic workshops, and give you an opportunity to work closely with some of the best up-and-coming writers in the Northwest as you broaden your literary community, as well.
Meet the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters' Writing Fellows
The Attic Institute of Arts and Letters opposes the legitimation of bigotry, hate, and misinformation. As a studio for writers, we do not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We embrace and celebrate our shared pursuit of literature and languages as essential to crossing the boundaries of difference. To that end, we seek to maintain a creative environment in which every employee, faculty member, and student feels safe, respected, and comfortable — even while acknowledging that poems, stories, and essays delve into uncomfortable subjects. We accept the workshop as a place to question ourselves and to empathize with complex identities. We understand that to know the world is to write the world. Therefore, we reaffirm our commitment to literary pursuits and shared understanding by affirming diversity and open inquiry.