A Lutheran Festival of Writing
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1 OCTOBER 29-31, 2010 LUTHER COLLEGE, DECORAH, IOWA 2 CONTENTS: Festival Schedule 3 Authors/Presenters 9 Luther English Department Members 16 Festival Information 20 Festival Planning Structure 24 The Lutheran Festival of Writing celebrates the work of creative writers shaped by the Lutheran tradition. Sponsored by Luther College, the Festival promotes highly crafted writing in all genres—work that has literary, ethical, and spiritual depth. The Festival also cultivates a supportive reading community, furthered by its links with the Lutheran Writers and Readers Projects 3 THE VIBRANT WORD: A LUTHERAN FESTIVAL OF WRITING AT LUTHER COLLEGE, OCTOBER 29-31, 2010 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 10:30 a.m. College Chapel Service Homily Center for Faith and Life Main Hall David Vasquez, Luther College Campus Pastor Music Pilgrims' Hymn, by Stephen Paulus Text by Michael Dennis Browne Luther Cathedral Choir Director Sandra K. Peter, Luther College Music Dept 3:00-7:00 p.m. 7:00-8:30 p.m. Registration Center for Faith and Life Lobby Opening Plenary Session Center for Faith and Life Main Hall Welcome Carol Gilbertson Director, Lutheran Festival of Writing 2010 Greeting William Craft Luther College Dean and Vice-President for Academic Affairs Dance Vibrant Reading Amanda Hamp, Luther College Theatre/Dance Dept Rose Milligan (LC ’10) Music Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria, by Heitor Villa-Lobos Soprano Rachel Ware, Luther College Music Dept. 4 Luther College Cello Ensemble Eric Kutz, Luther College Music Dept.; Olivia Hahn (LC'13), Phuc Phan (LC'13), Maren Quanbeck (LC'12), Charlie Rasmussen (LC'11), Kelsey Smith (LC'14), Macaulley Whitlock (LC'13), Jaci Wilkinson (LC'12) Director Richard Tirk, Luther College Music Dept Keynote address 8:30 p.m. The Longest Day: The In-Betweenness of Art Robert Cording College of the Holy Cross Introduction Carol Gilbertson Reception and Cording Book Signing Hammarskjold/ Peace Dining Room Dahl Centennial Union Jazz by the Miles Ahead Trio Stephen Uhl, Piano (LC'13), Ted Olsen, Bass (LC '14), Schuyler Leehey, Drums (LC'14) 10:00 p.m. Open mike Peace Dining Room, Dahl Centennial Union Hosted by the student members of Luther’s Alpha Beta Xi Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta All readers and listeners welcome. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 8:30-9:40 a.m. Panel Art, Idea, and Belief Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall This Festival intentionally focuses on literary work rather than writing that subordinates art to message. Why might a writer choose to allow theme to emerge rather than having idea dictate a work’s parameters—what is the relationship, in other words, between the thematic and the didactic? How does a writer effectively explore belief or ideas about theology, religion, politics, or morality in literary work? Is there value in framing and articulating questions and not answering them? The panelists will use their own work as illustration as they discuss these issues. Panelists: Robert Cording, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Gracia Grindal, Paul Shepherd, Walt Wangerin, Jr. Moderator David Faldet Poetry Reading Mary Crockett Hill and Steven Schroeder 5 Convenor Kyhl Lyndgaard Olin 102 Poetry Reading John Graber and Barbara Crooker Convenor Mark Z. Muggli Valders 206 9:40-10:20 a.m. Refreshment Break Center for Faith and Life Lobby 10:30-11:40 a.m. Panel R The Past as a Foreign Country Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall Poetry, historical fiction, and creative nonfiction (including memoir) are based in factual realities and details. Some writers pore over family records or artifacts; others do scholarly research to authenticate their portrayal of past eras and figures. What kinds of historical figures and events lend themselves to creative work? What are the problems of exposition in this kind of creative work? How does a writer shape art out of the details of past lives? How does the writer remain true to historical fact and yet create a fully realized imaginative world? How can the past’s religious dimensions speak to the contemporary world? The panelists will use their own work a as illustration as they discuss these issues. c Rachel Faldet, Mark Mustian, Robert Schultz, René Steinke Moderator Nicholas Preus Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Reading Nancy K. Barry and Walter Wangerin, Jr. Convenor Hannah Crippen (LC’11) Olin 102 Jazz Poetry Reading 11:40-1:00 Cass Dalglish and Philip Bryant Convenor Novian Whitsitt Valders 206 Lunch Break 11:50-12:05 Book Signing Wangerin Fincke, Graber, Hill, Mustian, 12:05-12:20 Book Signing Anderson, Crooker, Essbaum, Hicks, Shepherd, Waterman 12:20-12:35 Book Signing Bryant, Dalglish, R. Faldet, Schroeder, Schultz, Wilkins All Book Signings at the Luther College Bookshop Main level, Dahl Centennial Union 6 1:00-2:10 p.m. Panel Thoughts on Editing and Publishing Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall This panel discussion brings together editors and publishers of a range of publications, a writer who has been widely published, and a writer who has self-published. Some topics for discussion: What does an editor consider in selecting work for publication? What are the opportunities and roadblocks in peerreviewed publication, and why might a writer choose to self-publish? Why might a writer choose a secular over a religious journal for publication? How receptive are secular publications to works that explore religious issues? With recent changes at Augsburg Fortress Press, the ELCA no longer has a literary publishing venue—what other opportunities are available for writers focused on Lutheran or other religious concerns? Jill Peláez Baumgaertner (Christian Century); Gary Fincke (widely-published author); Cristy Fossum (self-published author); Katy Giebenhain (Seminary Ridge Review); Brianna Van Dyke (Ruminate) Moderator Martin Klammer Poetry Reading Diane LeBlanc and Vince Wixon Convenor Madeline Jungbauer (LC’11) Olin 102 Nonfiction and Fiction Reading David Faldet and Thomas Maltman Convenor Peter Scholl Valders 206 2:10-2:50 p.m. Refreshment Break Center for Faith and Life Lobby 3:00-4:10 p.m. The Beautiful Strange: Writing a Novel René Steinke Fairleigh Dickinson University Introduction Amy Weldon Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall 4:20-5:30 p.m. Panel Readers and Writers Networking Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall Both the Lutheran Writers Project and the Lutheran Readers Project grew out of the 2007 Lutheran Festival of Writing. Paul Shepherd, one of the originators of the Festival, manages the website of the Lutheran Writers Project (lutheranwriters.org), based at Roanoke College. The website serves writers who strive for spiritual and literary depth, engage the Church’s imagination, enable dialogue, and provide resources for writers, readers, organizations, and institutions. The Lutheran Readers Project (formerly the Lutheran Book Club), directed by Mark Mustian, is a resource for readers interested in literature addressing Lutheran culture, history, and faith. The Readers Project selects books by featured authors (many are Festival presenters past and present), for which it provides background materials, study guides, and interviews with writers—all for individual readers or for reading groups. Got any more ideas you’d like to see for writers, readers, pastors, or churches? This roundtable will discuss these projects and brainstorm ideas for other future projects. 7 MODERATORS Paul Shepherd, Mark Mustian Poetry Reading Susanna Childress and Katy Giebenhain Convenor Carol Gilbertson Olin 102 Poetry Reading Gracia Grindal and Jill Peláez Baumgaertner Convenor Diane Scholl Valders 206 5:40-6:30 Reception Luther Book Shop, Dahl Centennial Union 5:45-6:00 Book Signing Baumgaertner, D. Faldet, Grindal, Steinke, Wixon 6:00-6:15 Book Signing Childress, Fossum, LeBlanc, Maltman, Oppegaard All Book Signings at Luther College Book Shop Dahl Centennial Union 6:45 p.m. 8:00-10:00 p.m. Festival Banquet Peace Dining Room Dahl Centennial Union Vibrancies Some Returning Writers Read Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall Readers Lauri Anderson, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Gary Fincke, Carol Gilbertson, Patrick Hicks, Robert Schultz, Paul Shepherd, Amy Weldon Host Nancy K. Barry SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 8:30-9:40 a.m. Panel A Sense of Place Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall A Sense of Place. The presenters on this panel write about such disparate subjects as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, London as a city, Finnish Americans in the Upper Midwest, the human and natural ecosystems of Northeast Iowa, and plain folks in the Deep South. What are some of the challenges in writing about place? How does a writer avoid stereotyping regions and their people? What techniques translate the specificity of local detail into universal meaning and appeal? How important is religious practice in the understanding of place? The panelists will use their own work as illustration as they discuss these issues. 8 Panelists: Lauri Anderson, David Faldet, Patrick Hicks, Amy Weldon Moderator Mark Z. Muggli 10:00 a.m. Fiction Reading Mark Mustian and David Oppegaard Convenor Jay Dewitt (LC’11) Olin 102 Poetry Reading Joe Wilkins and Cary Waterman Convenor Lise Kildegaard Valders 206 Reformation Day Worship Center for Faith and Life Main Hall Preacher Rev. Norene Smith Bayshore Lutheran Church, Whitefish Bay, WI NOON: FESTIVAL ENDS 9 The Vibrant Word: Festival Presenters Lauri Anderson, English Department Chair at Finlandia University in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has published eight books of fiction, including Hunting Hemingway’s Trout, Heikki Heikkinen and Other Stories of Upper Peninsula Finns, Misery Bay, Back to Misery Bay, Impressions of Arvo Laurila, Children of the Kalevala, and Small Winter Wars. His latest book, Mosquito Conversations, a finalist for the Maria Thomas Award, was selected for a GobalTeach.Net listing. His books’ presses include Athenaeum and North Star, and his books have been nationally reviewed and studied at universities. He has received nine grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has been a featured author on Finnish National Television. Nancy K. Barry is a professor of English and Assistant Dean at Luther College, where she teaches courses on creative nonfiction and women’s literature. For many years, she has taught essays and memoir writing at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival. Her one-act play, Lessons from Cancer College, premiered in 2010, details her experience of sustaining her work as a writing teacher while undergoing cancer treatment. Her essays have appeared in Iowa Woman, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun. Jill Peláez Baumgaerter is the author of Finding Cuba (Chimney Hill Press, 2001), a collection of poems that explores her Cuban ancestry through the themes of political and theological exile and separation. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Leaving Eden (White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 1995), Namings (Franciscan University Press, 1999) and My Father’s Bones (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2006); a textbook/anthology, Poetry (HBJ, 1990); and Flannery O’Connor: A Proper Scaring (Cornerstone Press, 1998), in addition to over forty essays. She has been a Fulbright scholar, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and is the winner of the White Eagle Coffee Store Press’s poetry chapbook contest, the Goodman Award, an Illinois Arts Council Award, and the Illinois Prize of the Rock River Poetry Contest. She is past president of the Conference on Christianity and Literature and serves as poetry editor of The Christian Century. Currently she is Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies at Wheaton College. Jill's website is at <wheaton.edu/English/faculty/>. Brianna Van Dyke is the founder and editor-in-chief of Ruminate, a quarterly literary and arts magazine engaging the Christian faith (www.ruminatemagazine.org). She has a BA from Westmont College and an MA from Colorado State, both in English literature. Brianna has presented at writing, publishing, and editing conferences across the country and directs a national publishing internship for undergraduate and graduate English students. She lives in Fort Collins, CO, with her husband, two children, and two dogs. She dreams about documenting a pilgrimage of labyrinths and handcrafted ales. Since 1989 Philip Bryant has taught at Gustavus Adolphus College, where he is Professor of English. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, American Poetry Review, and Nimrod. He has a chapbook, Blue Island (Crossroads, 1997) and a poetry collection, Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day (New Rivers, 1998). His poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry. In 2009 Blueroad Press published his collection of jazz poems, Stompin’ at the Grand Terrace, along with an accompanying CD. 10 Susanna Childress spent the better part of her first decade in the Philippines, where her parents were missionaries. Her debut volume of poems, Jagged with Love, was selected by former US poet laureate Billy Collins for the 2005 Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press and by the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale for the 2006 Devil's Kitchen Literary Award for the best book of poems published in the previous year. Recently, her fiction has been selected by David James Duncan for a short story award from Ruminate Magazine. She earned a PhD in Creative Writing at Florida State University, taught as a Visiting Professor at Hope College, and has just completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with the Lilly Fellows Program at Valparaiso University, where she was mentored by Walter Wangerin, Jr. and served as a lecturer in the Humanities and English at Christ College and the English Department. She lives with her husband in Holland, Michigan, and they are enjoying their first child, a boy, born in May. Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at College of the Holy Cross where he is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He has published five collections of poems: Life-list, which won the Ohio State U Press/Journal award (l987); What Binds Us To This World (Copper Beech, l991); Heavy Grace (Alice James, l996); Against Consolation (CavanKerry, 2002); and Common Life (CavanKerry, 2006). CavanKerry published his new collection, Walking With Ruskin, in September. Bob has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and two poetry grants from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts. His poems have appeared in numerous publications such as The Nation, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Orion, and the New Yorker. Barbara Crooker’s poems appear in The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, Sojourners, Windhover, The Cresset, Tiferet, and Rock & Sling. She has published three poetry collections: Radiance, which won the 2005 Word Press First Book Award; Line Dance (Word, 2008), which won the 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence; and More (C&R, 2010). She has received three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature and the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award. Humming the Blues (Calyx, 2008), one of Cass Dalglish’s poetry collections, is a jazz interpretation of Sumerian cuneiform signs in Enheduanna’s Song to Inanna (ancient Iraq, 2350 BCE). She was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award for Sweetgrass (Lone Oak, 1992) and won a Loft Career Enhancement Grant for Nin (Spinsters Ink, 2000). Her animated interpretation of Enheduanna’s ancient text, “Mesopotamian Blues,” was selected for <www.mnartists.org> Five Minutes of Fame, and she has been invited to present her interpretation of this poem at various venues, including the British Museum. She has studied Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform, holds an MFA from Vermont College, and a PhD from the Union Institute. A former print and television journalist, Cass is a professor of English at Augsburg College, Minneapolis. Jill Alexander Essbaum has three full-length collections of poetry: Heaven (U Press of New England, 2000), which won the 1999 Bakeless Prize in Poetry; Harlot (No Tell Books, 2007); and Necropolis (NeoNuma Arts, 2008). Jill’s poems have appeared in many journals including Poetry, Christian Century, Image, Gulf Coast, and No Tell Motel. A former NEA Literature Fellow, her poem "On Reading Poorly Transcribed Erotica" was included in The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800-Present, and her poem “Apologia” (published in Image) appears in The Best American Poetry 2010. A single-poem chapbook, The Devastation, is forthcoming from Cooper-Dillon Books. A 11 four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jill teaches in the UCR-Palm Desert Low Residency MFA program. She lives in Austin, Texas. David Faldet is Professor of English at his alma mater, Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, the town where he grew up. He is in the sixth generation of his family to live in the basin of the Upper Iowa River. In his book, Oneota Flow: The Upper Iowa River and Its People (U of Iowa, 2009), he blends history, environmental research, and personal experience to demonstrate that taking care of the rivers around us is a necessary way to take care of our future. He earned his MA at the University of Washington and his PhD at the University of Iowa on a Danforth Fellowship. He has also taught in Idaho and in England. Much of his published scholarship deals with William Morris, a writer and artist who was an early environmentalist. Rachel Faldet grew up in small town Wisconsin and received her Master of Arts in Writing from the University of Iowa. She has taught writing to Luther College students for twenty years, partnered on writing projects with high school classrooms, and led writing workshops with disabled adults. She edited the grant-funded book From My Perspective: Essays About Disability (2009), which was featured on Iowa Public Radio's The Exchange. As co-editor of Our Stories of Miscarriage: Healing with Words (Fairview, 1997), Rachel has appeared on NBC's Today show. Her personal essays – published in The Christian Science Monitor, Carolina Quarterly, Wapsipinicon Almanac, Iowa Woman, and Tapestry–deal with connections to other females. She is at work on a memoir about the sister-in-law she never met in person. At Susquehanna University Gary Fincke is the Writers Institute Director, as well as the Charles Degenstein Professor of English and Creative Writing. Winner of the 2003 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the 2003 Ohio State University/The Journal Poetry Prize for recent collections of stories and poems, he has published twenty-two books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, most recently The Canals of Mars (memoir, Michigan State, 2010), The Fire Landscape (poems, Arkansas, 2008), Sorry I Worried You (stories, Georgia, 2004), and Amp'd: A Father's Backstage Pass, a nonfiction account of his son's life as a rock guitarist in the band Breaking Benjamin (Michigan State, 2004). Winner of the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry Magazine, the Rose Lefcowitz Prize from Poet Lore, and the George Garrett Fiction Prize, Gary has twice been awarded Pushcart Prizes for his work, recognized by Best American Stories, and cited nine times in the past eleven years for a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays. Cristy Fossum, self-published author of the Sunday by Sunday series <www.sundaybysunday.com> , lives in Columbia, South Carolina. Raised Methodist in Illinois, she has been a member of thirteen Lutheran congregations in Illinois, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and South Carolina. A full-time mother and homemaker for ten years, she has since worked in public relations and in special education. Most recently, she taught at Provost Academy in South Carolina, a virtual high school. She attended Wartburg College for two years, earned a BA from the University of Illinois in Chicago (1971) and an MS in special education from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (1990). Katy Giebenhain edits the Poetry + Theology rubric for Seminary Ridge Review. Her MPhil is from University of Glamorgan, Wales, her MA from University of Baltimore. Her poems have appeared in The London Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Bordercrossing Berlin, Water~Stone Review, Hidden City Quarterly and American Life in Poetry. Her chapbook, Pretending to be Italian, is available from RockSaw Press. She lives in Pennsylvania. 12 Carol Gilbertson’s poems have appeared in various journals including The MacGuffin, Christian Century, Vineyard, Pebble Lake Review, and the radio program Voices from the Prairie. Her poem “Hercules” won the 2006 Flyway Sweet Corn Prize for Poetry; “On the Train from Krakow” earned honorable mention in the 2009 MacGuffin Poet Hunt. She has written three hymn texts with different composers. Her poem “Night Rising” inspired composer Philip Wharton’s composition “Nightrising” for flute, oboe, and strings, and she wrote the libretto for “Birdsongs,” a song cycle for mezzo-soprano by Wharton. She co-edited the essay collection Translucence: Religion, the Arts, and Imagination (Fortress, 2004); her essay in it, on the religious imagination in the literature classroom, earned the NCTE Donald Murray Prize. A Professor of English at Luther College, she has been the Dennis M. Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, has directed the Luther Poetry Project and a study abroad program in Nottingham, England, and is current director of the Lutheran Festival of Writing. A St. Olaf grad with an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, John Graber has published over fifty poems in national magazines, including The American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Great River Review, and JAMA. He has two chapbooks, Walking Home (Pudding House) and Only on This Planet (Parallel Press). The 2007 Lutheran Festival of Writing led to the publication of his poetry collection, Thanksgiving Dawn, by presenter Jim Bodeen’s Blue Begonia Press (2008), and he was nominated for the 2010 Pushcart Prize. Graber’s voice emerges from the language, moods, and tones of scripture. He and his wife spent six years teaching college students in the Holden Village Christian Life Enrichment program. Now living in Stockholm, Wisconsin, John has taught in area colleges and high schools. He teaches a workshop in “The Writing and Repair of Poetry,” along with doing many duties at his church. Gracia Grindal, Professor of Rhetoric at Luther Seminary, taught English at Luther College from 1968 to 1984. She has published many articles on the history of Scandinavian-American Lutheran hymnody, and her hymn texts and translations appear in hymnals of several mainline churches. Her books include A Treasury of Faith: A B C Hymns on the Revised Common Lectionary (2006, 2008, 2009), Hymns Of Grace (2002), and We Are One in Christ (1997). Her poetry collections include A Revelry of Harvest (2002), Sketches Against the Dark (1982), and Pulpit Rock (1976). In 2007 Gracia provided a commentary on original sketches by Linka Preus for the new translation of Preus’s 19th-century diary (edited by Luther College History Professor Marv Slind, 2007). Gracia’s study of Scandinavian women hymn writers, Preaching From Home, is forthcoming from Eerdmans. She created the Reformation Festival and has served on a number of church boards, including the hymn text committee for the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) and the Task Force for the Study of Ministry. Gracia earned a BA from Augsburg College, an MFA from the University of Arkansas, and a MA from Luther Seminary. She is now completing a cycle of hymns on Old Testament lectionary texts and a series on the Epistles, and is working on a study of Scandinavian-American Lutheran parsonage traditions. View Gracia’s website at <luthersem.edu/ggrindal>. A graduate of St. Olaf College and Christ Seminary-Seminex, Patrick Cabello Hansel is an ELCA pastor who has served for 25 years in bilingual multicultural inner city ministries in the Bronx, Philadelphia and Minneapolis, where he has developed arts programs for youth and adults. He studied with Phillip Schultz, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, and was one of four poets in the 2008-2009 Mentor Series of the Loft in Minneapolis. Patrick has published poetry and essays in Fire Ring Voices, Main Channel Voices, Alitcom, Turtle Quarterly, Sojourners, The Other Side, and Philly Edition ’99, the celebration of Philadelphia poets by The American Poetry 13 Review. He is currently serializing his novella, Searching, in the monthly Alley News in Minneapolis. He and his wife are co-pastors of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. Patrick Hicks is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College (SD) as well as the author of five poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer (2008) and This London (2010), both from Ireland’s acclaimed press, Salmon Poetry. His fiction and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Utne Reader, Christian Science Monitor, Commonweal, National Catholic Reporter, and Natural Bridge. His stories have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize, he recently won the Glimmer Train New Writer’s Fiction Award, and several of his stories have been nominated for Best American Short Stories. He has received a number of grants, including one from the Bush Foundation for work on his first novel. A citizen of Ireland, he has also lived in England, Germany, and Spain. Mary Crockett Hill is the author of A Theory of Everything, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Autumn House Award (2009), and If You Return Home with Food, winner of the Bluestem Poetry Award (1999). Her poems have been nominated for five Pushcart Awards and selected for the Best of the Net anthology. She teaches at Roanoke College in southwestern Virginia and edits the Roanoke Review. Diane LeBlanc is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Dancer with Good Sow (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and Hope in Zone Four (Talent House Press, 1998). Awards include literary fellowships from the Wyoming Arts Council, a Brenda Ueland Prose Prize, a Robert Penn Warren Award, and a Pushcart Prize nomination for poetry. Diane received the Bechtel Prize from Teachers & Writers Collaborative for her essay “Weaving Voices: Writing as a Working Class Daughter, Professor, and Poet.” Diane directs the writing program at St. Olaf College, where she teaches writing and women’s studies. Diane’s website is at <dianeleblanc.v2efoliomn.mnscu.edu>. Thomas Maltman’s essays, poetry, and fiction have been published in many literary journals. He has an MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. His first novel, The Night Birds (Soho, 2008), won several national awards, including an Alex Award, a Spur Award, and the Friends of American Writers Literary Award. In 2009 the American Library Association chose The Night Birds as an “Outstanding Book for the College Bound." Mark Mustian is an author, attorney and city commissioner in Tallahassee, Florida, where he has practiced public finance law for over 25 years. Mark’s fiction has appeared in Stand Magazine, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, and Opium Magazine. His novel The Gendarme (Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010), a meditative account of the Armenian genocide by a Turkish former soldier, is available in foreign editions in France, Greece, and Israel. He is chair of the Lutheran Readers Project, a readers’ resource, writers’ connection, and book club (and part of the Lutheran Writers Project) designed to put quality books into the hands and minds of Lutheran readers. A member of St. Stephen Lutheran Church in Tallahassee, he has taught the high school Sunday School class since 2001. His website is at <markmustian.com>. David Oppegaard is the author of the Bram Stoker-nominated The Suicide Collectors (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009) and the recently released Wormwood, Nevada (St. Martin’s, 2009). David’s work is a blend of science fiction, literary fiction, and dark fantasy. He holds an MFA in Writing from Hamline University and a BA in English from St. Olaf. His essay “The Amnesia of 14 the Desert” appears in the spring 2010 edition of The Nevada Review. David lives in St. Paul, MN. His website is at <davidoppegaard.com>. A Lutheran preacher’s kid, Emily Rapp grew up in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. A Fulbright Scholar, she attended Harvard, St. Olaf, and the University of Texas-Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She has received recognition for her work by Atlantic Monthly, StoryQuarterly, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Yaddo, and Bucknell University, where she was the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence. She has served on numerous ELCA boards and interned at the Lutheran World Federation. She is a professor in the Creative Writing MFA program at Antioch University-Los Angeles. Her book, Poster Child (Bloomsbury, 2007), is a memoir of her early life struggles and triumphs. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. Steven Schroeder is the co-founder, with composer Clarice Assad, of the Virtual Artists Collective (a gathering of musicians, poets, and visual artists). His work appears in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Cresset, Druskininkai Poetic, JAMA, Mid-America Poetry Review, Rhino, Shichao, and TriQuarterly. He has two chapbooks, Theory of Cats and Revolutionary Patience, and four full-length collections: Fallen Prose, The Imperfection of the Eye, Six Stops South, and A Dim Sum of the Day Before. His most recent book in philosophy and religious studies is On Not Founding Rome: The Virtue of Hesitation (Cascade, 2010). He teaches at Shenzhen University (China) and in Asian Classics and in the Liberal Education for Adults program at the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD. Steven’s website is at <stevenschroeder.org>. Robert Schultz's books include two collections of poetry, Vein Along the Fault and Winter in Eden; a novel, The Madhouse Nudes (Simon and Schuster, 2008); and a work of nonfiction, We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman’s Pacific War (Naval Institute, 2009). He has received an NEA Literature Award in Fiction, Cornell University 's Corson Bishop Poetry Prize, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry from The Virginia Quarterly Review. His first book of poems was a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize and the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. With a BA from Luther College and a PhD from Cornell University, Bob returned to Luther in 1985, teaching here for 19 years. He has also taught at Cornell and the University of Virginia. Since 2004 he has been the John P. Fishwick Professor of English at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Robert’s website is at <www.robertschultz.us>. Paul Shepherd’s novel More Like Not Running Away won the Mary McCarthy Award and was published by Sarabande Books (2005). He has been a finalist for the James Jones, the Bakeless, and the AWP Awards. He has worked as director of a nonprofit housing group and in youth and family ministries. Most recently, he was Writer in Residence and Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University, where he earned a PhD in English, and where he served as Senior Editor of International Quarterly. He now lives with his family in Virginia. Pastor Norene Smith is co-pastor, with her colleague and husband Paul Overvold, of Bay Shore Lutheran Church on the Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior at Whitefish Bay. A native of Seattle, Norene is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University and both Wartburg and Luther Seminaries. From 1991 to 1997, she was campus pastor at Luther College. She has served on various synod worship committees and is currently a member of the ELCA Church Council. Before attending seminary, Norene’s vocational dream was to write skits for Saturday Night Live, which she says may help to explain her preaching style. She loves the wide variety of work 15 pastors get to do with people of all ages and backgrounds. Mental Health advocacy is one of her passions. René Steinke teaches in the undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her novel Holy Skirts was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and was listed among the Best Books of 2005 by the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Post. Translated editions of the novel have been published in Italy and Spain. She is also the author of the novel The Fires. Her writing has appeared in anthologies and in the New York Times, Vogue, Bookforum, and TriQuarterly. Editor-at-Large for The Literary Review, René also teaches in the Riggio Honors Program: Writing at Democracy at the New School. Walter Wangerin, Jr. is a widely recognized writer on issues of faith and spirituality. Beginning with the Book of the Dun Cow, Wangerin has written in almost every genre: fiction, essay, spirituality, children’s stories, and biblical exposition. Wangerin has won the National Book Award, the New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year Award, and several Gold Medallion Awards, including best fiction awards for both The Book of God and Paul: A Novel. Wangerin’s most recent work, Naomi and Her Daughters (Zondervan, 2010), is a historically accurate telling of the ancient narrative. Another 2010 book is Letters from the Land of Cancer (Zondervan, 2010), a meditation on his own illness and mortality. The author of more than forty books, Wangerin lives in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University. Walt’s website is at <walterwangerinjr.org>. Cary Waterman is the author of four poetry books, including When I Looked Back You Were Gone, which was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award. Her new collection, The Memory Palace, is forthcoming (Nodin, 2011). Her poems are included in Poets Against the War, To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present, and Where One Song Ends, Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry. She has received The Common Ground poetry award (2009), as well as grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Bush Foundation. She has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. Cary teaches creative writing at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. An Alabama native, Amy Weldon is assistant professor of English at Luther. She holds a PhD in 19th-century British literature from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her fiction and creative nonfiction appears in Shenandoah, StoryQuarterly, South Carolina Review, Yemassee, Southern Cultures, Carolina Quarterly, and North Carolina Literary Review; her personal essay “The Fruits of Memory” is reprinted in Cornbread Nation 2: The Best of Southern Food Writing (2004). Her scholarly essays have appeared in Cardiff Corvey, Mississippi Quarterly, and Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary (2006.) A former Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Amy has completed a story collection, Traveling Grace, and is at work on a novel. Though born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana, Joe Wilkins lives now with his wife and son in north Iowa, where he teaches writing at Waldorf College. He is the author Killing the Murnion Dogs (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press) and Ragged Point Road (Main Street Rag, 2006), and his work appears in the Georgia Review, Southern Review, The Sun, Orion, Slate, and Best New Poets 2006 and 2009. A National Magazine Award Finalist, he is the 2009 recipient of the Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center, which goes to “a promising new journalist or essayist whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom and concern with social justice.” Joe’s website is at <joewilkins.org>. 16 Vincent Wixon has three books of poems, including The Square Grove (Traprock Books, 2006), and most recently, Blue Moon (Wordcraft of Oregon). He is co-producer of documentary films on William Stafford and former Oregon Poet Laureate Lawson Inada. His work in the William Stafford Archives in Portland includes co-editing two Stafford books on writing for the University of Michigan’s Poets on Poetry Series, and choosing poems for Stafford’s selected poems. Wixon is retired from teaching high school English and Creative Writing in Southern Oregon, where he was named Oregon Teacher of the Year (1988). In 1996 he was awarded a Luther College Distinguished Service Award. Wixon and his wife Patty live in Ashland, Oregon, where he hits fungoes and serves as official scorekeeper for the high school baseball team. 17 The Luther College English Department The English Department is active in the life of Luther College as a whole, and in its own collegial departmental conversation. We enjoy discussing our departmental goals as well as our teaching excitement, and we love conversing over our truly excellent meals together at department potlucks. We treasure the time we try to set aside in our busy lives to read and discuss each other’s creative and scholarly work, and we get a kick out of our social events with students, including flipping burgers at our fall picnic and costuming up for our annual themed Halloween party. Nancy K. Barry has lots of energy, and she needs it: she has many roles at Luther College. She is Professor of English, Assistant to the Dean for Writing and Academic Support, and College Writing Director. A native of Baltimore, she earned her PhD in Twentieth-Century Poetry at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and teaches a range of writing at Luther and in the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival. Her primary writing genre is creative nonfiction, but her most recent creative endeavor was writing a one-woman play about her experience as a teacher undergoing treatment for breast cancer, Lessons from Cancer College, which has been performed locally and around the Midwest by actress Kristen Underwood. See presenter list for more information. Judy Boese is Administrative Assistant to the Paideia program (Luther’s interdisciplinary core program) and the English Department. Judy manages the production of The Paideia I Reader each semester and the quarterly publication of the faculty journal Agora. She is also administrative assistant to Carol Gilbertson for the Lutheran Festival of Writing. Both of Judy’s children are Luther grads, and her husband Charlie works at Luther too, so they’ve made Luther part of their family. Her favorite topic is her grandchildren, but she also loves to reminisce about her treasured trip accompanying a study abroad course to the “Sacred Spaces of Western Europe,” sites relevant to Lutheran-Catholic ecumenism—a reward for being named outstanding Luther staff member a few years ago. Joy Conrad, instructor in English, devotes her summers to teaching budding college students to read critically and write college-level work. An MA in Russian from the U of Iowa, she regularly teaches in our first-year common course, Paideia, and she teaches those wonderful, long Russian novels (and other literature) in translation. A student of dance, Joy encourages students to explore various kinds of artistic expression, as well as writing. William Craft wears a few hats at Luther. He’s our beloved dean--official title: Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College. Jovial and gregarious, he is an avid soccer fan and an even more fervent reader and movie buff. A PhD from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in sixteenth-century poetry, he has published a study of the poetry of Philip Sidney. He loves the contact he can maintain with students and the classroom: despite his busy administrative schedule, he makes time to teach a class on Shakespeare each spring. Professor of English David Faldet’s recent book, Oneota Flow (U of Iowa Press), was chosen as the summer reading for Luther’s first-year class this fall, so David had the thrill of giving the opening convocation lecture to an audience who had read his book. In Oneota Flow David folds his local roots and stories into a natural-cultural history of Decorah’s Upper Iowa River and the Driftless region of Northeast Iowa. David’s interests in ecology make him an invaluable link between Luther’s English department and its Environmental Studies program, and his project as 18 Jones Distinguished Professor was to lead the faculty to explore that field’s major questions and texts. A Luther grad and a PhD from Iowa in nineteenth-century British literature, David teaches Victorian literature as well as rhetoric. His fine talent as a visual artist combines with his literary scholarship in his work on the poet and designer William Morris. See presenter list for more information. Assistant professor Rachel Faldet is particularly interested in helping people who don't consider themselves writers find their voice and confidence. She teaches Introduction to College Writing and Effective Writing. A Luther alum and an MA in Writing from the University of Iowa, she is an active creative nonfiction writer and an expert editor. Her thoughtful essays on the details of individual lives, including her own, have found homes in regional and national journals. Her book Our Stories of Miscarriage landed her two appearances on NBC's Today Show—the first department member to appear on national TV. Like her husband David, she has an artist’s eye and she creates fine-art quality quilts. See presenter list for more information. Carol Gilbertson, Professor of English, grew up at Luther College, or so it would seem. She has taught at Luther for 43 years. An Augustana (SD) grad, an MA from North Carolina, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota with a specialization in seventeenth-century British literature, she has published on John Milton but also twentieth-century poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. As Jones Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in 2002-04, she developed the Luther Poetry Project, which brought poems into the foreground of campus life. She teaches courses in British Romanticism and Twentieth-Century literature as well as Milton. Her deep love is poetry: she not only relishes leading students into a love of language and cadence, but she often travels to hear poets reading their work, and she publishes her poems in a range of journals. With her husband Mark Muggli, she shares a joint position in the department. See presenter list for more information. Professor Lise Kildegaard is married to Luther—that is, her husband’s name is Luther, though she probably feels married to the college as well, so active is she in the departmental and college conversation. A PhD from the University of Chicago, Lise brings her joy in intellectual work equally to her upper-level teaching of 18th and 19th century British literature and to the first year common course, Paideia. She has found a way to combine her Danish heritage with her scholarly work: her fine translation of the celebrated Danish writer Louis Jensen’s Square Stories was adapted into a delightful campus student theater production. And she’s doing more Jensen translations. A lover of poems, she often tacks a fave on colleagues’ doors as a way to get our weeks off to a good start. She is one of our departmental bikers. Martin Klammer, Professor of English and Africana Studies, has a book on Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass (Penn St U Press). He’s continued his love of American literature, with its rich strain of African-American writing, in his teaching in both the English Department and the Africana Studies Department, of which he is chair. His more recent work focuses on South Africa. Martin has spent many January terms taking students to study its literature and culture, and his sabbatical year living there led to the publication of his recent book on the life of (and co-written with) Blanche LaGuma, an underground activist and wife of the celebrated novelist Alex LaGuma: In the Dark With My Dress on Fire: My Life in Cape Town, London, Havana and Home Again (Cape Town: Jacana, 2010). 19 Kyhl Lyndgaard is our newest member—a post-doctoral fellow (sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, of which Luther is a member) in English and Environmental Studies. A graduate of St. John’s University (MN), Kyhl received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of California-Davis. Newly married and freshly PhD’d in Environmental Studies and Creative Writing (U of Nevada), he moved to Decorah this summer and is teaching creative writing and environmental literature. A poet who studied with Gary Snyder and an artisan of handmade books (and married to an artist), Kyhl is also one of our department’s two speedy distance bikers: Kyhl biked from Minnesota to California a few years ago! Mark Z. Muggli, the current department head, likes biking but adores walking to work every day, if possible taking the three-mile route along the Upper Iowa River. A PhD in Renaissance drama from the University of Minnesota, he has a strong secondary interest in factual writing. He has published on Luther, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and the contemporary writer Joan Didion, and is working on an edition of Shakespeare's Winter's Tale. Mark primarily teaches Shakespeare in Performance, doing his own cutting of one of the plays down to a 60-minute version and teaching his students how to stage the play as it was originally performed. As part of an NEH summer seminar, he was lucky enough to play the ghost of Hamlet’s father on London’s Globe Theatre stage. Passionate about walking, he has taught a course in “Walking Books” and led study abroad courses that involved substantial hiking in England and Greece, coled with his wife and colleague, Carol Gilbertson. Associate Professor Kate Narveson--an MPhil in history from London’s Warburg Institute and a PhD from the U of Chicago in Renaissance lit--also walks to work, but another of her joys is knitting sweaters of her own design. A scholar who has published on seventeenthcentury devotional poets such as Donne and Herbert, she's at work on a book manuscript, deciphering Renaissance handwriting to explore the way lay men and women used their biblical literacy to pen scriptural devotions that offered a new form of self-definition. A classical violinist who has taken up fiddling at local folk dances, Kate’s recent marriage to a local solar electric specialist has added to the department’s voltage. Nicholas Preus, Associate Professor of English and Education, is one of our many close links to other departments. He draws on his former life as a high school teacher in courses on pedagogical methods and ethical issues in education, but he also teaches Victorian literature, novels, and poetry. Nick has a BA from Luther and a PhD from the U of Wisconsin-Madison. His latest literary interest is studying how insights from evolutionary psychology help us re-see literary texts, particularly Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald. A highly skilled woodworker, he builds beautiful furniture and makes a great artisanal beer. An eager reader of historical fiction and mystery novels with theological resonance, Professor Diane Scholl keeps us all up-to-date on her latest reads. A St. Olaf grad, a PhD from the U of Chicago, and a devoted teacher of American literature, Diane has published work on Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, on the trial of Ann Hutchinson, and on how seventeenth-century English devotional writing and American conversion stories influenced nineteenth-century American poets. She has an article on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple as religious parable. As Jones Distinguished Professor, she led the community in discussions of science and the humanities. She writes fine poetry. But she is perhaps most loved for her warm attention to life stories. Diane never forgets any of her students, past or present. She and her husband, Peter Scholl, share a joint appointment. 20 Another Americanist, Peter Scholl also teaches our film courses. He has a BA from Augustana (IL), a PhD from the U of Chicago, and a fine book on Garrison Keillor (Twayne; U of Iowa Press), but lately his research interests have moved eastward: having studied the language, traveled extensively in China, and led study abroad programs there, Peter is our resident expert on all things Chinese. He has recently published an article on an early 20th-century Norwegian-American missionary to China who had close links to Luther College. His other interests include American humor and the Civil War, and he teaches a popular first-year course on Abraham Lincoln. The able editor of Agora: Luther College in Conversation—our fine faculty journal--Peter is another departmental biker. A transplanted Alabaman with a PhD from North Carolina, Assistant Professor Amy Weldon has settled into Iowa life, becoming a regular book reviewer for a regional arts journal, getting her students pumped about poetry slams, teaching adult classes in journal writing at a local arts center, and drafting a second novel about a small town in nineteenth-century Iowa. A Southern story-teller in the grand tradition, Amy is a passionate teacher of Southern American literature, British Romanticism, and—primarily—creative writing: fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Amy’s 2010 personal essay, “The Odd Girls: Flanner O’Connor and Me,” was co-winner of Shenandoah’s Bevel Summers’ Award. Another biker. See presenter list for more information. Novian Whitsitt is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English. A PhD from Wisconsin-Madison, Novian wrote his dissertation on popular fiction written by Muslim women in Hausa, one of the Nigerian languages. Now he’s publishing in top journals in his field. Particularly interested in gender analysis of African, Caribbean, and African-American literature, Novian has served as Director of Women and Gender Studies at Luther. A thoughtful man, he has the ready smile and the athleticism to keep up with three elementary school children: Novian is a former basketballer for Stanford and our own prize-winning competitive biker: none of us can keep up with him, in more ways than one. And our good friends who are now emeriti--who still live nearby, keep up with Luther news, and attend its cultural and social events, and whom we want to thank for their continuing mentorship—are John C. Bale, Martin Mohr, Mary Hull Mohr, and Harland Nelson. 21 The Vibrant Word: Festival Information Registration At the registration table in the Center for Faith and Life (CFL) lobby, you will receive your copy of the printed program and your name tag, which will indicate your banquet preferences. If you wish to purchase an additional banquet ticket, to sign up to read your work at the Open Mike Friday night, or to request a hearing device, you can do these things at the registration table, which will be open Friday, 3:00-7:00 p.m., and Saturday, 8:00-10:30 a.m. You may also ask at the registration table for any other information or directions you need. Festival Hosts Watch for the people with the light blue nametags—these are all the Festival hosts from Luther College. If you have a question, please feel free to ask any one of these individuals. Nametags Your nametag is your ticket to all sessions, so please wear it at all times. If you purchased a ticket to the banquet, that ticket is included in the holder with your nametag. At the end of the Festival, please recycle your nametag by putting it in the box in the lobby of the CFL. Shuttle Service The Festival provides van shuttles between the hotels and motels before and after the sessions. Shuttles to the Festival from motels: Vans will leave the Country Inn and the Heartland Inn at the times listed below; the van from the Heartland Inn will also make a pickup stop at the Hotel Winneshiek before arriving at the CFL: Friday: Saturday: Sunday: 6:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. Shuttles from the Festival to motels: Vans will leave from outside the CFL main entrance to transport attendees back to the hotels at the times listed below: Friday: Saturday: 9:30 p.m., 10:00 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 11:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m. (immediately following the evening plenary session) For other transport needs, the local taxi company, Hometown Taxi (563-382-3155) runs on Friday 6:30 a.m.--6:00 p.m. and on Saturday 7:30 a.m.--8:00 p.m.; there is no taxi service on Sunday. If you need emergency transport assistance, please call Campus Safety and Security (563-387-2111). Meals 22 Coffee breaks and Friday evening’s reception are included in the registration fee. If you did not pre-purchase a space at Saturday’s banquet, a limited number of tickets will be available at the registration table--on Friday afternoon only--for $25. Other options for Saturday dinner are Luther’s cafeteria or Marty’s café on the lower level of Dahl Centennial Union. A list of area restaurants is available at the registration table. Coffee and tea will be available for Festival attendees on Sunday morning in the Center for Faith and Life Lobby from 7:45-9:00 a.m. Dining Options on Campus Dahl Centennial Union has these weekend options for snacks and meals: Marty’s Café – Friday and Saturday, 7:30 a.m.--12:00 midnight; Sunday, 1:00 p.m.--12:00 midnight Cafeteria – Friday 7:00–9:15 a.m., 10:00 a.m.--2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.; Saturday 7:00 a.m.--9:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.; Sunday, 10:00 1:00 and 5:00–7:00 p.m. Peace Dining Room – Sunday brunch, 10:00 a.m.--1:00 p.m. To arrange for seating, you must sign up in the Dahl Centennial Union lobby after 9:45 a.m. Luther Book Shop and Book Signings Visit the Luther Book Shop in Dahl Centennial Union for displays of our presenters’ books to purchase, along with books by some of our attendees. You may purchase Robert Cording’s books and have them signed at the Festival reception following the Friday evening keynote address. Other presenters, including keynoter René Steinke, will sign books just outside the Book Shop during the lunch break on Saturday (11:40-1:00), and during the late afternoon reception on Saturday (5:40-6:30). Please note in the program that we have scheduled particular authors at particular times. We ask that you first purchase the books and then go to the signing tables. The Book Shop hours are 8:45 a.m.--6:00 p.m. Friday and 10:00 a.m.--6:30 p.m. Saturday. It is closed on Sunday. Open Mike The Open Microphone (10:00 p.m. Friday, Peace Dining Room, Dahl Centennial Union) is intended for those Festival attendees who would like to publicly read their own work. You may sign up Friday at the registration table to read (3-minute maximum time for each reader), but you are also welcome to sign up at the event itself. Readers will go in the order in which they signed up. This reading is planned and hosted by Luther’s Alpha Beta Xi chapter of the national English honorary society, Sigma Tau Delta. Festival Art Exhibits Please find time to enjoy the art exhibits on campus planned in conjunction with the Festival. In the Center for Faith and Life Upper Lobby is an exhibit of the work of Judy Dodds, a 23 professional calligrapher from St. Paul, Minnesota, with an extensive list of exhibitions, awards, commissions and collections to her credit. A BA in Education from Pacific Lutheran, Judy is a member of the Colleagues of Calligraphy. Gena Ollendieck’s handmade books are on exhibit in Preus Library. Gena is a professional book maker and the owner/operator of Indigo Star Books in Cresco, Iowa. A BA in art and art education from Central College in Pella, Iowa, Gena has done graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has been widely exhibited at galleries, fairs and shows throughout the upper Midwest. Book Transformations, a sampling of student work in the fall semester’s Art Foundations class, is on exhibit in the hallway display cases across from Sunnyside Café in the Center for the Arts Atrium. Luggage Storage Space On Sunday morning, a locked space is available for storing luggage in the Student Activities Office off the main lobby in the Dahl Centennial Union (across from the Book Shop). An attendant will be available to give you access to the room Sunday morning from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Student Housing in Residence Halls If you are a visiting college student who indicated at registration that you wished to be housed in the residence halls with a Luther student host, your host will meet you in the CFL lobby at the registration table on Friday night at 8:45 p.m. (immediately after the opening session). All outside doors to the residence halls will be locked at 10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday and unlocked at 8:00 a.m. the next day. Make arrangements with your host if you need to enter the hall between these hours. Smoking Smoking is not allowed anywhere on the Luther College campus in compliance with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act. Maps indicating where smoking is allowed near campus are available at the registration table. Emergency Phone In the event of an emergency, call Luther campus security (563-387-2111; from campus phones, dial only 2111). Hearing Devices Inquire at the registration table if you need a hearing device. 24 Audio/Video Taping and Photography Photography and Recording Devices are strictly forbidden during the Festival. Please turn off all cell phones and watch alarms, and silence all paging devices. Lutheran Writers Project The Lutheran Writers Project, directed by fiction-writer Paul Shepherd, grew out of the 2007 Lutheran Festival of Writing. The Project provides resources and gathering opportunities for writers, readers, and institutions--including churches, schools, colleges, and churchwide organizations. Its official home is at Roanoke College (Salem, VA), and its website is <http://www.lutheranwriters.org/>. The Project’s mission includes engaging the imagination of the Lutheran church, serving those who create and read literature of spiritual and literary depth, and providing opportunities for dialogue among writers, readers, teachers, pastors, and Lutheran institutions. One major piece of LWP’s mission includes sponsoring the Lutheran Readers Project, directed by novelist Mark Mustian, which selects books to offer to individuals and reading groups, including study guides and interviews with the writers. For more information and to offer suggestions, please attend the panel session “Readers and Writers Networking.” Supporting the Festival Luther College hopes to continue sponsoring the Festival as an ongoing triennial event, but it takes funding to keep the Festival going. We are grateful for some generous gifts which allowed us to begin building our Endowment, but we will need more to insure the Festival’s continuation. Please consider gift to support this important work. Go to the LFW website and click on “Give to the Festival” or go to <givenow.luther.edu> and specify your gift for the Lutheran Festival of Writing Endowment. We appreciate our growing number of Friends of the Festival. Acknowledgments The LFW National Advisory Board and the Luther College Planning Board wish to thank the Friends of the Festival for their donations to the Lutheran Festival of Writing Endowment, which helps to make this Festival possible. Additional funding and other support comes from the Luther College English Department and the Lectures and Fine Arts Committee. Luther’s Alpha Beta Xi chapter of the English honorary society, Sigma Tau Delta, helped in the planning and hosting of the event. Other volunteers—both student and community members—were invaluable in planning and hosting the Fest. 25 FESTIVAL PLANNING STRUCTURE Lutheran Festival of Writing National Advisory Board: Nancy K. Barry, Luther College Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner, Wheaton College Gary Fincke, Susquehanna University Carol Gilbertson, Luther College; Director, Lutheran Festival of Writing L. DeAne Lagerquist, St. Olaf College Mark Mustian, Tallahassee, FL; Director, Lutheran Readers Project Robert Schultz, Roanoke University Paul Shepherd, Charlottesville, VA; Director, Lutheran Writers Project Walter Wangerin, Jr., Valparaiso University Luther College Lutheran Festival of Writing Planning Board: Jud Barclay, Coordinator of Special Projects, Campus Programming Nancy K. Barry, Professor of English, Assistant to the Dean for Advising and Academic Support Judy Boese, Administrative Assistant to Paideia Program, English Department, and Lutheran Festival of Writing Carol Gilbertson, Professor of English; Director, Lutheran Festival of Writing Mark Z. Muggli, Professor and Head of English Department Jayme Nelson, Associate Professor of Nursing David Njus, Associate Professor of Psychology Arleen Orvis, Assistant to the Dean Amy Weldon, Assistant Professor of English Registration Coordinators: Sherry Alcock, Executive Director of Alumni Relations and Development Services Sue Drilling, Director of Special Programs, Development Office Michelle Einck, Administrative Assistant, Development Office Alpha Beta Xi Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta Fall 2010 Officers: President: Vice-President: Secretary Historian/Treasurer: Faculty Adviser: Madeline Jungbauer (LC ’11) Fall--Danielle Koch (LC ’12); Spring—Allison Croat (LC’12) Fall--Jill Hughes (LC ’12); Spring--Kristine Wietecha (LC’11) Amy Sandager (LC ’11) Peter Scholl, Professor of English Student Assistant to the Director: Tonya Tienter (LC’12) Festival Logo Design: Ben Moore, Assistant Professor of Art Poster and Program Design: Michael Bartels, Graphic Designer, Luther College Publications 26 Marketing Coordinator: Rob Larson, Executive Director of Luther College Communications and Marketing
