University of Montevallo - English Department

Montevallo Literary Festival

Fifth Annual Montevallo Literary Festival,
April 13-14, 2007

Photos from 2007 Festival

Catherine Bowman is the author of Notarikon, Rock Farm, and 1-800-HOT-RIBS. Her writing has been awarded the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Poetry, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University.

Kirk Curnutt is the author of Baby, Let’s Make a Baby, Plus Ten More Stories, Breathing Out the Ghost and several volumes of literary criticism, including two additional books to be published in 2007: The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Coffee with Hemingway. He teaches at Troy University in Montgomery.

Peter Donahue is the author of the short story collection The Cornelius Arms (Missing Spoke Press 2000) and the novel Madison House (Hawthorne Books 2005), which won the 2005 Langum Prize for Historical Fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His second novel, The Fire Shall Try, will be released by Hawthorne Books in 2008. He teaches at Birmingham-Southern College.

John Dufresne has written several books and screenplays. His novel Louisiana Power & Light was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1994. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University.

Ellen Gilchrist is the author of many books, including In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Victory Over Japan, and I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy. She has won numerous awards including a National Book Award. She teaches in the Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas.

Jennifer Horne edited Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets and co-edited All Out of Faith: Southern Women and Spirituality. Her book Miss Betty’s School of Dance was published by bluestocking press.

Richard Lyons is the author of Fleur Carnivore, Hours of the Cardinal, and These Modern Nights. He has won many honors and awards including the Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, the James Dickey Memorial Award, the Devins Award, and the Criterion Fellowship. He teaches at Mississippi State University.

Don Noble hosts Bookmark on Alabama Public Television and he reviews books for his weekly segment, Alabama Bound, on Alabama Public Radio. He is the editor of Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers, Hemingway: A Revaluation, The Steinbeck Question: New Essays in Criticism, The Rising South (with Joab L. Thomas), A Century Hence (by George Tucker), and Zelda and Scott/Scott and Zelda.

John O'Keefe has written over 30 plays. He has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Bay Area Critics Award, the Bessie Award, and a residence at the Sundance Film Institute. His work Shimmer toured throughout the United States and Europe and was then produced as a feature film by American Playhouse.

Wendy Bruce co-edited All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality. She produces Bookmark for Alabama Public TV. She received The Lincoln Award for Unity for her documentary A Closer Look: The Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind and a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts for fiction.

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Michele Reese has published poems in Mid-American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, and Poet Lore. Her book Following Phia was published by WordTech Editions in 2006. She teaches at the University of South Carolina Sumter.

Philip C. Williams has authored several mystery novels and has collaborated with his wife Sandra Williams on a series of six children's mysteries. He is the President of the University of Montevallo.

Sandra Williams is the author Pacific Northwest Coast, a children’s cookbook. She has collaborated with her husband Philip C. Williams on a series of six children's mysteries.

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We are grateful for generous support from the Southern Progress Corp. and the Friends of the Montevallo Lit Fest.

	Catherine Bowman is the author of Notarikon, Rock Farm, and 1-800-HOT-RIBS. Her writing has been awarded the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Poetry, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University.
	Kirk Curnutt is the author of Baby, Let’s Make a Baby, Plus Ten More Stories, Breathing Out the Ghost and several volumes of literary criticism, including two additional books to be published in 2007: The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Coffee with Hemingway. He teaches at Troy University in Montgomery.
	Peter Donahue is the author of the short story collection The Cornelius Arms (Missing Spoke Press 2000) and the novel Madison House (Hawthorne Books 2005), which won the 2005 Langum Prize for Historical Fiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His second novel, The Fire Shall Try, will be released by Hawthorne Books in 2008. He teaches at Birmingham-Southern College.
	John Dufresne has written several books and screenplays. His novel Louisiana Power & Light was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1994. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University.
	Ellen Gilchrist is the author of many books, including In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Victory Over Japan, and I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy. She has won numerous awards including a National Book Award. She teaches in the Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas.
	Jennifer Horne edited Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets and co-edited All Out of Faith: Southern Women and Spirituality. Her book Miss Betty’s School of Dance was published by bluestocking press.
	Richard Lyons is the author of Fleur Carnivore, Hours of the Cardinal, and These Modern Nights. He has won many honors and awards including the Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, the James Dickey Memorial Award, the Devins Award, and the Criterion Fellowship. He teaches at Mississippi State University.
	Don Noble hosts Bookmark on Alabama Public Television and he reviews books for his weekly segment, Alabama Bound, on Alabama Public Radio. He is the editor of Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers, Hemingway: A Revaluation, The Steinbeck Question: New Essays in Criticism, The Rising South (with Joab L. Thomas), A Century Hence (by George Tucker), and Zelda and Scott/Scott and Zelda.
	John O'Keefe has written over 30 plays. He has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Bay Area Critics Award, the Bessie Award, and a residence at the Sundance Film Institute. His work Shimmer toured throughout the United States and Europe and was then produced as a feature film by American Playhouse.
	Wendy Bruce co-edited All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality. She produces Bookmark for Alabama Public TV. She received The Lincoln Award for Unity for her documentary A Closer Look: The Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind and a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts for fiction.
1	Michele Reese has published poems in Mid-American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, and Poet Lore. Her book Following Phia was published by WordTech Editions in 2006. She teaches at the University of South Carolina Sumter.
	Philip C. Williams has authored several mystery novels and has collaborated with his wife Sandra Williams on a series of six children's mysteries. He is the President of the University of Montevallo.
	Sandra Williams is the author Pacific Northwest Coast, a children’s cookbook. She has collaborated with her husband Philip C. Williams on a series of six children's mysteries.