Meet the faculty of the VCCA's workshops in the south of France

POETRY WORKSHOP WITH DENISE DUHAMEL & NICK CARBÓ, June 21-27, 2007

Denise Duhamel's poetry titles include Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005), Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001 ), The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999) and Kinky (Orchises, 1997).   She co-edited, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull, 2007).   A recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry, she is an associate professor, teaching poetry at Florida International University in Miami.

Nick Carbó is the author of three collections of poetry, the latest being Andalusian Dawn. He has edited three ground breaking anthologies of Filipino and Filipino American writing: Returning A Borrowed Tongue, Babaylan, and Pinoy Poetics. He has won fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and residencies to Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, VCCA, Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), and Le Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland). His poems have been exhibited in Harvard University's Infinity Visual Poetry show, featured on NPR's Morning Edition, and on the PBS program Heritage.

Denise Duhamel

Nick Carbó

FICTION WORKSHOP WITH HELEN BENEDICT & STEPHEN O'OCONNOR, July 11-17, 2007

Helen Benedict is a professor at Columbia University and the author of four novels and four books of nonfiction. Her most recent novel, The Opposite of Love, is due out in fall, 2007. She has taught at the Paris Writer’s Workshop, Columbia University and U.C., Berkeley. Her essays and book reviews have been published in the New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post and elsewhere. She has received citations for best book of the year from The L.A. Times and the New York Public Library, and has been granted fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and Cummington Community of the Arts. Photo by Emma O'Connor

Stephen O'Connor is the author of Rescue, short fiction and poetry; Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, memoir and social analysis; Orphan Trains, The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, narrative history. O'Connor's fiction and poetry have appeared in The Quarterly, Partisan Review, The New England Review, The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International and elsewhere. His essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, Doubletake, The Nation, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and TriQuarterly. O'Connor teaches fiction and nonfiction writing in the MFA programs of Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence.

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Helen Benedict