Chase Twichell is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Things as It Is (Copper Canyon, 2018). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010) won both the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize.
Jim Tracy has won multiple national and state writing awards, including first place in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editor contest. Around this time, he spent ten years at The Post-Star, a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper in Glens Falls, New York.
Jonathan Santlofer is the author of “The Last Mona Lisa” and 6 other novels, “The Death Artist,” “Color Blind,” “The Killing Art”, “The Murder Notebook,” and “Anatomy of Fear,” which won the Nero Wolfe Award for best crime novel of 2009.
Before joining Yaddo in 2000, award-winning writer and editor Elaina Richardson was the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine. Among her responsibilities were supervision of a staff of 64, oversight of all aspects of the magazine production and marketing, and responsibility for the visual and written content.
Robert Repino is the author of several works of fiction, including the science fiction novel Mort(e) from Soho Press and the middle grade novel Spark and the League of Ursus from Quirk Books.
Chana Porter is a novelist, playwright, teacher, MacDowell fellow, and co-founder of the Octavia Project, a STEM and fiction-writing program for girls, trans and gender non-conforming youth from underserved communities.
Nancy Klepsch is a poet and teacher who was born in Brooklyn and currently lives in upstate New York. She has been writing poetry since she was in the fourth grade and decided to go to college after watching her mother type envelopes for a penny a piece in the late 1960s.
Brad Kessler is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Lick Creek and Birds in Fall, which was a recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a memoir, Goat Song.
Matt Hranek is the author of The Negroni, A Man & His Watch, and A Man & His Car, as well as a photographer, a director, and the founder/editor of the men’s lifestyle magazine WM Brown.
