Teachers

Seth Brown

Seth Brown is a humor writer and poet living in North Adams. He is a contributing editor to the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form, writes weekly limericks for BBSpot.com, and previously held a rhyming column in the Providence Journal. His current column for the North Adams Transcript, “The Pun Also Rises”, won second place in the New England Press Association’s 2006 humor column awards. He is the author of three books, most recently Rhode Island Curiosities (Globe Pequot Press, 2007). He is fluent in Pig Latin, which is his favorite language because everything rhymes. His website is RisingPun.com.

Joanna Luloff

Joanna Luloff received her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College where she taught literature and creative writing for five years. While at Emerson, she also served as a fiction reader for the journal Ploughshares. Recently, she won the 2006 Editors’ Prize in Fiction from The Missouri Review. She is currently at work on a collection of linked short stories set in Sri Lanka where she worked as a Peace Corps volunteer.

Derek Mong

Derek Mong was the 2006-2007 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a recent recipient of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors‚ Choice Prize from the Missouri Review. His poetry, prose, and translations are forthcoming from Artful Dodge, The Kenyon Review, PLEIADES, Cream City Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Born in Portland, Oregon and raised outside of Cleveland, Ohio, he currently lives in Williamstown, MA. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Denison University, Granville, Ohio. He teaches at SUNY-Albany.

Kelli Newby

Instructor Kelli Newby is an adjuct professor in the English department at MCLA where she teaches Playwriting and Dramatic Literature in addition to creative writing and composition. For the past two years, Kelli has been a company member at the Main Street Stage in downtown North Adams where she works at all levels of operation, including writing short plays for The Redroom, Main Street Stage’s literary cabaret. She has an M.A. in Theatre Studies from Kent State and an MFA in Fiction from Bennington. Kelli was a featured Inkberry reader this past March.

Lauren ONeal

Lauren O’Neal is a visual artist who works in sculpture, assemblage, and projection. She is currently assistant professor in the Fine & Performing Arts Department at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where she also coordinates the new arts management major. Before joining MCLA, she was a visiting assistant professor of art education at Massachusetts College of Art. O’Neal exhibits her work at venues including the Housatonic Museum of Art, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, the Copley Society of Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Nelimarkka Museum in Finland.

O’Neal has worked with art and education organizations including the Somerville Arts Council, the DeCordova Museum, the Arlington Center for the Arts, and the Computer Museum. O’Neal is also an independent curator and has produced exhibits for the Federal Reserve Bank, the Nave Gallery, the Somerville Museum, and Gallery 51. She periodically contributes reviews and essays to publications including Art New England and The Artful Mind. She received her MFA in Studio Art from Maine College of Art.

GP LeBourdais, The Write Stuff

George Philip LeBourdais is a graduate of Middlebury College and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Art History at Williams College and the Clark Art Institute. He has specific interests in ekphrastic poetry and the history of photography and has taught students from elementary to collegiate levels, including working as resident faculty of a boarding school in New York and as a teacher of French, Art History and Architecture during the summer in France.