Teachers

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.

Robert Ronnow

Robert Ronnow has published three poetry collections: New & Selected Poems 1975-2005, Janie Huzzie Bows and Absolutely Smooth Mustard (originally published as “White Waits”). He has served as executive director of several non-profit social service and environmental organizations. He has also been a forest worker and fire fighter in the western and northeastern U.S. He plays jazz trumpet. He lived in New York City for twenty years before relocating to the Berkshires where he currently resides with his wife and two sons.