"The more I think about it, the more I'm amazed that we students recieved such generous attention and encouragement from so many impressive authors." PIERRE HAUSER

FACULTY

FOUNDING DIRECTOR
	* Nancy Gerbault

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
	* Sophie Powell

EDITOR OF "Driftwood Press"
	* Michele Colonna

ASSISTANTS
	* Tanya Gupta

FACULTY

Pulitzer Prize Award
	* Robert Olen Butler: 1993 "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"

Booker Award

* Michael Ondaatje--1982 "The English Patient"

* Michele Roberts

* Paul Watkins

* Russell lCelyn Jones--Booker Judge

National Book Award

* Dorothy Allison

* Amy Bloom

* Dan Chaon

* Alan Lightman

Pen/Falkner Award

* Karen Joy Fowler

Pen/Hemingway Award

* Chris Abani

Poet Laureate

* Billy Collins

* Andrew Motion

John Llewelyn Rhy Prize Winner

* Margaret Drabble

New Times Best Selling Authors

* Alexandra Fuller

* Margaret George

* Anne LeClaire

* Jacquelyn Mitchard

* Gail Tsukiyama

* Susan Vreeland

* Rebecca Walker

Screenwriters and Filmmakers

* Hal Ackerman

* Anna Campion

* Sally Potter

Literary Agents