Printer FriendlyYoung Writers’ Conference: Guest Writers
Ellen Bryson earned a bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing from Columbia University and a master’s degree in writing from The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of "The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno," a love story set in P.T. Barnum’s American Museum in 1865 in New York City.
Keith Donohue is an American novelist and the author of "Angels of Destruction" and the national bestseller, "The Stolen Child." He has written reviews for The Washington Post and the introduction to the "Complete Novels of Flann O’Brien." Donohue earned a doctoral degree in English with a specialization in modern Irish literature.
Dan Elish is the author of "Nine Wives" and "The Misadventures of Justin Hearnfeld" and an award-winning novel for teens, "Born Too Short, Confessions of an 8th Grade Basket Case," which was selected for an International Reading Association Students’ Choice Award in 2004. He has also written several novels for young adults, including "13," which was made into a musical and ran on Broadway for nearly four months. Elish has also written nonfiction books for young adults, scripts for children’s television shows, music and lyrics for six musicals, corporate videos, and played piano for off-Broadway productions.
Robert Eversz is the author of six novels that have been translated into 15 languages. His award-winning books include "Shooting Elvis," named the best crime novel of the year in Oslo’s leading daily paper; "Killing Paparazzi," named among the best books of 2002 by The Washington Post; "Burning Garbo," a finalist for the Nero Wolfe Award; and "Digging James Dean," listed as an editor’s choice in The Boston Globe. He is one of the founders of the Prague Summer Program at Charles University, where he teaches a workshop in the novel each summer. Eversz earned a master of fine arts degree from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He teaches at the University of California Los Angeles Writers’ Program and continues to study and teach film.
Ann Hood was inspired to write by her father’s stories of his travels around the world during the 20 years he spent in the Navy. She is the author of "Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine" and numerous essays and short stories that have appeared in The Washington Post, Mademoiselle, Redbook and Story, and recently in Good Housekeeping, The New York Times and Ladies Home Journal, among others. She is also the author of "The Knitting Circle" and five other novels, a book on the craft of writing, a collection of short stories and a memoir, "Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time." Hood is a recipient of a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction and two prestigious Pushcart Prizes.
Michele Wolf is an instructor at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda Md., and a magazine editor. She is the author of "Conversations During Sleep," which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and "The Keeper of Light," which received the Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Series Award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, North American Review, Boulevard, The Antioch Review and numerous other literary journals and anthologies. Other awards include an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award and fellowships from Yaddo, the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.