Creative Writing Faculty
Jim Peterson
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of South Carolina.
Coordinator of Creative Writing.
Jim Peterson has published three full-length collections
of poetry: The Man Who Grew Silent, The Bench Press, 1989; An Afternoon
With K, Holocene Press, 1996; and The Owning Stone, Red Hen Press,
2000, winner of the 1999 Benjamin Saltman Award. Holocene also published his
poetry chapbook, Carvings on a Prayer Tree, in 1994. His poems have
appeared widely in such magazines as Georgia Review, Poetry,
and Prairie Schooner. His play The Shadow Adjuster was
selected for the New American Plays Festival in 1995. It has received productions
at Montana State University-Billings and at Straw Dog Theater in Chicago. It
was published in the spring of 1998 by Palmetto Play Service. Several other
plays of his--Domino and June, Help Me, and The Dog Who Wouldn't
Let Go--have been given staged readings during the Missoula Colony at the
Montana Rep of the University of Montana.
Laura-Gray Street
B.A., Hollins College; M.A., University of Virginia; M.F.A., Warren Wilson
College Program for Writers.
Laura-Gray Street's poems and stories have appeared in such magazines
as The Louisville Review, The Greensboro Review, and Roanoke Review.
Her work has won her the Annual Literary Award in Poetry from The Greensboro Review
and a residency at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Tom Stephens
A.B., Gannon College; M.F.A., The Catholic University of America; Ph.D.,
University of Denver.
Tom Stephens' short plays and full-length plays have been finalists or
winners of numerous national playwriting competitions including Midwest Theatre Network
Playwriting Competition, The Charles M. Getchell New Play Award, National Playwrights
Conference, Nantucket Short Play Festival and Competition, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Ten-minute Play Contest, National Play Award, Drama League of New York Playwriting
Competition, Stanley Drama Award, Playwriting Competition of Actors Contemporary Ensemble,
and Wheaton College Playwriting Competition. Plays of Tom Stephens which have been
given prominent staged readings or full productions include The Slight Eclipse of
Arthur Love, Dry Bones Can Harm No One, A Memory for Saturday, Man Time at the River
Place, A Name for the Moon, That Froelich Girl, Mary Smiles, Fugue, Miserere, Sing Me
Eddy, and Snaps. Two of his mini-plays are finalists in the 1998 Lamia
Ink! International One-Page Play Competition, and will be presented in New York in January
1999.