Workshop leaders Lee Gutkind, Kristen Iversen, Jeff Kleinman, Gillian
MacKenzie, Dinty W. Moore, Michael Rosenwald and Neil White will also serve as presenters and panelists
during the Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference.
Stella Connell, previously of Doubleday, Random House, Inc. and
G. P. Putnam Sons, founded The Connell Agency in 1998. She has over 15 years experience developing and implementing
successful public relations and marketing campaigns for some of the most well-known writers in America today. Connell
has been the sole publicist for over 100 books, including many New York Times and regional best-sellers, and has been referred
to as “the best book publicist in the United States,” by a major independent bookseller.
John T. Edge
writes a monthly column, “United Tastes,” for the New York Times. He is a contributing editor at Garden
& Gun. He is a longtime columnist for the Oxford American. He was a contributing editor at Gourmet.
His work for Saveur and other magazines has been featured in seven editions of the Best Food Writing compilation.
Edge has a number of books to his credit, including the James Beard Award-nominated cookbook, A Gracious Plenty:
Recipes and Recollections from the American South. He has served as culinary curator for the weekend edition of NPR’s
All Things Considered, and he has been featured on dozens of television shows, from CBS Sunday Morning to
Iron Chef.
Beth Ann Fennelly is an Associate Professor at the University
of Mississippi, and lives in Oxford, MS. She has received a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Award and a 2006 United
States Artist Grant. She's published three books of poetry, all from W. W. Norton: Open House, which won The
2001 Kenyon Review Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and was a Book Sense Top Ten Poetry Pick; Tender Hooks, and
Unmentionables. Great With Child, a book of nonfiction, was published by Norton in 2006. Her
poems have been reprinted in Best American Poetry 1996, 2005, and 2006, Contemporary American Poetry, The
Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Pushcart Prize, and Poets of the New Century. She won a Fulbright
grant to Brazil and spent the spring of 2009 there alongside her husband, fiction writer Tom Franklin, and their two small
children.
Robert Goolrick is the #1 bestselling author of the novel,
The Reliable Wife. His critically acclaimed memoir, The End of the World as We Know It, was published in
2007. After college at Johns Hopkins, Goolrick moved to Europe to pursue acting and painting. Later, he worked as an advertising
executive in New York City. Goolrick lives and writes in a farmhouse on a wide and serene river in a tiny town in Virginia.
Jessica Handler is a creative writing instructor at Atlanta
Art Institute and a freelance writer. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution called her memoir, Invisible
Sisters, One of the Eight Great Southern Books in 2009 and was voted Atlanta Magazine's "Best Memoir"
for 2009.
Donna
Levine has worked in publishing for twenty-four years. After starting as a puzzle magazine editor for Dell, she was the copy chief at Vogue, the copy editor at Discover, a writer and editor at Restaurant Business, the copy editor at Golf Illustrated, and the managing editor at Waterfront
Publishing. Most recently she was the managing editor of Garden & Gun in Charleston, South Carolina. She has recently moved to Oxford, where she continues to work for G&G, now as the freelance copy chief.
Margaret Lovecraft is acquisitions editor for general interest
and regional trade books at LSU Press. During her years in book publishing, she has also worked as an editorial assistant,
copyeditor, advertising manager, publicist, and marketing manager.
David Magee is the author of eight nonfiction books,
including the bestselling Turnaround: How Carlos Ghosn Rescued Nissan (HarperCollins). He is the co-owner of Chattanooga's
largest independent bookstore Rock Point Books and the founder of Jefferson Press, a niche publisher distributed nationally
by Independent Publishers Group. His latest book is The Education of Mr. Mayfield.
