Last updated December 14, 2007 

2008 Summer Faculty

Lesley Tye, B.F.A.
Summer Chair of Creative Writing. Instructor of Creative Writing and Motion Picture Arts, Interlochen Arts Academy. University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. Instructor, Theatre Director, Page Private School; Teaching Intern and After School Drama Teacher, Turning Point High School; Drama Teacher and Camp Counselor, Turning Point Summer Camp; Board of Directors Secretary ad Co-Producer, Young Actors Company; Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California. Degree received from University of Southern California. Ms. Tye is an Interlochen Arts Academy Graduate. 

Molly Atwell, M.F.A.
Ms. Atwell received her MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis and her MA in literature from the University of Virginia. Her short fiction has been published in the Best New American Voices anthology, Epoch, Faultline and the Timber Creek Review.

Janee J. Baugher, M.F.A.
Degree from Eastern Washington University and she co-edits the online poetry magazine “Switched-on Gutenberg.” In addition to being a recent Pushcart Prize nominee, Baugher’s poetry has been widely published and is forthcoming in journals and anthologies in Washington, Oregon, California, Tennessee, Virginia, and New York. Also, her poems have been adapted for the stage and set to music at the Contemporary Dance Theater (Ohio), the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Interlochen Center for the Arts. Last year, Baugher’s first collection of poems, “Coördinates of Yes,” was a semifinalist for the Tupelo First Book Prize, and last month in Texas she presented a creative writing pedagogy paper at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference. Baugher teaches at the University of Washington Experimental College in Seattle during the academic year. 

Jaime Delp, B.F.A.

Jennifer Fawcett, B.F.A.
A native of Toronto, Canada, Jennifer is currently in her second year of the M.F.A. Playwrights' Workshop at the University of Iowa where she is the two-time recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She received her B.F.A. from Ryerson University (Toronto) majoring in Acting. In May 2007, her play “then / after / water” will be produced by Available light [theatre] in Columbus, OH. In 2006, her play, “The Disappearance of Janey Jones” was produced at the Iowa New Play Festival and the DC Arts Centre in Washington, DC, as part of the Hatchery Festival. She is currently developing a new show with Living Indigo Theatre (Toronto). For the company she founded, Red Engine Productions, she wrote and produced five shows, touring them across Canada including performances at the Waterfront Theatre (Vancouver, BC), the Blyth Festival (Blyth, ON) and as part of the SummerWorks Theatre Festival (Toronto).