2017 Conference Presenters (w Bios)
The Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference presenters are journalists, best-selling authors, agents, and editors—leaders in the field of creative nonfiction. But they're also professional teachers of the craft.
Best of all, they are down-to-earth, friendly, and approachable; they'll tell you what they really think. The Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference features more than just classroom learning; this two-day event also provides plenty of opportunities for informal interactions and Q&A sessions.
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Keynote
Bobby Baird |
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Lee Gutkind |
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Cressida Leyshon |
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James Marcus |
James Marcus is the editor of Harper’s magazine and the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut as well as seven translations from the Italian, the most recent being Giacomo Casanova’s The Duel. His work has appeared in Harper’s, the Nation, the Atlantic, the New York Times Book Review, Story Quarterly, the Paris Review, Raritan, and Best American Essays. His next book, Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Emerson in Thirteen Installments, will be published in 2018. He is also compiling a personal selection from Emerson’s journals, which will be published simultaneously by Penguin Classics. |
Dan Piepenbring |
Dan Piepenbring is the editor of The Paris Review Daily. He was collaborating with Prince on a memoir, The Beautiful Ones, at the time of the artist's death. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. |
Ilena Silverman |
Ilena Silverman is the Features Editor at the New York Times Magazine. She started her career at Harper's magazine and has been an editor at Vogue and GQ. She has worked with Elizabeth Gilbert, Michael Pollan, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Egan, Te-Nihisi Coates and Paul Tough among others. She is the editor of the essay collection, I Married My Mother-in-Law. |
Conference Presenters
Jaswinder Bolina |
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Torie Bosch |
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Jamie Brickhouse |
Brickhouse has taught the art and craft of memoir writing and book marketing and publicity at CNF Writers’ Conference, the Columbia Publishing Course, and other venues across the country and in Mexico. He lives in Manhattan with common-law husband Michael. |
Andrew Conte |
Andrew is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Dickinson College. Read more at AndrewConte.com. |
Hattie Fletcher |
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Callie Garnett |
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Chris Girman |
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Chris Hoel |
Bio coming soon. |
Anne Horowitz |
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Maggie Jones |
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Adam Keiper |
Adam Keiper is editor of The New Atlantis, as well as editor of TheNewAtlantis.com and of the New Atlantis Books series. He is also the editor of Big Questions Online, and a contributing editor to National Affairs and to Current. He is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he directs the program on Science, Technology, and Society. |
Nadine Kenney Johnstone |
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Cheston Knapp |
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Maggie Messitt |
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Dinty W. Moore |
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Adriana E. Ramírez |
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Anjali Sachdeva |
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Ira Sukrungruang |
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Agents
Danielle Chiotti |
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Rachel Ekstrom Courage |
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Dawn Michelle Hardy |
As a publicist she works with both fiction and non-fiction authors including New York Times bestseller D. Watkins, author of The Beastside: Living and Dying While Black in America, Tia Williams, former magazine beauty editor and author of The Perfect Find and Clint Smith award-winning poet, Ted Talk conference speaker and contributor to the New Yorker. While actively building her client list at Serendipity Literary Agency, Dawn likes memoirist who can capture a larger narrative through their personal story and strong hook, best-in-class professionals and educators in a variety of fields, an engaging and outspoken cultural critic, pop-culture, sports or music enthusiast with a 'hip' idea from an untold vantage point. Creatives who use art as activism. Loud millennials, women and multicultural voices looking to better the world through their writing. |
Uwe Stender |
Triada US is a full service literary agency and retains and exercises subsidiary rights on our clients’ behalves through a variety of co-agents, scouts, publishers, and entertainment lawyers. Uwe is interested in all kinds of non-fiction and fiction. In non-fiction, he is completely open to any project, from Memoir, Pop Culture, and Health to How-to, Gardening, History and everything in between, including non-fiction for children. In Children's fiction, he is looking for YA, MG and the occasional PB. In adult fiction, his tastes trend towards Women's Fiction, Psychological Suspense, and Mysteries. But surprise him, his tastes are eclectic, and he may just love what you wrote! |
Beth Vesel |
Beth is known for her work with academics, psychiatrists, psychologists and other professionals in helping them transition to authors of landmark books. Her areas of specialty include narrative nonfiction, literary fiction, cultural criticism, psychology, psychiatry, science, health and memoir. Best sellers include Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, I Don't Want to Talk About It by Terrence Real, Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck, Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson by Keith Ablow, Against Love by Laura Kipnis, Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, and NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman. Beth has a B.A. from UC Berkeley in English and Political Science where she also completed graduate work in comparative literature. |
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