Writers and Staff 2022
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Chrstian Winn is a fiction writer, poet, creative nonfiction writer, teacher of creative writing, producer of literary events, and sometimes journalist living and working in Boise, Idaho. Winn was the Idaho State Writer in Residence, the state's highest literary honor, from 2016 - 2019. His fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere. HIs short story collections, NAKED ME, and What's Wrong With You is What's Wrong With Me are out from Dock Street Press, and he has two novel manuscripts and a new short story collection waiting in the wings. He is the cofounder and Director of Storyfort, founder of the reading series Bloom, Couch Surfer Artists Series, and the Writers Write Workshop series. You can find out more at christianwinn.com.anwinn.com.
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Nicole LeFavour, has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California Berkeley in the evolution of cognition. She lives in Boise and teaches creative writing at The Cabin, and has represented the state in the National Slam Poetry competition. A life-long human rights advocate, she served in the Idaho Legislature for eight years. In 2012, Nicole finished a novel about a dragon and is presently working on a memoir. She writes essays, journalism, creative non-fiction, poems and slam poetry. "As a young person, I lived on an Idaho ranch at the edge of the Frank Church wilderness. Nothing inspires me to write more than being in the wild. It is not only what is around me, the beauty, or the intricate lives of the plants and animals, but what of myself I find there."
Dwayne Blackaller has worked as a professional actor, teacher, director and play deviser since 1995. He is the co-creator of the devised pieces The Physics of Regret, Destinopolis, and The Acheri, and the author of the plays re/fraction, The Science of Fiction, Air Heart, andOrofino. He is the co-writer of The Uncanny Valley, Narwhal! Unicorn Of The Sea, A Nighttime Survival Guide, and Rabbit/Moon, with Matthew Cameron Clark, and Maggie Lumiere and The Ghost Train, with Tracy Sunderland. He has a passion for teaching young performers and has worked as an acting teacher for The Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Eagle Performing Arts Center, College of Idaho, and the Ohio State University. He was also a puppeteer, sword fighter, and stilt-walker in Las Vegas. Dwayne has trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in New York, and specializes in teaching Viewpoints and Suzuki training for actors. He is now the Associate Artistic Director at Boise Contemporary Theater where he created BCT Theater Lab, a program for youth to find their voices and create new plays. Dwayne earned his MFA in acting at the Ohio State University with a focus on movement and devising new work.
Sherry Briscoe is an award-winning author of mystery, suspense, and supernatural thrillers. Her childhood heroes were Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe, and she insists that episodes of The Twilight Zone made perfectly fine bedtime stories. A native Idahoan with Cherokee heritage, she holds degrees in Journalism, Photography, and Adult Education. She is a world traveler, US Army Veteran, and active member of her writing community. Lover of cats, popcorn and all things ghostly. Founder of the Idaho Screenwriters Association, active board member of the Idaho Writers Guild, Romance Writers of America, and professional speaker and workshop facilitator. Follow sherry for news and specials at www.sherrybriscoe.com. https://www.facebook.com/SherryBriscoeAuthor
