Summer Faculty 2025 - FINE ARTS WORK CENTER in Provincetown

Mark Adams is a painter/cartographer showing at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and has 30 years experience in the National Park Service. He has exhibited installations, prints, photography, scientific illustration, and video art, and he was named Artist of the Year by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. His retrospective, Expedition, was at the Provincetown Art Association Museum in 2017. He has traveled with a sketchbook in hand around the Mediterranean, South America, Asia, and US wildernesses and has illustrated and co-authored a geologic primer, Coastal Landforms of Cape Cod, with Center for Coastal Studies geologist Graham Giese.

Workshop: Drawing/Journaling the Beaches and Dune Landscapes of Provincetown with Thoreau and Other Writers

Ron Amato is a Professor in the Photography and Related Media Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In addition to his extensive career in commercial photography, Ron has published three monographs, and his work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. His most recent book, Artists of Provincetown (2024), is a collection of eighty-four portraits of artists with strong connections to Provincetown, Massachusetts, created over an eight-year period. This work culminated in an exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in the summer of 2024. Amato holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, and an MFA in New Media Art and Performance from Long Island University.

Workshop: The Environmental Portrait

Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of two collections of poetry—Sympathetic Little Monster (2016) and Dispatch (2019)—as well as The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (2022). His writing has appeared, in various forms, in American Poetry Review, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Signs, The Paris Review, Poetry and elsewhere, and he has been supported by fellowships from Cave Canem, the Lannan Foundation, and the ACLS. Presently, he is an Associate Professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at The University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Workshop: Catching Up With Yourself

Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas is an artist, educator, and activist based in Austin, TX. Their art practice—which expands from print media into installation, as well as social and collaborative practices—works at the intersection of migration, queerness, and ecology. Barhaugh-Bordas has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Printshop LA, Handwerker Gallery, Buffalo Artists Studios, and Sediment Arts. Artist residencies include Casa Lu Mexico City, ACRE, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, MI-Lab in Japan, and Kala Art Institute.

Workshop: RISO: Proof to Publication

Samiya Bashir is a multi-media poet, writer, librettist, and artist whose solo and collaborative work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, exhibited, screened, experienced, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Amsterdam to Accra, Florence to Rome, and across the United States. Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories, winner of the Oregon Book Award. Her fourth collection, I Hope This Helps, is forthcoming in spring 2025. Bashir lives in Harlem, NYC.

Workshop: Beyond the Page: Experimenting with Multimedia Poetries

Kimberly Blaeser , past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, is the author of works in several genres. Her poetry collections include Ancient Light (2024), Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance (2020), and Copper Yearning (2019). An enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist. She is an MFA faculty member at Institute of American Indian Arts and Professor Emerita at UW–Milwaukee. Blaeser’s honors include the Zona Gale Short Fiction Award, Hayden’s Ferry Review’s Indigenous Poets Prize, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.

Workshop: Writing as Spiritual Quest

Lipe Borges is an independent photographer who specializes in portrait and documentary photography, focusing on capturing the unique essence of each individual and their stories. He believes in forming genuine connections and keenly observing how people express their distinct qualities. Borges is passionate about traveling the world, continually learning and evolving, while documenting the fascinating journey of life.

Workshop: Unmasked: Capturing the True Self in Portraits

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart; Apocalyptic Swing, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize; and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry, The New Economy, will be released in the fall of 2025 from Copper Canyon Press.

Workshop: We Begin. We End. We Begin Again: A Generative Week of Making (And Breaking) Poems.

Tina Chang is the author of Hybrida (W.W. Norton, 2019) Of Gods & Strangers, and Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books) . She is also co-editor of the W.W. Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Her poems have been published in journals such as American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, and Ploughshares. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, among others. She is Professor of English and the Director of Creative Writing at Binghamton University.

Workshop: Facing the Finish Line

Alexander Chee is the author most recently of the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.

Workshop: Resurrections

Franny Choi 's books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). Choi’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Franny is the current Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA and the founder of Brew & Forge. She has two books forthcoming: a collection of essays about robots, and an anthology, We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word, co-edited with Terisa Siagatonu, No‘u Revilla, and Bao Phi. Choi is Faculty in Literature at Bennington College.

Workshop: Audacity, Excess, & Extravagance

Liz Collins is a New York City-based artist who specializes in working with textiles and fiber. Over three decades, Collins’ works and projects have manifested in a diverse yet interconnected range of art and design contexts from collaborating with design brands on collections of functional textiles, to producing large-scale public art works and performances. Working equally with slow hand making processes and fast industrial weaving, Collins uses a vocabulary of geometric abstraction, vibrant colors, and extreme material contrasts to respond to life on all levels. In 2025, Collins will have a mid-career retrospective at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum with an accompanying monograph.

Workshop: Trash Lab/Trash Textiles

Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased (Riverhead/Penguin 2016) and the novel All the World Beside (Riverhead/Penguin 2024). He is the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America (Stitcher/Limina 2018). His work has been published by The New York Times, Oxford American, TIME and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Kennesaw State University.

Workshop: Get Inspired: A Generative Prose Workshop

Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA. Additionally, he is the author and editor of several collections of poetry. His most recent book, The Diaspora Sonnets (Liveright Press 2023), was a winner of the New England Book Award and Long Listed for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2023. He teaches creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.

Workshop: Motif & Magic: Creating Sequences, Patterns, and Other Enchantments

Joseph Diggs was born to a military family in Croix Chapeau, France and grew up on Cape Cod where he now lives and paints. Diggs’ work is housed in many private collections on the Cape, nationally, and internationally. Diggs earned his BFA at Southeastern Massachusetts University then returned, after years of travel and work experience, to earn his MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is currently represented by the Berta Walker Gallery of Provincetown.

Workshop: Playing with Paint

Joanne Dugan is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography and an interdisciplinary artist, photographer and author who explores the intersections between photography, writing and mindfulness. Her work has been exhibited in the US, UK, Europe and Asia and published in the New York Times T Magazine, The Harvard Review, Unseen and Photograph magazines, among others. Her work has been published in seven books combining image and text and is in the library collections of the J. Getty Museum, the LA County Museum of Art, the George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography. She is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and Black Box Projects in London, UK.

Workshop: Seeing What’s Right in Front of You: Explorations in Text, Image and Beyond

Nick Flynn (writer, playwright, and poet) is the author of thirteen books, including Low (Graywolf, 2023) and Some Ether (Graywolf, 2000), winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. His bestselling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004) was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro (Focus Features, 2012) and has been translated into fifteen languages. Stay: Threads, Collaborations, and Conversations (Ze Books, 2020), documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers.

Workshop: Memoir as Bewilderment

Kelli Jo Ford ’s novel-in-stories debut, Crooked Hallelujah, was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Story Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, The Dublin Literary Award, and The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She is the recipient of honors and awards such as an NEA Literature Fellowship, The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, a Creative Capital Award, and a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She teaches writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Workshop: Whose Story? Crafting POV from the First Sentence

Santee Frazier , a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. His most recent collection of poetry, Aurum, was published in 2019 by The University of Arizona Press. Frazier has received numerous honors, including the Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer-in-Residence, Native Arts and Culture Foundation Literature Fellowship, and a 2024 Amant Siena Studio & Research Residency Fellowship. He currently serves as the Viebranz Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University.

Workshop: The Poetics of Indigenous Epistemologies

Tracy Fuad ’s second book of poetry, PORTAL, won the 2023 Phoenix Emerging Poets Prize and was published in 2024 by the University of Chicago Press. Her first collection was chosen by Claudia Rankine as the 2020 winner of the Donald Hall Prize and was published in 2021. A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Fuad's poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review and The New Republic and elsewhere. She lives in Berlin, where she teaches poetry and directs the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.

Workshop: Poetics of Incantation

Kirsten Greenidge is a PEN/America and Obie Award winning playwright whose work often examines the nexus of race, class, and gender using a hyper-realism and supernatural lens. An alum of New Dramatists, the Huntington Playwrights Fellowship, and the Mellon/Howlround Playwright's residency, Greenidge’s work includes The Luck of the Irish, Milk Like Sugar, Baltimore and librettos for Desert Inn and The Anonymous Lover. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston University, where she currently serves as the Director of the School of Theatre. When possible, she enjoys working with her sisters Kerri Greenidge (The Grimkes) and Kaitlyn Greenidge (Liberte).

Workshop: The Glorious Art of the Walk-About

Kimiko Hahn 's The Ghost Forest: new and selected poems spans ten collections and subjects ranging from identity to science. In the new work, she continues to play with Eastern and Western forms. Reflecting her interest in Japanese poetics, her essay on the zuihitsu was published in the American Poetry Review. At present, she is co-editing an anthology of zuihitsu. Among her honors is the 2023 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from The Poetry Foundation. Hahn teaches in the MFA Program for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.

Workshop: Mixing It Up: The Hybrid Text

Terrance Hayes ’ publications, So To Speak, a collection of poems, and Watch Your Language, a collection of visual and lyric essays, were concurrently released in 2023. He is a distinguished Silver Professor at New York University.

Workshop: Read to Write

David Hilliard creates large-scale multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. He is widely published and exhibits nationally and internationally. Hilliard received his MFA from Yale University and has won numerous awards including a Fulbright Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His photographs can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among many others. He is a regular visiting faculty at Harvard University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Lesley University. Hilliard’s work appears in many publications and is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in NYC, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and in Provincetown by the Schoolhouse Gallery.

Workshop: Motives, Modes & Motifs: How and Why We Make Photographs

Megan Hinton is a painter known for reconfiguring genres of landscape, figurative, and object painting. Her art utilizes appropriation from painting’s history along with found and discarded material to investigate line, color, shape, surface, and scale. This fusion of subject and formalism spans further to her work in collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. Hinton holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary arts from Mills College, where she won the Hung Lui Painting Prize. She has received residency fellowships from Twenty Summers in Provincetown and The Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. She is the recent recipient of the Alice C. Cole ‘42 Merit Grant from Wellesley College. Hinton is also an art educator, curator, and writer.

Workshop: Painting Lab

Pete Hocking is a painter, teacher & writer on Cape Cod. His work is concerned with nature, place, poetics, and identity. He's a founding board member of Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the creative economy. He taught part-time at RI School of Design from 1997- 2022. From 2003-2021 he was full-time faculty in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. He was director of RISD’s Office of Public Engagement (2007-11), and Associate Dean of the College & Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University (1992-2005). On Cape Cod he is represented by AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet.

Workshop: Painting Between Place & Memory

Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She likes light on water, habañero, and fresh starts. Her books include a coffee table book (The Long Way Home, 2013), a linked collection of stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers, 2015), and a memoir (Olive Witch, 2017). She has won fellowships from the NEA, Queens Council on the Arts, NYFA, and the Fulbright Foundation, and holds BS and MA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco.

Workshop: Writing Personal Statements & Applying for Grants and Residencies

Deborah Jackson Taffa’s debut, Whiskey Tender, a 2024 National Book Award Finalist, has been named on best lists at Esquire, Oprah Daily, ELLE, and The Washington Post. She has received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, MacDowell, the Ellen Meloy Foundation, Tin House, the University of Iowa, and the NY Summer Writers Institute. Taffa received her MFA in Iowa City. A citizen of the Kwatsaan Nation and Laguna Pueblo, she is the director of the MFA CW program at the IAIA in Santa Fe, NM.

Workshop: The Personal Essay as Public Performance

Jessica Jacobs is the author of unalone, poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis (Four Way Books, March 2024); Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going, one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of the Year and winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards; and Pelvis with Distance, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Jacobs is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.

Workshop: Metaphor as Meetinghouse: Writing in(to) Relationship with the World

Zehra Khan is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and painting — the latter often on her fellow humans. She received an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 2007, and a BS from Skidmore College. Khan loves traveling to art residencies including Yaddo, the Studios of Key West, Ox-Bow, I-Park, the Vermont Studio Center, Art Space Sonahmoo in Korea, and Space A in Kathmandu. Khan lived year-round in Provincetown from 2007-2018, and now lives in Chicago.

Workshop: Multimedia Experiments

Miriam Klein Stahl is a diasporist, artist, educator, activist and the New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide. She works in printmaking, sculpture, paper-cut, and public art. As an artist, she follows in a tradition of making socially relevant work, creating portraits of political activists, misfits, radicals, and radical movements. As an educator, she has dedicated her teaching practice to address equity through the lens of the arts. She lives in Berkeley, California located on the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo Ohlone people with wife, artist Lena Wolff, their daughter, and poodle.

Workshop: Printing Our Queer & Trans Lineage

Julie Lapping Rivera began her career in New York as a teaching artist with the Studio In a School Association, Museum of Modern Art, and Lincoln Center Institute. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient in Drawing, and has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In 2022, Lapping Rivera was awarded a guest artist fellowship at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, representing the Boston Printmakers. Her current print and poetry project, “Look Again” is on display at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA and will travel starting in 2026. She currently teaches at Smith College and Zea Mays Printmaking.

Workshop: Deep Dive into Color Reduction Woodcut

Andrea Lawlor is the author of a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016), and a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Rescue Press, 2017; Vintage, 2019; Picador UK, 2019). Their stories, essays, and poems have appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and The New York Times. They are the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, as well as fellowships from Lambda Literary, Radar Labs, the Ucross Foundation, and Macdowell Colony. They are an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Mount Holyoke College, and live in Western Massachusetts.

Workshop: Writing Into Queer & Trans Lineage

Celeste Lecesne (he/they) wrote the short film Trevor, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, and is co-founder of The Trevor Project. He adapted Armistead Maupin’s Further Tales of The City for Showtime, was a writer on the series Will & Grace and has written three novels for young adults. As an actor, Celeste has appeared on TV, in film, on and Off Broadway, and is best known for his award-winning solo shows. He is the co-founder of The Future Perfect Project, a national arts initiative for LGBTQ+ youth, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2023.

Workshop: Queering Story

Fred H. C. Liang received a BFA from The University of Manitoba and an MFA from Yale University. His honors include Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Grants in painting, printmaking, and works on paper. Liang’s work is in numerous public and private collections, including Fidelity, the Gund Collection, Addison Museum of American Art, and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Liang’s most recent exhibitions include the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Addison Museum of American Art in Massachusetts, XC.HuA Gallery in Berlin, and Jerez de la Frontera Gallery at The University of Cadiz, Spain. He was the recipient of the 2020 Joan Michell Foundation Grant and Boston Foundation’s Brother Thomas Fellowship in 2021. Liang is a Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA, where he is the Chair of the Printmaking Department.

Workshop: Watercolor Monoprinting

Paul Lisicky is the author of seven books including Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, and The Narrow Door. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Fence, The New York Times, The Offing, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Rose Dorothea Award from the Provincetown Library. He is currently a Professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden. He splits his time between Brooklyn and Louisiana.

Workshop: Shadows and Light: Writing Creative Nonfiction

Kyle Lukoff is the author of many books for young readers. His debut middle-grade novel, Too Bright To See, received a Newbery honor, the Stonewall award, and was a National Book Award finalist. His picture book When Aidan Became A Brother also won the Stonewall, and his book Call Me Max has been banned in schools across the country. He has forthcoming books about queer history, unicycles, breakups, and lots of other topics. While becoming a writer he worked as a bookseller for ten years, and then nine more years as a school librarian.

Workshop: Writing (and Reading) Picture Books

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Workshop: The Monstrous Body

Dante Micheaux is the author of Circus, which won the Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America and the T. S. Eliot Foundation, and Amorous Shepherd. His poems and translations have appeared in African American Review; The American Poetry Review; Callaloo; Literary Imagination; Poem-A-Day; Poetry; and Tongue—among other journals and anthologies. Micheaux’s other honors include the Oscar Wilde Award, an Amy Clampitt Residency, the Ambit Poetry Prize, and a fellowship from The New York Times Foundation. He is a Fellow and Director of Programs at Cave Canem Foundation. Micheaux’s most recent work is the libretto for Rolf Hind’s opera Sky In a Small Cage.

Workshop: Poetic Time

Andrew Mockler (b. 1964) is a painter and master printer living in Brooklyn, NY. At his printmaking workshop, Jungle Press Editions, Mockler collaborates with artists in lithography, etching, woodcut, and monoprint. He has taught at Hunter College, NY, Yale School of Art, RISD, and Columbia University. He has lectured at Cornell University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie's New York, and The Baltimore Museum of Art. His works in painting and printmaking have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including The Addison Gallery of American Art, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, George Billis Gallery (New York and Los Angeles) and Metaphor Gallery (Brooklyn).

Workshop: Monoprint: Theme and Variation

John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Poetry Society of Virginia’s North American Book Award, the Four Quartets Prize from the T.S. Eliot Foundation and the Poetry Society of America, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His translation of Rafael Alberti’s Concerning the Angels is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2025. He is a professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College.

Workshop: Cut, Scratch, & Blend: Revision as Remix

Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Their newest books are Pathetic Literature and a “Working Life”, poems. Myles’s fiction includes Chelsea Girls (1994) which just won France’s Inrockuptibles Prize for best foreign novel, Cool for You (2000), Inferno (a poet’s novel) (2010) and Afterglow (2017). Writing on art was gathered in the volume The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009). They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.

Workshop: Poems always (Prose too)

Porsha Olayiwola is an individual world poetry slam champion and the author of the collection i shimmer sometimes, too. Olayiwola is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Boston. She is a 2020 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. Olayiwola is the Assistant Professor of Poetry at Emerson College. Her work can be found in or forthcoming with Triquarterly Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Boston Globe, Essence Magazine, Redivider, Split This Rock, The NBA, The Academy of American Poets, Netflix, The Rumpus, Wilderness Press, The Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere.

Workshop: Making a Manuscript: Craft, Sequence, and Revision for Poets

Catherine Opie (b. 1961) is one of the most important photographers of her generation. Her subjects have included early seminal portraits of the LGBTQ+ community, the architecture of Los Angeles’ freeway system, mansions in Beverly Hills, Midwestern icehouses, high school football players, California surfers, and abstract landscapes of National Parks, among others. She was a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow recipient and the Robert Mapplethorpe Resident in Photography at the American Academy in Rome for 2021. She has exhibited at international venues such as Guggenheim Museum in New York, The Photographer’s Gallery in London, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. Opie was a professor of photography at UCLA for 25 years. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Workshop: Critique: Sequencing and Storytelling in Contemporary Photography

Seema Reza is the author of the books A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. She is the CEO of Community Building Art Works, a non-profit organization that brings workshops led by professional artists to service members, veterans, and clinicians and is featured in the 2018 HBO documentary We Are Not Done Yet. Her writing has been widely anthologized and has appeared in the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The LA Review, LitHub and Electric Literature among others.

Workshop: Six Senses: Rituals of Creativity and Surprise

Cecilia Ruiz is an author, illustrator, and educator. Her illustration graphic style, rooted in traditional printmaking, lends itself to simple, happy expressions. However, her most compelling works are the ones in which melancholy hides within the bold colors and shapes. Ruiz was born and raised in Mexico City and now lives in New York City, where she teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Queens College.

Workshop: Block Printing for Illustrators

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle , a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, resides in Qualla, NC. She holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her debut novel, Even As We Breathe (UPK 2020), was a finalist for the Weatherford Award, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020, and received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award (2021). It also is the first novel published by a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Clapsaddle’s work appears in outlets such as Yes! Magazine, Lit Hub, bon appetit, Our State Magazine, and The Atlantic.

Workshop: Feeling Out of Place

Ilana Savdie received an MFA from the Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Radical Contractions at The Whitney Museum of American Art (2023), In Jest at White Cube, London (2022); and Entrañadas at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (2021). Savdie’s work is represented in prominent collections, including Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Jewish Museum in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Workshop: The Monstrous Body

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her 21st book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity, is published by PenguinRandomHouse imprint Thesis Books. Schulman is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace and holds an endowed chair at Northwestern University.

Workshop: Prose Writing for all Levels

Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry and an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is also the author of Ordinary Beast, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. With poet John Murillo, she edited the anthology Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters and Poems, for and about Mr. Komunyakaa. Her recent honors include the Princeton Arts and Hodder Fellowships from Princeton University, a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, and a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.

Workshop: Seeing Is Believing: Drafting the Lasting Image

Asako Serizawa is the author of Inheritors, which won the PEN Open Book Award and The Story Prize Spotlight Award. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mass Cultural Council, her work has been awarded two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, among others.

Workshop: Wandering the Archives: A Generative Workshop

Brenda Shaughnessy is an Okinawan-Irish American poet whose books include Tanya (2023), The Octopus Museum (2019), and the forthcoming Sensorium Ex (Knopf 2026), a poetry adaptation of the opera libretto she wrote/created in collaboration with the composer Paola Prestini. The opera Sensorium Ex premieres in 2025. Her other books include Our Andromeda, Human Dark with Sugar, and Interior with Sudden Joy. A recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the James Laughlin Award, she lives in West Orange, New Jersey.

Workshop: Writing By Hand, Meaning from Memory: A Poetry Workshop

Susanna Sonnenberg is the author of two memoirs, Her Last Death and She Matters: A Life in Friendships. Her recent essay "Mirage" was a Notable selection in 2024's Best American Essays. The recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Djarassi Foundation, among many others, she has taught widely and been on the Summer Faculty of FAWC since 2017. She lives in Missoula, Montana.

Workshop: Trust your Life: How to Risk Memoir

James Everett Stanley is a New England-based painter and Associate Professor of Painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. He has exhibited his work recently at Sean Horton Presents, New York; Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York; Provincetown Arts Society, Provincetown; EXPO Chicago; Art Basel Miami Beach. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, Stanley is the recipient of fellowships from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work is included in the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Workshop: Renewed Vision

Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her recent projects prod varied histories of landscape and urban development with speculative fiction. She works between and across multimedia performance, moving image installation, sculpture, architectural intervention, printmaking, and animation. Stern has exhibited and screened her work in the US and internationally, at venues including SculptureCenter (LIC, NY), Anthology Film Archives (NY, NY), The Jewish Museum (NY, NY), the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (Singapore), and the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA), where Stern was a 2018-2019 Visual Arts Fellow and 2022 Pace Fellow.

Workshop: performing print/printing performance

James Stroud is a painter and master printer who is the Founder/Director of Center Street Studio, a professional printmaking workshop that prints and publishes contemporary prints with emerging and established artists. His own work is represented in several public collections including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College; and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard College. He was the recent recipient of a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Artist Residency in Co. Mayo, Ireland.

Workshop: Jump Start Etching

Ruby T is an artist, educator, and organizer. Her work is an experiment in translating fantasy to reality, and she is fueled by anger, desire, and magic. Rooted in drawing, her practice has offshoots in painting, performance, comics, fibers, and video. She has exhibited and performed at Western Exhibitions, Roots & Culture, and Iceberg Projects in Chicago; Hales Gallery in New York; and Bass & Reiner in San Francisco. Her comics and illustrations have been published by Half Letter Press, and are in the collection of the Thomas J Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She lives and works in Provincetown, MA on Nauset and Wampanoag land.

Workshop: Ritual Embrace: A Painting & Drawing Laboratory

Michelle Tea is the author of over twenty books, including the popular Modern Tarot and the recent Modern Magic. She is the recipient of honors from the Lambda Literary Foundation, PEN/America, the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is the creator of the infamous Sister Spit tours, the international phenomenon Drag Queen Story Hour, and the queer indie publisher DOPAMINE Books.

Workshop: Writing for Witches

Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker who lives in Truro, MA. A former fellow of The Fine Arts Work Center and the current manager of the FAWC printshop, she leads workshops for fellows, facilitates projects, and works to maintain and improve the printmaking experience at FAWC. Tomayko also teaches silkscreen and painting at Cape Cod Community College. Her work can be seen locally at Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.

Workshop: Silkscreen Printmaking

Autumn Wallace (b. 1996, Philadelphia, PA) graduated from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2018. Wallace is a cross-disciplinary artist whose work examines myth, gender, sexuality and the black femme experience. Their work draws on a diverse range of material and research including early 90’s cartoons, Byzantine aesthetics, “low-quality adult materials”, anthropology and zoology, crafting unique stories and characters which re-occur and evolve throughout their practice. Through this eclectic methodology, Wallace creates alternative narratives which facilitate entryways for excluded voices.

Workshop: Start Making Sense: Become the artist you want to see in the world

Joan Wickersham ’s new book is No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck. She is also the author of The Suicide Index, a National Book Award finalist, and The News from Spain. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in many publications including The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She writes a regular op-ed column for The Boston Globe. Wickersham has taught fiction and memoir at Harvard, Emerson, UMass Boston, and the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Workshop: Voice, Character, Shape

Forrest Williams is a figurative painter who has shown his work in San Francisco, New York, Portland, Montreal, and for numerous summers at Provincetown's AMP gallery. This summer he will be showing at Schoolhouse Gallery. He was an English major undergrad at Davidson College and received his MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art. He now lives and works in both New York City and Provincetown. This is his sixth summer teaching at the Fine Arts Work Center.

Workshop: Painting the Figure

Lena Wolff is an artist, craftswoman, and activist for democracy in equal parts. Her work extends out of American quiltmaking traditions while at the same time being rooted in minimalism, geometric abstraction, Op art, social practice, feminist and political art. Wolff’s interconnected artistic output includes drawing, collage, sculpture, frequent collaboration, and public projects. Her work is in the permanent collections of ONE National Lesbian and Gay Archives, the Berkeley Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Oakland Museum of California, among others. She lives with her wife, artist Miriam Klein Stahl and their daughter in Berkeley, California.

Workshop: Color Lab

Janine Wong is an artist and educator specializing in color, printmaking, and book arts. Wong received an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Art and a BArch from School of Art, Architecture and Planning, Cornell University. Her work is featured in collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond, and the Yale Art Gallery, Brown University, as well as the Rhode Island School of Design. A recipient of a Regional NEA award for works on paper, Wong also served as a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally, highlighting her contributions to both book arts and prints.

Workshop: Sketchbooks: Figures of Thought

2025 Summer Workshop Program Faculty