Alumni Directory
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Zachary Pincus-Roth (Alum, 1997)
Zachary Pincus-Roth attended the Workshop in playwriting & fiction in 2001 and joined the residential staff as a teacher and counselor in 2006. He is a features editor in The Washington Post’s Style Section and his 2010 Slate article, “Best Weekend Never” received the National Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Online Feature Article.
Emma Rathbone (Alum, 1996-1997; Teaching Writer, 2008)
Emma Rathbone attended the Workshop in fiction in 1996 and playwriting in 1997; she returned as a fiction instructor in 2008. She has authored two novels, The Patterns of Paper Monsters and Losing It. Read more.
Robert V.S. Redick (Alum, 1984; Visiting Artist, 2018)
Robert V.S. Redick attended the Workshop’s fall program in 1984 as a fiction student and returned as a Visiting Artist in 2018. He is the author of The Fire Sacraments series and The Chathrand Voyage series.
Jeff Richey (Alum, 1988)
Jeff Richey attended the Workshop as a poetry student in 1988. He is Professor of Asian Studies at Berea College and leads the Jeff Richey Experience, a roots-rock band. Read more about Jeff.
Ransom Riggs (Alum, 1994-1996)
Ransom Riggs attended the Workshop from 1994-1996 in fiction, dramatic writing, and songwriting. He is the author of the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series, the first book of which was made into a feature film in 2016, directed by Tim Burton. Read more about Ransom. Photo Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
Laura Rothenberg (Alum, 1998)
Laura Rothenberg attended the Workshop in 1998 in poetry. Her memoir, Breathing for a Living, chronicled her life with cystic fibrosis and was published posthumously in 2003.
Jess Row (Alum, 1991)
Jess Row attended the Workshop as a playwriting student in 1991. He is the author of two collections of short stories (The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost), a novel (Your Face in Mine), and an essay collection (White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination). Read more about Jess.
Sarah Stillman (Alum, 2000)
Sarah Stillman attended the Workshop in 2000. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and her investigative journalism has twice won the National Magazine Award for Public Interest, first in 2012 for her reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan and again in 2019 for her reporting on the dangers deported immigrants face on returning to their home countries. In 2016 she was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. Photo Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Natalie York (Alum, 2003-2006; Teaching Writer, 2014)
Natalie York attended the Workshop in songwriting for four years and taught the songwriting workshop in 2014.