DAVID STARKEY, Program Director, Professor of English, is the Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara. He is author of two textbooks--Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008) and Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations (McGraw-Hill, 1999)--as well as several collections of poems from small presses, most recently Starkey’s Book of States (Boson Books, 2007), Adventures of the Minor Poet (Artamo Press, 2007), Ways of Being Dead: New and Selected Poems (Artamo, 2006), David Starkey’s Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2002) and Fear of Everything, winner of Palanquin Press's Spring 2000 chapbook contest.  In addition, over the past eighteen years he has published more than 400 poems in literary magazines.  His plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and elsewhere. With Paul Willis, he co-edited In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare (Iowa, 2005), and he is the editor of Living Blue in the Red States (Nebraska, 2007). Keywords in Creative Writing, which he co-authored with the late Wendy Bishop, was published in 2006 by Utah State University Press. Bedford/St. Martin’s will publish Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, an introductory creative writing textbook, in the fall of 2008. David currently teaches two sections of English 270, Introduction to Creative Writing.

CHELLA COURINGTON, Assistant Professor of English, holds a Doctorate in Literature from the University of South Carolina and pursues an MFA in Poetry from New England College. Her poetry appears in over thirty journals. Recipient of the Jimmy Santiago Baca Scholarship, Courington teaches at Santa Barbara City College.  Her chapbook: Southern Girl Gone Wrong. In Spring 2007, Chella will teach 271P, Creative Writing-Poetry.

 

STARSHINE ROSHELL, is an award-winning journalist and columnist for The Independent. "An overwhelmed mother of two Starshine Roshell waxes sassy on sex, politics, kids, fashion — and everything else a modern gal loves to dish about — in her weekly column." Starshine currently teaches English/Journalism 271NF, Creative Writing-Nonfiction.

 

 

JILL PEACOCK has published short stories in various literary magazines including the Alaska Quarterly Review and Story. Her story “’29’” won an honorable mention in the national Pushcart Prizes, and her story “Otter” was reprinted in a Doubleday anthology with writers Ethan Kanin and Italo Colvino. She was associate editor of the Santa Monica Review at its inception. Recently, Jill took up playwriting and earned the opportunity to be mentored by nationally renowned playwright Lee Blessing. She has an M.A. in English with emphasis in creative writing from U.C.Berkeley and a B.A. from Yale University.  Jill currently teaches English 271F, Fiction Writing.

 

 

 

ELLEN ANDERSON taught Introduction to Playwriting at UC-Santa Barbara for 10 years. She is the author of 17 produced plays and founding artistic director of Dramatic Women, a Santa Barbara-based theatre company. Her latest work, New Amsterdames, opens at the Here Arts Center in New York City on December 1, 2007. An experienced teacher, she has facilitated playwriting workshops everywhere from UCSB to junior high schools in Brooklyn. In Spring 2007, Ellen will teach English 271D, Playwriting.