Workshop Panelists and Teachers
 | Richard Newman Literary Arts Director, Persian Arts Festival: Richard Newman is a poet, essayist and translator. He is the author of The Silence Of Men, a book of his own poetry, and two books of translations from classical Persian literature. His essays and poems have appeared in Salon.com, The American Voice, The Pedestal, Circumference, Prairie Schooner, ACM, Birmingham Poetry Review and other literary journals. He is the Literary Arts Director of the Persian Arts Festival, sits on the advisory board of The Translation Project and is listed as a speaker with the New York Council for the Humanities. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, where he coordinates The Creative Writing Project. |
 | Luis H. Francia: Luis H. Francia is a poet, nonfiction writer, journalist, and playwright. His poetry collections include Museum of Absences and The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. A chapbook, The Beauty of Ghosts, is due out in 2010. His semiautobiographical Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (2001) won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. He is the editor of Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English, and co-editor of Fiippin': Filipinos on America, and Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999. He is included in the Library of America anthology of immigrant writing, due out later this year. He teaches at New York University and at Hunter College. |