Special Guests

Sallie Bingham's newest collection of stories is entitled Mending and will be published by Sarabande in October 2011. Her Passion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir was published by Knopf in 1989. A noted feminist, she founded the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Archive for Women's History at Duke University.

Sherry Chandler's first full-length collection of poetry, Weaving a New Eden, was released by Wind in March of this year.

Jan Isenhour was Executive Director of the Carnegie Center since 1998. Prior to that she had served as Assistant Director since the center opened in 1992.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of three books, The Gospel of Barbecue (Kent State, 2000), Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan, 2003), and Red Clay Suite (Southern Illinois University, 2007). Most recently, she received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, National Endowment for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. She teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

Elizabeth Oakes is an award winning poet, a blogger, and a former Shakespeare professor who lives in Bowling Green, KY, and Sedona, AZ.

Jane Gentry Vance's most recent full-length collection of poems, Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig, came out in 2006 from Louisiana State University Press

Naomi Wallace, internationally renowned playwright and Kentucky native, is serving as final judge for KWWC's inaugural Prize for Women Playwrights. Her work has been produced in the United Kingdom, Eurpoe, the Middle East, and the United States.