Summer 2008 Faculty

Kathleen Aguero's most recent book of poetry, Daughter Of, is published by Cedar Hill Books. The author of two previous books of poetry and editor of three anthologies of multicultural literature from the University or Georgia Press, she is a Professor of English at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA, teaching in their low-residency MFA and undergraduate programs.

Liza Frenette is an assistant editor at New York Teacher, the official membership newspaper published by New York State United Teachers (NYSUT). Author of three novels for children, including Soft Shoulders, Ms. Frenette has published articles in Reader's Digest and Adirondack Life, among others, and has won first place feature and news writing awards from UPI and Associated Press.

Elaine Handley is a poet and fiction writer, as well as an Associate Professor of Writing and Literature at Empire State College. Her poetry chapbooks, Notes from the Fire Tower and Glacial Erratica won the Adirondack Center for Writing Award in Poetry in 2006 and 2007 respectively. She is currently completing Deep River, an historical novel about the Underground Railroad.

Richard Hoffman's memoir, Half the House, first published in 1995 by Harcourt Brace, was recently reissued in a new and expanded edition. He is also author of the poetry collections Without Paradise and Gold Star Road, winner of the 2007 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, he also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program.

Bob Miner worked for Newsweek and has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Esquire and others. He has published two novels-Exes and Mother's Day-and is finishing up the third novel in this series, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, as well as writing nonfiction about Istanbul, Turkey. Since 1980 he has taught writing for SUNY Albany and Empire State College, moonlighting also for Skidmore College, Syracuse University, Siena College, and the College of St. Rose.

William B. Patrick is the founder and director of the New York State Summer Young Writers Institute. His latest book, Saving Troy, is a creative nonfiction chronicle of a year spent living and riding with professional firefighters and paramedics. He has also published a memoir, an award-winning novel, and two books of poetry with BOA Editions. Mr. Patrick teaches writing for the College of St. Rose and for the Stonecoast MFA Program.