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Compelling ... a page-turning love story.

This event has been postponed due to inclement weather in the NYC area.  It will be rescheduled later in the semester.Prior to teaching, James Hoch was a
dishwasher, cook, dockworker, social worker and shepherd. His poems
have appeared in Slate, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg, Ninth Letter,
Carolina Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review and many others. They
have been nominated many times for the Pushcart Prize. He is the
recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and
Summer Literary Seminars, and received a 2007 NEA grant as well as a
grant from the PA Council on the Arts. Miscreants will be published by WW Norton in June, 2007. A Parade of Hands
won the Gerald Cable Award and was published in March 2003 by
Silverfish Review Press. Originally from Collingswood, NJ, he resides
in Mahwah, NJ with his wife and son. He has taught at Franklin and
Marshall College and Lynchburg College. Currently, he teaches at Ramapo
College of NJ.

Sonja’s writing has been honored
with a NYFA Fellowship, an Iowa Review Award, Pushcart Prize
nomination, and grants from Vermont Studio Center and The Deming Fund
for Women. Her work has appeared in some of the country's finest
literary journals, including the Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,
Southeast Review, AGNI, the Spoon River Poetry Review, BREVITY, Gulf
Coast, and is anthologized in several texts on writing, including SHORT
TAKES, THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER, and THE CURIOUS WRITER. Sonja holds an
MFA from the University of New Orleans and an M.S. Ed. from SUNY
Brockport. She runs writing workshops locally, provides manuscript consultations, and teaches in UCLA Extension's Writing Program.

Sonja's first book, GHOSTBREAD, won an AWP Book Prize for Nonfiction.

Besides writing, Sonja enjoys snapping photos, hiking in bogs, and is
currently hooked on English murder mysteries. She was born and raised
in western New York State, where she now lives with her two overweight
tabbies and her husband, the artist Jim Mott.