SANDY ASHER
Variety and quality characterize Sandy’s work, which includes nineteen books, more than three dozen plays, and over two hundred articles, stories, and poems published in magazines. Her best-known play, A Woman Called Truth, has been produced by more than 250 school, community, and professional groups in the United States and Canada; she was honored with the American Alliance for Theatre and Education’s Charlotte Chorpenning Award for a distinguished body of work in theater for young audiences. She’s also the editor of three collections of fiction, including With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish, winner of the 1999 National Jewish Book Award in children’s literature. A frequent guest speaker at conferences and schools, Sandy has served as writer-in-residence at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, and has taught writing workshops for people of all ages. Sandy's latest book is an anthology she edited with poet and author David Harrison. Dude! Stories and Stuff for Boys will be published this summer by Dutton. Her newest picture book, Too Many Frogs, won North Dakota's Flicker Tale Award, was chosen for the Texas Library Association's 2x2 reading list, and has been nominated for the Florida Reading Association's Children's Literature Award and the NY Library Association's Best of the Season Award.
Workshop: Writing Your First Novel

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MARK BALDWIN
Principal author of the Natural History Atlas to the Chautauqua-Allegheny Region, Mark has devoted the past fourteen years to the development of nature education programs for the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. As director of education, Mark works with teachers throughout the country to infuse nature studies into their curricula. He is president of the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy and vice president of the American Nature Study Society.
Workshop: Writing from Nature: Blazing a Trail from Field Journal to Publication

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CAROLYN COMAN
Carolyn Coman’s acclaimed novels for children and young adults include The Big House, Many Stones (National Book Award finalist and a 2001 Michael L. Printz Honor book), Bee and Jacky, What Jamie Saw (National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor book), and Tell Me Everything. She has taught fiction writing at Harvard Extension, Harvard Summer School, and the Chautauqua Institute. For eight years she was a faculty member of the Vermont College MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults Program, and is currently on the faculty of Hamline University’s new MFA program.
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop (Spring)
Workshop: Whole Novel Workshop (Fall)

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PETER JACOBI
Peter Jacobi is a professor emeritus and visiting Riley professor at Indiana University’s School of Journalism, and a former professor and associate dean of the Medill Scholl of Journalism at Northwestern University. He serves as music columnist and critic for the Bloomington Herald-Times as well as columnist on writing techniques for the professional newsletter, Editors Only. His schedule still includes, annually, a number of workshops on writing, editing, presentation skills, and handling the media. His journalistic background spreads across the print and broadcast fields: as arts critic and writer for various newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News and The Christian Science Monitor; as editor of and freelancer for magazines; as newswriter, assignment editor, and on-air reporter for radio and television, including ABC and NBC News. His two guidebooks, The Magazine Article: How to Think It, Plan It, and Write It and Writing with Style: The News Story and the Feature, are standard journalistic references.
Workshop: Writing Memorable Nonfiction: Pleasures and Possibilities, Problems and Practice

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RICH WALLACE
Rich is the author of four acclaimed novels for young adults: Playing Without the Ball, Wrestling Sturbridge, Shots on Goal, and Restless. He has also authored a short-story collection called Losing Is Not an Option, and a series of sports novels for middle-grade readers called Winning Season. His columns, profiles, and other features have been published in Highlights, Track and Field News, Runner’s World, and other publications. Rich is a former senior editor at Highlights for Children.
Workshop: Writing for Young Adults (Spring)
Workshop: Writing for Young Adults (Fall)

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CAROLYN P. YODER
Carolyn is the senior editor of history and world cultures for Highlights for Children and has written numerous articles on research and writing history for children. She spent a decade serving as the award-winning editor in chief of Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People; Calliope; Faces; and Odyssey, which led to her position as assistant publisher of Cobblestone Publishing, Inc., overseeing development of its book division.

Carolyn is currently editor of Calkins Creek Books—the history and historical fiction imprint of Boyds Mills Press, publisher of her book George Washington: The Writer and her most recent work, John Adams: The Writer, released in October 2007. She also reviews juvenile history books for the Civil War Book Review and has been a writer and editor for the New Jersey Historical Society.
Workshop: Real People, Great Stories: The Art of Writing Biography
Workshop: Carolyn Yoder Alumni Writers' Retreat

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