New Advisory Board Members

Joel Conarroe is the former President of The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and currently is President of PEN.

Donald E. Hall chairs the English Department at California State University, Northridge and is the author/editor of eight books.

Carolyn Heilbrun, former President of the Modern Language Association, is Professor Emerita at Columbia University and a novelist as well as a distinguished scholar.

Tod Lippy is publisher of ESOPUS in New York City.

Rod McKuen, poet and composer, has 63 gold and platinum records worldwide as well as over thirty collections of poetry.

Michelle Richmond of San Francisco has followed her AWP winning story collection with a new novel, Dream of the Blue Room.         

We regret that several members were left off our directory in our last newsletter:
Thomas Backer is a psychologist who works with creative people and organizations and is President of Human Interaction Research Institute in Los Angeles.
John Boorman, director and writer, lives in Ireland. His films include Deliverance, Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, Zardoz, Excalibur, and The Tailor of Panama.
Dagny Janss Corcoran is a specialist in art catalogues.
David Scott Milton, novelist, screenwriter, and Broadway playwright, teaches at USC.
Joan Raines is a partner of the literary agency Raines and Raines.
Geoffrey Strachan, translator, is former publisher of Methuen London Ltd.
Jeanie Thompson, poet, heads the Alabama Writers Forum.
Peter Gowland of Los Angeles has had photographs on over one thousand magazine covers
Board Members and Officers
Don Bachardy, President
David Hockney, Vice President
James P. White, Vice President and Executive Director