Creative Writing

VERONICA FITZPATRICK

Michigan State University, B.A., English, Women’s Studies, University of Notre Dame, M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D., English and Film Studies (candidate)

While at Michigan State, Veronica was a University Distinguished Scholar and recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. Veronica then received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame, where she later taught in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre. Veronica has taught with the Young Writers Workshop, a residential arts immersion program for gifted high school students, and currently teaches writing and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is completing her dissertation on form, feeling, and the modern horror film. Veronica has published essays in cléo, World Picture, the Ploughshares blog, and elsewhere. She has led Putney’s Writing in Ireland program in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Histories of Resistance: WWII and the Velvet Revolution

NATHAN MCNAMARA

Vassar College, B.A., English, B.A., Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, M.F.A., Fiction

Nate lives and writes in Providence, Rhode Island. In addition to being a grant writer for Reach Out and Read, Nate also works for the publishing company Catapult and is a contributor at The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Literary Hub, The Village Voice, and more. Nate taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins University for four years, and was a finalist for the 2013 Johns Hopkins award for Excellence in Teaching. Nate is also the recipient of the 2014 Benjamin Sankey Award in Fiction at Johns Hopkins, and the 2010 Anne E. Imbrie Prize for Excellence in Fiction at Vassar College. He is proficient in Spanish. Nate has led Putney’s Middle School Costa Rica, Writing in Ireland, Writing in Prague, and Pre-College at Amherst College programs.