Gary Gildner’s writing workshop is open to writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. His goal is to support the narrative impulse no matter which form it takes. As a writer of stories, novels, memoirs and poems, Mr. Gildner is aware that the image, metaphor, plot, leading and secondary characters, among others, are often in limbo, wandering about, searching for their best home. This workshop will devote its energies to seeking out ways to find the best home, and related matters. Students are required to bring a work-in-progress to the workshop.

Gary Gildner has published twenty books, including Blue Like the Heavens: New & Selected Poems; Somewhere Geese Are Flying: New & Selected Stories; The Second Bridge, a novel; The Warsaw Sparks and My Grandfather’s Book, memoirs; and The Bunker in the Parsely Fields, which received the 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize. He has also received a National Magazine Award for Fiction, Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Gildner has been writer-in-residence at Reed College, Davidson College, Seattle University, and Michigan State University; and has been a Senior Fullbright Lecturer to Poland and to Czechoslovakia. He has given readings of his works at the Library of Congress, The Academy of American Poets, YM-YMHA, New York, Manhattan Theater Club, and at some 300 colleges and schools in the US and abroad. Gary Gildner lives on a ranch in Idaho’s Clearwater Mountains.