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Keynote Speakers

Gregory WolfeGregory Wolfe – Is Writer in Residence at Seattle Pacific University and the founder and editor of Image, one of America’s leading literary quarterlies.  He also directs the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at SPU and recently served as a judge for the National Book Awards.  His essays, reviews and articles have appeared in numerous journals.  He received his BA, summa cum laude, from Hillsdale College and his MA in English literature from Oxford University.  Publications: Beauty Will Save the World; Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery; Sacred Passion: The Art of Wm Schickel; Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography; The New Religious Humanists: A Reader.

 

Valerie SayersValerie Sayers – University of Notre Dame – Professor, Dept of English is the author of five novels. Who Do You Love and Brain Fever were named New York Times "Notable Books of the Year." A film, Due East, was based on her novels Due East and How I Got Him Back. She has received a Pushcart Prize for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship and has served on two NEA literature panels. Her stories, essays, and reviews appear widely, and she has appeared on "Notable" and "Distinguished" lists in the New York Times, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Essays.  Sayers received her BA from Fordham University and her MFA from Columbia University. Other Publications: The Distance between Us; How I Got Him Back or under the Cold Moon’s Shine; Due East.