Who We Are
We are three writers who met years ago in graduate school. In 1999, we began teaching classes together at the Chautauqua Institution in New York and have returned to western New York to teach together every summer since. We had so much fun at this that we’ve acted on our students’ suggestions and taken our act to the Internet:
Tracy – Sara – Liz
Liz Abrams-Morley is the author of Learning to Calculate the Half Life (Zinka Press, 2001) and What Winter Reveals (Plan B Press, 2005). A new poetry collection, Necessary Turns, was published by Word Press in 2010. Her poems (and an occasional story) have appeared in several anthologies and journals, and her work has been read on National Public Radio. A native Jersey girl, Liz now lives and works, via a stint in Wisconsin, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She teaches poetry on the faculty of the Master in Fine Arts in Writing Program at Rosemont College. Writer, mother, daughter, wife, teacher, family therapist, neighbor, sister, cat mom: Liz wades knee deep in the flow of everyday life, from which she draws frequent inspiration and occasional exasperation.
Tracy Robert, a born and reared Californian, relocated to South Carolina but is now back in the Golden State. She has an MFA in writing, 20 plus years of experience teaching all levels of writing, and publications in periodicals and anthologies, most notably Forever Sisters (Pocket Books, 1999). Her yet-to-be published novella, Flashcards, won the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award for Literature. An excerpt from another novella, The Curse of Ambrosia, is due out in an anthology, When Last on the Mountain, in June 2010.
Sara Kay Rupnik, resident of Richmond, Virginia, and native of Northwestern Pennsylvania, also holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and is co-founder of Around the Block Writers Collaborative. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the Virginia Writers Club Award for Non-fiction and Poetry. Her short stories have appeared in various literary journals throughout the country.