2002-2003 Winter Fellows The culturally and aesthetically diverse group of visual artists and writers that arrive in October bring an infusion of creative energy and vitality to the Work Center. With all twenty Fellows ensconced in the apartments and studios at 24 Pearl Street, the Center hums with the sound of inspiration at work. 2002-2003 Visual Arts Fellows
ANGELA DUFRESNE has a BFA degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She has recently exhibited her work at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY, at the Harlem Flophouse in New York, NY, and at Untitled Space in New Haven, CT. She recently curated a show entitled "The Land That Time Forgot" for the Harlem Flophouse. As well as continuing to produce her drawings and paintings, she is currently in production of a DV format film titled "They Meet," an episodic chronicle of some of the love affairs that occur in her epic genealogy.

CARLOS FERGUSON was born in Iowa and received a BA from Grinnell College and an MFA from the University of Iowa. He has recently been awarded residency fellowships by the MacDowell Colony, the UCROSS Foundation, and the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil.
MICHAEL JONES MCKEAN was born on Turk Island, in Micronesia and received his MFA from Alfred University in 2002 and BFA from Marywood University in 1999. Michael's work has been exhibited across the country including California, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Delaware. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Jeanne C.Thayer Fellowship in the Arts presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Watershed Center Residency Grant, The Hallmark Symposium Lecture Award presented by the University of Kansas, The Michael Shaw Prize, The St.Luke's Medal, and two National Endowment for the Arts State Grants. He currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas.
ALEXANDRA NEWMARK received her MFA in Sculpture from Bard College in 2001. She is the recipient of a residency from La Napoule in France, and a 2-year Fellowship from the Creative Visions Foundation. Most recently, her work was exhibited at the Cynthia Broan Gallery in New York. She currently resides in Brooklyn.
Second-year Fellow LAMAR PETERSON was born in Florida and received his BS from Florida A & M University. He earned his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001.
PAMELA ROBERTSON-PEARCE was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received a BFA from St. Martin's School of Art, London, England and an MA in Theatre Arts from Emerson College, Boston. She works as a film and video artist as well as a playwright. "Where the call finds an echo is where I can be found." It is possible that her claim to fame to date is a feature length film on Meret Oppenheim, the surrealist artist!
MIYOUNG SOHN was born in Busan, South Korea, and is based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 1998 and her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1996. Her work has been exhibited at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, CRG Gallery, The Hudson River Museum, and the Boston Center for the Arts. She was a resident at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studios in 1999 and a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 2001-2002. Currently she is a second-year Fellow at FAWC.
JAMES EVERETT STANLEY was born in Waltham, Massachusetts. He received a BFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2000, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2002. He's had exhibitions in Amherst, Boston, and has an upcoming show in New York. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
GRACE SULLIVAN earned her MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 2002. She studied graphic design, printmaking and photography at California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco and Oakland from 1997-1999. She has a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.	/td>
TRICIA LYNN TOWNES is originally from North Carolina. She received her MFA from UNC Greensboro and has been teaching drawing to elementary, junior high, and high school students for the past two years.
2002-2003 Writing Fellows
KIRSTEN ANDERSEN is a graduate of New York University's MFA program in creative writing, and a 2002 poet-in-residence at the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY. Her work most recently appears in the GSU Review.
EPHEN GLENN COLTER is a former PhD McCracken Fellow in the Program in American Studies at New York University. He received a BA in Literature/Gender Studies from Bard College and Dayton, Ohio is his hometown. He is also co-editor and contributor of Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism (Boston: South End Press, 1996), which received the 1997 Meyer Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
TIM EARLEY received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama, where he later taught English and Poetry workshops. Twice a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cutbank, Hayden's Ferry Review, Green Mountain Review, Sonora Review, and other journals. He resides in Detroit, Michigan and is happy nearly all the time.
ESI EDUGYAN is originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has degrees in writing from the universities of Victoria and Johns Hopkins, and has been accepted to the PhD program at the University of East Anglia for 2003. In 2001 she was awarded a Canada Council grant and was a finalist for their Fund for Future Generations Millennium Prize. A story is forthcoming in Best New American Voices 2003, ed. Joyce Carol Oates.
FRANCES HWANG was born in Virginia and now lives in Portland, Oregon. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana, where she won the A. B. Guthrie Memorial Award for her fiction. She received her BA from Brown University and her MA in English from the University of Virginia. Her short story, "Transparency," was recently selected by Joyce Carol Oates to be published in Best New American Voices 2003. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories.
KIRUN KAPUR recently received an MA from the Boston University graduate poetry program. Her work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Yemassee, Cider Press Review, and Seneca Review.
SABRINA ORAH MARK is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded a Glenn Schaeffer Senior Fellowship in Creative Writing. She has taught at Rutgers University, and worked as a Poet in the Schools through Teachers and Writers' Collaborative and LEAP. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Conduit, American Letters and Commentary, and Denver Quarterly.
CAITLIN GRACE MCDONNELL was a New York Times Fellow at New York University where she received her MFA. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Grand Street, Louisville Review, Insurance, The Hat and others. She has taught writing at universities, public schools, in hospitals and homeless shelters. She's received residencies from the Yaddo Colony and Blue Mountain Center and is also at work on a memoir: The Blue Raincoat.
DOMINIC SAUCEDO is a graduate of Carleton College and the writing program at the University of Minnesota. He is the recipient of the Norman Johnston Dewitt Fellowship in the Humanities and a SASE/Jerome Foundation grant for emerging writers. He is at work on a novel.
SALVATORE SCIBONA is a graduate of St. John's College in Santa Fe and of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has received a Fulbright Scholarship, a James Michener/Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared most recently in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories and The Threepenny Review.