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On October 1 each year, 24 Pearl Street becomes home to ten Writing Fellows and ten Visual Arts Fellows. This annual infusion of fresh talent and ideas renews the creative energy and vitality of the Work Center, and serves as a dynamic wellspring from which the entire community thrives. Culturally and aesthetically diverse, the Fellows bond through that which matters most, their work.
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2003-2004 WRITING FELLOWS
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 MAGGIE DIETZ was the 2002–2003 George Bennett Fellow and writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Slate, Agni, Harvard Review, Beloit Poetry Journal and elsewhere. For five years, she directed the national Favorite Poem Project and is co-editor of the anthologies Americans’ Favorite Poems and Poems to Read (W.W. Norton).
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 ZACH FINCH recently graduated from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He has also studied at Dartmouth College, Université de Lyon, and the Ezra Pound Center for Literature in Italy. Zack has work appearing or forthcoming in Boston Review, Green Mountains Review, 88: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, and Atlanta Review.
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 JUSTIN HAYNES, from Trinidad and Tobago, recently graduated with an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. He has won awards for his work from the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the University of Notre Dame. His short stories have most recently been published in The Caribbean Writer and the Hawai'i Review. He is currently completing a collection of short stories.
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 KATHRYN MARIS, second-year Fellow in poetry, has a BA from Columbia University and an MA in creative writing from Boston University. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Fence and New Voices: University and College Prizes, an anthology. She is based in London where she is an editor and writer for Poetry London magazine.
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 Writer THOMAS O'MALLEY was raised in New Ross, Ireland and in Portsmouth, England, and immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1984 at the age of sixteen. He is a graduate of UMass Boston and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has most recently appeared in magazines including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and Shenandoah. While currently at work on his second novel, Waiting for Jesus, he and his partner, the poet Caroline Crumpacker, are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their first child.
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 TIM ROSS received an MFA in writing from the University of Alabama, where he also taught and worked as assistant poetry editor of Black Warrior Review. His poems have been published in Gulf Coast, The North American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sonora Review, and others. He has also received two prizes from the Academy of American Poets.
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 ANNE SANOW received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She is working on a collection of linked stories set in Saudi Arabia, and has fiction forthcoming in Other Voices.
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 JASON SCHNEIDERMAN holds an MFA in poetry from NYU as well as Bachelors degrees in English and Russian from the University of Maryland. He teaches Creative Writing at Hofstra University. His poetry has appeared in Columbia, La Petite Zine, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Tin House and is forthcoming in Rattapallax, StoryQuarterly and Parlor Games. His translations have appeared in Verse and Modern Poetry in Translation. His essays have appeared in Teachers & Writers and Frigate. He is the layout editor of Painted Bride Quarterly. He has been both waiter and head-waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont and received a residency at Yaddo. His first collection of poems, Sublimation Point, is forthcoming from Four Way Books.
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 EMILY SHELTON graduated from Amherst College and received her Ph.D. in English in 2002 from the University of Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Review, American Literary Review, and Camera Obscura among others, and she recently completed a novel, Memphis, based on an Arkansas child murder case.
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 SHIMON TANAKA was born in Japan and raised in the US. He has an MFA from the University of Oregon and was the recipient of a grant from the Asian Cultural Council. His fiction has appeared in the anthology Best New American Voices, as well as the Gettysburg Review.
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2003-2004 VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS
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 CARLA CASTRO was born in 1970 in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, second-youngest of six children, Carla never lacked imaginary friends dreamt up out of books. She tells us she found solace under her bed and that the best drawing she did was of her father, herself and other passers-by on a golf course/putting range—complete with parking lot and Coke machine—drawn on old computer printout paper. A masterpiece, she says. At the age of 17, she left home and attended the Cleveland Institute of Art and received her BFA in 1993. Many quick years passed; she worked as a floral designer, her father died of cancer, she married, she divorced—through it all, she continued to paint. She pursued an MFA, going where everything would be absolutely new to her: Northern California. In 2003, she received her MFA from the University of California, Davis. Her main focus now is to create paintings that one can hide in, secret spaces in ordinary view.
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 GEOFFREY CHADSEY until recently has lived in San Francisco, having received his MFA in photography and drawing from the California College of the Arts, as well as a BA from Harvard University. He has shown his drawings nationally in galleries and museums in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago and New York, and his work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Microsoft, and the Carnegie Institute. He has received a New England Fellowship for the Arts, Eureka Fellowship, Gerbode Fellowship, and awards from Artadia, and the San Francisco Foundation for the Arts.
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 About three years ago, ANGELA DUFRESNE started to think of herself as Frankenstein, both the monster and the doctor. Ever since, she has been sewing together an elaborate family tree
composed of her heroes crossbred with herself, resulting in a series of bastard geniuses one might be afraid to ask to dinner. She has a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, though she feels her real education came while being a cook-for-hire in kitchens around the country and as a freelancer at Citigroup for the past six years in New York. She is a second-year Fellow at the Work Center and is working in various media that investigate her project: a video series titled "Family Tree: Encounters with the Enemy," and a series of paintings and drawings chronicling the sexual encounters of the
members of her genealogy throughout history.
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 CARLOS JACKSON was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of California, Davis where he received his Bachelor of Science in Community and Regional Development, his MFA in Art, and was awarded a Robert Arneson Graduate Fellowship. He recently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
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 JOHN KNIGHT is a painter from Indiana living in Maine. He has a background in landscape
painting in Indiana, New Mexico, and Maine, but is currently doing drawings and paintings with weeds and common plants
as the subject in an invented landscape space. He holds a BFA in Painting from Indiana University and an MFA in painting from American University. He was included in the 2003 Portland Museum of Art Biennial and shows at Aucocisco Gallery in Portland, Maine.
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 VIET LE was born in Saigon and currently resides in Orange County, California. He is an interdisciplinary artist, a published creative and critical writer and educator. Viet’s work has been featured in exhibitions in Los Angeles, Canada, Arizona, New York, Chicago, and Hong Kong. He received his MFA in Studio Art with a graduate emphasis in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Irvine. Recently, he received a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowship. He is a Lecturer in the Studio Art Department at the University of California, Irvine.
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 PAMELA ROBERTSON-PEARCE was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, as well as the UK and Ibiza, Spain. She received a BFA from St. Martin’s School of Art, London, and an MA in Theatre from Emerson College, Boston. The recipient of residencies in Basel, Switzerland; Bergen, Norway; and Blue Mountain, New York, Pamela has had exhibitions and performances at various venues in Europe and the US. She has also made award-winning films on surrealist women artists, which have shown at film
festivals and cinemas in Europe and the US. She currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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 RACHEL SCHUDER holds an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College, a BA in Studio Art from Bowdoin College, and is an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her conceptually-based sculptures, photographs and videos have been shown in alternative spaces in New York City, Seattle, and Maine. Rachel was born and raised in Seattle and has been a resident of Brooklyn since 1994.
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 Second-year Fellow ANTHONY VITI is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. He has had solo exhibitions at the Tibor-DeNagy Gallery and Deven Golden Fine Arts in New York City, and his work is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a member of Gran Fury, an affinity group formed to make visual projects for the street about AIDS. Since the early 80's he has used an abstract language to talk about AIDS, loss and eroticism within the AIDS epidemic.
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 BERNARD WILLIAMS received an MFA from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1991. He was a student at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1987, and has taught Mural Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1991. In 2001, he was one of twenty artists to receive a $10,000 award from the Artadia Art Council, and in 2003 was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Bernard has also been very active creating indoor and outdoor murals around Chicago with students in the Chicago public schools. Current studio work involves a graphic charting of American and world history through the use of 2-D and 3-D forms.
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