Tuesday, February 15th, 7:00pm
Mama’s CrowBar, 189 Congress St., Portland ME (map)
FREE – bar is cash only/beer only/21+
FEATURING THE CAPTIVATING, AGILE AND ELOQUENT
STAFF OF THE TELLING ROOM
(that’s the place where stories grow)
Heather Davis
Heather came to Portland via Austin, TX, where she co-founded a youth writing center called Austin Bat Cave and served as the senior grant writer for a nonprofit, arts education organization. These days she’s the Telling Room’s development director. Heather holds a BA from St. John’s College, and an MA from Goddard College, where she designed an individualized program that combined coursework on youth development, arts education, and creative writing with her experiences as a writing teacher in Harlem.
Patty Hagge
A graduate of USM’s Stonecoast MFA program, Patty is The Telling Room’s den mother, Lead Teacher for workshops and special projects and a member of the board. She worked as a poet in the Brunswick school system and currently serves on the board at SPACE Gallery.
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Gibson’s poems, interviews, and reviews have appeared in magazines including Boston Review, Guernica, The New Republic, Time Out: New York, Tin House, and Verse Daily. With graduate degrees from UC Berkeley and Columbia University, he has taught writing and literature in public and private middle schools, high schools, and colleges in California, Vermont, New York, and Maine, and is the Telling Room’s executive director.
Andrew Griswold
Andrew has taught and mentored middle and high school students in Maine, California, and Washington, DC, since graduating from Davidson College. He holds an MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and is The Telling Room’s education and web coordinator. When he’s not writing, coordinating and mentoring, he’s probably listening to music, skiing or spending time with his wife, young son and their labradoodle Hazel.
