PROGRAM MENTORS

Jason Bittel

Jason Bittel

Jason Bittel is a worshipper of the calamine gods. When he’s not fighting off poison ivy, he’s trying to get people riled up about slugs and opossums on his TTTWTP-inspired website, BittelMeThis.com. He has an MFA in Creat…

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Adam Briggle

Adam Briggle

Adam Briggle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies and Faculty Fellow in the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas. His research and teaching foc…

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Ross Carper

Ross Carper

Ross Carper is a writer based in Washington state whose publications include fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction. He is the founding editor of Beyond the Bracelet, a web-based literary project that aims to publish an…

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Gwen Ottinger

Gwen Ottinger

Gwen Ottinger has a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds bachelor's degrees in Science, Technology, & Culture and Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. As a graduate stud…

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Rachel Zurer

Rachel Zurer

Rachel Zurer—As an associate editor at Backpacker magazine, Rachel spends her days dreaming up fantastic places to go hiking. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College, and her publication and broadcast cr…

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Leslie Rubinkowski

Leslie Rubinkowski

Leslie Rubinkowski is working on a memoir about training to run her first marathon, despite the fact that she'd never run a mile in her life. She is also the author of Impersonating Elvis, a book about another kind of tra…

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