Authors In Residence
| Writer and pianist Lisa DeSiro grew up in New York state, moved to Boston in 1993, and now resides in Cambridge, MA. She earned degrees at Binghamton University (B.A. Literature & Creative Writing), Boston Conservatory (B.M. Piano Performance: Accompanying), Longy School of Music (M.M. Collaborative Piano), and Lesley University (M.F.A. Creative Writing). Lisa has studied with poets Teresa Cader, Rafael Campo, Milton Kessler, Bill Knott, and Spencer Reece. Her piano teachers have included Donald Berman, Wayman Chin, Brian Moll, and Jeffrey Stevens. Lisa has premiered works by composers Vartan Aghababian, Richard Applin, Steve Bergman, Heather Gilligan, and Rosey Lee. Lisa’s poems have been set by composers Elizabeth Anker, David DeSiro, Heather Gilligan, and Liam Wade. Her dedicatory acrostic sonnet “Widmung” was published in Er is der Vater, wir sind die Bub’n. Essays in Honor of Christoph Wolff (Ann Arbor: Steglein Publishing, 2010). She has also been published in The Comstock Review, and selected as an exhibitor for the Mayor’s Prose & Poetry Program at Boston City Hall. For several years Lisa freelanced as an accompanist, playing for voice lessons, ballet classes, opera productions and theater, and performing throughout Massachusetts and in Europe. She continues to perform art song and chamber music. In addition to being poet-in-residence for CMASH, Lisa is a member of the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble. She also is Editorial and Production Assistant for C.P.E Bach: The Complete Works, a project of The Packard Humanities Institute (www.cpebach.org). |
| Author Doug Rice was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his BA in English from Slippery Rock State College and did his MA in creative writing at SUNY-Binghamton, where he studied under John C. Gardner, and his MA in English Literature at Duquesne University. He studied for his PhD in Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. His first novel, Blood of Mugwump, was selected by Kathy Acker as a runner-up for the FC2 First Novel Award. He has taught at La Roche College, Kent State University-Salem and currently teaches creative writing, literary theory and film history and theory at Sacramento State University. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation, The Dirty Fabulous Anthology, Kiss the Sky, Alice Redux, Phantoms of Desire, Discourse, Gargoyle, Zyzzyvya, and others. His work has been translated into Polish, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German. Doug is the author of Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist, Blood of Mugwump, Skin Prayer, and A Good Cu/tboy is Hard to Find, and is currently completing Between Appear and Disappear, due out in 2011. He is a co-editor with Larry McCaffery and Thomas Hartl of Federman: A to X-X-X-X. He is the executive publisher of Nobodaddies Press. He is also a guest artist and course coordinator at the California State University Summer Arts Program. Doug Rice |
| Camille Robles bio coming soon |
