Faculty
Anton DiSclafani
Coordinator
Anton received her BA from Emory University, where she majored in Creative Writing and English. She completed the Master of Fine Arts program in Fiction Writing at Washington University. As a lecturer in the English Department, Anton teaches classes in fiction, nonfiction, and microfiction.
Richard Chapman
Screenplay Writing Instructor
Richard Chapman is a veteran screenwriter and producer in film and television. He has created, produced and written over two hundred hours of network series, including such credits as SIMON & SIMON (CBS), THE NEW ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (NBC), DISNEY’S ABSENTMINDED PROFESSOR, and the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated HBO Original Movie, LIVE FROM BAGHDAD. His career in motion pictures features MY FELLOW AMERICANS and an adaptation of Christopher Buckley’s novel THANK YOU FOR SMOKING. Chapman has written over twenty motion picture screenplays for such stars as Mel Gibson, Meg Ryan, Alec Baldwin and Bette Midler. He has also produced a feature length documentary, SHOOTING THE MESSENGERS, the behind the scenes story of media coverage of the Vietnam War. It is a comprehensive and controversial study of how journalists from all media (print, electronic, photojournalism) reported the entire war and is culled from over fifty hours of interviews with such icons as Walter Cronkite and the late David Halberstam.
Kathleen Finneran
Nonfiction Instructor
Kathleen Finneran is the author of the memoir The Tender Land: A Family Love Story (Houghton Mifflin, 2000; Mariner Paperbacks, 2003). Her essays have been published in various anthologies, including The Place That Holds Our History (Southwest Missouri State University Press, 1990), Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City (Missouri Historical Society Press, 2000), and The "M" Word: Writers on Same-Sex Marriage (Algonquin, 2004). She is the recipient of the Missouri Arts Council Writers' Biennial Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Anne Sanow
Fiction Instructor
Anne Sanow is the author of the story collection Triple Time, winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the 2010 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for fiction. Her book has been selected as a "Must-Read Book" from the 10th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards.
Her work has been published in Dossier, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Malahat Review, and elsewhere. The winner of the 2009 Nelson Algren Award for the short story from the Chicago Tribune, she has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently lives on Cape Cod.
David Schuman
Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry Instructor
David Schuman’s fiction has appeared in Missouri Review, Carolina Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review and many other publications. He won a Pushcart Prize in 2007 and his story, "Stay," was listed as one of a hundred distinguished stories in Best American Short Stories.