Participants

Therese Fowler grew up in Illinois. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing and now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and two sons. Souvenir is her debut novel.

Anne Hobson Freeman, editor of Mary Lee Settle's Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir, has published biographies in The Style of a Law Firm: Eight Gentlemen from Virginia and short fiction in the Virginia Quarterly Review and Best American Short Stories.

Susan Freinkel, author of American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree, writes about science and medicine. Her work has appeared in Discover, Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, the New York Times, and other national publications. She lives in San Francisco.

Jim Gable, a former executive at Apple Computer and co-founder of Kerbango, an Internet radio start-up, worked with the Amazon product team that created Kindle, the new electronic book reader. Jim is now a consultant living in northern Virginia.

Glenn Gaesser, UVa Director of Kinesiology, is author of Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight & Your Health, and The Spark: The Revolutionary New Plan to Get Fit & Lose Weight 10 Minutes at a Time.

Jenny Gardiner's debut humorous novel is Sleeping with Ward Cleaver. Her work has appeared in Ladies Home Journal, the Washington Post and on NPR’s Day to Day.  She honed her fiction writing skills working as a publicist for a US Senator.

George Garrett, author of Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments, is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing Emeritus at UVa. Author of 32 books and editor or co-author of 19 others, he served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004.

Jennifer Geddes, editor of Evil After Postmodernism, is research associate professor of Religious Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at UVa and editor of The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture.

Kent B. Germany is the author of New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society. He is Assistant Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of South Carolina and was the co-editor of The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power.

Margaret Gibson is the author of The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood and nine books of poetry, including One Body, Earth Elegy, The Vigil (finalist, National Book Award), Memories of the Future (Melville Cane Award) and Long Walks in the Afternoon (Lamont Selection).

Mike Gilbert wrote The Switch Effect: A Real-Life Example of How to Become an Entrepreneur to show how he created a carbonated 100% juice beverage and then the company to market it.

William Gladstone is the founder of Waterside Productions Inc., a literary agency that has placed thousands of manuscripts and proposals with dozens of major and regional publishers over the last 25 years. His personal successes include the For Dummies…. book series, Oprah book club selection A New Earth, and hundreds of business, technology, and self-help books.

Francisco Goldman is the author of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? about the political murder of Guatemalen Bishop Juan Gerardi. His novels include The Divine Husband, The Long Night of White Chickens, and The Ordinary Seaman.

Risa L. Goluboff, author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, is professor of law and history at UVa.

Elizabeth Gregory, author of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood, is the director of the Women's Studies program at the University of Houston.