Gilbert Allen
1 Altamont Terrace
Travelers Rest SC 29690
864-834-9650
gil.allen@furman.edu
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Poet and fiction writer.
Has published 4 books of poems, over 20 short stories and edited an anthology of SC poetry.
BA, MFA, PhD - Cornell University.
SCAC Literary Arts Fellowship 2002-03; five time winner of SC Fiction Project Prize; five time winner of Porter Fleming Award; features on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac; Best of 1994 Book Award from The State Newspaper (Columbia, SC).
Professional

Auntie Rose
112 Spring Valley Dr
Spartanburg SC 29301
864-576-5624
roseauntie@yahoo.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Actress, storyteller, singer, songwriter, modern dancer, pianist, musical director and playwright. Multi-sensory theatrical programs in stage or classroom settings for the young and young at heart. Interweaves multiple art forms with curriculum.
MFA - Drama; BM - Piano Performance; certified Drama Educator - Texas; arts integration training; training intensives for working with disabled and special needs; certified cable access television producer.
Professional artist roster in SC, HI and NC; Libraries’ Directory of Performers; Pi Kappa Lambda (National Honorary Music Society); grant recipient - the Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg.
Professional

Murhl Teresa Bussey
3000 Pine Needle Rd
Augusta GA 30909
770-294-9707, 770-448-5114
mtpub@hotmail.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Self-published author, poet, storyteller, motivational speaker, singer.
Focus given to students to provide strong sense of self and mental well being. Encourage students to become empowered by defining and learning words to build their vocabulary and express themselves through creative writing and critical thinking. Member of SCAC.
Performed at Harvard University, Paine College in Augusta, GA; Able Academy in Philadelphia, PA; Charter of Augusta in Augusta, GA; Mercer Law School in Atlanta, GA and several other venues and schools.
Professional

Camden Poets Society
400 Wildwood Ln
Lugoff SC 29078
803-438-9356, 432-4329
alkayr@nuvox.net
Teach: No
School Performances: Yes
Poetry.
The purpose of the Camden Poets Society is to encourage, support and stimulate members and the community in their poetic endeavors and appreciation of poetry. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month at the Fine Arts Center Douglas Reed House (unless otherwise designated).
Published two collections of members’ poetry: "Tuesdays on Lyttleton Street" and "CPS 10th Anniversary Collection of Poetry;" held open-mic readings; poetry presentations to schools and civic organizations; held youth poetry contests and provided public readings and recognition.
Amateur

Connie Clark
PO Box 238
Lynn NC 28750
828-859-5692
clarkcon@aol.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Actress (as Emily Dickinson or Sarah Bernhardt).
Performed and taught in 19 states, England, Scotland, and Norway to over 130,000 students kindergarten through 12th grade, and also at many universities.
MA - major in theatre; minor in American literature - Purdue University; Member of The Dramatists Guild.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1994 and 199; Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, NYC; Audio cassette--"Emily Dickinson-Selected Poems" released 1996 to national critical acclaim.
Professional

Laura Courter
7110 Burlwood Road
Charlotte NC 28211
704-364-0081, 1-866-427-8243
lauraco612@aol.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Teaching theatre specializing in writing; performances and residencies
Has been touring the southeast for 10 years. Innovative programs and productions teach writing skills to K-8th grade.
Combine creaative dramatics with basic writing produces exciting ways for learning creative, desriptive, clarification, and problem solving writing styles. Provides productions, residencies, workshops, and teacher training.
UNC Chapel Hill, UNCG graduate studies
Performances--Southeastern Theatre Conference International Theatre, SCAC Artist Registry, NC Arts Council, Fulton County (Atlanta, GA), Wake County Arts Council, Fayetteville Arts Council--Asheville, NC
Professional

Beth Crawford
mcrawford4@sc.rr.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Short stories, creative nonfiction and playwriting.
Published features and fiction for 30 years. Taught writing at Georgia Southern University, the Cancer Center of Palmetto Richland Hospital, Upward Bound, and the Arts Commission programs of South Carolina and Georgia.
Agnes Scott - BA in English; Bennington Writers’ Program, graduate of MFA Program in Fiction at USC; Radcliffe College and Harvard University.
Playwriting award at Southern Literary Festival; 2 plays produced in Georgia and California.
Professional

Sara Deutsch
PO Box 17712
Asheville NC 28816
828-658-2449
saramuse@copper.net
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Fine art, digital painting, musical free improvisation, writing, soft sculpture, puppet-making, collage.
Multimedia artist, creative arts therapist, and teacher. Currently focusing on digital painting and collage.
Psychology, MS, PhD.abd., Creative Arts Therapy, 20 years teaching adults and children.
Free improv concert with cello--Asheville 2003; Top 10 Art Portfolio--Art Wanted; art exhibited in Sky Peoples Gallery, Crystal Visions and other places in California and Vancouver.
Professional

Ron Gulledge
14806 Rexford Chase Ct
Matthews NC 28104
704-882-7732
telleroftales@carolina.rr.com
Teach: Yes School Performances: Yes
Jack tales, ghost tales and teaching how to tell a story.
Historical, curriculum-based programs (Colonial, Civil War, Reconstruction and Piedmont textiles) as well as ghost stories, Jack tales and multicultural stories. Programs geared for all ages.
VSA training (behavior disorders and disabled kids) in Spartanburg. Featured teller at: Tales by the Sea in Swainsboro, NC; Wake County Storytelling Festival in Raleigh, NC; Tales by the Millstream in Rowan County, NC; Grand Opening SC Aquarium in Charleston, SC; North Charleston SC Arts Festival.
Professional

Melanie G. Harris
14 Charing Cross Rd
Charleston SC 29407
843-556-4639
mgharris@csuniv.edu
Teqch: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Poetry I love poetry and students.
Try to bring my love for words and skills to all levels of students. I also believe that it’s important to build confidence in students clearly afraid of the blank page. Aren’t we all?
MA, PhD in American Literature (specialization in creative writing). Thesis director: James Dickey
Two Academy of American Poets Awards; South Academy of Authors (2nd fellowship given; SC Fiction Project; The Devil’s Millhopper Prize in Poetry.
Professional

Francee Levin
2800 Knightsbridge Rd
Columbia SC 9223
803-788-1291
francee@bellsouth.net
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
All types of writing: reluctant writers’ program; storyteller - original, traditional and rhyming stories; actor-dialects & diction workshops.
Reluctant writers’ program makes all students writers, including resource and ESOL children. " Integrated programs combine theatre, storytelling and writing to encourage creativity, build confidence, increase writing, speaking, listening and presentation skills, while students think they are playing games and having fun.
Workshops (2 years) Artists in Classroom; Developing Strategies for Working with Students with Disabilities; Comprehensive Arts Integrative training, including Summer Institute.
Residency and performances, River Springs Elementary & Grove Elementary; Palmetto Center for the Arts Storyteller, Arts in America Festival; national and international writing awards; Writer-in-Residence, Gateway Program, Rollies Middle School of the Arts in Summerville, Fairfield Intermediate School.
Professional

Heather Magruder
4 Bridgewood Ave
Taylors SC 29687
864-322-0868
heathermm@charter.net
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Music: Celtic (bagpipes and bodhran); Literary: published in short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry & journalistic articles. Performances, workshops, and residencies are tailored to each audience and can include dramatic readings, Celtic music, integration into other subject areas, any genre of writing.
Tanglewood Arts Integration Training Institute 2003 & 2004; Working with Students with Disabilities Workshop 2003.
2004 Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open Winner; 2004 Women in Communications Matrix Award: Feature Article; 2004 Women in Communications Certificate of Achievement: Feature Article; 2003 Women in Communications Matrix Awards: Feature Article and Special Section.
Professional

Olive A. Meador
1905 Kendall St
Camden SC 29020
803-425-6553
olivelight@aol.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Healing arts: painting, poetry, music, movement, journaling, dream work, creating a safe space for personal and others to experience. Use the arts and creativity to facilitate healing and growth in various populations in our community. Create a safe space for myself or others to experience a deep level of engagement with creativity and self-expression.
Texas Christian University; graduate art courses at USC; certified lifestyle counselor; training with The Painting Experience.
Texas Women’s University: Book Arts; Gibbes, Charleston: 7 Women Invitational Hand Papermakers; Robert Scott Small’s Rarebooks Collection, College of Charleston; 2003 SCAC grant recipient for healing arts, supported in part by Mental Health Association and Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County.
Professional

Susan Meyers
PO Box 188
Summerville SC 29484
843-821-9283
BardOwl2@aol.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: No
Poet
Long-time writing instructor in schools and community programs; poetry chapbook Lessons in Leaving selected winner of 1998 Persephone Book Award; poetry and book reviews published in numerous literary journals; interactive workshops/classes and readings offered.
MFA in Creative Writing
MA in English
2004-05 Gibbes Museum of Art Poet-in-Residence, Charleston, SC, 2004 Featured Poet at Isothermal Community College Literary Festival, Spindale, NC. Poetry Fellowship, SC Academy of Authors, 1996.
Professional

Bruce Piephoff
808 Scott Ave
Greensboro NC 27403
336-852-7218
bpiephoff@aol.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Folk singer, songwriter and poet.
Native of Piedmont, NC has traveled the US performing on the folk circuit. Written over 1,000 songs and poems, produced 12 CD’s on Flyin’ Cloud Records and one book of poetry.
BA - English and MFA - Creative Writing - UNC-G.
New folk finalist 1994 at Kerrville Folk Festival; Kennedy Center performance; shared stage with Steve Forbert, Chuck Brodsky, Greg Allman, Riders in the Sky and Tom Paxton.
Professional

Poetry Alive!
20 Battery Park Ave, Ste 505
Asheville NC 28801
800-476-8172
poetry@poetryalive.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Performance poetry.
High energy poetry shows for all ages and audiences. Interaction to get students excited about poetry.
Have performed for over 20 years, reaching 6 million students in every state in the US as well as many foreign countries including Beijing, China most recently.
Professional

Glenis Redmond
131 Forest Hill Dr
Asheville NC 28803
828-258-8899
poetica11@aol.com
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Poet.
Recently published by Stanford University’s Black Arts Quarterly and Harlem’s African Voices. Chosen to present at workshops at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Vermont Studio Center studied with Linda Pastan; Atlantic Center for the Performing Arts studied with Susan Mitchell.
Carrie McRay Literary Award; William Matthews Scholarship; Best WNC Poet, 2003, 2002, 1997 and 1998.
Professional

Kay Roberson
400 Wildwood Ln
Lugoff SC 29078
803-438-9356
alkayr@nuvox.net
Teach: No
School Performances: Yes
Poet
Writing for 30 years.
Enjoy giving talks and reading aloud from collection of favorite Edna S. Vincent Millay. Have 3 books of poetry in print and contributed to 2 collections of local poets’ books. Self-taught. Enjoy sharing with others and assisting with poetic endeavors and enrichment. Master’s Degree in Education. Attend poetry classes, workshops, and seminars in journal writing, writing and reading poetry.
Featured poet at the 2004 12th Annual Lucidity Ozark Poetry Retreat in Eureka Springs, Arkansas; honored as Spotlighted Guest Contributor 2004 Lucidity Poetry Journal; honorable mention in numerous entries in poetry contests
Amateur

Nancy Roberts
3600 Chevington Rd
Charlotte NC 28226
704-364-4608
nrstory@bellsouth.net
Teach: Yes
School Performances: Yes
Author and storyteller.
In pirate costume, dramatically relates her own stories of Carolina buccaneers and ghosts.
Audiences listen wide-eyed to "The Tragedy of the Haile," Kershaw’s famous gold mine. Author of 25 books. On SCAC Arts Roster. Performs in schools, colleges, libraries, theatres, museums, and television.
Graduated University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (playmakers); graduate work at University of Miami, Florida.
American Association of State and Regional History Award; Great Western Writers Silver Spur Award; New York Times Selection 30 Books of the Year (Where Times Stood Still; A Portrait of Appalachia); Gold Medal Rocky Mountain Media Competition.
Professional

The Magic of African Rhythm
PO Box 14724
Raleigh NC 27620
919-790-2337
shabu@mindspring.com
Teach: No
School Performances: No
African Cultural Arts We weave the rhythmic thread that links drumming, singing, dancing, dramatic, and visual artistic expression to school curriculum and daily life.
Professional

Donna White
PO Box 903
Lancaster SC 29720
803-283-9300, cell 242-6657
dwhite@lcsd.k12.sc.us
Teach: No
School Performances: Yes
Storyteller for preschool through 5th grade children.
Tell stories in English and Spanish. Children’s favorites are read and acted out. Authors include Eric Carle, Marcus Pfister, Jan Brett, Ludwig Beleman, Ezra Keats, Steve A. Kellog, Janell Cannon, Michael Rosen and Dr. Seuss.
Work with the Hispanic population as interpreter. Bilingual presentation.
Performed at the Apollo Theater in New York in 1999; and performed at all elementary schools in Lancaster School District.
Professional