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Instructors
Sarah Heston has won awards from the Georgetown Review, Writers' Workshop, Confluence, the Academy of American Poets, and Summer Literary Seminars. She has also been published by Reed, Georgetown Review, Confluence, Poetry Midwest, Daybreak, the Northridge Review and The Minnesota River Review. She received her MFA from UC Irvine in 2003. She has taught for Seattle Central and University of California Irvine. Sarah now lives in Seattle and is completing a collection.
Sam Leader has three passports (British, American, French) and sounds distinctly English. He received his BA in Philosophy from Oxford University in 2000 and his MFA in Fiction from UC Irvine in 2005, where he was awarded the Arlene Cheng Fellowship for Creative Writing, the ICWT Travel Grant, the Humanities Research Grant and the 2004 Award for Outstanding Teaching in the MFA Programs in Writing. He has taught creative writing, literature and composition at UC Irvine since 2002, where he continues to work as a lecturer in the composition department. He has worked as an editor and features writer for several English magazines, including Smarthouse and Global Adventure. His novel in progress is set in France during World War Two, and is loosely inspired by characters and events in his own family. Both as a reader and as a writer, his taste in fiction is eclectic: he is devoted above all to the specifics of the text and the subject. He spends his free time cooking elaborate meals and wandering around the countryside of Southern California.
A professional travel and adventure guide since 1991, David Page has led dogsled tours in the Maroon Bells Wilderness, luxury cycling tours in France and Spain, and dinosaur digs in Argentine Patagonia. He has written and produced television documentaries for Bravo and the Discovery Channel. He wrote the feature-length Chilean cult classic Last Call, starring Peter Coyote and Elizabeth Berkley--an effort Variety called "a drunken wheeze of a movie" (not yet available on Netflix). He has a BA in Western History from Dartmouth College, a Master's in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine, where he was awarded the MacDonald Harris Prize in Fiction. He has taught creative writing and literary journalism at UC Irvine and at the Art Institute of Los Angeles. When he's not teaching or writing or otherwise defending his family from a burgeoning population of non-native tree squirrels, David is likely to be bouncing across a dirt road somewhere in the Mojave or Sonora deserts.
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