Leslie Daniels’ first novel, Cleaning Nabokov’s House, has been published in translation in four languages. The novel, now under option for film, fights the good fight of being both literary and funny. Daniels’ stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications. Her background in publishing includes over a decade as a literary agent in New York, as well as serving as the fiction editor for Green Mountains Review. Leslie Daniels lives in Ithaca, New York. www.lesliedaniels.com
2021 Festival Day – Craft Talks
Janet Fitch is the bestselling author of White Oleander, an Oprah Book Club selection translated into 28 languages and made into a feature film; Paint it Black, also widely translated and adapted for the screen. Her most recent books are two epics of the Russian Revolution, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral. Her short stories appear in Los Angeles Noir and Palm Springs Noir, and a film of her noir story “The Method” has just wrapped. Long time faculty at the Community of Writers, Fitch hosts her popular Writing Wednesdays writing series on Facebook and Youtube. [F] www.janetfitchwrites.com
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Michelle Latiolais is Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine and Director of the Programs In Writing. She is the author of the novel Even Now which received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Her second novel, A Proper Knowledge, was published in 2008 by Bellevue Literary Press, as was Widow, a collection of stories, Involutions and essays, released in January 2011. She was released in May 2016 by W.W. Norton & Company. Recent work has appeared in ZYZYVVA and the Santa Monica Review.
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Patricia K. Meyer is a screenwriter/producer who has written eight feature adaptations for the major studios, including Paramount, Fox, Touchstone, Martin Scorsese, and Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Productions. She has written miniseries and movies-of-the-week for CBS and NBC, and created and sold a one-hour drama series at CBS. She also works as a story consultant specializing in the true crime genre and adaptation. She launched her producing career with the Emmy-nominated ABC 4-hour miniseries The Women of Brewster Place which starred Oprah Winfrey, and she went on to produce seven movies for network television. Along with Stacy Spruill, she leads the afternoon Adaptation class during the Writers Workshops.
Megan Fay Raveneau is a staff writer in the writers room for a yet-to-be-announced Netflix adult animation series, where she leads break-out room discussions on character and episode development. Prior to securing that much-coveted position, she wrote on staff for a Disney Junior television series. Megan also has worked as a freelance screenwriter for several years, developing and writing screenplays for various production companies. She also assisted in television development at the Blumhouse production company. After receiving her B.A. in Film Production from Brooklyn College, she earned her MFA in the Writing for the Screen Program at Loyola Marymount University.