Megan McNamer - Administrative Director
Megan McNamer, Administrative Director for the Missoula Writing Collaborative, has an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Washington. She worked at a refugee resettlement center and taught World Music at the University of Montana before devoting her time to literary pursuits. Her essays have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Salon, The Sun, Northern Lights, Islands, Tropic, Trips, and in several anthologies, and her film, theater, and art reviews have appeared regularly in the Montana press.
Sheryl Noethe - Artistic Director
Sheryl Noethe is both Artistic Director and a writer-in-residence for the Missoula Writing Collaborative. She is co-author of the teaching text Poetry Everywhere, reviewed in Kliatt and English Journal as an informative and tremendously valuable resource for teaching poetry, now in its third printing. A recipient of a Montana Arts Council Fellowship, she also has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the CutBank Hugo Prize in Poetry, the Emerging Voices Award from New Rivers Press, a McKnight Prize for Literature, and an American Academy of Poetry Award, as well as an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. She is a recipient of a 2004 Cultural Achievement Award from the Missoula Cultural Council for her work in Missoula schools. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, and she has published two collections of poetry, The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake (New Rivers Press, 1984) and Ghost Openings (Grace Court Press, 2000), which won a Northwest Publisher's Best Book Award. Her latest collection, As Is, will be published by Lost Horse Press in 2009. She teaches at Hellgate Middle School for the Missoula Writing Collaborative.
Megan McNamer, Administrative Director for the Missoula Writing Collaborative, has an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Washington. She worked at a refugee resettlement center and taught World Music at the University of Montana before devoting her time to literary pursuits. Her essays have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Salon, The Sun, Northern Lights, Islands, Tropic, Trips, and in several anthologies, and her film, theater, and art reviews have appeared regularly in the Montana press.
Sheryl Noethe is both Artistic Director and a writer-in-residence for the Missoula Writing Collaborative. She is co-author of the teaching text Poetry Everywhere, reviewed in Kliatt and English Journal as an informative and tremendously valuable resource for teaching poetry, now in its third printing. A recipient of a Montana Arts Council Fellowship, she also has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the CutBank Hugo Prize in Poetry, the Emerging Voices Award from New Rivers Press, a McKnight Prize for Literature, and an American Academy of Poetry Award, as well as an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. She is a recipient of a 2004 Cultural Achievement Award from the Missoula Cultural Council for her work in Missoula schools. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, and she has published two collections of poetry, The Descent of Heaven Over the Lake (New Rivers Press, 1984) and Ghost Openings (Grace Court Press, 2000), which won a Northwest Publisher's Best Book Award. Her latest collection, As Is, will be published by Lost Horse Press in 2009. She teaches at Hellgate Middle School for the Missoula Writing Collaborative.