Maryland Writers' Association: Writing When Everything's Going Wrong

Aaron Angello (Hood College professor, poet and essayist, actor, director) and Amy Gottfried (Hood College professor, fiction-writer, Creative Writing Program director) will talk about ways to carve writing time out of chaos.  

Aaron Angello directs the theatre program at Hood College and teaches courses in creative writing, modern and contemporary poetry, film and media, and drama. He is also creative director of the Endangered Species (theatre) Project and founder of the Frederick Shakespeare Festival. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals, and he is the editor of The Synergistic Classroom: Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting. His genre-defying book The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications was published in 2022 by Rose Metal Press.

Amy Gottfried directs the Creative Writing concentration at Hood College and advises the undergraduate literary magazine, Wisteria. She teaches courses in environmental writing, advanced fiction, and American literature, and has twice earned Hood’s Excellence in Teaching award. Her short fiction has appeared in Passager, Glimmer Train, Adirondack Review, Blunderbuss, and Brain, Teen. Awards include Blunderbuss’s 2015 Best Stories and Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open, Family Matters, and Short Short Fiction contests. Professor Gottfried is currently working on her third novel and short story collection.