NPWP: About US

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Committee Members

 

 

Rosi Finlayson

 Some of the best stories come from real life situations and may sound unbelievable.   Since most people don’t like to face the realities of human behavior we allow our stories to be called fiction and tell them anyway.

 

 

 

 

Beth Winschuh

Always write in ink and never tear a page.

 

 

 

Kathy Kilker

 

 

 

 

Paula Schmeltz

 

 

Site Leaders

Lesliee Antonette

 

Emily Cantilina 

  • Program Coordinator

  • High School Teacher of English and Theatre on Leave as a FT Mommy

  • Teacher Consultant Leader, 2005 NPWP Cohort

  • Certified Canoeing Instructor

I write the way I paint a mural: I plan, pick up the brush, and let the art refine the plan-- transform it, evolve it, destroy it. Writing is this symphony of premeditation and spontaneity.

 

 

 

 

Kathleen Dekmar

  • Teacher Consultant Leader,  2005 NPWP Cohort

  • Middle School Reading and Writing teacher, Pleasant Valley Intermediate School, Kresgeville, PA

  • M.A.T. Margrove College

 Every piece of writing is a work of self-reflection, expression and perception.  Teaching writing is not only my passion, but my responsibility to teach children to find their voice and place in today's and tomorrow's society.

 

 

 

 

 

Karen Jackson Petersen

  • Tech Liaison and Information Dissemination

  • Teacher Consultant Leader, 2005 NPWP Cohort

  • High School English Teacher, Pocono Mountain East High School

  • Literary Magazine Advisor

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Marmo

  • English Teacher at East Stroudsburg High School North

 

 

 

·      Co-Director

·      Full Professor of Multicultural American Literature

·      Ph.D. from University of California, Riverside

·      Seven Generations American Indian Festival Coordinator

Academic writing is like wrestling an alligator.  Come join me.

Susanne Rasely-Philipps

·      Co-Director

·      High School Teacher of English and Spanish at East Stroudsburg H.S. South

·      Adjunct Professor, Foreign Language Department, East Stroudsburg University

·      M.Ed. East Stroudsburg University

·      Straight-Jacket Candidate 

Writing for me is like breathing—both are necessary, daily, and sometimes labored.

What is the NPWP?

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Writing Project (NPWP) at ESU is a branch of the National Writing Project. The NPWP is committed to exploring issues of diversity as they relate to teachers as well as students and the ways in which writing and the teaching of writing can facilitate personal and academic growth for teachers and students.

Each summer, the NPWP hosts a four-week, intensive summer invitational, for teachers interested in exploring ways in which writing, teaching writing, and engaging diversity can facilitate success for ALL teachers and students.   

   

Lucy Stanovick

·      Director

·      Assistant Professor of Secondary English, East Stroudsburg University

·      Ph.D. University of Missouri, Columbia

·      Assistant Co-Director of Missouri Writing Project (1996—2002)

I grew up in Pennsylvania but spent the last 13 years in Missouri.  Writing for me always feels like a process of starting over but starting each time from a different place.