Faculty
Emma Chastain, Prose Fiction, holds a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Boston University and a Bachelor’s in English Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University. Her stories have won her a PEN New England Discovery Award in 2005, and she is the author of short books on research writing, grammar and style, and Shakespeare. Emma works as an editor in New York City, where she works with Barnes & Noble to choose writers for its Discover Great New Writers series. She was a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Boston University in 2006.
Rebekah Maggor, Playwriting, is Director of the Program in Speaking and Learning at the Derek Bok Center at Harvard University. She is a playwright, actress, and voice specialist. Her one-woman play, Shakespeare’s Actresses was recently featured at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, where she was a Playwriting Fellow. Her plays have been performed in at the New York Theatre Workshop and the Old Vic in London. She has worked as an actress with directors such as Peter Sellers, Anne Bogart, Andrei Serban, and Robert Woodruff. She is an Associate Editor of the International Dialects of English Archive and an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. Rebekah holds an MFA in Acting from the American Repertory Theatre and a Bachelor’s Degree in Drama and Theatre arts from Columbia University.
Daniel Bosch, Verse, is Director of the Writing Studio at Walnut Hill. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in Poetry, Slate, The New Republic, Partisan Review, Salt, Harvard Review (where he was Poetry Editor for two numbers), Literary Imagination, Agni, and many other journals. His poems riffing on the movies of Tom Hanks were awarded the first Boston Review Poetry Prize in 1998. Daniel holds a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Boston University and a Bachelor’s Degree from New College. His book Crucible was published by Handsel Books in 2002. This is his fourth season leading Walnut Hill Summer Writers abroad.
