
To help bring a story to life he will often incorporate the use of puppets and marionettes in his presentations. In addition to being a 50-year veteran and teacher of the yodeling arts, he is also a storyteller with a special focus on forgotten history. As a licensed auctioneer, he likes to give back to the community by donating his services to a variety of charitable fund-raising events. Originally from Nashville, Tenn., he has lived in Central Ohio for 46 years. at Columbus State Community College for 25 years.

He is a graduate of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where he studied architecture and industrial technology and has taught as an adjunct faculty member in the Engineering Technology Dept. Hinds (born 1953) is a registered architect in Ohio and New York and a retired Project Manager for the City of Columbus, Dublin Road Water Plant. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was published by Catapult in North America and Scribner in the UK.Ĭonrade C. Last year they served as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan and they are currently an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. They have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine, and graphic fiction for The Believer, Lenny Letter, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. Their fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, The Paris Review, One Story, and VQR.

Lydia Conklin (they/them) has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a Creative Writing Fellowship from Emory University, work-study and tuition scholarships from Bread Loaf, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, the James Merrill House, and elsewhere.
