Board of Directors

Don Bachardy, President, is a painter and writer living in Santa Monica, California. His paintings are in the permanent collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the National Portrait Gallery in London and others. His books include Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood (Faber and Faber) and Stars in My Eyes (University of Wisconsin Press). He also co-edited Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He is the subject of two films: Stars in My Eyes (Terry Sanders producer) and Don and Chris (Guido Santi, Tina Mascara, Julia Scott, James White producers)

David Hockney is an internationally renowned painter whose works and biography are carefully discussed in the book David Hockney published by Prestel Verlag (2000). Hockney’s works have had major exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum and in many of the most prestigious museums worldwide.

James P. White, Vice President and Executive Director, is a novelist who lives in Montrose, Alabama. White's novels include Birdsong, California Exit, Clara's Call,The Ninth Car and The Persian Oven. He has been awarded Guggenheim and other fellowships. He formerly directed the Master's of Professional Writing at the University of Southern California. He was the Producer of the film Chris and Don.

Staff                    

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Director of Design and Technology, received his B.A. in Computer Science at Brown University, his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. He is also an artist and is represented by galleries in Austin and Arlington, Texas, and in Mobile, Alabama. He is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech and has over 40 refeered plublications in Computer Science and an article in the Associated Writing Program's Job List entitled, "Examining America's Commitment to Individual Artists."

Derek Riley is Assistant to the Director. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University.

Jonathan Schulte is Assistant to the Director and Assistant Editor of the Newsletter. A graduate of Texas State University, he played basketball for the University of Colorado and Texas State University. He recently published his first story.