Maureen Brady has published the novels Getaway, Ginger's Fire, Folly and Give Me Your Good Ear; a short story collection, The Question She Put to Herself; the nonfiction Daybreak: Meditations for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse; Beyond Survival, Midlife. Her essay, Raleigh Bonuses, appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, 2024. The short story, “Basketball Fever,” won the 2015 Saints and Sinners Short Story Contest. Another short story, "Fixing Uppers," was a finalist for the 2019 contest. Other published works include: "Billy's Mark," Bellevue Literary Review; “Joy Suit," Sinister Wisdom (Pushcart Prize nominee); memoir excerpt, Through the Lens of Frienship, Adrienne Rich, Sinister Wisdom;and a short story, "The Shock", Three Elements (Pushcart Prize nominee), 2019. Maureen teaches creative writing at NYU and The Peripatetic Writing Workshop.
Former students' books include: Arnine Cumsky Weiss, She Ain’t Heavy, Academy Chicago; Janet Goss, Perfect on Paper, New American Library; Helen Wan, The Partner Track, St. Martin’s; Susan Breen, The Fiction Class, St Martin’s; Heather Benedict, The Crysalis, Random House; Danielle Ofri, Singular Intimacies, Beacon; Ann Vachon, Intimate Strangers; Prix Roma winner Aaron Hamburger, Faith for Beginners and Hotel Cuba.
"What I remember is Maureen, trying to find what was needed for one of the writer's stories, leaning forward and reaching into the air. . . and finding it!" Jim Payton
“Maureen provides an environment that is equal parts nurturing and challenging. Her attention to detail, five-star copy editing and genuine enthusiasm for the written word have me coming back to her workshops year after year. Without her involvement, I doubt my book, Perfect on Paper, would have achieved publication." Janet Goss, New American Library
Peripatetic founder, Martha E. Hughes, is author of, Precious In His Sight (Viking/Penguin); two books of nonfiction; Editor of Letting Go: An Anthology of Attempts, Bacon Press, essays witten by Peripatetic & other writers. Her work is in the anthology, Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness (Random House), also in Bomb and Cosmopolitan.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Bennington College, founded the Peripatetic in 1991, served as Fiction Fellow, NY Writers' Summer Institute at Skidmore College & taught creative writing at New York University for 30 years. She has also taught at Hunter & Bronx Community colleges in New York City.
Editing clients include: Susie Abulhawa, author of award-winning best-sellers, Mornings in Jenin, The Blue Between Sky and Water and Under a Loveless Sky; Jeff Backhaus, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister, Algonquin; George Peter Farrell, The Education of Jamie Warum, Sinker; Peter Lopatin, stories in Commentary; Keith McDermott, Acqua Calda, Carroll & Graf; Michele Martinez, Most Wanted, Notorious in the Melanie Vargus thriller series, HarperCollins; S. Chris Shirley, Playing by the Book, Magnus Books; The Incontrovertibility of Rainbows - a 2048 novel, Anonymous, Lemage; Jhon Sanchez, "The Japanese Rice Cooker," Pushcart Prize nominee (Startling Sci-Fi, New Tales of the Beyond); Dennis James & Barbara Grossman's, Songs of the Baka: Travels After 65 (Skyhorse Pub.); Mitzi Dorton, Chief Corn Tassel, Finishing Line Press; Maria Ostrowski, The Bones of Hope, Claymore Award for Best Supernatural at Killer Fest, Nashville; Emily Tsokos Purtill, Matia, 2024, UWA, U of Australia imprint.
“....out of thousands of words, she circled the three that I myself was having trouble with, cementing my belief that she is, in fact, a mind reader. Martha understood my vision, & with a light but sure touch, she kept me on course. Most of all, and most enduring, she taught me to trust my instincts.”Jeff Backhaus, author, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister, Algonquin.
Charles Salzberg's latest novel, Man on the Run, won the New York City Big Book Award for Crime Fiction. He is a former magazine journalist (New York magazine, Esquire, The New York Times Book Review, NY Times Sunday Arts and Leisure section), and nonfiction book writer (From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, an oral history of the NBA, Soupy Sez: My Zany Life and Times with Soupy Sales, and On a Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place,Baseball’s 10 Worst Teams).
His first novel, Swann’s Last Song (and its series), was nominated for a Shamus Award. Second Story Man, also nominated for a Shamus, won the Beverly Hills Book Award. Suspense magazine named Devil in the Hole one of 2013's best crime novels. His short stories are in Mystery Tribune and in the anthologies Down to the River, and Lawyers, Guns and Money. He's published three novellas,Triple Shot, Three Strikes and Third Degree.
He’s been Visiting Professor of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and taught writing at Sarah Lawrence, the Writer’s Voice, Hunter. A founding member of NY Writers Workshop, he was formerly on the board of MWA-NY, NY Writers Resources and PrisonWrites.