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The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference was founded in 1926 by poet Robert Frost, seen here third from the left in an archival photo of conference staff members from August 1960. (photo \/ courtesy of Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, Vermont)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Poet Jennifer Grotz, a professor of English, has been named the next director of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conferences.<\/a><\/strong> The first woman to hold the position, Grotz will be the seventh director of the oldest American conference for writers.<\/p>\n

Established in 1926, Bread Loaf was conceived of by poet Robert Frost and first led by John Farrar, founder of the publishing company Farrar, Straus and Giroux. From its legendary main conference\u2014the Writers\u2019 Conference, held each August near Bread Loaf Mountain in the Green Mountains of Vermont\u2014the program has expanded to encompass a cluster of related gatherings: the Translators\u2019 Conference, the Orion Environmental Writers\u2019 Conference, and the Bread Loaf in Sicily Conference.<\/p>\n

What’s it like to be at Bread Loaf? Jennifer Grotz explains<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n

Grotz is the author of four volumes of poetry\u2014including The Needle<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin, 2011) and Window Left Open<\/em> (Graywolf Press, 2016)\u2014and has published poems in The New Yorker<\/em>, New England Review, Ploughshares, <\/em>and American Poetry Review<\/em>, among other publications. She\u2019s also a literary translator, with two books translated from French\u2014Rochester Knockings<\/em> (Open Letter Books, 2015) and Psalms of All My Days<\/em> (Carnegie Mellon, 2013)\u2014and other translations from French and Polish, published in a variety of journals and anthologies.<\/p>\n

In the spring, Grotz was named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, one of just 11 poets to be recognized among this year\u2019s honorees.<\/p>\n

Unlike more solitary writers\u2019 retreats, Bread Loaf is focused on community, drawing together a diverse array of writers. Workshops in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction are its core, and participants also meet with visiting editors, literary agents, and publishers. Frost took part in the original conference for 42 years. Other notable attendees and faculty have included Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, Truman Capote, John Irving, Julia Alvarez, and Toni Morrison.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Grotz (University photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A regular participant, Grotz went to Bread Loaf for the first time in 1995, as a graduate student who paid her way by waiting tables in the conference dining room. She became the assistant director in 2005. Her appointment as director follows a national search; she\u2019ll assume the position with the October retirement of poet Michael Collier, who has been director for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

The conference for translators is the newest addition to the Bread Loaf program, created in 2014 under Grotz\u2019s management.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe experience of building the Translators\u2019 Conference from the ground up, developing innovative ways to adapt the writing workshop to literary translation, and creating a conference that fosters both training and community have all invigorated my interest in taking on more responsibility, artistic direction, and leadership of the conferences,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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