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We are proud to have Terry Gross, Award-winning host of Fresh Air on NPR, as our Keynote Speaker!
Terry Gross
Award-winning Host of National Public Radio’s Fresh Air
As the host of Fresh Air, NPR’s weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, Terry Gross’s interviews are heard by more than four and a half million people on nearly 500 public radio stations. Her guests have included many of the most celebrated artists, writers, actors, and musicians of our time, such as Philip Roth, James Brown, John Travolta, and Sonny Rollins. Gross is known for her thoughtful, probing interview style. In her trusted company, even the most reticent guest relaxes and reflects on his or her life and work. But Gross doesn’t shy away from controversy or asking challenging questions. That’s why Bill O’Reilly terminated his interview with her. In her speaking engagements, Terry Gross plays sound bites from interviews that went especially well and especially badly, to illustrate her discussion of interviewing techniques. Then she does something else that she never does on her program — she talks about her own life and career, giving the audience a chance to interview her.
Terry Gross began hosting and producing Fresh Air in 1975, when it was a local program broadcast by WHYY in Philadelphia. NPR has distributed the daily program since 1987, and it is now NPR’s most listened-to program, after Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Terry Gross’s book All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists was published by Hyperion in 2004. In 1994, Fresh Air received a Peabody Award, which cited Gross for her “probing questions and unusual insights.” In 1999, America Women in Radio and Television gave Gross a Gracie Award in the category National Network Radio Personality. In 2003, Gross received the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, for advancing the “growth, quality and positive image of radio.” Her other awards include the National Book Foundation’s 2007 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
2010 PRESENTERS
Keynote Lecture
Terry Gross
Distinguished Lecture
Glen Adamson
New Work
Leigh Taylor Mickelson
Justin Novak
Linda Huey
Brian Benfer
Closing Lecture
Malcolm Davis
Demonstrators
Kari Radasch
Richard Shaw
Matthew Metz
Judy Fox
Lecturers/Moderators/Panelists
Jake Allee
Linda Arbuckle
Deborah Bedwell
Margaret Bohls
Steven Branfman
John Britt
Glen Brown
Lisa Brown
Sam Chung
Garth Clark
Jody Clowes
Kelly Connole
Ben Culbertson
Chad Curtis
Val Cushing
Sharbani Das Gupta
Helen Drutt
David East
Leslie Ferrin
Angela Fina
David Finkelnburg
Lisa Floryshak-Windman
Maris Gillette
Gillett Griffin
Jim Gubernick
Brian Harper
Rebecca Harvey
Fred Herbst
Alisa Holen
Matthew Hyleck
Christy Johnson
Garth Johnson
Jonathan Kaplan
Matthew Katz
Jo Lauria
James Makins
Andrew Martin
Brian Meunier
Maureen Mills
Annette Monnier
Gregg Moore
Matthew Partington
John Perreault
Kelly Phelps
Kyle Phelps
Jeanne Quinn
Benjamin Schulman
Judith Schwartz
Erik Scollon
Ezra Shales
Anat Shiftan
Forrest Snyder
Jenni Sorkin
Chris Staley
Liz Stewart
Shannon Sullivan
Judith Tannenbaum
Jack Thompson
Steven Thurston
Philip Tinari
Richard Torchia
Xavier Toubes-Vilarino
Nancy Utterback
Monica Van den Dool
Julia Whitney
Errol Willett
Robert Winokur
Becky Young
Isaiah Zagar
Jeff Zamek
I worked as a volunteer this year and will do that for all future conferences I attend. Volunteering was a fantastic experience!
— 2008 Conference attendee