​Jack Bachmann lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has appeared in ÖMËGÄ, micro /MACRO, and Tagvverk among other places, including two chapbooks, Dayglo and Soft Static Crushes. ​

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Jack is founding staff & Associate Director at Kettle Pond.

Deirdre Coyle is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, The New Republic, The Texas Observer, Hobart Pulp, and elsewhere. She works as an editor at a fintech company, and writes a monthly column on videogames for Unwinnable. Originally published by Electric Literature, her essay, “Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me,” caused a lot of people to get mad at her online before being named one of Bustle’s Best Stories by Women in 2017, translated into Italian for Corriere della Sera, and anthologized in several collections. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, the Kerouac Project, and the Antioch Writers’ Workshop. At five years old, she received a Women’s Equality Day Award from the National Organization for Women, but that’s a long story.

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Deirdre is founding staff, Digital Media Director & Resident Goth at Kettle Pond.

A. Harding is currently on the faculty at a girls' boarding school, where she teaches everything from classics to contemporary novels. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cornell University, specializing in 20th Century Fiction & Architecture. She previously worked for the Colgate Writers' Conference for nine years.

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A. is founding staff & Deputy Director at Kettle Pond.

Greta Hovland has over twenty years of experience in event management, customer service, and the food & beverage industry. Until 2023, Greta served as Project Manager & General Manager for Sodexo at Paul Smith’s College, where she oversaw both internal and outside events calendars for the college, all dining operations, and an extensive dining hall renovation. Previously, Greta has served as Alumni & Events Manager at North Country School, Food & Beverage Operations Manager at High Peaks Resort, and Sales Manager at the Lake Placid Lodge, among other roles. Greta holds a degree in Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management from Paul Smith’s College. Her hobbies include jam- and pickle-making, for which is a legend in multiple states. She lives in Bloomingdale, New York.

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Greta is Local Coordinator & Operations Advisor at Kettle Pond.

Ashley Mayne's work has appeared in Fence, Post Road, Juked, Northwest Review, Peripheries, Blight Podcast, Metambesen, and elsewhere. She is the author of novels Mankiller (2014 Dr. Cicero Books), and Tiger (2015), edits fiction for Fence, curates two reading series in the Hudson Valley, and works on an organic farm. 

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Ashley is founding staff & visiting faculty at Kettle Pond.

Andy Tran is a multi-genre writer born in Piscataway, NJ, raised in the DMV. He has received residencies and fellowships from Barrelhouse, The Inner Loop, and Kettle Pond Writers’ conference. He used to be a co-host on the Textual Healing Podcast with Mallory Smart. He earned runner-up at the DVAN-TTUP Memoir Contest. He makes Spotify playlists religiously. In his spare time, he spins on his decks. He is currently working on a novel called Tense. Some of his work experience includes: camp counselor/tennis teacher at a Summer Camp, where he won Camp Counselor of the week for three weeks in a row, new and used car salesman at a dealership, and writing consultant at American University’s Writing Center. 

 

His selected published writing can be found here.

Before founding Kettle Pond, [Ginnie] worked for a writers’ conference in Central New York for ten years. She went to college, and holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana. Her resume outside the writing world includes work at a little league snack bar, weighing trucks, packing produce, refereeing flag football, reading mail for the ACLU of Washington State, as a landscaper, a security guard at a children’s drug manufacturer, pro ski patrol at a Class A avalanche resort, Head Intern at The Onion in the MySpace era, and as a bartender.

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Virginia is grateful to this community for the opportunity to write in their company and, always, for the incredible, often invisible, life-changing work of everyone listed on this page for creating the Conference at Kettle Pond, and all that came before it. Thank you, KP Crew.