Todd Marble, founder & Director

B.A. Colby; M.A. Trinity

Mr. Marble is Kent's Athletics Director and Director of Summer Programs, as well as a coach. Mr. Marble, who developed the Kent School Summer Writers Camp and has directed it since its inception in 1996, taught mathematics for seven years at Kingswood-Oxford School, where he was the third form master and served on the Admissions staff.  Mr. Marble is an avid outdoorsman and sports enthusiastic.

Ms. Bolus, in her eleventh year as the Camp's Academic Director, works with the Arthur Miller Literary and Dramatic Property Trust.  A play based on her collection of poems, Circus of Infinite Attractions, premiered Off Broadway at the International Fringe Festival.  Ms. Bolus also works with Inge Morath Foundation and co-curated the exhibit "Free to American Schools: Photography by Inge Morath."

Elana Bell, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, was selected as the winner of the 2004 Stephen Dunn Poetry Award.  She has been a featured reader at Hunter College, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, The Bowery Poetry Club, The WOW Cafe Theatre, Cornelia Street Cafe, and the Bronx Council on the Arts.  She has facilitated writing workshops for middle and high school students throughout the five boroughs of New York City as well as for women in prison and is Writer in Residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters.  Publications include:  Words & Images Magazine, Houston Poetry Festival Journal, Poetz.com, & two chapbooks:  Dreaming of Doorways and Name Carvings. 

Christine Palm has been a columnist for the Hartford Courant and contributing writer to several journals, including Readings, the quarterly for the Connecticut Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.  She also writes and reads her work on National Public Radio.  She teaches creative writing, journalism and film studies at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, a nationally recognized model of a magnet school collaborative.  A working poet, her poems have appeared in several journals, and she was a finalist for the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival.  She serves as president of the Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her essay writing.  She is mother of four boys and has been coaching Little League in Hartford, Connecticut for twenty years.  

Leigh Rader, in her seventh year at Kent Summer Camp, has taught writing, journalism and photography courses in independent schools in Rochester, New York and Litchfield, Connecticut.  She has also worked as a journalist in New York, Michigan and Connecticut.  She is chair of the English Department at the Norman Howard School and has helped to create a comprehensive writing curriculum for Norman Howard that incorporates strategies for students with learning differences and has also developed programs to teach writing instructors.  She also teaches at Bryant and Stratton College. 

(this page in process -- more soon . . . . )

Abena Koomson (who is on sabbatical for 2008) is a performer / poet and educator living in New York City.  She is a member of the louderARTS writing collective and the 2004 Slam Team which traveled to St. Louis for the National Poetry Slam.  She is managing director of Actors Stock Company NYC and starred in a production of Robeson in spring 2005.  She has been a member of the faculty at Winston Preparatory School for the past nine years.  Her one-woman show Cozi sa wala premiered Off Broadway and has been performed throughout New York City including in the Lincoln Center "Out of Doors" Festival.  Abena was Kent School Summer Writers Camp's Artist in Residence and facilitated the camp's Visiting Artist Program.