Sands Hall’s recent memoir is called FLUNK. START: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology (Counterpoint Press). She is also the author of the novel Catching Heaven, a Random House Reader’s Circle selection; and of a book of writing essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer’s Craft. Her short fiction has appeared in such journals as New England Review, The Iowa Review, and Green Mountains Review. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she holds a second M.F.A. in Theatre Arts and is a playwright and a singer/songwriter. Sands is an associate teaching professor of English and creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College. This is the twenty-sixth summer she has taught for the Festival.