Fred Poole

Fred Poole is the founder and co-director of the Authentic Writing Workshops.  For over thirty years Fred Poole was a writer and journalist traveling throughout the world into dangerous territories – from Haiti to Laos, from Beirut to Angola, from Bangkok to Cuba – and writing about it. During these years he published over a dozen books, including a novel Where Dragons Dwell (Harper) and the exposé, Revolution in the Philippines: The U.S. in a Hall of Cracked Mirrors (McGraw-Hill).

In the mid-eighties, responding to a persistent sense of dissatisfaction, Poole allowed his life to take a more spontaneous and introspective turn. His explorations led him into years as an art student in New York City followed by progressive theological studies and a master’s degree at Boston College.

Drawing from his most meaningful experiences as a writer, teacher, artist, and seeker, Fred Poole created the Authentic Writing Workshops in 1993. Since that time he has led workshops every week both in Woodstock and New York City, offered programs in colleges and retreat centers throughout the Northeast, performed his work on stage - and writes almost daily about writing and life at FredPooleOnWriting.blogspot.com.