Hadia Bakkar '20 hbakkar@skidmore.edu Award-winning authors mentor students and present free public readings and discussions during the four-week program. Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:13:52 -0800 Arts,Current Students,Faculty,summer,special programs, Caryl Phillips, one of the visiting writers at this summer's New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore, is the author of many books of fiction and nonfiction. His novel "Dancing In The Dark" (2005) was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.