Ken Atchity

With more than thirty years experience in the publishing world, and over ten years in entertainment, Ken Atchity is a writer, producer, teacher, and literary manager, responsible for launching dozens of books and films. Based on his own teaching and writing experience, he has successfully built bestselling careers for novelists, nonfiction writers, and screenwriters from the ground up. Now, as chairman and CEO of Atchity Editorial/Entertainment International, Inc., Ken is maximizing his entrepreneurial skills to provide a one-stop full-service management machine for commercial and literary writers by building their presence on the Web, promoting their books and careers through public relations, media management, and speaking engagements, selling their books to publishers, and producing motion pictures and television films of client screenplays, novels, and nonfiction books.

Ken was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, where he attended St. Francis Xavier grade school, Rockhurst High School (where he was editor in chief of The Prep News), and was founder and editor of the St. Elizabeth young teen newspaper The Rumble. After receiving K.C.'s Mnookin-Brown American Legion writing fellowship, Ken left K.C. on an Ignatian Scholarship to Georgetown University.

• After undergraduate work at Georgetown (A.B., English/Classics; Virgilian Academy Medal; editor, The Hoya, published in Georgetown Journal, Courier, and Viewpoint--
  
  
• Ken received his M.Phil. in Theater History and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale (Porter Prize for his dissertation, "Homer's Iliad: The Song and Shield of Memory," teaching assistant to Eric Segal of Mass Communications, Richard Ellman, Davis Harding).
  
  
• He served as professor and chairman of comparative literature and creative writing at Occidental College (Faculty Achievement Award; published articles, reviews, short stories, and poems in major journals and magazines throughout the world).
  
  
• Received awards and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation
  
  
• Editor of CQ: Contemporary Quarterly: Poetry and Art
  
  
• Co-founder and -editor (with Marsha Kinder of Dreamworks: An Interdisciplinary Journal Devoted to the Relationship between Dreams and the Arts (authors published and/or advisory board included Joyce Carol Oates, Ursula Leguin, Ernest Cardenal, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Paul Bowles, John Fowles, Hubert Selby, John Rechy, Stephen King, Georges Simenon, Carlos Fuentes, Eugene Ionesco).
  
  
• Served as Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Bologna
  
  
• Distinguished Instructor, UCLA Writers Program
  
  
• Regular columnist-reviewer for The Los Angeles Times Book Review (involved in establishing the Los Angeles Times Book Awards)
  
  
• Vice-president of P.E.N. Los Angeles
  
  
• Ken has made numerous radio and television appearances, speaking on creativity, dreams, and various academic and entertainment and publishing related subjects.
  
  
• He wrote and served as on-camera talent for Synapse Technology's "Columbus: The Voyage of Discovery," and consulted for the Discovery Channel's series, "The Power of Dreams."
  
  
• Several of Ken's screenplays are currently under option.

• Afro-American Urban Center
• Association for the Study of Dreams
• The Book Bridge
• California Arts Council
• CASE Institute
• Freshhh! Orange Juice
• The Getty Museum
• The Joyce Gary Report
• The Learning Annex
• Los Angeles Times Book Review
• Mark Taper Forum
• Mitchell Oil & Petroleum
• Pasadena Unified School District, Research and Teacher Education (RATE) Project
• Ripley Entertainment
• SignaturesCelebrities and SignaturesNetwork
• U.S. Postal Service
• Getty Museum
• University of Houston, Continuing Education

• CASE Institute (San Diego)
• Romantic Times Convention (New York City)
• Deep South Writers Conference (Lafayette, Louisiana)
• Southwest Writers Conference (Albuquerque)
• Austin Writers League Conference
• Florida Bar Association (Miami)
• The Learning Annex (Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Toronto)
• Honolulu Writers Conference
• American Writers Conference
• Southwest Writers Conference (Houston)
• Dallas Writers Conference
• Loyola Writers Conference (Los Angeles)
• Open University (Minneapolis)
• University of California (Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Diego)
• California State University (Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Dominguez Hills)
• Georgetown University
• University of Houston
• University of Texas (Dallas)
• Rico University
• Villanova
• Swarthmore
• Avila Writers Conference (Kansas City)
• University of Missouri (Kansas City)
• Women in Film (Hollywood)
• Women's National Book Association (New York)
• WOW (Baltimore)

• Who's Who in America
• Contemporary Authors
• Directory of American Scholars
• Who's Who in California
• Who's Who in the West
• International Who's Who in Poetry