Faculty

Portrait of Lan Samantha Chang

Lan Samantha Chang

Title/Position
Program Director
Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts
Fiction | Lan Samantha Chang is the author of a collection of short fiction, Hunger, and three novels, Inheritance, and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, and The Family Chao ...
Ari Banias

Ari Banias

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Spring 2025
Poetry | 2025 Ari Banias is the author of A Symmetry, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans & Gender Variant Literature, and Anybody, both from W. W. Norton ...
Portrait of Jamel Brinkley

Jamel Brinkley

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Fiction | Jamel Brinkley’s short story collection, A Lucky Man, won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for ...
Portrait of Ethan Canin

Ethan Canin

Title/Position
F. Wendell Miller Professor of English and Creative Writing
Fiction | Ethan Canin is the author of seven books of fiction, among them the novels, A Doubter's Almanac, America, America and Carry Me Across ...
Anthony Cody

Anthony Cody

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fall 2024
Poetry | 2024 Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), and The Rendering (Omnidawn, 2023). He is a 2022 Whiting winner, 2021 American Book Award winner ...
Portrait of Charles D'Ambrosio

Charles D'Ambrosio

Title/Position
Professor
Fiction | Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of two books of fiction, The Point and Other Stories and The Dead Fish Museum, and two collections ...
Portrait of Tom Drury

Tom Drury

Title/Position
Visiting Professor
Spring 2025
Fiction | 2019-2023, 2025 Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His novels ...
Portrait of Abby Geni

Abby Geni

Title/Position
Visiting Associate Professor
Fall 2024
Fiction | 2019-2022, 2024 Abby Geni is the author of the novels The Wildlands and The Lightkeepers, as well as a short story collection, The Last ...
Portrait of Mark Levine

Mark Levine

Title/Position
Professor
Poetry | Mark Levine is the author of five books of poems, most recently Sound Fury (2022), as well as Debt (1993), Enola Gay (2000), The Wilds (2006) ...
Portrait of Margot Livesey

Margot Livesey

Title/Position
Professor
Fiction | Margot Livesey is the author of nine novels, most recently, The Boy in the Field, published by HarperCollins in 2020, as well as ...
Portrait of Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado

Title/Position
Visiting Associate Professor
Spring 2025
Fiction | 2021, 2023, 2025 Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection ...
Portrait of Tracie Morris

Tracie Morris

Title/Position
Professor
Poetry | Tracie Morris is a writer/editor of several books and is a poet, professor, performer, voice teacher and theorist. She has presented her work ...
Portrait of Margaret Ross

Margaret Ross

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fall 2024
Poetry | 2022, 2024 Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare. Her poems and translations have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris ...
Portrait of Elizabeth Willis

Elizabeth Willis

Title/Position
Professor
Poetry | Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book is Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), which was a finalist for 2016 Pulitzer ...
Ada Zhang

Ada Zhang

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fall 2024
Fiction | 2024 Ada Zhang's short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. The Sorrows of Others, her first story collection ...
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