Past faculty
Emily Wilson
Poetry | 2003, 2007, 2009-2011, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2022 Emily Wilson is the author of The Keep, Micrographia, and The Great Medieval Yellows. Educated at Harvard University ...
Wendy Xu
Poetry | 2024 Wendy Xu is a poet, editor, and professor, most recently the author of The Past, published by Wesleyan in September 2021. Phrasis ...
Jenny Zhang
Fiction | Summer 2021 Jenny’s debut story collection, Sour Heart, conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American ...
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Charles Baxter
Fiction | 2012 Charles Baxter is the author of five novels, five collections of short stories, three collections of poems, and two collections ...
Dan Beachy-Quick
Poetry | 2010 Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of five books of poetry: Circle's Apprentice, North True South Bright, Spell, Mulberry ...
Josh Bell
Poetry | 2016; Summer 2016 Josh Bell has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University and is currently Briggs Copeland Lecturer on English ...
Suzanne Buffam
Poetry | 2016 Suzanne Buffam is the author of three collections of poetry, A Pillow Book (Canarium, 2016), The Irrationalist ...
Arda Collins
Poetry | 2012-2013 Arda Collins is the author of It Is Daylight, winner of the 2008 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Her poems ...
V.V. Ganeshananthan
Fiction | 2016 V.V. Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, is the author of the novel Love Marriage (Random House, 2008) ...
Michele Glazer
Poetry | 2013 Michele Glazer's books of poems are It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See (Pittsburgh, 1998) ...
Andrew Sean Greer
Fiction | 2012, 2013 Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Path of Minor ...
Allan Gurganus
Fiction | 2022 Allan Gurganus's books include, Local Souls, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Plays Well with Others, White People ...
Benjamin Hale
Fiction | 2016 Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve, 2011), and two new books of fiction ...
Ryan Harty
Fiction | 2012 Ryan Harty is the author of Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona. A Stegner fellow and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop ...
Michelle Huneven
Fiction | 2011 Michelle Huneven is the author of three novels: Blame, Jamesland, and Round Rock. Her nonfiction writings includes restaurant ...
T. Geronimo Johnson
Fiction | 2014-2015 T. Geronimo Johnson is the author of the novel, Hold It 'Til It Hurts, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award ...
Richard Kenney
Poetry | 2013-2014 Richard Kenney is the author of four books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero ...
Mark Leidner
Poetry | Summer 2015 Mark Leidner is the author of Beauty Was the Case They Gave Me (Factory Hollow, 2011) and The Angel in the Dream ...
Adam Levin
Fiction | 2016 Adam Levin is the author of the novel, The Instructions (2010), and the short story collection, Hot Pink (2012), both ...
Yiyun Li
Fiction | 2015 Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996 to pursue a PhD in immunology but stopped short to ...
Rebecca Makkai
Fiction | 2015 Rebecca Makkai is the author of the short story collection, Music for Wartime, published in June, 2015, and the novels ...
Dora Malech
Poetry | 2013, Summer 2014 Dora Malech is the author of two collections of poetry, Shore Ordered Ocean, published by the Waywiser Press ...
Joyelle McSweeney
Poetry | 2012-2013 Joyelle McSweeney is the author of two hybrid-genre novels: Flet, and Nylund, the Sarcographer. She is also the author of ...
Jane Mead
Poetry | 2016 Jane Mead is the author of five books of poetry, most recently World of Made and Unmade, and Money Money Money ...
Geoffrey Nutter
Poetry | 2011 Geoffrey Nutter is the author of four books of poems, The Rose of January, Christopher Sunset, Water's Leaves & Other Poems ...
Peter Orner
Fiction | 2011 Peter Orner is the author of the novels, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, and the story ...
Daniel Orozco
Fiction | 2013 Daniel Orozco's stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, as well as in magazines ...
Julie Orringer
Fiction | 2012 Julie Orringer is the author of The Invisible Bridge, a novel, and How to Breathe Underwater, a short story collection ...
ZZ Packer
Fiction | 2011 ZZ Packer is a graduate of Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop ...
Karen Russell
Fiction | 2014 Karen Russell is the author of three books of fiction, most recently, the story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove ...
Robyn Schiff
Poetry | 2010 Robyn Schiff is the author of the poetry collections Revolver (2008) and Worth (2002), both published by the University of ...
Brenda Shaughnessy
Poetry | 2015 Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet and editor. Her most recent book, Human Dark With Sugar (Copper Canyon, 2008) ...
F. Bennett Sims
Fiction | 2016 Bennett Sims is the author of the novel, A Questionable Shape, winner of the 2014 Bard Fiction Prize. Sims has ...
Rod Smith
Poetry | 2010 Rod Smith's latest collection, Deed, was published by the University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2007. He is also ...
Donna Stonecipher
Poetry | 2014 Donna Stonecipher is the author of The Reservoir and Souvenir de Constantinople. Her third book, The Cosmopolitan ...
Mary Szybist
Poetry | 2014 Mary Szybist is the author of two collections of poems, Granted (Alice James Books, 2003), a finalist for the ...
Craig Teicher
Poetry | 2015 Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of Brenda Is In The Room And Other Poems (Center for Literary Publishing, 2007) ...
Jonathan Thirkield
Poetry | 2012 Jonathan Thirkield is the author of The Waker's Corridor, winner of the 2008 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy ...