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Lan Samantha Chang
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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'; 'All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost'; and 'The Family Chao' ...
Jamel Brinkley

Jamel Brinkley

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Fiction | Jamel Brinkley is the author of 'Witness: Stories' (2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/4th Estate), winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award, and ...
Kevin Brockmeier

Kevin Brockmeier

Title/Position
Visiting Professor
Fall 2025
Fiction | 2005, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 In addition to his latest book, 'The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories', Kevin Brockmeier is the author of ...
Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fall 2025
Poetry | 2025 Julian Talamantez Brolaski is a poet and country musician, the author of 'Of Mongrelitude' (Wave Books 2017), 'Advice for Lovers' (City Lights 2012), and ...
Ethan Canin

Ethan Canin

Title/Position
Professor
Fiction | Ethan Canin, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Collegiate Fellow, is the author of seven books of fiction, among them the novels, 'A Doubter's Almanac'; 'America, America'; and 'Carry Me Across ...
Portrait of Tom Drury

Tom Drury

Title/Position
Visiting Professor
Fall 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 ...
Farnoosh Fathi

Farnoosh Fathi

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Spring 2026
Poetry | 2026 Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collections 'Great Guns' (Canarium 2013) and 'Granny Cloud' ...
Cristina Henríquez

Cristina Henríquez

Title/Position
Visiting Associate Professor
Fall 2025
Fiction | 2025 Cristina Henríquez is the author of 'The Great Divide', 'The Book of Unknown Americans', 'The World In Half', and 'Come Together, Fall Apart' ...
Kai Ihns

Kai Ihns

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Spring 2026
Poetry | 2026 Kai Ihns is the author of two books of poems, Of (The Elephants/Fonograf Editions, 2024), and sundaey (Propeller Books, 2020), as ...
Jack Saebyok Jung

Jack Saebyok Jung

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Spring 2026
Poetry | 2026 Jack Saebyok Jung is a poet, translator, and educator whose creative practice navigates the intersections of literature, technology, and identity ...
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 Emeritus
Fiction | Margot Livesey is the author of nine novels, most recently, 'The Road from Belhaven', published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2025, as well as ...
Portrait of Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado

Title/Position
Visiting Associate Professor
Fall 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 ...
Margaret Ross

Margaret Ross

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Poetry | Margaret Ross is the author of 'A Timeshare'. Her poems and translations have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris ...
James F. Thomas

James Frankie Thomas

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Spring 2026
Fiction | 2026 James Frankie Thomas is a writer based in New York City. His first novel, 'Idlewild', was published in 2023 ...
Portrait of Tony Tulathimutte

Tony Tulathimutte

Title/Position
Visiting Associate Professor
Spring 2026
Fiction | 2020, 2026 Tony Tulathimutte’s novel 'Private Citizens' was called “the first great millennial novel” by 'New York Magazine'. A ...
Portrait of Elizabeth Willis

Elizabeth Willis

Title/Position
Professor
Poetry | Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book is 'Liontaming in America' (New Directions, 2024). Her previous books of poetry include 'Alive: New ...
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