Faculty
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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 ...
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 ...
Jamel Brinkley
Title/Position
Associate 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tom Drury
Title/Position
Visiting Professor
Summer 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 ...
Evan James
Title/Position
Visiting Associate Professor
Summer 2025
Fiction | Summer 2025 Evan James is the author of I’ve Been Wrong Before: Essays and Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe: A Novel. Evan is an award-winning ...
Afabwaje Kurian
Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Summer 2025
Fiction | Summer 2025 Afabwaje Kurian is the author of the novel Before the Mango Ripens, which was longlisted ...
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) ...
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 ...
Claire Lombardo
Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Summer 2025
Fiction | Summer 2025 Claire Lombardo's debut novel, The Most Fun We Ever Had, was an instant New York Times bestseller and ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
Every year The Writers' Workshop invites visiting distinguished writers to teach workshops and seminars for the graduate program. These faculty also work with students as thesis advisors and often become long-term friends, mentors, and resources.