Fiction

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 ...
David Owen headshot

D. Wystan Owen

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Spring 2024
Fiction | 2024 D. Wystan Owen is the author of Other People's Love Affairs: Stories (Algonquin Books), named a Best Book of 2018 by Amazon and The Washington ...
Portrait of ZZ Packer

ZZ Packer

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fiction | 2011 ZZ Packer is a graduate of Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop ...
Portrait of Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li

Title/Position
Visiting Professor
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 ...
Portrait of Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fiction | 2022 Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her debut novel, Homegoing, won her the National ...
Portrait of V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fiction | V.V. Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, is the author of the novel Love Marriage (Random House, 2008) ...
Portrait of Tony Tulathimutte

Tony Tulathimutte

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fiction | Summer 2020 Tony Tulathimutte’s novel Private Citizens was called “the first great millennial novel” by New York Magazine. A ...
Portrait of T. Geronimo Johnson

T. Geronimo Johnson

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
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 ...
Ryan Harty

Ryan Harty

Title/Position
Visiting Associate Professor
Fiction | 2012 Ryan Harty is the author of Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona. A Stegner fellow and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop ...
Portrait of Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai

Title/Position
Visiting Associate Professor
Fiction | 2015 Rebecca Makkai is the author of the short story collection, Music for Wartime, published in June, 2015, and the novels ...
Portrait of Prageeta Sharma

Prageeta Sharma

Title/Position
Visiting Professor
Poetry | 2017 Prageeta Sharma is the author of Bliss to Fill (Subpress Collective, 2000), The Opening Question (Fence Books ...
Peter Orner

Peter Orner

Title/Position
Visiting Professor
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 ...