Full-time Writing Faculty
Associate Professor, Writing
Recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in October 1994, and a theatre critic in 2002. full profile
Associate Professor, Writing
Paul Beatty is the author of four novels, Slumberland, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle, and The Sellout, which won both the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2016 Man Booker Prize. It was named one of the best books of 2015 by the Times and the full profile
Associate Professor, LTAC Director, Writing
Susan Bernofsky’s literary translations include six works of fiction by the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser, as well as novels and poetry by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Gregor von Rezzori, Uljana Wolf and others. full profile
Professor, Poetry Director, Writing
Lucie Brock-Broido received her BA and her MA from Johns Hopkins University, and her MFA from Columbia University. Her most recent book Stay, Illusion, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry, and is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. full profile
Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Nicholas Christopher received his BA from Harvard College. He is the author of seventeen books. full profile
Chair, Associate Professor, Writing
Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave 2010), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. His chapbook Hymn to Life was published in 2014 by Factory Hollow Press and with John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. full profile
Professor, Writing
Deborah Eisenberg is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous honors including the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a Whiting Writer’s Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. full profile
Professor, Writing
Richard Ford’s novel Independence Day (1995) was the first book to receive both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The book was the second in his critically acclaimed Bascombe Trilogy, which began with The Sportswriter in 1986. full profile
Assistant Professor, Writing
Joshua Furst is the author of the novel, The Sabotage Café, and the story collection, Short People. His work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Salon, Nerve, Conjunctions, and Esquire, among other publications. full profile
Assistant Professor, Writing
Rivka Galchen is the author of the acclaimed novel Atmospheric Disturbances. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker, The Believer, Harper’s, and The New York Times. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Fiction Award and th full profile
Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Lis Harris received a B.A. from Bennington College and was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1970 to 1995. full profile
Assistant Professor, Nonfiction Concentration Director, Writing
Leslie Jamison is the author of The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestselling essay collection, and a novel, The Gin Closet, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. full profile
Professor of Professional Practice , Writing
Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic. She has been a staff writer for The New York Times and Newsweek; her reviews and essays have appeared in New York Magazine, Grand Street, Vogue, Harper’s and many other publications. full profile
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Writing
Heidi Julavits is the editor, with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton, of Women in Clothes (Blue Rider 2014). Her most recent novel is The Vanishers. full profile
Professor of Professional Practice, Fiction Director, Writing
Binnie Kirshenbaum received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. full profile
Assistant Professor, Writing
Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (2015) and story collection Intimations (2016), both from Harper. full profile
Assistant Professor, Writing
Lasky is the author of five books of poetry, the forthcoming Milk (Wave Books, Spring 2018), as well as ROME (W.W. full profile
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Victor LaValle is the author of Slapboxing with Jesus, a book of stories, and the novels The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, and The Devil in Silver. full profile
Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Sam Lipsyte's most recent book is The Fun Parts. full profile
Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Richard Locke is a critic and essayist, the author of more than 180 essays and reviews that have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, BookForum, Salmagundi, The Yale Review, The Atlantic,& full profile
Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, and received a BA from Columbia in 1964, and a doctorate from the Union Graduate School in 1979. full profile
Professor, Writing
Ben Marcus’ most recent book is Leaving the Sea, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of The Flame Alphabet, Notable American Women, and The Age of Wire and String. full profile
Assistant Professor, Writing
Shane McCrae is the author of In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), The Animal Too Big to Kill, (Persea Books, 2015), Forgiveness Forgiveness (Factory Hollow Press, 2014), Blood (Noemi Press, 2013), and Mule(Cleveland State University full profile
Assistant Professor, Writing
Ben Metcalf Associate Professor is the author of the novel Against The Country, which was published by Random House in January 2015. He was born in Illinois and raised in that state and later in rural Virginia. He was, for many years, the literary editor of Harper’s Magazine. full profile
Professor, Writing
Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey's most prominent novelists. full profile
Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Deborah Paredez is the author of the poetry collection, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002), and the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009). full profile
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Elissa Schappell is the author of two books of fiction, Use Me, a New York Times Notable Book and runner up for the PEN Hemingway Award, and Blueprints for Building Better Girls, chosen as one of the “Best Books of the Year” by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, full profile
Associate Professor, Writing
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972, and came to the United States seven years later. He released his debut memoir, Little Failure in 2014, to much critical acclaim. full profile
Professor of Professional Practice, Director of Pedagogy, Writing
Alan Ziegler’s most recent books are Short: An International Anthology of 500 Years of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms(editor); Love at First Sight: An Alan Ziegler Reader; and The Writing Workshop Note Book. full profile
Adjunct Faculty: Spring–Fall 2017
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Creative Writing
Alex Abramovich is the author of Cinderella Story: Notes on Contemporary Culture (2002) and Bullies: A Friendship (2016). He's currently at work on a history of rock and roll. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Yelena Akhtiorskaya is the author of the novel Panic in a Suitcase, published by Riverhead Books in 2014. It was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book for 2014 and a National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree. She graduated from the Columbia MFA Writing Program in 2009. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Mia Alvar is the author of In the Country (Knopf), a collection of short stories that won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and the University of Rochester's Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Alba Arikha is the author of four books, in fiction and non fiction. Her memoir, Major/Minor, about her adolescence in Paris, was published by Quartet Books in 2011. It was shortlisted for the Spear’s awards and selected among the best books of 2012 by the New Yorker. full profile
Adjunct, Writing
Tash Aw is the award-winning author of three novels, including, most recently, Five Star Billionaire. He has won the Whitbread and Commonwealth Prizes for Best First Novel and twice been longlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. His work has also been translated into 23 languages. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Chris Bannon is Chief Content Officer of Midroll Media, home to the Earwolf podcast network. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Corinna Barsan is a senior editor at Grove Atlantic. She started in publishing at Farrar, Straus and Giroux before joining the independent publishing house Other Press. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016) and Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, which is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and an M.A. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Keri Bertino has served as the director of the Writing Center and co-coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Baruch College, CUNY since 2008. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Mark Bibbins received a Lambda Literary Award for his first collection of poems, Sky Lounge; his second, The Dance of No Hard Feelings, was published in 2009 by Copper Canyon Press. He co-founded LIT, the journal of the New School graduate writing program. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Matthew Burgess is an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College. He is the author of a poetry collection, Slippers for Elsewhere (UpSet Press, 2014), and a children's book, Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Garnette Cadogan is a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar (2017-2018) at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
James Cañón was born and raised in Colombia. He received an MFA from Columbia University. His debut novel, Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men, has been translated into eleven languages and published in over twenty countries, and was made into a film. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
CA Conrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. The author of nine books of poetry and essays, including The Book of Frank, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics, andECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Meghan Daum is the author of four books, most recently the collection of original essays The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion (FSG, 2014) and also the editor of the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not To Have Kids (Picador, full profile
Adjunct Professor, Writing
Nicholas Delbanco is the author of thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Jay Deshpande is the author of the poetry collection Love the Stranger (YesYes Books), named one of the top debuts of 2015 by Poets & Writers, and the chapbook The Rest of the Body. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Mark Doten is the author of the novel The Infernal, published in 2015 by Graywolf Press. His writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Guernica, the Believer, and New York Magazine. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collection Great Guns (Canarium, 2013), editor of The Complete Poems of Joan Murray (NYR Poets, 2017) and founder of the Young Artists Language and Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She is a recipient of fellowships from the Poet full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Alan Felsenthal runs a small press called The Song Cave. With Ben Estes, he edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. His writing has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Critical Quarterly, Fence, jubilat, and Harper’s. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Monica Ferrell is the author of three books. Her collection of poems Beasts for the Chase (Sarabande Books) was a finalist for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Prize, and her second poetry collection, Oh You Absolute Darling, will be published by Four Way in 2018. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
BK Fischer is the author the forthcoming Radioapocrypha, which won the 2017 The Journal/Wheeler Award, and My Lover’s Discourse. Her previous books are Mutiny Gallery, winner of the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press, and St. Rage’s Vault. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
David Gates is the author of the novels Jernigan and Preston Falls, and two story collections, The Wonders of the Invisible World and A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Alan Gilbert is the author of two books of poetry, The Treatment of Monuments and Late in the Antenna Fields, as well as a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Aracelis Girmay is the author of three books of poems: the black maria (BOA, 2016), Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007) and Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011), the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Rebecca Godfrey is the author of The Torn Skirt and Under The Bridge, and the editor of the artist book Girls in Trees. She is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the Canada Council. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Eli Gottlieb is the author of four novels that have been translated into 13 languages. His first novel, The Boy Who Went Away (1998), won the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Mckitterick Prize of the British Society of Authors. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Michael Greenberg’s memoir, Hurry Down Sunshine, has been translated into eighteen languages and was named a best book of the year by Time Magazine, Library Journal and Amazon.com. A collection of his essays, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life, was published in 2009. full profile
Adjunct Professor, Writing
Eliza Griswold received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her ongoing work on water and poverty in America. Her first nonfiction book, The Tenth Parallel, was awarded the Anthony J. Lukas prize and was a New York Times bestseller. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Lauren Grodstein is the author of four books, including the Washington Post Book of the Year The Explanation for Everything and A Friend of the Family, which was a Washington Post Book of the Year, a New York Times bestseller, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and full profile
Adjunct Professor, Writing
Edith Grossman is best known for her rendering of Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera (Knopf, 1988) and for her universally acclaimed translation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote (Ecco Press, 2003). full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Mike Harvkey is the author of the novel In the Course of Human Events (Soft Skull, 2014), winner of Zoetrope's All-Story Magazine short fiction contest, and contributor to Esquire, Salon, The Believer, NYLON, Mississippi Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. full profile
Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer, Writing
Richard Howard was born in 1929 in Cleveland, received a B.A. from Columbia in 1951 and did graduate work at Columbia University and the Sorbonne. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Brigid Hughes is the founding editor of the literary magazine A Public Space and a contributing editor at Graywolf Press. Previously, she edited The Paris Review. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Nalini Jones is the author of What You Call Winter, a story collection set in a Catholic neighborhood of Mumbai. She is a recipient of an NEA fellowship, Pushcart Prize, and O. Henry Prize. full profile
Adjunct Professor, Writing
John Keene’s most recent books include the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions, 2015), which received a 2016 American Book Award, a 2016 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and in March 2017 the UK's inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize; the art book GRIND (ITI Press, 2016 full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Born in London, Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions Gods Without Men and White Tears, as well as a short story collection, Noise and a novella, Memory Palace. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Paul La Farge is the author of three novels: The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999), Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001), and Luminous Airplanes (FSG, 2011); and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter (McSweeney's Books, 2005). full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
James Lasdun has written several books of fiction and poetry and two screenplays, including Sunday, which won Best Feature and Best Screenplay awards at Sundance. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a writer at large at the New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor at Harper's magazine, and a contributing writer at WIRED magazine; he has also written for the New York Review of Books, n+1, Frieze, Lucky Peach, and elsewhere. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Tan Lin is the author of Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, BlipSoak01, Ambience is a Novel with a Logo, Heath (Plagiarism/Outsource), 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004, and The Joy of Cooking (2010). full profile
Adjunct Professor, Writing
Erroll McDonald, a trustee of PEN America and a board member of The Center for Fiction, is a Vice President, Executive Editor in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group of Penguin Random House. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Kamilah Aisha Moon’s work has been featured widely, including Harvard Review, Oxford American, and Prairie Schooner. Her poetry collection, She Has a Name (Four Way Books, 2013), was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Audre Lorde Award from the Publis full profile
Adjunct Professor, Writing
Sigrid Nunez has published six novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, Salvation City. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Julie Orringer is the author of two award-winning books: The Invisible Bridge, a novel, and How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories. She is a graduate of Cornell University, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford, and has received fellowships from full profile
Adjunct Professor, Writing
Alice Quinn is executive director of the Poetry Society of America, where she oversees an award-winning Chapbook Fellowship Contest and more than forty programs annually nationwide. She received a BA from Manhattanville College as well as an Honorary Doctorate in 2007. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is the author of Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Christine Schutt is the author of three novels, Florida (National Book Award finalist), All Souls (Pulitzer Prize finalist), and Prosperous Friends, as well as two collections of stories, Nightwork and A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer. A third collection, Pure Hollywood, will be published i full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Leonard Schwartz is the author of numerous books of poetry and essay, including The New Babel: Towards a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises ( University of Arkansas Press) and Salamander: A Bestiary (Chax Press). full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Susan Shapiro has written for The New York Times, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Newsweek, Elle, Esquire & Oprah.com. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Lee Siegel is the author of six books: Falling Upwards: Essays in the Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; Against the Machine: How the Web is Reshaping Culture and Commerce, and Why it Matters; Are You Serious: How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly; Gr full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Christopher Sorrentino is the author of five books, including Sound on Sound, Trance, and The Fugitives. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Lynn Steger Strong’s first novel, Hold Still, was published by Liveright/WW Norton in 2016. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Elle, The Rumpus, Blunderbuss, Vol 1 Brooklyn, Catapult, Lithub, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Fiction from Columbia and lives in Brooklyn with her family. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Benjamin Taylor's family memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House, was released by Penguin in May 2017 and named a New York Times Editors' Choice; his Proust: The Search was named a Best Book of 2016 by Thomas Mallon in The New York Times Book Review; an full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Lara Vapnyar came to the US from Russia in 1994. She is the author of the acclaimed novel, Memoirs of a Muse, and two collections of short stories, There Are Jews in My House and Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Wendy S. Walters is the author of a book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande Books, 2015), named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, and Huffington Post (Palm Press, 2009). full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Alyson Waters is a translator of modern and contemporary literary fiction, criticism, and theory, as well as art history. full profile
Adjunct Associate Professor, Writing
Natasha Wimmer is the translator of seven books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her most recent translations are Marcos Giralt Torrente's Father and Son: A Lifetime and Sudden Death, by Álvaro Enrigue. full profile
Adjunct Professor, Writing
Brenda Wineapple’s books include White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and a New York Times “Notable Book." She is also the author of Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner; Sister Brother Gertrude a full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Wendy Xu is the author of Phrasis (Fence, 2017), and You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013), profiled as a Top Ten debut of the year by Poets & Writers Magazine. full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Matvei Yankelevich is a poet, translator, and editor. His books include the long poemSome Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square), a poetry collection, Alpha Donut (United Artists), and a novella in fragments, Boris by the Sea (Octopus). full profile
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently BLACKACRE (2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award (judged by Robin Coste Lewis). full profile