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Faculty
The writers who compose the current Graduate Creative Writing Faculty have authored and edited dozens of books, including work that has been awarded, among other honors, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award, the Whiting Award, the National Poetry Series Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Great Lakes Book Award, the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction, the John C. Zacharis First Book Award, the Richard Sullivan Award for Short Fiction, and Finalist status for the National Book Award in Poetry. Their work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including BEST AMERICAN POETRY, BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, and THE PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY: BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES. The faculty has also received Guggenheim, Lilly Endowment, Whiting Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.
The faculty rotates the teaching of the fall and spring semester workshops in fiction and poetry so that over any given two-year period four different fiction writers teach the graduate fiction workshop, and four different poets teach the graduate poetry workshop. This insures that students, regardless of when they enter the program, will have an opportunity to work with a wide range of writers in their field. The faculty also schedules regular offerings of the graduate workshop in creative nonfiction.
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