MFA in Writing Faculty 2011-2012

Michener Award in fiction. Author of The Whistling Song (1991), Distortion (2000), Some Phantom/No Time Flat (2006), and boneyard (2011). Published in High Risk 2, New York Times Magazine, Bomb, and Best Gay American Fiction 1996.

Former president, AWP. The Brenda Ueland Prose Prize and the Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Prize. Author of three short story collections: The End of the Class War (1999), finalist for the 2000 Western States Book Award, Curled in the Bed of Love (2003), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and The Mechanics of Falling (2009), winner of the Northern California Book Award for Fiction; a biography: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA (2007); and a book on the craft of short fiction, Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction (2010). Published in Other Voices, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, and Best American Short Stories 2004.

Author of novels Fliegelman's Desire (1990), Steinbeck's Ghost (2008) which was a Smithsonian Notable Book, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Children's Book of the Year, and the winner of the Beatty Award from the California Library Association, The Haunting of Charles Dickens (2010), winner of the Northern California Book Award, an Edgar Award nominee, and a Judy Lopez memorial Honor book, and Bridge of Time (2012); stories, After the Gold Rush (2006); and nonfiction, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (2006). Published in Harper's, Paris Review, Gentleman's Quarterly, The New York Times Book Review, Black Warrior Review, ZYZZYVA, and Best American Poetry 1995.

Leverhulme Fellowship for study in England. San Francisco Bay Area sports columnist of the year (1996, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007). Sports columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, and the San Francisco Chronicle (1979-1994). Author of Rough Magic: Bill Walsh's Return to Stanford Football (1994).

Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrude Stein Awards, the Fund for Poetry, and an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Author of Mars (1994), Contrafact (1996), Moira (1996), Spinoza in Her Youth (2002), Scout (2004), Do The Monkey (2006), Collective Memory (2006), Natural Light (2009), Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems (2009), To Be At Music: Essays and Talks (2010), and numerous translations from French.

Author of A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood (2011), winner of the 2010 River Teeth Prize for Literary Nonfiction, and translated in Brazil, Italy, and Taiwan. Coeditor of the nonfiction anthology The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat (forthcoming, 2013). Published in Babble, Emily Dickinson Journal, Gastronomica, Glimmer Train, The Huffington Post, Literary Mama, Lost, Offsprung, Poetry Foundation, San Francisco Chronicle, SNReview, and the anthologies Educating Taste: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture, Literary Couplings and Mama, PhD.

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Author of Ark (2003) and Inverse Sky (2008), a finalist for the Northern California Book Award as well as the Boston Review Award and the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America; co-editor of the Baltics section of Contemporary European Poetry (2008). Published in the anthologies Poems of the Bay Area Watershed and Deep Travel: Contemporary Poets Abroad and many journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, and Colorado Review.

Author of the novels Some Things that Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a SF Chronicle best-seller, Termite Parade, an Editors' Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List, and Damascus (forthcoming, October 2011). Published in The New York Times Book Review, 7x7, and the Bay Guardian.

D. A. Powell's books include Cocktails (2004) and Chronic (2009), both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (2012). Powell's awards include the Kingsley Tufts Prize, a Pushcart Prize and the California Book Award. He has taught at Columbia University, University of Iowa, and Harvard University.

Author of The Painting, named a Best Book by San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for the Northern California Book Award, and translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Serbian. Her next novel, The Translator, will be published July, 2013. Her short stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best American New Voices. She was a finalist for The Ledge 2010 Fiction Awards, winner of the Santa Clara Review's Editor's Choice Prize, winner of the Big Ugly Review's Short Short Contest and finalist in the 2009 Stanford Fiction Contest. Her short stories and poems published in ZYZZYVA, The Battered Suitcase, Flash Quake, Fugue, The Meadowland Review, Santa Clara Review, Sojourn, Stanford Magazine, Watchwordpress, and other journals. She is fiction editor at Ablemuse.com and reviews fiction for The Rumpus.

California Arts Council Fellowships in poetry (1989, 2002), National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and San Francisco Arts Commission grant in creative nonfiction (1995, 2005). Author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including the poetry collections A's Dream (1989), Into Distances (1993), The Paradise of Forms: Selected Poems (1999), A Door (2000), Involuntary Lyrics (2005), Citizen (forthcoming, 2012) and two collections of essays, Unbound: A Book of AIDS (1997), and King of Shadows (2008).

Lambda Literary Award and a Henfield Prize. Author of the novels The World of Normal Boys (2000), You Can Say You Knew Me When (2005), and Robin and Ruby (2010). Published in the nonfiction anthologies, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times, and in The Village Voice, San Francisco Magazine, and Out.

Author of Nonfiction Writing Workshop (1989), Parsnips in the Snow: Talks with Midwestern Gardeners (1990), and Unstuck: Working through Writing Blocks (2004). Published in Iowa Review, Columbia Magazine, and Seneca Review.

Susan Steinberg is the author of the story collections Spectacle (Graywolf, 2013), Hydroplane (FC2), and The End of Free Love (FC2). She was the 2010 United States Artists Ziporyn Fellow in Literature. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction, Boulevard, Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, Columbia, The Massachusetts Review, and other journals and magazines, and she has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award. She has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, Ledig House, Yaddo, and NYU. She earned a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in English from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Ryan Van Meter is the author of the essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now (2011). His work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Normal School Magazine, Ninth Letter, and Fourth Genre, among others, and has been selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009. A recent finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he has also been awarded residencies by The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Fund for Poetry award. Author of swarm lure (2004), rimertown/an atlas (2008), bird book (2011), and Follow--Haswed (2012). Published in many journals, including New American Writing, VOLT, Thermos, Fact-Simile, and Five Fingers Review.