Author of the memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner, winner of the PEN/Jerard Award, the novel Short Girls, winner of an American Book Award, and the novel...
MFA, University of Michigan
Writing Workshop I, Writing Workshop II, Writing Workshop IV, Thesis I/II, Professional Development, Thesis I, Special Topics, Thesis II
Chris Feliciano Arnold is the author of The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon, a work of narrative...
MFA, Creative Writing, Purdue University | BA, Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (2016), a finalist for the PEN USA Literary award in poetry. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review,...
MFA, Hunter College | BA, Sarah Lawrence College
Thesis I/II
Stephen Beachy is a past winner of the Michener Award in fiction. He is the author of several novels and two novellas, including The Whistling Song,...
MFA in Creative Writing, Iowa Writers' Workshop
Writing Workshop I, Writing Workshop II, Contemporary Experiments in Fiction, Thesis I/II, Contemporary Global Fiction
Author of novels Bridge of Time (2012), The Haunting of Charles Dickens (2010), winner of the Northern California Book Award, an Edgar Award nominee...
MFA in Fiction, Warren Wilson College.
Writing Workshop I, Writing Workshop II, Writing Workshop IV, Intention and Design in Prose, Thesis I/II, Blurred Boundaries: Writing Beyond Genre, The History of Nonfiction
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier is the author of Salve (Nomadic Press) and Collateral Damage: A Triptych (RopeWalk Press), which have earned praise from Nikki...
Special Topics
Laleh Khadivi is the author of The Kurdish Trilogy which includes The Age of Orphans (2009), The Walking (2013), and A Good Country (2017). Her...
MFA Mills College
R.O. Kwon's first novel, The Incendiaries, is forthcoming in 2018 from Riverhead. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and her writing...
MFA, Brooklyn College | BA, Yale University
Intro to Writing Fiction, Thesis II
Michael David Lukas is the author of the bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul, which was a finalist for the California Book Award, the NCIBA Book...
Writing Workshop I, Developments in the Novel
Dave Madden is the author of the story collection If You Need Me I'll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of...
PhD (Creative Writing), University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Special Topics in Writing, Advanced Workshop in Creative Writing: Nonfiction, Writing Workshop II, Writing Workshop III, Writing Workshop IV, Truth, Ethics, and Memory, Thesis I/II, Nonfiction Theory & Technique, Special Topics
D. A. Powell's books include Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004) and Chronic (Graywolf, 2009), both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in...
MA, Sonoma State University | MFA, Iowa Writers' Workshop
Directed Study, Special Topics in Writing, Writing Workshop II, Poetry International, Prosody: The Meaning of Poetic Form, Thesis I/II, Special Topics
Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, the Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BA in Ethnic Studies from UC...
BA in Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley | MFA, San Francisco State University
Writing Workshop II, Contemporary American Poetry, Thesis I, Filipina Literature, Global Filipino Literature
Rachel Richardson is the author of two books of poems, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead. She has received Stegner and NEA Fellowships, and her poems...
MFA in Creative Writing, University of Michigan | MA in American Studies, University of North Carolina | Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
Writing Workshop III, Special Topics, Thesis II
Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure, which won the Benjamin Saltman...
MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), Sarah Lawrence College | MA, Religious Studies, New York University | BA, Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
Writing Workshop IV, Poetry International, Poetics
Nina Schuyler is the author of The Translator, winner of the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award and short-listed for the 2014 William Sarayon...
MFA in Creative Writing, San Francisco State University | JD, Hastings College of the Law | BA in Economics, Stanford University
Writing Workshop II, Writing Workshop III, Writing Workshop IV, Word for Word: The Texture of Language, Thesis I/II, Style in Fiction, Thesis I, Thesis II
Porter Shreve teaches part-time in the MFA in Writing Program and is full-time Director of Administration for the MA in Professional Communication...
MFA, University of Michigan
Special Topics in Writing, Thesis I/II, Special Topics, Digital Storytelling, Internship, Directed Study
Bruce Snider is the recipient of Wallace Stegner, James A. Michener, and Jenny McKean Moore Fellowships. He is also the author of the poetry...
MFA, University of Texas at Austin
Ignatian Literary Magazine, Creative Writing for Non-English Majors, Intro to Writing Poetry, Directed Study, Special Topics in Writing, Advanced Workshop in Creative Writing: Poetry, Internships in Writing, Senior Seminar in Writing, Writing Workshop II, Writing Workshop IV, Thesis I/II
Susan Steinberg is the author of the story collections Spectacle (Graywolf), Hydroplane (FC2), and The End of Free Love (FC2). Her new book of...
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art | MFA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fiction Workshop, Senior Seminar in Writing, Writing Workshop I, Thesis I/II
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...
MA, DePaul University | MFA, University of Iowa
Intro to Writing Non-Fiction, Directed Study, Special Topics in Writing, Advanced Workshop in Creative Writing: Nonfiction, Senior Seminar in Writing, Writing Workshop II, Thesis I/II
Arisa White is the author of the poetry collections Hurrah’s Nest, finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Award, 82nd California Book Award, and...
MFA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Writing Workshop IV, Thesis I/II
Micah Ballard, Administrative Director
