Faculty
As Eloisa James, Mary Bly has written twelve New York Times bestselling romances. She is particularly interested in romance's place in popular culture, writing an op-ed for the Times and a forthcoming article entitled "Shakespeare, Popular Romance and Homeland Security." She will also appear on the keynote panel of Princeton's 2009 popular romance conference. She maintains a large, interactive website (www.eloisajames.com); one of her projects there has been to expand understanding of the material boundaries of a novel. After each publication, her readers vote for a chapter they wish she had included in the novel; a month or so later she posts that chapter on her website.
Mark Caldwell is the author of The Prose of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1987), The Last Crusade: America’s War on Consumption, 1862-1954 (1988); Saranac Lake: Pioneer Health Resort (1993); A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America (1999); and New York Night: The Mystique and Its History (2005).
Lenny Cassuto is the author of The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque In American Literature and Culture (Columbia, 1997) and the editor of three other volumes. He is currently serving as General Editor of The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Cassuto’s book on twentieth-century American crime fiction, Hard-Boiled Sentimentality, will be published in fall of 2008 by Columbia University Press. His articles about American crime fiction have lately appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Minnesota Review, and other publications. Cassuto is also an award-winning journalist. His commentary on academic politics and culture has been published in The Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere.
Yvette Christiansë's novel Unconfessed was nominated for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway/PEN International Prize for First Fiction. Her poetry has been published in the United States, South Africa, Australia, Canada, France and Italy. Her poetry book Castaway was nominated for the PEN International Poetry Prize in 2001. Her work has appeared in such journals as Ai, Barrow Street, Carapace, Columbia Magazine, Europe Magazine, Southerly, Sulfur, and West Coast Line. She is on the Editorial Board of Guernica Magazine and is a participant in the ‘Women for Children’s Rights’ in South Africa. Her poems have been translated into French, Italian, Venda, Setswana, Tsonga, Ndebele, Sepedi, South Sotho and Siswati.
Heather Dubrow is the author of six scholarly books, most recently The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England (Johns Hopkins). Her other publications include a co-edited collection of essays, two chapbooks of poetry, and articles on early modern literature and on teaching, as well as poems in numerous journals. Current projects include a book on the academic profession and a study of temporality and spatiality in lyric poetry that is likely to encompass both Renaissance/early modern and twentieth and twenty-first century writers. Building bridges between critical approaches has long been one of her goals, and in particular she engages with what is sometimes termed the new formalism, which traces the interactions between form in its many senses and concerns of recent scholarship, such as material and historical analysis. Among Heather Dubrow's interdisciplinary interests is the relationship between the visual and literary arts.
Anne Fernald is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (Palgrave 2006). She has published articles on Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and modernism generally at Blackwell’s Literature Compass http://www.literature-compass.com/, in Feminist Studies (2005), Modern Fiction Studies (2003), and elsewhere, including several edited collections. Her work pays particular attention to the essay, and this research focus informs her work as the Writing Director (in charge of first-year composition classes) at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. She is currently at work on the Cambridge University Press edition of Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
Elisabeth Frost is the author of The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry and co-editor of Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews (both from University of Iowa Press). She has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary poetry, and her own poetry has appeared in such journals as The Denver Quarterly, How2, The Yale Review, and Poetry. She is the director of Poets Out Loud and the editor of the POL Prize book series from Fordham Press. She is currently completing a manuscript of prose poems and working on a study of "photo-texts" by contemporary feminist poets and conceptual artists.
Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Matadora (Alice James Books) and Delivered (Persea Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. Current research focuses on post-modern U.S. immigration via Internet-based poetics. She is co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization that promotes Asian American poetry.
Moshe Gold
Margaret Lamb
Elizabeth Stone is the author of Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us (Time Books, 1988; with a new introduction, Transaction Publications, 2004); The Hunter College Campus Schools for the Gifted (Teachers College Press, 1991); and A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student (Algonquin, 2002). Her personal essays and reportage have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. Currently she is interested in the last willl and testament as a variant of autobiography and as a memoir subject. She has taught memoir-writing at the University of Iowa’s “Summer=2 0Writing Festival” and, with clinical psychologist Evan Imber-Black, Ph.D, has run several workshops for family therapists on the uses of memoir writing at the Ackerman Institute of Family Therapy in Manhattan.
Writers in Residence
Christina Baker Kline is the author of four novels: Bird in Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, and Sweet Water. She is co-editor, with Anne Burt, of About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror and co-author, with Christina L. Baker, of The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism. She has edited three other anthologies: Child of Mine, Room to Grow, and Always Too Soon. Kline is a graduate of Yale (B.A.), Cambridge University (M.A.), and the University of Virginia (M.F.A.), where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. She has taught literature and creative writing at Yale, NYU, the University of Virginia, and Drew University. Born in Cambridge, England, and raised there as well as in the American South and Maine, Kline lives outside of New York City with her husband and three sons. Her website is www.christinabakerkline.com and her blog, A Writing Life: Conversations about the Creative Process, is http://christinabakerkline.wordpress.com.
Janet Kaplan is the author of three poetry collections, The Groundnote, winner of the 1998 New York and New England competition from Alice James Books, The Glazier's Country, 2003 winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University Press, and Dreamlife of a Philanthropist, winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry and forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press. Among her many honors is a fellowship in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Godot Prize in Poetry from Rattapallax Press, and a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. She has recently completed a fourth collection of poetry, Civil Twilight, and is at work on a novel, tentatively titled The Desire of the Line.
Master Class Faculty
Meera Nair was raised in India and has an MA in Creative Writing from Temple university in addition to an MFA from New York University, where she was a New York Times Fellow. Her debut collection Video won the Asian-American Literary Award and was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The New York Times Magazine and National Public Radio, among other places, have featured her articles, stories and essays. She has won fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony and is currently completing a novel on-contract to Pantheon.
Adjunct Faculty
Roger Bonair-Agard has appeared three times on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on HBO. He is co-author of Burning Down the House (Soft Skull Press, 2000), and Tarnish & Masquerade (Cypher Press). He co-founded the louderARTS Project (of which he is also Artistic Director), an organization dedicated to the evolution of poetry through the craft of writing and performance. A Cave Canem fellow, he was named the Nuyorican Poets Café Fresh Poet of the Year. He has coached the Nuyorican team to victory in the National Poetry Slam over 44 other teams. He has earned the title of National Individual Slam Champion while leading and coaching the New York City louderARTS team to the final four of the National Poetry Slam (out of 48 teams).
Christopher Brandt's poems and essays have been published in Off the Cuffs: Poetry by and About the Police (Soft Skull); Lateral (Barcelona); El signo del gorrion (Valladolid); Liqueur 44 (Paris); La Jornada (Mexico); Phati'tude, Appearances; The Unbearables; National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side and the anthology Crimes of the Beats. His translations of Cuban fiction have been published in The New Yorker and by Seven Stories Press, and his translations of two volumes of Carmen Valle’s poetry by the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. Translations of contemporary Cuban poetry will be included in a University of California Berkeley anthology to be published in 2009.
Alvin Eng
Hank Hirsch
Alisa Kwitney is a former editor at Vertigo, the mature imprint of DC Comics, and has worked on titles such as Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. As a freelancer, Alisa has written numerous comics and two graphic novels, TOKEN and Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold. Alisa has also written two hardcover books about comics, Vertigo Visions: Art from the Cutting Edge of Comics and Sandman: The King of Dreams. Alisa’s other book titles include Till the Fat Lady Sings, The Dominant Blonde, On the Couch and Flirting in Cars.
Spring Ulmer holds a M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Arizona, and a M.F.A. in Non-fiction from the University of Iowa. She has worked as a photo-journalist; a journalist; a teacher of photography and writing to migrant, homeless, and incarcerated youth; an ESL instructor and a horse hand. Her honors include grants for photography and writing from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Andrea Frank Foundation, as well as residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and the University of Iowa’s Museum of Art. In 2008, she was awarded a Fulbright to Rwanda. Ulmer’s book of poetry, Benjamin’s Spectacles, was selected by Sonia Sanchez for Kore Press’s 2007 First Book Award. A collection of Ulmer’s essays, The Age of Virtual Reproduction, was published by Essay Press in 2009. She lives in Brooklyn and also teaches at John Jay College in Manhattan.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.
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