Category: MFA in Creative Writing

Dael won an OBIE Award for Beauty’s Daughter, which she wrote and starred in at American Place Theatre.  She toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Café (Real Live Poetry) throughout the US, Europe and Australia.  Her play, Monster, premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in November 1996. Dael attended Sundance Theatre Festival Lab for four summers developing… Continue reading Dael Orlandersmith

Hettie Jones is a poet and prose writer, author of How I Became Hettie Jones, a memoir of the “beat scene” of the fifties and sixties, currently available in a paperback edition from Grove Press.  Jones’s short prose has been published in journals such as Fence, Global City Review and Ploughshares, and she has also written numerous books for… Continue reading Hettie Jones

Kim Addonizio is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently What Is This Thing Called Love (W.W. Norton). Her novel, Little Beauties, was recently published by Simon & Schuster. With Dorianne Laux, she co-authored The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton). She has received numerous awards for her poetry and fiction, including… Continue reading Kim Addonizio

Linda Villarosa is a freelance writer and editor. Formerly, she edited the health pages for the New York Times, where she redesigned and expanded health coverage for Science Timesand for the newspaper at large. Linda was also both the executive editor and senior health editor of Essence Magazine, where she wrote or edited a number of award-winning articles.… Continue reading Linda Villarosa

Gary Garrison was recently appointed Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America – the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and composers. For the past ten years he has filled the posts of Artistic Director, Producer and fulltime faculty member in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has… Continue reading Gary Garrison

Eileen Myles’s Inferno (a poet’s novel) came out last fall from orbooks.com. Alison Bechdel described Inferno as “this shimmering document”. Eileen’s books of poetry include Skies, Not Me, School of Fish and Sorry, Tree. Chelsea Girls, her first fiction, appeared in 1994 followed by Cool for You (a nonfiction novel) in 2000. She’s a professor emeritus from UC, San Diego and lives in New York.… Continue reading Eileen Myles

Shelley Jackson is the author of the story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the novel Half Life, hypertexts including Patchwork Girl, and several children’s books. Her stories and essays have appeared in journals including McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, The Paris Review andCabinet Magazine. In 2004 she launched her project SKIN, a story published in tattoos on 2095 volunteers. The recipient of a Howard… Continue reading Shelley Jackson

Chris Abani’s prose includes the novels The Virgin of Flames (Penguin, 2007) GraceLand (FSG, 2004/Picador 2005), Masters of the Board(Delta, 1985) and the novellas, Becoming Abigail (Akashic, 2006) andSong For Night (Akashic, 2007). His poetry collections are Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon, 2006), Dog Woman (Red Hen, 2004),Daphne’s Lot (Red Hen, 2003), and Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001). He is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient… Continue reading Chris Abani

Amy Scholder has been editing literary and political book for over twenty years. She became Editorial Director of the Feminist Press in September 2008, where she has acquired books by Haifa Zangana, Ann Jones, Karen Finley, Josh MacPhee, Elizabeth Streb, Laura Whitehorn, Safiya Bukhari, Darina al-Joundi, Virginie Despentes, Judith Halberstam, Barbara Hammer, and more. Previously,… Continue reading Amy Scholder

Jane Anderson is a multi-award winning writer and director who has created some of the most thought-provoking theater, film and television in the last two decades. Her plays have been produced Off-Broadway and in theaters around the country, including Actors Theater of Louisville, Williamstown, The McCarter Theater, Long Wharf and The Pasadena Playhouse. Her published… Continue reading Jane Anderson

Harryette Mullen teaches American poetry, African American literature, and creative writing at UCLA. She has been a visiting faculty member at Callaloo Writers Workshop, Cave Canem Poets Workshop, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Idyllwild Summer Arts, Napa Valley Writers Conference, and Naropa University, and a visiting writer and scholar at many other universities, arts… Continue reading Harryette Mullen

Joseph Bednarik is the marketing director at Copper Canyon Press and a regular book reviewer for The Oregonian newspaper.

  Chris Millis is a prize-winning, bestselling writer, producer, and cartoonist. He adapted his first novel, Small Apartments (Anvil Press, 2001), into a feature film directed by Jonas Akerlund that stars Billy Crystal, Matt Lucas, James Caan, Johnny Knoxville, Dolph Lundgren, Peter Stormare, Juno Temple, James Marsden, Amanda Plummer, Rosie Perez, Rebel Wilson, and many… Continue reading Chris Millis

Faculty Ryan Boudinot‘s story “Readers and Writers,” originally published in Post Road and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, is a story of the month on the Committee Room. An interview with Ryan appears in the inaugural issue of online magazine Moss. Deborah Brevoort’s backstage farce The Velvet Weapon was produced at the Trustus Theatre in… Continue reading July and August 2014 Achievements

Rikki Ducornet is the author of three collections of short fiction, two essay collections and nine novels including The Jade Cabinet, finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, and The Fan Maker’s Inquisition, an LA Times Best Book of the Year. She has received a Lannan Literary Award in Fiction, the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts… Continue reading Rikki Ducornet

Lynn Nottage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. They include, Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation,… Continue reading Lynn Nottage

Faculty Deborah Brevoort’s plays, The Women of Lockerbie and The Comfort Team were published by No Passport Press.  Also, her play, The Velvet Weapon will receive a staged workshop in the Launch Pad program at UC Santa Barbara and a public reading in July followed by a Q & A with the author. Rebecca Brown… Continue reading May and June 2014 Achievements

Chris Millis is a prize-winning, bestselling writer, producer, and cartoonist. He adapted his first novel, Small Apartments (Anvil Press, 2001), into a feature film directed by Jonas Akerlund that stars Billy Crystal, Matt Lucas, James Caan, Johnny Knoxville, Dolph Lundgren, Peter Stormare, Juno Temple, James Marsden, Amanda Plummer, Rosie Perez, Rebel Wilson, and many more.… Continue reading Chris Millis

Faculty Deborah Brevoort’s opera Die Fledermaus (aka The Polar Bat) was performed in April by the Anchorage Opera, and her backstage farce, The Velvet Weapon received a reading in the “Rhythm and Rebellion” series at the Wooly Mammoth Theater in Washington DC on April 20th. Jan Clausen‘s review of Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials… Continue reading March and April 2014 Achievements