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Byers ImageByers, Michael
Assistant Professor
M.F.A., University of Michigan, 1996
MICHAEL BYERS is a former Stegner Fellow, holds an MFA from the University of Michigan (1996) and is the author of two books, The Coast of Good Intentions, a book of ... More Info »


Davies ImageDavies, Peter Ho
Professor
M.A., Boston, 1993
PETER HO DAVIES is the author of the novel The Welsh Girl (2007) and the story collections The Ugliest House in the World (1997) and Equal Love (2000). His work has ... More Info »


Delbanco ImageDelbanco, Nicholas
Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature/Chair, Hopwood Committee
M.A., Columbia, 1966
NICHOLAS DELBANCO has published twenty-fourbooks of fiction and non-fiction. His most recent novels are The Count of Concord and Spring and Fall; his most ... More Info »


Goodison ImageGoodison, Lorna
Professor
School of the Art Students’ League, NY, 1969
LORNA GOODISON is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished contemporary poets. Her work appears in the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and her ... More Info »


Gregerson ImageGregerson, Linda
Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English
Ph.D., Stanford, 1987
LINDA GREGERSON 's fourth book of poems, Magnetic North, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award and is about to appear in paperback (fall 2008). Her ... More Info »


Jordan ImageJordan, A. Van
Professor
M.F.A., Warren Wilson College, N.C., 1998
A. VAN JORDAN was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, and is no stranger to the Midwest. Although much of his academic career has been spent in the South—he taught at Prince ... More Info »


Kasischke ImageKasischke, Laura
Associate Professor
M.F.A., University of Michigan, 1987
LAURA KASISCHKE has published six collections of poetry and three novels. Her novels include Suspicious River (1996), White ... More Info »


Mattawa ImageMattawa, Khaled
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Duke University,, 2009
KHALED MATTAWA is the author of four books of poetry, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"Tocqueville </span(New Issues Press, ... More Info »


Moss ImageMoss, Thylias
Professor
M.A., New Hampshire, 1983
THYLIAS MOSS's most recent volume is Tokyo Butter, a collection of poems written during the gestation of Limited Fork Poetics, her theory of interacting language ... More Info »


Pollack ImagePollack, Eileen
Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing
M.F.A., Iowa, 1983
EILEEN POLLACK is the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and the author of a novel, Paradise, New York, published in 1998 by Temple University Press, two ... More Info »