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Byers ImageByers, Michael
Asst Professor
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 ... More Info »


Davies ImageDavies, Peter Ho
Assoc. 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 Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature/Chair, Hopwood Committee
M.A., Columbia, 1966
NICHOLAS DELBANCO has published twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. His most recent novels are What Remains and Old Scores; his most recent works of ... More Info »


Goodison ImageGoodison, Lorna
Assoc. 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
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature
Ph.D., Stanford, 1987
LINDA GREGERSON 's third book of poems, Waterborne, received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2002 and has just appeared in paperback. Her earlier books include The ... More Info »


Harty ImageHarty, Ryan
Helen Herzog Zell Visiting Professor/Lecturer I
RYAN HARTY is the author of the story collection Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, which won the 2003 John Simmons Award for Short Fiction. His stories ... More Info »


Kasischke ImageKasischke, Laura
Asst. 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
M.F.A., Indiana University, 1994
KHALED MATTAWA is the author of two books of poetry, Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable Press, 2003) and Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow Press, 1996). He has translated five books ... 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 ... More Info »


Orringer ImageOrringer, Julie
Helen Herzog Zell Visiting Professor/Lecturer I
JULIE ORRINGER is a Helen Hertzog Zell Visiting Professor in the Department of English. Her short story collection, How to Breathe Underwater, was a New York Times Notable ... More Info »


Pollack ImagePollack, Eileen
Director of MFA Prog 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 »