Visiting Professors

Name Work
Maureen McLane My Poets
Alex Mindt Male of the Species
Major Jackson Hoops
Myla Goldberg Bee Season, Wickett’s Remedy, The False Friend
Victor LaValle Slapboxing with Jesus; The Ecstatic; Big Machine
Calvin Baker Once Two Heroes; Dominion
Fiona Maazel Last Last Chance; Woke Up Lonely; A Little More Human
Donna Freitas Consent; The Happiness Effect
Patricia Spears Jones A Lucent Fire; Painkiller; Femme du Monde; The Weather That Kills

Visiting Writers

  • Jeffery Renard Allen
  • Mike Albo
  • Kevin Arkadie
  • Elizabeth Bennett
  • Calvin Baker
  • Sally Ball
  • Catherine Bowman
  • Jericho Brown
  • Martha Collins
  • Jorge Ignacio Corti
  • Stephen Cramer
  • Greg Delanty
  • Delana Dameron
  • Bathseba Doran
  • Stuart Dischell
  • Sharon Dolin
  • B. H. Fairchild
  • Amy Fox
  • Peter Gaitens
  • Aracelis Girmay
  • Ross Gay
  • David Greenspan
  • Duriel Harris
  • Jamey Hecht
  • Edward Hirsch
  • Brigid Hughes
  • Mary-Beth Hughes
  • Linda Susan Jackson
  • Jacqueline Johnson
  • Tayari Jones
  • A. Van Jordan
  • Tracy K. Smith
  • Sheila Kohler
  • Wayne Koestenbaum
  • Mark Jarman
  • Susan Merrell
  • Askold Melnyzcuk
  • D. Nurkse
  • Nuala O’Faolain
  • Ishle Park
  • Gregory Pardlo
  • Molly Peacock
  • Patrick Phillips
  • Joseph O. Legaspi
  • Sarah Ruden
  • Julie Sheehan
  • Christopher Shin
  • Edwin Sanchez
  • Patricia Smith
  • Martha Southgate
  • Terese Svoboda
  • George Szirtes
  • Richard Tillinghast
  • Natasha Trethewey
  • Mark Wunderlich
  • Monica Youn

Visitors to the Practicum

Name Work
Jennifer Acker Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Common
Harold Augenbraum Executive Director, National Book Foundation
Sarah Bagley Literary Manager, Second Stage
Jessica Stockton Bagnulo BookNerd blogger and Founder of Greenlight Bookstore
Koa Beck Writer and former editor-in-chief, Jezebel
Ed Champion Founding Editor, “Filthy Habits” Lit Blogs
Louise Crawford Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn, Director, Brooklyn Reading Works
Elizabeth Gaffney Editor-at-Large, A Public Space magazine, translator
Mary Gannon Editor, Poets and Writers Magazine
Gary Garrison Director of Creative Affairs, Dramatists Guild
Michael Glover U.K. Poet and Art Journalist
Bob Gray Bookseller and founder of FreshEyesNow.com
Ami Greko Director, Marketing and Publicity, Folio Agency
Hannah Pfeifle Harlow Marketing Director, director of blogging, Harcourt Brace
Susan Henderson Novelist and e-lit curator
Bram Hsieh Director, Information Services Poets, and Writers
Brigid Hughes Founding Editor, A Public Space
Dennis Johnson Founder of Melville House and MobyLives blogger
Jesse Koester Director, Information Services, Poets and Writers
Jason Koo Poet and founder, Brooklyn Poets
Allison Lorentzen Executive Editor, Penguin Random House
Lisa Lucas Executive Director, National Book Foundation
Laura Marsh Literary Editor, The New Republic
Kathleen Masterson Director of Literature, NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts)
Tom McAllister Novelist and co-host, BookFight! podcast
Marie Kutsuki Mockett Novelist and Twitter guru
Richard Nash Former editor of SoftSkull Press
Vince Passaro Book Reviewer and Director, Foundation/Corporate Relations, Yaddo
Jim Rutman Senior Agent, Sterling Lord Literistic
Daniella Topol Artistic Program Director, The Lark Play Development Center
Tina Dubois Wexler Agent, ICM

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