He has degrees from Goddard College, Vermont College, and the University of Florida and has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Iowa Arts Council. He is the author of two books of poems: “Traveling Light” (2011) and “Keeping the Tigers Behind Us” (2007). His short fiction, reporting, and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Guardian, Glimmer Train, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. Glenn has published two collections of poems, “Keeping the Tigers Behind Us” (Elixir Press) and “Traveling Light” (Wordtech Communications), and a chapbook, “Fading Proofs” (Q Avenue Press). The center is assisted by the Director of the Center for the Literary Arts who teaches courses, plans programs with students, and works on her own creative projects. Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. She takes students to the Bahamas to study Caribbean literature and to Chicago to study literature and social justice. She holds degrees from the University of Utah and Washington University in St. Louis, and teaches literature and creative writing at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Mount Vernon, IA 52314. English majors may concentrate in creative writing; other majors may pursue a minor in creative writing. Shena's debut novel, “The Good Echo” (Black Lawrence Press), won the Big Moose Prize and the Balcones Fiction Prize. Whether you are curious about or actively planning to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing, we welcome you to attend this virtual panel! Program in English Language and Literature, Graduate Placement Record & Dissertation Archive, Imagining Rome: Art Studio and Creative Writing Workshop. Teaching Our MFA students are artists, of course, but many also come to Purdue as a step toward teaching creative writing as a career. For more information, contact: creativewriting@cornell.edu. Daniel Raeburn is the author of Chris Ware, a book of art criticism, and Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn’t. 600 First Street SW Each semester, MFA students are invited to teach available sections of ENGL 205: Introduction to Creative Writing, the first course in our undergraduate Creative Writing Program. program in art encourages both interdisciplinary and medium-specific practices, and questions a pedagogy informed solely by Western models and traditions of art. She is the author of Drown Sever Sing from Anomalous press and Don’t Come Back the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology The Great American Essay and the editor and translator of the forthcoming 100 Refutations from Mad Creek Books. Cornell University offers an MFA in Creative Writing program where students can specialize in poetry or fiction. Every year two Distinguished Visiting Writers teach advanced topics courses, such as “Graphic Journalism,” “Fabulist Fiction,” “Documentary Film-making” and “Performance Literature.” The “Global Voices” series brings writers from the University of Iowa International Writers Program to visit classes and give readings. He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, and his work appears or is forthcoming in The Offing, Narrative Magazine, Spoon River Poetry Review, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, and elsewhere. program at Pacific University. You can earn course credit while pursuing internships for a block or longer, an important part of our degree program that allows you to clarify goals, make connections, and perform meaningful work in a variety of fields. It is also the publishing home of the college, containing the Open Field editorial office and the Foxden Press; students and faculty work on an 1876 Washington iron hand press and in the digital design studio to gain hands-on understanding about publication design and the history of the book. And if you major in English or creative writing, you’ll enter the competitive writing landscape prepared to take on the diverse careers available to highly skilled practitioners of the written word. “Theodosia” (2018) was featured in the 2018 Underground New Play Festival in Theatre Cedar Rapids’ Grandon Studio. Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison. You will have many opportunities to work on and design projects that combine academic inquiry and creative practice. The curriculum is grounded in questions of social justice and social change, and you must take at least one course that focuses on social and global concerns. Her first monograph, Botanical Entanglements: Women, Plants, Literature, and Artwork in the Eighteenth Century, is under contract with the University of Virginia Press. Curtis is the author of three poetry collections, most recently “American Selfie” (Barrow Street Press). Rolling applications mean you can start during any summer or winter residency session. The Creative Writing Program offers workshop courses in fiction and poetry writing, and sponsors the Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series during the academic year. Cornell’s two year M.F.A. In addition to Cornell, Williams has studied at Illinois Wesleyan University and the University of Oxford. Other writers come as part of the Visiting Writers Series and engage with students in classes. It is a place to reside and study your craft in close mentorship with nationally and internationally known faculty. Up until 2019, she taught in the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Arizona. 935 East 60th Street Her essay collection, “Glass, Light, & Electricity” winner of the Permafrost Prize in Nonfiction, is forthcoming from Alaska University Press in spring 2020. You'll travel to Cornell's campus for nine-day residencies to kick off each semester and as a final celebratory culmination at the end of the program. The highly-selective program only admits eight students each year, four in each specialization, and students are guaranteed funding for the duration of the two-year course of study. Students have recently held Cornell Fellowships at Creative Materials in Huntington Beach, California (creating teaching materials), and Westview Press in Boulder, Colorado (academic texts), as well as internships with IowaWatch.org (journalism), ESPN 100, Chautauqua Writers’ Center (arts administration in creative writing), Phantom Graphics (comics), and African Great Lakes Initiative in Burundi. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature (now 9 Mobile Prize for Literature), and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction. His work has been published in journals such as Poetry, The Cimarron Review, The Florida Review, and Zone 3. She teaches Modern American literature at the Wilderness Field Station in Minnesota and is currently researching modernism and the wilderness, focusing on Canadian painter and journal-writer Emily Carr. Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. MFA graduate students organize the First-Year MFA Reading Series, and graduating MFA students hold a reading of their works in the spring. Our two-part senior capstone allows you to reflect on and deepen your previous coursework while also planning for the future. He is the author of two books of poems: “Traveling Light” (2011) and “Keeping the Tigers Behind Us” (2007). She is editor of Jaded Ibis Press and executive editor of HTML Giant. She raises honeybees and teaches a first-year seminar on food and sustainability. Our small size allows us to offer a generous financial support package, details of which are outlined on our department website. B.A., Carleton College; M.A.T., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University. Korey Williams earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University—a full-residency and fully-funded 2-year program that offers 1- to 2-year Lectureship Appointments post-graduation. Work with published writers in fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. She is currently an assistant professor in the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. He's published a poetry collection, “Deadbeat” (Four Way Books), and his nonfiction, twice named "Notable" in “Best American Essays,” can be found in Salon, The Baffler, The Iowa Review, and The Believer. Before coming to Cornell, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University. Taft House At the same time, we have a large and diverse graduate faculty with competence in a wide range of literary, theoretical, and c… Mount Vernon, IA 52314. Teaches courses in 19th-century American literature, multicultural literature, and creative writing (including NaNoWriMo). In the summer, Imagining Rome: Art Studio and Creative Writing Workshop is held in Italy. A research scientist needs to be able to write grants and document her research. We encourage you to get to know our faculty and their work by exploring the links below: The Creative Writing Faculty would like to invite you to view some of the works they have found inspirational:Books to Inspire. Phone 773-834-8524. Program in English Language and Literature, The Joint M.F.A / Ph.D. All rights reserved. He's taught fiction and non-fiction at Chicago since 2014. Known as the Van Etten-Lacey House, it serves as the hub for workshops, open mics, and readings, and as a gathering place for students to meet visiting writers and publishing professionals. Teaches creative writing and American poetry courses and takes students to the Wilderness Field Station in Minnesota and to the Bahamas for nature writing courses. You will have the opportunity to visit, and often to dine, with these writers. She earned her BA in English at the University of Chicago and MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He’s taught at Eckerd College, Emerson College, and Western Michigan University. He teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Chicago and received his MFA in Writing & Literature from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College, a 24-month low-residency program. He completed the task at the University of Virginia. Jay's debut novel, “The Standard Grand” (St. Martin's Press), was picked for IndieBound's Indie Next List, Library Journal's Spring 2017 Debut Novels Great First Acts, and named a best book of the year by The Brooklyn Rail. © 2020 Cornell College. Research interests include women’s writing, scientific literature, and botanical artwork. Yet to 10-pages of may 2010, which is far as toni cade bambara, who received 125 inquiries. The Fall 2016 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series welcomed poet and memoirist Joy Harjo. Program. His first attempt at an MFA was at Indiana University. Her short stories and essays have appeared in magazines such as Guernica, LitHub, Electric Literature, and Catapult, and her scholarship on Civil War literature has been published in various academic journals and essay collections. The University of Virginia Creative Writing Program is the home of a two-year, fully funded MFA program and undergraduate concentrations in poetry writing and literary prose. Many courses allow you to get out of the classroom and get lost in the archives and explore the world. Her work has also appeared in Glimmer Train, Oxford American, Ecotone, Tin House, New Stories from the South, and other journals and anthologies, and has been supported by fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, the Camargo Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She teaches fiction at the University of Chicago. program is ideal for you if you want to hone your literary writing skills without leaving your day-to-day life. © 2020 Cornell College. 4 courses in (repeatable) CRWR workshops; 1 course in a CRWR craft course; 1 course in CRWR elective: workshop or craft literature, 3 courses, ENGL 200-level program elective, 1 course, craft, literature, or professional seminar, as offered Their areas of expertise include multicultural literature, book arts, and American poetry. Teaches creative writing and American poetry courses and takes students to the Wilderness Field Station in Minnesota and to the Bahamas for nature writing courses. Whether exploring the theatre and cultural heritage of England, nature writing in northern Minnesota, the Anglophone literature of the Caribbean, or Chicago’s vibrant literary scene, your imagination is opened to new insights and possibilities. Mount Vernon, IA 52314. Cornell College He spent years as membership director of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. degree only, with concentrations in either poetry or fiction.