Undergraduate Faculty

2007-2008

Marilyn Bowering is an award-winning novelist, poet and playwright whose first novel, To All Appearances A Lady, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other titles include three novels: Visible Worlds, shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize and nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Prize, Cat's Pilgrimage and What it Takes to Be Human, and a collection of poems, Green.

Lee Briccetti was born in Italy and raised in the United States. She currently lives in New York City where she has been the long-time executive director of Poets House, a national poetry archive and literary center. She has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her book of poetry, Day Mark, was published in 2005 by Four Way Books.

Marcelle Clements' most recent novel is Midsummer. Her other books include The Dog Is Us, Rock Me, and The Improvised Woman. She has written essays and articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post, BookForum, Esquire, Elle, Ms., Premiere, Rolling Stone and the Village Voice.

Rachel DeWoskin is the author of Foreign Babes in Beijing (W.W. Norton, 2005). She holds a B.A. from Columbia University in English and an M.A. from Boston University in poetry. Her essays and poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Seneca Review, Nerve Magazine, Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and Teachers & Writers Magazine. The recipient of an American Academy of Poets Award in 2000 and a Grolier Poetry Prize in 2002, she is the Associate Poetry Editor of Agni Magazine.

Elaine Equi is the author of The Cloud of Knowable Things (Coffee House Press, 2003), as well as numerous other collections of poetry including Surface Tension, Decoy, and Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and in Best American Poetry (1989, 1995, 2002, and 2005). In addition to NYU, she teaches in the New School’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and in the graduate program at City College.

Robert Fitterman is the author of nine books of poetry including: Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edge Books), winner of the Small Press Traffic “Book of the Year Award” in 2003, and Metropolis 1-15 (Sun & Moon Press), which received the Sun & Moon “New American Poetry Award” in 2000. With novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa, he co-authored the film What Sebastian Dreamt, a selection of the Sundance Film Festival (2004) and the Lincoln Center Latin Beat Festival (2004). A full-time faculty member in NYU’s General Studies Program since 1993, he has also taught at Bard College, Bennington College, and St. Mark’s Poetry Project.

George Foy is the author of eleven novels and one nonfiction book. His most recent novel, The Art and Practice of Explosion, won honorary mention in Foreword's Best Novel of the Year competition, and his novel Shift was finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award in literary science fiction. A recipient of an NEA fellowship, he has written for Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Men's Journal, and has worked as a merchant marine officer, magazine editor, commercial fisherman, and chief cream-pastry-transporter in a sweets factory.

Bonnie Friedman is the author of Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life and The Thief of Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy. Her work has been widely anthologized, and was selected for inclusion in The Best American Movie Writing and The Best Writing on Writing. She has also published in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and many other eminent magazines.

Paul Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy, Famous Builder, and the forthcoming Lumina Harbor. He’s taught at Cornell, Sarah Lawrence, Antioch-Los Angeles, Bread Loaf, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he serves on the Writing Committee.

Meera Nair was born and raised in India and came to the United States in 1997 to study creative writing. She received an M.A. from Temple University and an M.F.A. from New York University, where she was a New York Times Foundation fellow. Her stories have been published in The Threepenny Review and Calyx. Video, a collection of her short stories was published in 2002.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of Rise Up (2007) and A Green Light (2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize.  He is also the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (W.W. Norton, 1994), a winner of the National Poetry Series, Satellite (2001), and Nice Hat. Thanks (2002, with Joshua Beckman), the recipient of a Hopwood Award for Poetry and an M.F.A from the University of Iowa.

Mark Rudman is the author of seven volumes of poetry and three of prose. He is the winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for Rider, the Max Hayward Award for his translation of Boris Pasternak’s My Sister—Life, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations, the National Endowment on the Arts, and the New York State Council of the Arts. His book Realm of Unknowing was selected by Joyce Carol Oates as one of the best nonfiction books of the 20th century. His poems and essays appear in the New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Harper’s, and many anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and Best American Essays.

Irini Spanidou is the author of three highly acclaimed novels: Fear, God’s Snake, and, most recently, Before. Her work has been translated into several languages, including her native Greek. She has taught creative writing at New York University, Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn College.

Darin Strauss is the author of the international bestseller Chang and Eng, and the New York Times Notable Book The Real McCoy, one of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember of 2002." His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and he teaches writing at New York University, for which he won a 2005 "Outstanding Dozen" teaching award. Also a screenwriter, Darin sold the rights to Chang and Eng to Disney, and is currently adapting the novel for the screen with the actor Gary Oldman. Another screenplay on which he collaborated is in pre-production at Paramount Studios. His new novel More Than It Hurts You, will be published in June 2008, with a book of short-stories and non-fiction essays, Truth and Lies, set to come out later in the year. Darin was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing.