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2008-2009 Visiting Faculty

Nicholas Christopher
Lydia Davis
Kimiko Hahn
Marie Howe
Jonathan Lethem
Brian Morton
Francine Prose
Charles Simic
Irini Spanidou
Susan Wheeler

2007-2008 Visiting Faculty

Anne Carson joins the Creative Writing Program as a Distinguished Writer in Residence and is the author of, among other titles, Autobiography of Red, Men in the Off Hours, and Decreation: Opera, Essays, Poetry. She was twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; was honored with the 1996 Lannan Award and the 1997 Pushcart Prize, both for poetry; and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000. In 2001 she received the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry­, the first woman to do so; the Griffin Poetry Prize; and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan.

Nicholas Christopher has published fourteen books: five novels, The Soloist, Veronica, A Trip to the Stars, Franklin Flyer, and most recently The Bestiary; eight books of poetry, On Tour with Rita, A Short History of the Island of Butterflies, Desperate Characters: A Novella in Verse, In the Year of the Comet, 5°, The Creation of the Night Sky, and Atomic Field: Two Poems. His most recent collection is Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2004. He is also the author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City, and he edited two poetry anthologies: Under 35 and Walk on the Wild Side: Urban American Poetry Since 1975. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of Amerian poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Eamon Grennan is the author of several volumes of poetry including Wildly for Days; What Light There Is; As if it Matters; and Relations: New and Selected Poems.  His latest collection is Still Life With Waterfall.  His Leopardi: Selected Poems won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and he has published a collection of critical essays, Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century.  He is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is originally from Dublin and presently teaches at Vassar College.

Phillis Levin is the author of three poetry collections, Temples and Fields, The Afterimage, and Mercury. She is also the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. She has been the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Grant, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and is an Elector of the American Poets Corner of The Cathedral of St. John the Divine.  She has taught English and Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, The New School University and is currently Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Hofstra University.

Brian Morton is the author of the novels The Dylanist, Starting Out in the Evening, finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award, A Window Across the River, and most recently Breakable You. He is the recipient of the Koret Jewish Book Award for fiction, the Academy Award in Literature from the Academy of American Arts & Letters, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He has taught at the New School for Social Research, Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University.

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. 

Susan Wheeler is the author of four collections of poetry, Bag ‘o’ Diamonds; Smokes; Source Codes; and Ledger, and the novel Record Palace. Her awards include the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. On the creative writing faculties at Princeton University and the New School’s graduate program, she has also taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Rutgers, and New York University.