Welcome Message

Welcome to the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program. The Creative Writing Program at NYU has distinguished itself for more than 20 years as a leading national center for the study of literature and writing. Permanent faculty members are E.L. Doctorow, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paule Marshall and Sharon Olds. Recent visiting faculty include acclaimed authors Anne Carson, Edna O'Brien, Derek Walcott, Eamon Grennan, Kimiko Hahn, Jayne Anne Phillips, Tom Sleigh, Marie Howe, Brian Morton, Marie Ponsot, Irini Spanidou, Edward Hirsch, Cornelius Eady, Mary Gaitskill, Susan Wheeler, Mark Doty, and Jean Valentine. Joining our faculty each year are South African writer Breyten Breytenbach, an NYU Distinguished Global Professor, Philip Levine, the Program's Distinguished Poet-in-Residence, and Chuck Wachtel, Clinical Associate Professor. And the program is distinguished also by its exceptional students--many of our gifted alumni have published critically acclaimed and award-winning books. (A list of alumni books can be viewed at the alumni link above).

The Creative Writing Program now occupies a lovely townhouse on West 10^th Street in the same Greenwich Village neighborhood where so many writers--James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Hart Crane, E.E. Cummings, Frank O’Hara, Mark Twain, Richard Wright, and Marianne Moore, to name just a few—have lived and worked.  The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House allows writers--established and emerging--to share their work in an inspiring setting.  Students come to the house to attend events, workshops, and craft classes, and also to gather informally, seeking out quiet corners in which to read and write. The beautiful reception floor, which features skylights and stained glass, is an ideal setting for the intimate readings, literary salons, panel discussions, book parties, lectures, and seminars that are held in the house throughout the year. The program also includes innovative literary outreach programs, teaching opportunities, a prominent reading series for visiting writers as well as an important student reading series, seminars with editors and publishers, and a nationally-recognized literary journal.

The NYU Creative Writing Program is a vital and dynamic center for writers and writing. If you would like to learn more about the program, please join us at one of our fall CWP Information Sessions.

Best wishes,

Deborah Landau
Director