Alix Ohlin is the author of six books, most recently We Want What We Want: Stories (2021). Her 2019 novel Dual Citizens, like her novel Inside, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She lives in Vancouver, where she is the Director of the UBC School of Creative Writing.
Peter Orner is the author of Maggie Brown & Others, a novella and stories, two story collections, Esther Stories and Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, two novels, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love, and a book of essays/ memoir, Am I Alone Here?, a Finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award. A new collection of essays, Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin came out in October, 2022. Peter is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Fulbright Foundations, and his fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Granta, and Best American Stories. Peter has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Northwestern, the University of Montana, Bard College, Charles University (Prague), the University of Namibia, and San Francisco State University. He currently directs the Creative Writing program at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont.
Michael Parker is the author of seven novels and three collections of stories. He has received fellowships in fiction from the NC Arts Council and the NEA, as well as the Hobson Award for Arts & Letters. He recently retired from UNC Greensboro and has taught with us since 2006.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of Heaven (FSG, 2015) and The Ground (FSG, 2012). He is the recipient of a a Whiting Writers’ Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Hanna Pylväinen is the author of the novel We Sinners, which received the 2012 Whiting Award, and the novel The End of Drum-Time, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and LitHub. She is the recipient of residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Lásságámmi Foundation, as well as fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, among others.
Robin Romm is the author of The Mercy Papers and The Mother Garden. She recently edited Double Bind: Women on Ambition, a collection of essays by brilliant women on the subject of female striving. She has taught in our Program since 2013.
Alan Shapiro is the author of fourteen books of poetry, as well as works of fiction and criticism. Among has awards are the Kingsley Tufts Award, an LA Times Book Award in poetry, two fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations. Alan joined our faculty in 2008.
Joan Silber is the author of eight books of fiction and The Art of Time in Fiction. Her recent novel, Improvement, won the National Books Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence and first taught in our program in 1986.
Bennett Sims is the author of the novel A Questionable Shape, which received the Bard Fiction Prize, and the story collection White Dialogues. He is a recipient of a fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. He teaches at the University of Iowa.
Anna Solomon is the author of the novels The Book of V., Leaving Lucy Pear, and The Little Bride. Her short stories, essays, and criticism have appeared in One Story, Ploughshares, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Tablet, The Los Angeles Times, and Slate, among other publications. Co-editor with Eleanor Henderson of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers, she is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Bread Loaf, and elsewhere, and has twice been awarded the Pushcart Prize. Previously she worked as an award-winning journalist for NPR’s Living On Earth. Anna holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop.
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