Faculty
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Helen Schulman Named 2019 Guggenheim Fellow
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Fiction, MFA, TNS Lit Scene / April 16, 2019Helen Schulman, professor of writing and chair of the MFA in Creative Writing fiction program, has been named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. The prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, presen...
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Five Questions With Caron Levis
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / March 7, 2019Caron Levis is the author of the picture books, Stop That Yawn! (Atheneum, 2018); May I Have A Word? (FSG), Stuck with the Blooz (HMH), and Ida, Alwa...
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Five Questions With Madge McKeithen
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, MFA, Summer Writers Colony, TNS Lit Scene / January 29, 2019Madge McKeithen began teaching nonfiction writing at the New School in 2006, shortly after completing her MFA in the low-residency program at Queens University in Charlotte, NC, and publishing her fir...
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2018 Creative Writing Alumni and Faculty Books
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Poetry, TNS Lit Scene, Writing for Children and Young Adults / January 17, 2019The New School Creative Writing Program is proud to announce its list of 2018 alumni and faculty book publications. This year, 30 books have been published by alumni and former students of t...
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Five Questions With Helen Schulman
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, MFA, People, TNS Lit Scene / January 14, 2019Helen Schulman was born in New York City, where she lives, writes, teaches. She received a BA at Cornell University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She has published six nov...
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Five Questions With Honor Moore
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, MFA, Nonfiction, People / December 4, 2018Honor Moore's most recent book is The Bishop's Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent collection of poems is Red Shoes. She was a chief consultant f...
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Five Questions With Richard Tayson
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, MFA, People, Poetry / November 29, 2018Richard Tayson’s essays “Language Sideways: The Poetry of Addiction” and ”the volcano sequence as Fragmentary, Postmodern (and Yes, Feminist) Text” appear this fall in TheFix.com an...
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Five Questions with Mira Jacob
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, MFA, People / November 20, 2018Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata F...
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Sigrid Nunez Wins National Book Award
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Fiction, TNS Lit Scene / November 15, 2018MFA Creative Writing faculty member Sigrid Nunez has won the 2018 National Book Award for her novel The Friend. Announced last night at the National Book Award Ceremony in lower Manhattan, the pr...
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Five Questions With Robert Polito
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Lit, MFA, People, Poetry, Riggio Honors, TNS Lit Scene / October 29, 2018Robert Polito is a poet, essayist, editor, and biographer. Recent books include the poetry collection Hollywood & God and Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. He...
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Sigrid Nunez Named National Book Award Finalist
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Fiction, TNS Lit Scene / October 11, 2018Three cheers to Sigrid Nunez, a long-time faculty member in the Creative Writing Program, whose novel The Friend has been nominated for the National Book Award in Fiction. Sigrid has been on...
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Five Questions With Aditi Sriram
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, People, Summer Writers Colony, TNS Lit Scene / September 24, 2018Aditi Sriram teaches Critical Thinking and Creative Writing at Ashoka. She has written for several international publications including The Washington Post, The New York ...
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Five Questions With Susan Shapiro
By Nicole Drayton / in Current Students, Faculty, MFA, New & Forthcoming, Nonfiction, People, TNS Lit Scene / September 20, 2018Susan Shapiro is the bestselling author/co-author of 12 books including the acclaimed memoirs “Five Men Who Broke My Heart,” “Lighting Up” (Random House) and “The Bosnia List” (Penguin Books.) Her...
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Five Questions With John Reed
By Nicole Drayton / in Faculty, Fiction, TNS Lit Scene / September 19, 2018[caption id="attachment_78832" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo credit: Natalie Keyssar[/caption] John Reed is author of A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster),...
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Summer Photo Contest #LiterarySwag
By Nicole Drayton / in Continuing Education, Current Students, Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Summer 2018 Events, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate, Writing for Children and Young Adults / June 19, 2018This summer, join the #LiterarySwag movement, launched on Instagram by Yahdon Israel, MFA Creative Writing graduate (2016), by sharing your most creative photograph that brings together liter...
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Benjamin Taylor wins L.A. Times Book Prize
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Nonfiction, TNS Lit Scene / February 27, 2018Benjamin Taylor, long-time faculty member of the MFA in Creative Writing Program, has been awarded the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose from the L.A. Times Book Prizes for his me...
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THE NEW SCHOOL @ AWP 2018
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Graduates, TNS Lit Scene / February 12, 2018The New School will once again be featured at #AWP18, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. This year's conference will be held in Tampa, Florida, from Wedne...
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Creative Writing Faculty Member Dave Johnson Receives Grant for Free Verse project
By Ben Fama / in Faculty, TNS Lit Scene, Undergraduate / January 22, 2018The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has awarded New School Creative Writing faculty member Dave Johnson's Free Verse journal a grant to expand its programing with the NYC Depart...
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Best Books of 2017
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty, Fiction, Graduates, MFA, Nonfiction, Writing for Children and Young Adults / December 18, 2017Of the 37 books published by Creative Writing Program alumni in 2017, and the 10 books published by program faculty, eight books have landed on Best Books of 2017 lists. Best Books Lists featuring New...
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Remembering The Hour Before Puberty: An Interview with Benjamin Taylor
By Creative Writing at The New School / in Faculty / October 2, 2017By Felicity LuHill Benjamin Taylor is one of a very select few who can say he shook the hand of a president on the day that president was assassinated. And so starts his new memoir, The Hue and Cry...
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