Writing (MFA) Faculty
’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. Her debut collection of stories, Ghostroots, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her debut novel, One Leg on Earth, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in May 2026.
Edward Carey is a writer and illustrator whose books include The Iremonger Trilogy; Observatory Mansions; Little; The Swallowed Man; and Edith Holler. His artwork has been exhibited in Britain, Ireland, Italy, and America; his essays and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Observer, Corriere della Serra, and La Repubblica. Named a Guggenheim fellow in 2019, his writing has been translated in over twenty-five languages.
Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased and the novel All the World Beside, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America.
The acclaimed innovative and lyrical poetry of Michael Dumanis investigates childhood and parenthood, migration and diaspora, dislocation, mortality, and ecological extinction.
Monica Ferrell is the author of three books of fiction and poetry, most recently the collection You Darling Thing (Four Way, 2018), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and Believer Book Award in Poetry.
Carmen Giménez is Publisher and Director of Graywolf Press and author of six collections of poetry, including Be Recorder, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Thomas Grattan is the author of the novels The Recent East and In Tongues, both published by MCD Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Samantha Hunt is the author of The Unwritten Book, essays about death and literature; The Seas about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; and The Invention of Everything Else about Nikola Tesla.
Luis Jaramillo is the author of The Witches of El Paso. He is also the author of the award-winning short story collection The Doctor’s Wife. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, BOMB Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. He is an associate professor of Creative Writing at The New School. Photo by Matthew Brookshire.
Robert Wood Lynn is a poet from Virginia. His debut collection Mothman Apologia (2022 Yale University Press) was the winner of the 2021 Yale Younger Poets prize and the 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His work has been featured in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Poetry Magazine, The Yale Review, and other publications. He teaches poetry at Juilliard and cohosts the DGN Reading Series in Brooklyn, New York.
Rebecca Makkai is the author of the New York Times bestselling I Have Some Questions for You, as well as the novels The Great Believers (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal), The Borrower, and The Hundred-Year House, and the story collection Music for Wartime.
Randall is the author of six collections of poetry, including Deal: New and Selected Poems. He is also the author of a book of criticism, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry.
Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the poetry collections Tsim Tsum and The Babies, the story collection Wild Milk, and the essay collection Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales.
Stuart Nadler is the author of three novels and a short story collection. His new novel, Rooms for Vanishing, will be published early next year.
Emily Nemens is the author of the novels The Cactus League (2020) and the forthcoming Clutch. She spent a dozen years editing literary quarterlies, including leading The Paris Review, and serving as co-editor and prose editor of The Southern Review.
Photo by James Emmerman.
Lance Richardson is the author of two internationally acclaimed books, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (2025), and House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row (2018). He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a year-long residency at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Shawna Kay Rodenberg is the author of the memoir Kin. She has been the recipient of a Jean Ritchie Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, and her essays have appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, and Elle.
Moriel Rothman-Zecher is the author of the novels Before All the World (FSG), which was named an NPR Best Book of 2022, and Sadness Is a White Bird (Atria Books), for which Rothman-Zecher received the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Honor, and the poetry collection I Still Won't Have Known, which is forthcoming from BOA Editions. Photo by Laurence Kesterson.
Hugh Ryan is the author of When Brooklyn Was Queer, The Women's House of Detention, and My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer ’90s and Beyond (forthcoming, May 2026). With actor/activist Peppermint, he hosts the Queer 101 Bookclub & Podcast. Photo by Tim McMath.
Carter Sickels is the author of the novels The Prettiest Star (2020) and The Evening Hour (2012). His writing has appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, and Guernica. He is the 2024 recipient of Lambda Literary’s Duggins Prize for Outstanding Mid-Career LGBTQ Novelists.
Taymour Soomro is the author of the novel Other Names for Love and the co-editor of the essay collection Letters to a Writer of Color. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Photo by Jorge Monedero.
Craig Morgan Teicher is the Director of Special Projects for the Writing Seminars and the author of four books of poetry, most recently Welcome to Sonnetville, New Jersey. He was a 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and his next book of poems will be published in 2026.
Joshua Wheeler is the author of the essay collection Acid West, which was named a best book of 2018 by Newsweek, The Paris Review, and O, The Oprah Magazine. He’s written for The New York Times, Alta, and Harper’s Magazine. His novel, The High Heaven, was published in 2025 by Graywolf Press. Originally from Alamogordo, New Mexico, Wheeler now lives in New Orleans and teaches at Louisiana State University.
De’Shawn Charles Winslow is the author of Decent People, and In West Mills, which was a Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner. His third novel will be published in 2026.
Mark Wunderlich is author of five books of poetry, and his poems, interviews, reviews, and translations have appeared in journals such as The New Yorker, Slate, The Paris Review, and Poetry, and in more than 30 anthologies. His new book, MATEY, is forthcoming from Graywolf.