Liz Duffy Adams’ plays have been produced Off Broadway and around the country, including at Seattle Rep and the Magic Theater. Honors include a New Dramatists residency (2001–2008), Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Will Glickman Award, and MacDowell Colony residencies. Publications include Or, in Smith & Kraus’ “Best Plays Of 2010,” and Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause’s “Best American Short Plays 2000-2001.”  

Ms. Adams’ work in the 2012/2013 season will include the premiere of The Buccaneers at Children’s Theater Company, Minneapolis; a French translation of her Train Play at the Des Voix Festival in Paris; and a workshop of A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World at the PlayPenn festival in Philadelphia.

Courses:
English Camr. Intermediate Playwriting: Workshop
English Ckr. Introduction to Playwriting: Workshop 

Darcy Frey is the author of The Last Shot (Houghton-Mifflin, 1994), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and George Divoky's Planet (forthcoming from Pantheon). He has also been a Contributing Editor for Harper's Magazine and a longtime Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, for which he has written about science, medicine, technology, music, art and the environment. His essays and journalism have been anthologized in Best American Essays and Best American Science Writing. His honors include a National Magazine Award, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and an award for public service from the Society for Professional Journalists.

On The Last Shot: "Darcy Frey writes as balletically as the young men in this book play basketball. This is not, however, a book about basketball but about the American Dream". A spellbinding book. --Ken Auletta "Soars toward the basket". A brilliant portrait of what has gone wrong in our cities and, by extension, in our country. --The Chicago Tribune

Courses:
English Cnfr. Introduction to Creative Nonfiction: Workshop
English Cnnr. Advanced Creative Nonfiction: Workshop

Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, is a former director of the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her 1996 volume, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994, won the Pulitzer Prize. Other collections of poems include Never (Harper Collins, 2002), Overlord (Ecco, 2005), Sea Change (Ecco 2008), and her most recent work Place (Ecco 2012).

On The Dream of the Unified Field "Everything comes together here - the voice like the wind that somehow marshalls itself out of kitchen daydreams and prosaic events into utterance that swings with the conviction of Blake's...(Graham) is one of the finest poets writing today." --JOHN ASHBERY

Courses:
English Capr. Poetry: Workshop
English Cpwr. Poetry: Workshop

Amy Hempel, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction, has taught at Bennington College, Brooklyn College, The New School, and Princeton University. Her Collected Stories was named as one of The New York Times' Ten Best Books of the year.

Bibliography Reasons to Live (1985) At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990) Tumble Home (1997) The Dog of the Marriage (2005) The Collected Stories (2006)

Courses:
English Cwar. Advanced Fiction: Workshop
English Cwfr. Introductory Fiction: Workshop

Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of Creative Writing, is the author of the bestselling Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and the internationally acclaimed Corpus Christi: Stories, both from Random House. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Independent of London and The Irish Times, the collection has won numerous awards, including the Glasgow Prize. His work appears in magazines such as The Paris Review, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Tin House. In 2006, he received a National Book Award honor for young novelists. For more information, his website is: www.bretanthonyjohnston.com

On Naming the World.. Not only is Naming the World a rich compendium of provocative prompts, but as a whole it serves as a timely conversation of the larger aesthetic of well-made fiction, a roomful of caring experts. Mr. Johnston, by assembling these worthy exercises, has done us all a valuable favor. -Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies and The Hotel Eden With charm and intelligence, Naming the World touches on nearly every teachable aspect of the devilishly difficult art of writing fiction. -Ethan Canin, author of America America

On Corpus Christi... "Here arrives an author with a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue and a dead-on eye for conjuring an entire universe with one simple detail. Johnston 's genius lies in weaving a web of optimism around a series of difficult topics. [I]f they are read as they seem destined to be -- obsessively, in one sitting -- their rapt audience will turn the last page with a profound sense of calm." - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "Corpus Christi, Texas, provides the setting for Johnston's debut collection of ten hard-eyed, soulful stories, but it is primarily a country of the mind. These stories are large hearted, and intense. In their pathos, to quote C. S. Lewis on Chaucer, "every fluctuation of gnawing hope, every pitiful subterfuge of the flattering imagination, is held up to our eyes without mercy" (The Allegory of Love); and yet their effect is spiritually bracing. We are human to the last." - BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE

Courses:
English Crr. Fiction Writing: Workshop
English Ctr. Advanced Fiction Writing: Workshop

After many years writing for professional theater companies as well as scripting industrial films and children's television, Danny Rubin began writing screenplays. His screen credits include "Hear No Evil," "S.F.W.," and "Groundhog Day," for which he received the British Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Critics' Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year, as well as honors from the Writers Guild of America and the American Film Institute.

Rubin has taught screenwriting in Chicago at the University of Illinois, Columbia College, and the National High School Institute; at the Sundance Institute in Utah; the PAL Screenwriting Lab in England; the Chautauqua Institution in New York; and in New Mexico at the College of Santa Fe.

For more information see Danny's website and blog (the "Blogus groundhogus") at www.dannyrubin.com

Courses:
English Clr. Introduction to Screenwriting: Workshop
English Calr. Advanced Screenwriting: Workshop

Peter Sacks is the author of five collections of poetry, In These Mountains (Macmillan, 1985), Promised Lands (Viking/Penguin,1990), Natal Command (Chicago, 1998), O Wheel (Georgia, 2000), and Necessity (W.W. Norton & Company, 2002); and of The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats (Johns Hopkins, 1986). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Boulevard, The Paris Review, and other publications.

On Natal Command "These are poems of hopelessness, of despair, yet they are restorative in their waves of clear interrogative light, their keen and moving exactitude." -- CAROL MUSKE in The New York Times Book Review

Courses: No creative writing courses offered in 2012-2013.