Writers-in-Residence
Every year, the MFA-Creative Writing program hosts several
writers for extended visits: these writers meet with the MFA
students in social settings, lead classroom discussions, read
manuscripts and provide mentoring and inspiration throughout their
stays. Recently, writers-in-residence have included: Jonathan Lethem, National Book
Critic's Circle Award winner in 2000 for Motherless Brooklyn; Alicia Erian, author of the
acclaimed coming-of-age novel, Towelhead; Jean Valentine, National Book
Award-winning poet; celebrated European poet Tomaz Salamun;
bestselling young adult author and YouTube star John Green (Paper
Towns, Looking for Alaska); and Lenore Marshall Award-winning poet
Linda Gregg (In the Middle Distance, All of It
Singing).Writers-in-Residence for 2012-2013 include: Pulitzer Prize
winning novelist and journalist Jennifer Egan; poet and prose
writer Laura Kasischke; poet Eduardo Corral; and prose writer Yiyun
Li.
Booth Tarkington Writer-in-Residence
The Booth Tarkington Writer-in-Residence, a program designed to
bring exciting, emerging writers to the program as guest faculty.
Our first Tarkington Writer-in-Residence, Michael Dahlie, author of A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful
Living, and winner of a Whiting Prize and the 2009
PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel joined our faculty
full-time as of August 2012. Our next Tarkington
Writer-in-Residence will be announced February, 2013.