Alumni
Alumni of the writing program include Heather McHugh, Es'kia Mphahlele, Njabulo Ndebele, Mark Harris, Reginald McKnight, Maureen McCoy, Nicholas Samaras, Annie Dawid, Michael White, Paul Kafka, Kristen Iversen, Christine Hume, Malinda Markham, Dan Beachy-Quick, Catherine Kasper, Amy England, Jen Bervin, Joanna Howard, Richard Greenfield, J. Eric Miller, Janet Bland, Aaron Gwyn, and Paul Fattaruso.
Recent Visitors
The 2006-2007 visitors were Rebecca Brown, Anne Waldman, Brenda Coultas, Dara Wier, Gary Lutz, and Bhanu Kapil.
The 2005-2006 visitors were Lydia Davis, Robert Glück, Lance Olsen, Don Revell, and Claudia Keelan.
In the last dozen years, these luminaries have visited: Aleksandar Hemon, Shelley Jackson, Richard Powers, Jorie Graham, Cliff Chase, George Saunders, Rosmarie Waldrop, Michael Palmer, Keith Waldrop, Bei Dao, Michael Martone, Diane Williams, Su Friedrich, Lynne Tillman, Joan Retallack, Grace Paley, Ben Marcus, Marjorie Perloff, James Welch, Diane Williams, Patricia Powell, Forrest Gander, Elizabeth Robinson, Jennifer Moxley, Steve Evans, Catherine Wagner, Martin Corless-Smith, Steve McCaffery, Charles Simic, C.D. Wright, John Yau, Harry Mathews, Lyn Hejinian, Eli Gottlieb, Amitav Ghosh, Mary Caponegro, Czeslaw Milosz, Arthur Sze, Carole Maso, Erin Moure, Josip Novakovich, Laura Mullen, John Ashbery, Alphonso Lingis, and Robert Creeley.
Recent Long Term and Visiting Faculty
Cole Swensen, Brian Evenson, Rikki Ducornet, Beth Nugent, Robert Glück, Cecilia Vicuna, Elizabeth Willis, Donald Revell, Mark Irwin, William Wiser, Ann Lauterbach, and Susan Howe.