Creative Writing
Faculty
Jae Choi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, 2011-
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Jae Choi received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was both a Teaching-Writing Fellow and a postgraduate Alberta Metcalf Kelly Fellow. She has been published in the Iowa Review, Weekday, and Poor Claudia. She was the 2009 recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship and a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Last winter, she was an Artist-In-Residence at Caldera Arts and learned to wield a small axe. She is currently in the process of completing her first book of poems.
Peter Rock
Professor of Creative Writing, 2001-
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Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His most recent book is My Abandonment, which has won an Alex Award, the Utah Book Award, and been published in several countries, including Turkey. He is also the author of the novels The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This Is the Place, and Carnival Wolves, and a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and other awards, his new novel, The Raccoon and the Letter (about the end of the world in Montana in 1990), will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in late 2012 or early 2013.
Crystal Williams
Dean for Institutional Diversity & Associate Professor of Creative Writing, 2000-
(on administrative leave 2011-12)
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Crystal Williams is the author of three collections of poems, most recently Troubled Tongues, winner of the 2009 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize, finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award, and shortlisted for the Idaho Prize. Widely anthologized, her poems also appear in journals and publications like The American Poetry Review, 5AM, The Sun, Ms. Magazine, The Indiana Review, Court Green and Callaloo, among others. Raised in Detroit, Michigan and Madrid, Spain, she has just completed a fourth collection of poems, titled Walking The Cemetery: Detroit Poems. Crystal Williams holds a Bachelor of Arts from New York University, a Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University, and has received fellowships and grants from The MacDowell Arts Colony, the Oregon Arts Commission, and Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She really, really likes dogs, and is delighted to work on a dog-friendly campus.