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INFO CLASSES VISITING WRITERS LINKS STUDENT WRITING ENGLISH DEPT.
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Charles D'Ambrosio Visiting Associate Professor , fall 2007 Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of The Point and Other Stories; Orphans, a collection of essays; and The Dead Fish Museum. His recent fiction has been published primarily in the New Yorker and collected in the Best American Short Stories, the O.Henry Prize and the Pushcart Anthology. Among other honors, he has received a Whiting Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest book was a finalist for PEN/Faulkner Award. |
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Peter Rock Associate Professor of Creative Writing, 2001- Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of the novels The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This Is the Place, and Carnival Wolves. His story collection, The Unsettling, was published in Spring, 2006. 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. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared widely. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. |
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Crystal Williams Assistant Professor, 2000- Crystal Williams is the author of Kin and Lunatic. Her poetry appears in magazines such as Luna, Fourth River, Callaloo, The Indiana Review, and in the anthologies: American Poetry: The Next Generation, Poetry Nation, Sweet Jesus, and Beyond the Frontier, among others. Her essays can be found in publications like Ms. Magazine, and Children of the Dream: Growing up Black in America. She has been a featured reader at venues across the country including: The National Arts Club, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her third manuscript of poems, titled, "Night Bloom & Other Parables," in addition to working on a collection of essays. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from New York University and a Master of Fine Arts from Cornell University. She lives with her dog Oliver—a dog's dog, a dog among dogs, the super duper top dog. |
Last Updated: August 24, 2007
