Creative Writing Faculty
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please contact the Creative Writing Department at the phone number below.
MAXINE CHERNOFF, Chair (see below, under fiction)
STACY DORIS, author of Conference, Potes & Poets, 2001; Paramour, Krupskaya, 2000; Kildare,
Roof, 1995. Also the author, in French, of Une
Annee a New York
avec Chester,
2000, and La Vie de Chester Steven Wiener ecrite
par sa femme, 1998.
Co-editor of three collections of French poetry in translation: (with Chet
Wiener) Christophe Tarkos: Ma Langue est Poetique--Selected
Work, 2001; (with Norma Cole) Twenty-two New (to North
America) French Poets, 1997; (with Emmanuel Hocquard) Violence of the White Page, Contemporary
French Poetry in Translation, 1992. Translator, from French, of Everything
Happens by Dominique Fourcade, Post Apollo, 2001,
and Tracing by Ryoko Sekiguchi,
Duration, 2003. Residency, Cite Internationale des
Arts, Paris, 1999-2001; Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Poetry, 1994-95;
Fund for Poetry Award, 1993; Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, 1992.
CAMILLE DUNGY, What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for
Poison (Red Hen Press 2006). Assistant Editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s
First Decade (University
of Michigan Press, 2006).
She has received fellowships from organizations including the National
Endowment for the Arts (2003), The Virginia Commission for the Arts (2004),
Cave Canem (2001), and the American Antiquarian
Society (2005). Recent poems have appeared in such journals and
anthologies as The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Mid-American
Review, The Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, From the Fishouse, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South
(2006) ed. Nikky Finney, and Wompology:The Wompo
Collective Project, ed. Moira Richards (2007).
ROBERT GLUCK (see below, under fiction)
PAUL HOOVER, Fables of Representation: Essays (University of Michigan Press, 2004), and nine poetry
collections, including Winter (Mirror)
(Flood Editions, 2002), Rehearsal in Black (Salt Publications, 2001), Totem
and Shadow: New & Selected Poems (Talisman House, 1999), and Viridian
(University of Georgia Press, 1997). He has also published a novel, Saigon, Illinois
(Vintage Contemporaries, 1988), a chapter of which appeared in The New
Yorker. Editor of the anthology Postmodern American
Poetry (W. W. Norton, 1994) and the literary magazine New American
Writing (with Maxine Chernoff). Jerome J. Shestack
Prize for best poetry published in American Poetry Review, 2002. Carl
Sandberg Award for poetry, 1987. General Electric Foundation
Award for Younger Writers, 1984. NEA Fellowship in
Poetry, 1980.
DANIEL J. LANGTON, author of Querencia,
University of Missouri Press (Devins Award), l975; The
Inheritance, a play produced by the Julian Theatre, 1980; The Hogarth-Selkirk
Letters, 1985; Life Forms, Cheltenham Press, l995; Greatest Hits,
2000. Poems in Three Penny Review, Atlantic Monthly, Paris
Review, The Nation, The American Scholar, The Iowa Review,
and other magazines and journals. Winner of the Devins Award for Poetry, the Hart Crane Award, the London Prize, the
Browning Award, and the Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Award.
Toni Mirosevich, author of Pink Harvest (
Mid-List Press, 2007), winner of the First Series in Creative Nonfiction Award
and a 2007 Lambda Literary Award finalist; Queer Street (Custom Words,
2005), My Oblique Strategies (Thorngate Road, 2005) winner of the Frank
O’Hara Award Chapbook Award, The Rooms We Make Our Own (Firebrand Books,
1996) and co-author of Trio: Toni Mirosevich, Charlotte Muse, Edward
Smallfield (Specter Press, 1995). Pushcart nominations in poetry (2005,
2006, 2007), Astraea Foundation Emerging Lesbian Writer in Fiction Award, 1999.
Fellowships with the MacDowell Colony (2004), Djerassi Resident Artists Program
(2005), and Espy Literary Foundation (2004, 2007). Writings anthologized in Best
of the Bellevue Literary Review, Best American Travel Writing, The
Impossible Will Take A Little While, AutoBioDiversity, Revenge and Forgiveness,
Against Certainty: Poets for Peace. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction
published in Utne, Gastronomica, Five Fingers Review, Puerto del Sol, The
Journal, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Zyzzyva and elsewhere. Served as
Associate Director of the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives from
1996-1998.
MICHELLE CARTER, Ampersand Man, ukulele
opera (London 2009). Extra Innings, Baseball Plays (West
Coast tour 2008). Kings Play Chess on Fine Green Satin (Sloan
commission 2007). Donmar Theater residency (London 2005). Ted
Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs (Donmar
residency, London 2005; Clurman Theatre NY 2005; Magic Theatre SF 2002).
Snickerdoodles in Hell (Abingdon
Theatre NY 2005).
Let the Pony Sing (Mark Taper Forum, LA 2005). Hillary
and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties (Seattle 2004, San Francisco 1999).
PEN Literary Award in Drama (2003 and 2000). Garland Award for Playwriting (2000). American Theatre Critics Association Award finalist (2000).
Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award finalist for composing (2000) and best
new play (2002). Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference
finalist (1996, 1997). Music director/composer: Ted Kaczynski
Killed People With Bombs; Waiting Room Germany;
Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties (with Randy Craig). Publications: Ted
Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs (Dramatic Publishing 2007), Prometheus
in Plays for Actresses (Vintage Books, 2002); Hillary and Soon-Yi
Shop for Ties (Dramatic Publishing, 2000); 30 short stories and essays
(1984-97); On Other Days While Going Home, novel (Penguin, 1989, Morrow
1988); managing editor, John L'Heureux ed., The
Uncommon Touch, Stanford University Press (1989). N.E.A. grant, fiction
(1988).
NONA CASPERS,
National Endowment for the Arts Grant (2008). Heavier than Air:
Stories (University
of Massachusettes Press
Dec. 2006) winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction & Editor's
Choice New York Times Book Review (February 25, 2007). Fellowship for
Writer in Residence OSU MFA program (2007), Iowa
Review Award in Fiction (2003). National Grant and Literary Award in
Fiction from Barbara Demming
Memorial Foundation (2000, 1989). Joseph Henry Jackson
Literary Award in Fiction (1995). Honorable
Mention Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction (1994). Salt Hill National Literary Fiction Award (2001). Henfield Selection
for Excellence in Fiction, SFSU, (1992). Pushcart Nomination (1990),
author of The Blessed (Silverleaf Press,
1991); Voyages Out 2 with Julie Blackwomon
(Seal Press, 1990). Stories anthologized in HERS 2 & 3: Anthology
of Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers (Faber and Faber), Bless Me Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood,
Women on Women 2 (Plume). Journals include Ontario Review,
Iowa Review, Cimmarron Review, 14
Hills: SFSU Review, etc.
MAXINE CHERNOFF, Chair, author of Some of Her Friends That Year
(Coffee House Press, 2002); A Boy in Winter (Crown, 1999), American
Heaven (Coffee House Press, 1996), Signs of Devotion (Simon and
Schuster, l993), Plain Grief (Summit,
l991), and Bop (Vintage, l987). Also the author of seven collections of poems: Evolution of the Bridge (Salt
Publishing, 2004), World: Poems (Salt Publishing, 2002), Leap Year
Day (ACP, 1991), Japan
(Avenue B Press, l988), New Faces of l952 (Ithaca House, l985), Utopia
TV Store (The Yellow Press, l979) and A Vegetable Emergency (Beyond
Baroque Foundation, l977). Poetry and fiction published in The Paris Review,
Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Story, Partison
Review, North American Review, Triquarterly,
and Conjunctions. Frequent reviewer for the New
York Times and the Chicago Tribune. P.E.N Syndicated Fiction
Award, l985. New York Times Notable Book, 1993.
Editor (with Paul Hoover) of New American Writing.
ROBERT GLUCK, author of nine books of poetry and fiction, most
recently Denny Smith, Clear Cut Press, 2003; as well as Jack the
Modernist, High Risk Press, 1995; Margery Kempe,
High Risk Press, 1994; Elements of a Coffee Service, Four Seasons Foundation,
1982; and Reader, Lapis Press, 1989. Poetry and fiction published in New
Directions Anthology (1988), Best New Gay Fiction 1988 and 1996, Best
American Erotica 1996, The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction, and
other anthologies. Critical articals appeared in Poetics
Journal, The London Times Literary Supplement, Artforum
International, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction. He writes for
Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors. Gluck was an
Associate Editor at Lapis Press, Director of Small Press Traffic Literary
Center, and Director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State.
California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002,
and a San Francisco
Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant in 2003. He prefaced Between Life and
Death, a book of Frank Moore's paintings published by Twin Palms. He's the
editor of Narrativity, a website on narrative theory. Named as one of the ten best postmodern fiction writers in North America by the Dictionary of Literary Biography,
1994.
PETER ORNER, author of Esther Stories (Houghton-Mifflin,
2002), a finalist for the Pen-Hemingway Award, winner of the Samuel Goldberg
& Sones Foundation Prize for Jewish Fiction by
Emerging Writers, and a finalist for the Young Lions Award for Fiction from the
New York Public Library. Rome Prize from the American
Academy of Arts and
Letters, 2002/2003. Fiction published in the Atlantic Monthly, The
Southern Review, Bomb, Paris Review and Black Warrior
Review, among other journals. Stories anthologized in Best American
Short Stories 2001, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Lost Tribe:
Jewish Fiction From the Edge. James
Michener Award, 2000.
MICHELLE CARTER (see above, under fiction)
ROY CONBOY, playwright. Plays produced: Drive
My Coche, Teatro
Esperanza and San Francisco State University, 1999; Mark Taper Forum in Los
Angeles, 2000; Suburban Canciones, Studio
Theatre and Teatro Esperanza (S.F.), 1998; When El
Cucui Walks, Seattle Group Theatre and Teatro Esperanza (S.F.), 1995; Camino Confusion/
Confusion Street, SFSU, l993; Dancing With the Missing, San
Francisco, l992; El Canto Del Roble/The Song of
the Oak, PCPA Theatrefest, Santa Maria CA, l991; Hot
Tamale/Tamale Caliente, PCPA Theatrefest, Santa
Maria CA, l991; No Mas Suenos/No
More Dreams, PCPA Theatrefest, l990; Camino
Confusion, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, l990; Buscando
American/Seeking America, Multi-Cultural Playwrights Festival, Seattle
Group Theatre, l988; Strictly a Formality, Theatre Rhinoceros, San
Francisco, l987; Visitors to My Room, finalist in l979 Playwright's Open
Circle Competition, Goucher College; and others.
Paul Bailiff, Dodie Bellamy, Catherine Brady,
Phyllis Burke, Lewis Buzbee, May-lee Chai, Norma Cole, Dan Coshnear,
Matthew Clark Davison, Mary DeNardo, Donna de la Perriere, Steve Dickison, Thaisa Frank, Anne Galjour, Susan
Gevirtz, Jewelle Gomez, Alice
La Plante, Michael Palmer, Ann Packer, Frances
Phillips, Elizabeth Robinson, Camille Roy, Karl Soehnlein,
Terese Svoboda, Brian Thorstenson,
Barbara Tomash, Troung
Tran, Gail Tsukiyama, Marianne Villanueva, Laura
Walker, Chet Wiener
Complete information on some of these writers can be found in Contemporary
Authors.
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last updated April 9, 2007 by Barbara Eaton
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