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The Adelphi creative writing program attracts illustrious writers whose collective work spans fiction, poetry, and playwriting. In readings, classes, and seminars, these writers share their work and writing experience with students.
Past visitors to campus include:
- Jeffery Renard Allen (Rails Under My Back; Harbors and Spirits)
- Calvin Baker (Once Two Heroes; Dominion)
- Elizabeth Gaffney, former contributing editor of The Paris Review, current editor-at-large of A Public Space; novelist (Metropolis)
- Amy Hempel (Tumble Home; The Dog of the Marriage; Wavemaker II)
- Mary-Beth Hughes
- Sheila Kohler (Cracks; Children of Pithiviers)
- David Markson (Wittgenstein's Mistress; The Last Novel)
- Nuala O'Faolain (Are You Somebody; The Story of Chicago May)
- Martha Southgate (The Fall of Rome; Third Girl From the Left)
- Mike Albo, writer/solo performer (My Price Point; The Dazzle Dancers)
- Pascale Armande, actress (Four)
- Elizabeth Bennett, former literary manager (Manhattan Theatre Club; 2econdStage Theatre)
- Jorge Ignacio Corti (The Loyal Opposition)
- Peter Gaitens (Flesh & Blood, adapted from the novel by Michael Cunningham)
- David Greenspan (Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All In Vain; She Stoops to Comedy)
- Lisa Kron (2.5 Minute Ride, Well)
- Keith Nobbs, actor (Four; Dog Sees God)
- Lynn Nottage (Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Intimate Apparel)
- Edwin Sanchez (Trafficking in Broken Hearts; Clean)
- Christopher Shinn (Four; Other People)
- Bash Doran (A Living Room in Africa, Nest)
- Soman Chainani (Love Marriage, Kali Ma, Davy & Stu)
- Amy Fox (Heights, Farm Boys)
- Sally Ball (Annus Mirabilis; published in Four Way Books Press)
- Martha Collins (Blue Front; Catastrophe of Rainbows)
- Stephen Cramer (Shiva's Dream; published in Crab Orchard Review)
- Steven Cramer (Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand; Goodbye to the Orchard)
- Stuart Dischell (Evenings & Avenues; Dig Safe)
- B. H. Fairchild (The Art of the Lathe; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest)
- Ross Gay (Against Which)
- Duriel Harris (Drag)
- Matthea Harvey (Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form, Sad Little Breathing Machine)
- Terrance Hayes (Wind in a Box; Hip Logic)
- Edward Hirsch (For the Sleepwalkers; Lay Back the Darkness)
- Mark Jarman (To the Green Man; Unholy Sonnets)
- Jacqueline Johnson (A Gathering of Mother Tongues; Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power)
- Lawrence Joseph (Codes, Precepts, Biases and Taboos; Into It)
- Wayne Koestenbaum (Model Homes; Best Selling Jewish Porn Films)
- Donna Masini (That Kind of Danger; Turning to Fiction)
- Gail Mazur (The Common; They Can't Take That Away from Me)
- D. Nurkse (Burnt Island: Three Suites; The Fall)
- Ishle Park, Poet Laureate of Queens (The Temperature of This Water; HBO's Russell Simmons Presents: Def Poetry Jam)
- Molly Peacock (Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems; Original Love)
- Julie Sheehan (Thaw; Orient Point)
- Patricia Smith (Teahouse of the Almighty; Life According to Motown)
- Terese Svoboda (Mere Mortals; Treason)
- George Szirtes (An English Apocalypse; Reel)
- Mark Wunderlich (The Anchorage; Voluntary Servitude)
- Monica Youn (Barter; published in Fence)
Contact
For additional information, please contact:
M.F.A. Program
Harvey Hall, Room 215
p - 516.877.4044
e - mfa@adelphi.edu
This page last modified on November 14, 2007.
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