WRITERS AT CORNELL. - J. Robert Lennon

Nicholson Baker is a novelist and essayist, the author of the acclaimed novels The Mezzanine, Room Temperature and Vox, ... Read more

Ron Hansen is the author of ten works of fiction and a collection of essays. He is particularly known for his meticulous... Read more

Catherine Chung was born in Evanston, IL, attended college in Chicago, and studied fiction writing at Cornell University... Read more

Carl Phillips was born in 1959. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Speak Low and Quiver of Arro... Read more

A New York native, Michael Silverblatt graduated from the State University of New York in Buffalo and later took advance... Read more

Robert Hass is the author of many books of poetry, including The Apple Trees at Olema; Time and Materials, which won the... Read more

Alexi Zentner is the author of the novel Touch, which was shortlisted for The 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award and... Read more

Fiction writer and essayist Edwidge Danticat is best known for her work chronicling the Haitian immigrant experience. Sh... Read more

Stewart O’Nan is the author of ten novels, including Last Night At The Lobster, Snow Angels and A Prayer for the Dying, ... Read more

Lydia Davis is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections Almost No Memory, Varieties of Distur... Read more

Poet, novelist, and essayist Julia Alvarez was born in New York, then spent the first ten years of her childhood in the ... Read more

Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immi... Read more

Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he... Read more

Billy Collins is the author of ten collections of poetry, including the recent Ballistics and Sailing Alone Around The R... Read more

Manuel Muñoz is the author of two collections of short stories: Zigzagger (Northwestern University Press, 2003) and The ... Read more

Lydia Peelle is the author of a collection of short stories, Reasons For And Advantages Of Breathing. Peelle was born in... Read more

Gina Franco received a B.A. from Smith College, an M.F.A. in poetry writing, and an M.A. in English from Cornell Univers... Read more

Lisa M. Steinman’s fifth volume of poetry is Carslaw’s Sequences, from the University of Tampa Press.  Steinman teaches ... Read more

Julie Schumacher is the author of many works of fiction, novels and stories for adults young and old; these include The ... Read more

Melissa Bank is the author of the international bestseller The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing (1999) and The Wonder... Read more