Creative Writing and Literature - Faculty
Matt Donovan
Chair, Creative Writing and Literature Department
MFA, New York University
MA, Lancaster University
BA, Vassar College
Matt Donovan received his MA from Lancaster University and his MFA from New York University where he attended as a New York Times Fellow. He is the author of Vellum (published by Houghton Mifflin), which received the 2007 Bakeless Poetry Prize and won the 2008 Levis Reading Prize, sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University. Donovan's poems have been published in numerous journals, including AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, The Threepenny Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review; his work will also be included in The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry (forthcoming). He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Poetry Fellowship, a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship.
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Porochista Khakpour
Faculty, Creative Writing and Literature Department
MA, The Johns Hopkins University
BA, Sarah Lawrence College
Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA from The Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Chicago Reader, Paper, Flaunt, Nylon, and Bidoun, among many other publications. Her debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic, 2007), received much acclaim from The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. It won the 77th Annual California Book Award in First Fiction and was a Chicago Tribune "Fall's Best" selection and a New York Times "Editor's Choice."
Emily Rapp
Faculty, Creative Writing and Literature Department
MFA, The University of Texas at Austin
MTS, Harvard University
BA, Saint Olaf College
Emily Rapp is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir. Rapp was born in Nebraska but grew up in Wyoming and Colorado. A former Fulbright scholarship recipient, she was educated at Harvard University, Saint Olaf College, Trinity College-Dublin, and The University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction and Poetry. Her essays and stories have appeared in StoryQuarterly, the Los Angeles Times, The Sun magazine, and other publications. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work, including from The Atlantic Monthly, The Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Jentel Arts Foundation, and The Corporation of Yaddo. In 2006, she received the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. Formerly a core faculty member with the Antioch University-Los Angeles MFA in Creative Writing program, she has also taught for UCLA Extension and the Gotham Writers' Workshop.
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