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New American Poets; her music reviews in The Nation
and Filter magazine; her book reviews in The New York
Sun; and her essays in Cabinet magazine and Open
City. Her essays have also been anthologized by Soft
Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She teaches
poetry at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and in her
apartment. Her second book, Stories That Listen, has
just been released from Four Way Books in 2010.
Anselm Berrigan
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
Anselm’s books of poetry include Some Notes on
My Programming (2006), Zero Star Hotel (2002), and
Integrity & Dramatic Life (1999), all published by Edge
Books. A serial poem, “Have A Good One,” is being
brought out by Cy Press in 2008. He was Artistic
Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church from
2003–2007, where his duties included hosting the
weekly Wednesday Night Reading Series. He co-edited
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of
California Press, 2005) and is the current poetry editor
at The Brooklyn Rail.
Popahna Brandes
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Oberlin College; M.F.A., Brown University; Popahna’s
recent fiction can be found in Tarpaulin Sky. Other works
of prose, translation, film, and music have appeared in
The Encyclopedia Project and Pocket Myth. She was
a fiction editor for the late literary journal, 3rd bed;
plays cello with My Invisible; and runs annual writing
workshops in the book village of Montolieu, France.
Bliss Broyard
Visiting instructor
B.A., University of Vermont; M.F.A., University of Virginia.
Professor Broyard’s collection of stories, My Father,
Dancing (Knopf, 1999), was a New York Times notable
book of the year. She is also the author of the family
memoir One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of
Race and Family Secrets (Little, Brown, 2007), named a
best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune.
Gabriel Cohen
Visiting lecturer
B.A.,Wesleyan University; Gabriel Cohen is the author
of five novels and a nonfiction book and has written
for The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Shambhala
Sun, Gourmet.com, Time Out New York, and many
other publications. He has taught fiction and nonfiction
writing at New York University, mentors writing students
at the New School, and lectures and gives workshops
frequently. His website is http://www.gabrielcohenbooks.com.Jon Cotner
Visiting instructor
B.A. Humanities, Shimer College; M.A., St. John’s
College; Ph.D. candidate in Poetics, SUNY Buffalo.
Professor Cotner is co-author of Ten Walks/Two Talks
(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) and has worked on a
collaboration titled Conversations over Stolen Food and
projects for The Believer, the BMW Guggenheim Lab,
Elastic City, and the Poetry Society of America.Trinie Dalton
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
M.F.A., Bennington College; Trinie Dalton has authored
and/or edited five books. Wide Eyed (Akashic), Sweet
Tomb (Madras Press, 2010), and A Unicorn Is Born
(Abrams, 2007) are works of fiction. Dear New Girl
or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney’s, 2005) and
Mythtym (Picturebox, 2008) are art compilations. She
currently teaches writing workshops at Pratt, a bookarts
studio course at NYU, and is on the M.F.A. Fiction faculty
at Vermont College of Fine Arts.Steven Doloff
Professor, lecturer in intensiVe english
B.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook;
Steven was named a Pratt Institute Distinguished
Professor (2001–2002) and received the Institute’s
Student Government Association Faculty Excellence
Award in 1990.John Glassie
Visiting instructor
B.A., The Johns Hopkins University. Professor Glassie
is a former contributing editor for The New York Times
Magazine, where for several years he edited the weekly
“Lives” column. He has written for The New York Times,The Believer, Salon, Wired, The Dallas Morning News,
and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among other
publications and is currently at work on a non-fiction
book about a 17th-century polymath, which will be
published in the fall of 2012. He is also the author
of a book of photographs, Bicycles Locked to Poles
(McSweeney’s, 2005).David Gordon
Visiting instructor
M.F.A., Writing, M.A., English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University; David Gordon was born in New
York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College and has
worked in film, fashion, and publishing. His first novel,
The Serialist, was published by Simon and Schuster in
March 2010.James Hannaham
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
M.F.A., University of Texas; B.A., Yale University; James
Hannaham’s first novel, God Says No (McSweeney’s,
2009), was a finalist for a Lambda Book Award, named
an honor book by the American Library Association’s
Stonewall Book Awards, a semi-finalist for a VCU Cabell
First Novelist Award, and made the shortlist for the
Green Carnation Prize in the UK. His stories have been
published in The Literary Review, Open City, JMWW,
One Story, and will soon appear in Fence. His criticism
and journalism have appeared in The Village Voice,
Spin, and Salon.com, where he was on staff, and have
been reprinted in Best African American Essays 2009
and Best Sex Writing 2009. He has received fellowships
from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Blue Mountain
Center, The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the
Arts, Chateau de Lavigny, Fundación Valparaíso, Bread
Loaf, and a NYFFA Fellowship in Fiction.Ryan Fischer-Harbage
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Kalamazoo College; M.F.A., Bennington College.
Professor Fischer-Harbage, a literary agent who runs
The Fischer-Harbage Agency, represents several
New York Times bestselling authors and has placed
books with all major publishers in the U.S. and
the U.K. He previously served as an editor at Simon &
Schuster, Little, Brown & Company as well as
The Penguin Group (U.S.A.).