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Shelly Oria

Visiting instructor

B.A., Tel Aviv University; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College.

Professor Oria’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s,

Quarterly West, cream city review, and fivechapters.

She is a recipient of the 2008 Indiana Review Fiction

Prize among other awards and curates the monthly

series “Sweet! Actors Reading Writers.”

Nelly Reifler

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

B.A., Hampshire College; M.F.A. Sarah Lawrence College;

She authored See Through (Simon & Schuster, 2006).

Her work has appeared in many publications including

McSweeney’s, Bomb, Post Road, Jubilat, Taxi, Black

Book and Nerve.com.  Her plays have been performed

in the U.S. and Australia, and she is the recipient of

honors including a Henfield Prize and a Rotunda Gallery

Emerging Curator grant.

Eric Rosenblum

Visiting instructor; lecturer, intensiVe english

B.A., English, Ohio University; M.F.A., Creative Writing-

Fiction, Syracuse University; Eric’s fiction and non-fiction

have appeared in Guernica Magazine, the Chicago

Tribune and the Chicago Reader.

Jonathan Santlofer

Visiting instructor

B.F.A., Boston University School of the Arts; M.F.A., Pratt

Institute; Santlofer is the author of five bestselling

crime novels, short stories in many anthologies and

collections, winner of the Nero Wolfe Award for Best

Crime Novel, co-author/contributor to The Dark End of

the Street anthology (Bloomsbury USA, 2010); recipient

of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, Rome

Prize; and on the board of directors of Yaddo, the oldest

arts community in the United States.

Todd Shalom

Visiting instructor

B.S., Boston University; M.F.A., California College

of the Arts. Founder of Elastic City walking tours,

Professor Shalom works with text, sound, and image.

He collaborates with performance artist/director

Niegel Smith; together, as Permiso, they conceive

and stage interactive rituals in public and private

environments. His solo work includes improvisational

music performances, soundwalks, poetry readings,

installations, photography, and sleepovers. He

is an active member of the New York Society for

Acoustic Ecology.

Justin Taylor

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

B.A., University of Florida; M.F.A., The New School.

Professor Taylor is the author of the story collection

Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever (Harper’s

Perennial, 2010) and the novel The Gospel of Anarchy

(Harper’s Perennial, 2011). He is the editor of The

Apocalypse Reader, Come Back Donald Barthelme,

and co-editor (with Eva Talmadge) of The Word Made

Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide

(Harper’s Perennial, 2010). With Jeremy Schmall,

he publishes The Agriculture Reader, a limited-edition

arts annual.

Holly Tavel

Visiting instructor

B.A., The New School; M.F.A., Brown University; recipient

of a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship in Creative Writing to

the Czech Republic.

Ellery Washington

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

D.E.U.G., Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Ellery

Washington’s writing has appeared in the French

publication Nouvelles Frontières, Out Magazine,

The Berkeley Fiction Review and various literary

anthologies, including Griots Beneath the Baobab

(IBWA Press), Geography of Rage (RGB Publisher),

and State by State (Harper Collins). He is a recipient

of the PEN Center West–Rosenthal Emerging Voices

Fellowship and the IBWA Best Short Fiction Award.

Gina Zucker

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

B.A., Washington University; M.F.A., New School;

Gina Zucker has published fiction and nonfiction in

magazines and journals such as Tin House, Salt Hill, The

Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Post, Elle, Glamour,

GQ, Rolling Stone, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan, as well

as on various online journals. Her writing has been

anthologized in two collections: ALTARED (Vintage,

2007) and BEFORE (Overlook Press, 2006). She is a

recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and a

New School Merit Scholarship.

Writing and Tutorial Center

Randy Donowitz

director of the writing And tutoriAl center

Terri Bennett

tutor

Priya Chandrasekoran

tutor, writing, thesis

Diane Cohen

AssistAnt to the director

Maura Conley

tutor, writing, thesis

Marissa Forbes

tutor, writing, conVersAtion

Elizabeth (Lol) Fow

Adjunct instructor,tutor, thesis,

grAduAte writing

Dominica Giglio

tutor, writing, Art history

Heather Green

tutor, writing, thesis, conVersAtion

Joseph Herzfeld

lecturer intensiVe english,tutor, writing

Kwame Heshimu

Visiting instructor,tutor, writing

Matt Kubacki

Visiting instructor, tutor, writing

Cecilia Muhlstein

Visiting instructor, tutor, writing, thesis

Evan Rehill

Visiting instructor, tutor, writing, thesis