Elinam Agbo selected as first winner of Les River Fellowship for Young Novelists

The Department of English Language and Literature will offer a new undergraduate major in creative writing, beginning in Autumn Quarter 2017. First-, second- and third-year students will have the option...Read more

Los Angeles-based writer Joshuah Bearman gave a reading at Midway Studios on November 8, 2012. Bearman has written for LA Weekly , Rolling Stone , Wired , Harper's , and...Read more

Rebecca Keller’s career is deeply interdisciplinary. She’s a Fulbright Artist/Scholar, an American Association of Museums International Fellow, recipient of grants from National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, and...Read more

About 100 creative writing students gathered on a recent Saturday afternoon in the Francis X. Kinahan Theater, hoping for words of wisdom from one of the undisputed masters of nonfiction...Read more

Candace Vogler works in ethics, action theory, social and political philosophy, feminism, sexuality and gender studies, and philosophy and literature. She has special interests in Marx, Aquinas, Rousseau, Elizabeth Anscombe,...Read more

Mentors such as author James Fallows help students explore their craft in Vare Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence program.

Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin, now second years in the College, satirize great literature and modern culture in their new book, Twitterature .

A lecture by Emily Wilson as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2009 The University of Chicago.Read more

A lecture by J.H. Prynne as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2009 The University of Chicago.Read more

A lecture by J.H. Prynne and Keston Sutherland as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2009 The University of Chicago.Read more

Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book...Read more

Peg Boyers was born in 1952 in San Tomé, Venezuela. She spent her first twelve years of school in twelve locations—including Havana, Cuba, Pakambaru, Indonesia, Venice, Italy and Tripoli, Libya—...Read more

Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include For the Good of Liars (Barque Press 2006), Adjunct: an Undigest (Edinburgh Review 2005), Before and After Mallarmé...Read more

Durs Grünbein is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently Ashes for Breakfast (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, tr. Michael Hoffman) and a collection of essays. His work...Read more

Michael Blumenthal, formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard and a 1974 graduate of the Cornell Law School, is the author, most recently, of the memoir All My Mothers and...Read more

The poet Clayton Eshleman has been translating Cesar Vallejo's poetry since 1958, when he was a student at Indiana University. Clayton Eshleman apprenticed himself to poetry while in Kyoto, Japan,...Read more

Poet, essayist, and translator, Lyn Hejinian is the author or co-author of fourteen books of poetry, including The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000), Happily (Post Apollo Press, 2000), Sight (with Leslie...Read more

Born in 1941, Robert Hass is a native Californian whose poetry is well known for its West Coast subjects and attitude. Hass received his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1971) in...Read more

Michael Fried is James R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. One of the most distinguished art historians of the 20th century, Dr. Fried is the...Read more