DIRECTOR: Deborah Landau
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Russell Carmony

The undergraduate program in creative writing offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the writing life with workshops, readings, internships, and events designed to cultivate and inspire. Our popular Minor in Creative Writing provides students with an exciting progression of coursework, ranging from an introduction to the fundamentals of the craft to more advanced, substantive explorations of specific forms and genres.

The program's distinguished faculty of award-winning poets and prose writers represents a wide array of contemporary aesthetics, from the experimental to the traditional. In recent years, our creative writing instructors have been the recipients of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, the Pushcart Prize, and the Whiting Writer's Award.

Drawing on the wealth of cultural offerings in New York City, our curriculum extends beyond the classroom. Instructors broaden students' horizons by introducing them to groundbreaking readings by emerging and established authors, off-Broadway productions, exhibitions at the New York Public Library, and such major literary festivals as the New Yorker Festival and the PEN International Festival.

The very location of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program suggests an intersection of past and present, of echoes and new coinages. Just steps from where Henry James was born, and e.e. cummings penned his peculiar punctuations, and Marianne Moore donned her tri-cornered hat, and Willa Cather hailed her pioneers, and Walt Whitman loafed, and Ginsberg howled, NYU's undergraduate program stands at the crossroads of literary history and contemporary experiment.

Faculty

Adjunct Instructors:
Catherine Barnett, Nicholas Christopher, Rachel DeWoskin, Elaine Equi, Robert Fitterman, George Foy, Bonnie Friedman, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Thomas McGonigle, Meera Nair, Sophie Powell, Matthew Rohrer, Darin Strauss, and Chuck Wachtel