DIRECTOR: Deborah Landau

PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR: Scott Statland

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 course work, 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 National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Whiting Writer's Award.

The very location of the undergraduate Program in Creative Writing 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 tricornered 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.      

Undergraduates are encouraged to attend the Creative Writing Program Reading Series, a vital component of the program, which brings both established and new writers to NYU. Writing prizes, receptions, special events, and our undergraduate literary journal, West 10th, further complement our course offerings and establish a sense of community among undergraduate writers. If you have questions about the undergraduate Program in Creative Writing, please contact us at 212-998-8816 or creative.writing@nyu.edu.

Faculty

Clinical Associate Professors:
Matthew Rohrer, Darin Strauss, Chuck Wachtel

Affiliated Faculty:
Catherine Barnett, Lee Briccetti, Marcelle Clements, Rachel DeWoskin, Elaine Equi, Miranda Field, Robert Fitterman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Bonnie Friedman, Jennifer Gilmore, Ann Hood, Joy Katz, Maria Laurino, Jocelyn Lieu, Paul Lisicky, Fiona Maazel, Meera Nair, Gregory Pardlo, Jonathan Rabb, Mark Rudman, Elissa Schappell, Irini Spanidou, Jean Valentine