Recent Visitors to the Creative Writing Department

John Patrick Shanley - Oscar-winning screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788234/

Jorie Graham - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/58

Alan Lightman - Bestselling novelist, author of Einstein's Dreams and The Diagnosis
http://www.mit.edu/~humanistic/faculty/lightman.html

Susan Orlean - Best-selling author of The Orchid Thief and The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup (visiting in April, ‘08)
http://www.susanorlean.com/

Curtis Sittenfeld - Best-selling novelist, author of Prep and The Man of My Dreams
http://www.curtissittenfeld.com/

Thomas Lux - Poet, multiple NEA and Guggenheim Fellowship winner
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/115

Charles Baxter - Author of Feast of Love and the new novel, The Soul Thief
http://www.charlesbaxter.com/

David Shields - Author of the new book, The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead (visiting in March, '08)
http://www.davidshields.com/

Brenda Hillman - Poet, recipient of both NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships
http://galileo.stmarys-ca.edu/bhillman/

Wilton Barnhardt - Author of the novels Emma Who Saved My Life, Gospel
and Show World
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4131/Barnhardt-Wilton.html