Creative Writing Faculty

Eavan Boland, Director

A poet and essayist, she is the author of many books including New Collected Poems, The Lost Land, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, In a Time of Violence, and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems.

W.S. Di Piero

Poet, essayist, and translator. Among his books are Chinese Apples, Skirts and Slacks, Brother Fire, The Dog Star, The Restorers, Shadows Burning, and Shooting the Works: On Poetry and Pictures.

Kenneth Fields

Poet and author of Classic Rough News, The Other Walker, Sunbelly, Smoke, and The Odysseus Manuscripts.

Elizabeth Tallent

Author of a novel, Museum Pieces, and three collections of short stories, In Constant Flight, Time with Children, and Honey.

Tobias Wolff

Author of memoirs, short stories, and novels. His most recent works are Our Story Begins, Old School, This Boy's Life, In Pharaoh's Army, and The Night in Question.