Director of The Nonfiction Writing Program
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
NWP Faculty
Recent NWP Faculty
Patricia Foster
Jeff Porter
Recent Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professors
Susan Steinberg
Kiese Laymon
Vivian Gornick
Richard Preston
Geoff Dyer
Mary Ruefle
Bernard Cooper
Meghan Daum
Honor Moore
Lia Purpura
Xu Xi
Terry Tempest Williams
Steve Kuusisto
John Edgar Wideman
Recent Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Writers
Valeria Luiselli
John Richardson
Greil Marcus
Diane Ackerman
Margo Jefferson
Eliot Weinberger
John McPhee
Alison Bechdel
David Rakoff
Sigrid Nunez
Philip Lopate
Mary Roach
Lawrence Weschler
Adam Hoschild
Jerald Walker
Recent Visiting Writers
short-term faculty who offer readings, Q&As, and day-long master classes
Diane Ackerman • Faith Adiele • Steve Almond • Jo Ann Beard • Alison Bechdel • Jill Bialosky • Eula Biss • Julene Bair • Joe Blair • Jenny Boully • Blair Braverman • Amy Butcher • Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas • Dura Chew-Bose • Bernard Cooper • Charles D’Ambrosio • Meghan Daum • Tim Denevi • Lena Dunham • Geoff Dyer • Hope Edelman • Gretel Ehrlich • Hali Felt • Thalia Field • Matthew Gavin Frank • Vivian Gornick • Albert Goldbarth • Kenneth Goldsmith • Patricia Hampl • Riley Hanick • Donovan Hohn • Pico Iyer • Leslie Jamison • Margo Jefferson • Jeremy Jones • Heidi Julavits • Carl Klaus • Wayne Koestenbaum • Aviya Kushner • Stephen Kuusisto • Kiese Laymon • David Lazar • Amy Leach • Yiyun Li • Philip Lopate • Greil Marcus • Lucas Mann • Ross McElwee • Jim McKean • John McPhee • June Melby • Ander Monson • Honor Moore • Angela Morales • Maggie Nelson • Dylan Nice • Sigrid Nunez • Jose Orduna • Elena Passarello • Michael Paterniti • Angela Pelster • Jen Percy • Steven Pinker • Richard Preston • John Price • Kristen Radtke • David Rakoff • Francesca Rendell-Short • John Richardson • Mary Roach • Richard Rodriguez • Mary Ruefle • David Sedaris • Jeff Sharlet • David Shields • Michael Silverblatt • Lauren Slater • Rebecca Solnit • Cheryl Strayed • John Jeremiah Sullivan • Catherine Taylor • Louis Alberto Urrea • Sarah Viren • Eliot Weinberger • Joe Wenderoth • Lawrence Weschler • Josh Wheeler • Dorothy Wickendon • John Edgar Wideman • Terry Tempest Williams • Brendan Wolfe • Xu Xi and others.
Recent Editorial Visits
short-term visits by editors offering Q&As, master classes, and manuscript consultations
The Believer • Brick • BuzzFeed • Coffee House Press • Daily Palette • Esquire • Farrar, Straus, & Giroux • Found • GQ • Graywolf Press • Guernica • Harper’s • Hotel Amerika • Little, Brown • New Letters • New York Magazine • Noisy • A Public Space • The Rumpus • Sarabande Books • Seneca Review • Sports Illustrated • Tin House • University of Nebraska Press • University of Iowa Press • Vice • W.W. Norton and others.