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Dorit Abush
- Fiction Writer
- PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1985
- Associate Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University
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Diane Ackerman
- Poet, Memorist, Essayist
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1973
- PhD, Cornell University, 1978
- PhD Thesis: The Metaphysical Mind: Studies in a Comprehensive Muse
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Siobhan Adcock
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2004
- Masters Thesis: Make Your Own
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Akinwumi Adesokan
- Fiction Writer
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2005
- Dissertation Title: Words That Flourish: Postnational Aesthetics in Videofilms, African Cinema, and Black Diasporic Writings
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Henry Alley
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1969
- PhD, Cornell University, 1971
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Donald Anderson
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1989
- Masters Thesis: Baby Teeth annd Other Stories
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Karen Anderson
- Poet
- MFA, Iowa Writer’s Workshop
- PhD, English Literature, Cornell University, 2008
- PhD Thesis: Classifying Life: Metaphor, Popular Biology, and Social Categorization in Emily Dickenson, Anne Spencer, Marianne Moore and Lorine Niedecker
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Evetta Andersson
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2001
- Masters Thesis: Topeka Redwing
Emine Pelin Ariner
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: Out of the Chilled Pandemonium Hatchery
Marisol Baca
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: In This Furnace With My Father
Tea Bajraktarevic
- Fiction Writer
- MFA, Cornell University, 2009
- Masters Thesis: The Tiger’s Wife
Melissa Bank
- Fiction Writer
- Visiting Writer, Cornell University, Spring 2009
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1988
- Masters Thesis: The Palace at 4 a.m.
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Burlin Barr
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1993
- Masters Thesis: Charlie Parker in Los Angeles
- PhD, Cornell University, 1999
- PhD Thesis: Lyrical Contact Zones: Cinematic Representations and the Transformation of the Exotic
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Cynthia Baughman
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1992
- Masters Thesis: What You Pay For
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Lisa Beiter (Martin)
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2005
- Masters Thesis: O Lord, The Bells
Timothy Belden
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1989
- Masters Thesis: Also
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Drew Bennett
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2001
- Masters Thesis: Manzanita Bay and Other Stories
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Rebecca Berg
- Fiction Writer
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1990
- PhD Thesis: How to Tell Lies: Epistemology and Gender Politics in Modernist Narratives
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Timothy Billings
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1991
- Masters Thesis: The Point of Return
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1997
- PhD Thesis: Illustrating China: Emblematic Autopsy and the Catachresis of Cathay
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Morris G. Bishop
- BA, Cornell University, 1913
- MA, Cornell University, 1914
- PhD, Cornell University, 1926
- Professor of Romance Literature and University Historian Cornell University
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Angela Bommarito
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1996
- Masters Thesis: Give
Wyatt Bonikowski
- Fiction Writer
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2006
- PhD Thesis: Traces of War: Shell shock, death drive, and narrative after the first world war
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John Brehm
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1982
- Visiting Writer, Spring 1996
- Masters Thesis: At the River
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Jason Brown
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1995
- Masters Thesis: Animal Stories
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Julie Brown
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2007
- Masters Thesis: The Adjacent Possible
Zofia Burr
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1987
- Masters Thesis:The Path Gathering Finds
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1993
- PhD Thesis: A Poetics of Address: Speech and Dialogue in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Josephine Miles, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Audre Lorde
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Ellen C. Bush
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1999
- Masters Thesis:Days, Nights, and Other Noises
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Larry Cantera
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1992
- Masters Thesis: Rissa
Joseph Campana
- Poet
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2004
- PhD Thesis: Suffering Romance: Edmund Spenser and the Matter of Poetry
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Anthony Caputi
- Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1958-1991
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William Carleton
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1986
- Master Thesis: “Beethoven and Goeth Once Met in Teplitz”; A Sequence of Diverted Sonnets”, and Other Poems
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Cathy Carlson
- AB, Cornell University, 1993
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1996
- Master Thesis: Blue Girls
H.G. Carrillo
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2007
- Masters Thesis: Loosing My Espanish
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Amy Carroll
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1995
- PhD Duke University, 2004
- Masters Thesis: Secession
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Steven C. Chang
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: You Could be Anywhere
Wah-Ming Chang
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: Mule City: A Novel
Michael Chen
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1997
- Masters Thesis: Fang’s Birthday
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Susan Choi
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1995
- Masters Thesis: Sunstroke and Other Stories
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Andrea Cheng
- Children’s Literature
- BA in English, Cornell University, 1979
- MS in Linguistics, Cornell University, 1982
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Catherine Chung
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: The Forest Monk
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John Cleese
- Fiction Writer
- Comedian, Actor, and Writer
- A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University
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Paul Cody
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1987
- Masters Thesis: What We Have and Other Stories
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Merrill Cole
- Poet
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1993
- Masters Thesis: The Spectacle of Control
- PhD English, University of Washington, 1999
- Dissertation: The Erotics of Masculine Demise: Homosexual Sacrifice in Modernist Poetry
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Imraan Coovadia
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1994
- Masters Thesis: Departures and Other Stories
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William J. Cordeiro
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2009
- Masters Thesis: Penetralium
Joshua Corey
- Poet
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2008
- Dissertation: The American Avant-Pastoral: Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Ronald Johnson
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Jennifer Cornell
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1994
- Masters Thesis: Departures and Other Stories
Nancy Vieira Couto
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1980
- Masters Thesis: Ice Museum
- Poetry editor for the Cornell English department’s Epoch magazine.
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Jennifer Cragun
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2007
- Masters Thesis: Anyone is Company
John Crutchfield
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1998
- Masters Thesis: Still (Elegies, Translations, Whiskey-Songs)
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2002
- PhD Thesis: Under the Shadow of Ultimacy: Studies in American Theopoiesis
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Gary Cummisk
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1992
- Masters Thesis: There is No Patience Like a River
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Elizabeth Davey
- MFA, Cornell University, 1991
- PhD, Cornell University, 1996
- Masters Thesis: Scarp
- PhD Thesis: “A Submerged Continent of Song”: Circulations of Political Poetry in the United States
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Jane Dickinson
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1984
- Masters Thesis: Marked Woman
Kim Dionis
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1992
- Masters Thesis: Trespass: Collected Works
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Kerry Dolan
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1990
- Masters Thesis: Riis Park and Other Stories
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Sharon Dolin
- Poet
- BA, Magna Cum Laude in English, Cornell University, 1977
- MA, University of California at Berkeley
- PhD, Cornell University, 1990
- PhD Thesis: Straddling the Line: Enjambment as Polysemy in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore
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Justine Dougherty
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1999
- Masters Thesis: Near Wonderland
Jacqueline Dowdell
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2000
- Masters Thesis: Claims Against the Estate
Cathleen Drake
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2004
- Masters Thesis: Folding Pattern
Debra Earling
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1994
- MA in English, Cornell University, 1991
- Masters Thesis: Perma Red
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Julie Edelson
- Fiction Writer
- PhD in Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1974
- Dissertation: Dissertation: Die Blechtrommel and the Literature of Carnival
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Michaela Essl
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2008
- Master Thesis: Syzygy
George Estreich
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1989
- Master Thesis: Elegy and Dan Rabinowitz and Other Poems
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William Evans
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1988
- Masters Thesis: The Bear Head and Other Stories
Brian Fannin
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2000
- LLD, Cornell University, 2002
- Masters Thesis: Lost in Here
Ezra Feldman
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2007
- Master Thesis: Satisfying the Chemicals
- Winner of the 2007 Corson-Browning Prize
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Judith Frank
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1986
- Masters Thesis: Solace and Other Stories
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1990
- PhD Thesis: Parody, Politics and Literary Form: Readings of Fielding and Sterne
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David J. Friedman
- Poet
- BA in English, Cornell University, 1960
- Book nominated for National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.
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Michael Friedman
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1991
- Masters Thesis: Resume
Rob Fuentes
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2001
- Master Thesis: Pull
Alice Fulton
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1982
- Masters Thesis: Life Above the Permafrost
- Ann S. Bowers Professor of English, Cornell University
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Jerry Gabriel
- Fiction Writer
- MFA, University of Iowa
- Lecturer, Engineering Communications Program, Cornell University, 2008
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Michael Garrett
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: Mandalay Bay
William H. Gass
- Fiction Writer
- PhD Cornell University, 1954
- Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Washington Univeristy of St. Louis
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Sarah Gerkensmeyer
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2005
- Master Thesis: Inside the Earth
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Sandra Mortona Gilbert
- Abrams Visiting Professor of English, Cornell University, Spring 2007
- BA, Cornell University
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Jennifer Gilmore
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1998
- Master Thesis: Proper Names
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Susan Gilmore
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1992
- Masters Thesis: Every Blue Thing
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1995
- PhD Thesis: “Not Quite a Lady”: Mina Loy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, H.D., Gwendolyn Brooks and the Poetics of Impersonation
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Jody Gladding
- Poet
- Visiting Writer, Cornell University, Fall 1994
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1981
- Masters Thesis: Now Crow
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Pilar Gómes-Ibañez
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2005
- Masters Thesis: Shine Like Mercury
Estella Gonzalez
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2009
- Masters Thesis: Juraena Gold
Jesse Graves
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2000
- Masters Thesis: Field Portrait
- PhD Candidate, University of Tennessee
Ellen Grimm
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1991
- Master Thesis: Indefinite Distances and Other Stories
Elizabeth Grove
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1990
- Masters Thesis: Spuyten Duyvil and Other Stories
Reesa Grushka
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2002
- Masters Thesis: Diary of a Circle
Jonathan Hall
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1983
- Masters Thesis: The Mask of Love and Other Stories
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1988
- PhD Thesis: Fictions of the Self: Melville’s Re-Writing of the Personality
Lila Hanft
- MFA, 1986
- Master Thesis: Aprocrypha
- PhD, 1991
- PhD Thesis: Woman “in an Artist’s Studio”: Pre-Raphaelitism, Female Authorship, and the Construction of Gender
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Ed Hardy
- Fiction Writer
- Visiting Writer, Fall 1995
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1988
- Masters Thesis: Accidentals
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Jared Harel
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2009
- Masters Thesis: Standard Procedure for my Body Double
Joshua Harmon
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1997
- Masters Thesis: History of Cold Seasons: Stories and Other Works
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Phillip Harper
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1985
- Masters Thesis: The Blink of An Eye
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1988
- PhD Thesis: The Recentered Subject: Marginality in the Development of Postmodern Culture
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Baxter Hathaway
- Poet
- Professor of English, Cornell University, 1946-1974
- Established Epoch magazine in 1947
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William Hathaway
- Poet
- Instructor, Department of English, Cornell University, 1969-1970
- Visiting Professor, Cornell University, 1983-1984
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Paul Hecht
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1999
- Masters Thesis: Poems
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2004
- PhD Thesis: Studies in The Shepheardes Calender
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Jon Hickey
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: The Signifying Coyote
Julie Cope Hilden
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1996
- Masters Thesis: Rappaport’s Defense
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Jen Hill
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1992
- Masters Thesis: Shotwell
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2000
- PhD Thesis: Unspotted Snow: Artic Space, Gender and Nation in the Nineteenth-Century British Imaginary
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Minfong Ho
- Fiction Writer
- BA, Cornell University, 1973
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1982
- Master Thesis: Waiting for the Rain
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Roald Hoffmann
- Poet
- Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University
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Elizabeth Holmes
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1987
- Masters Thesis: Leaning to Permanence, Poems
Joanna Hughes
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1997
- Masters Thesis: Dancing All Our Chances
Ogagaoghene Ifowodo
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2003
- Master Thesis: “The Oil Lamp” and Poems from The Mourning After
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Deidre Jackson
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1986
- Master Thesis: Absent Members
Sarah Jefferis
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1999
- Masters Thesis: The Hub-Cap Principle
Kimari Johnson
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1999
- Masters Thesis: Family and Curses
Tessa Joseph
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1999
- PhD Candidate, UNC, Chapel Hill
- Masters Thesis: A Circle of Houses
Bruce Kawin
- Other
- AB, Columbia University, 1967
- MFA, Cornell University, 1969
- PhD, Cornell University, 1970
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Trevor Kearns
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: Aquatelos
Elizabeth Kim
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1995
- Masters Thesis: Lineage and Other Stories
Mark Klempner
- Creative Non Fiction
- BA, English, Cornell University, 1997
- MA in Folklore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000
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Michael Koch
- Fiction Writer
- Editor, Epoch Literary Magazine
- Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, Cornell University
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Nancy Kok
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1997
- Masters Thesis: Decision
Toshiaki Komura
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2002
- Master Thesis: Eclogue in November and Other Poems
Peter Landesman
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell Univeristy, 1992
- Masters Thesis: Sailor on the Green Sea - A Novel
- Contributing Writer, The New York Times
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John Landretti
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1993
- Masters Thesis: Looking at Shadows in the Empire of Lights
John Lauricella
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1987
- Masters Thesis: The False Witness and Other Stories
- PhD, Cornell University, 1993
- PhD Thesis: In Play: Baseball in American Fiction
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Blake Leland
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1982
- Masters Thesis: The Lullabye of Birdland
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1988
- PhD Thesis: Heroic Economies: Ezra Pound, James Joyce and Modernist Epic Between the Wars
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Toni Mergentine Levi
- Poet & Librettist
- BA, Cornell University, 1963
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Stephanie Li
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2004
- Masters Thesis: Ombligo
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2005
- PhD Thesis: Resistance Through the Body: Power, Representation and the Enslaved Woman
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Ari Lieberman
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2003
- Masters Thesis: Embryos: Forty-Nine Sketches in Search of a Novel
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Rebecca Lilly
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1993
- Master Thesis: You Want to Sell Me a Small Antique
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P.H. (Peter) Liotta
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1987
- Masters Thesis: Victims
- MA
- Masters Thesis: To Share in that Discourtesy of Death: Yeats and Robert Gregory
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Beth Ellenora Lordan
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1987
- Masters Thesis: Dear Hearts and Gentle People
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Lynn Luria-Sukenick
- Poet
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University, 1984-85
Alison Lurie
- Fiction Writer
- F.J. Whiton Professor of American Literature, Emerita, Cornell University
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Kirsten (Skip) Major
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1995
- Master Thesis: Siddhartha Summer and Other Stories
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Marc Malandra
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1997
- Master Thesis: Properties of Water
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2002
- PhD Thesis: “Father-stem and Mother-root”: Genealogy, Memory, and the Poetics of Origins in Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, and Li-Young Lee.
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Joseph Marshall
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1995
- Masters Thesis: From Fidalgo
Barry Matthews
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2001
- Masters Thesis: The Golden Age of Loving Man
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Kenneth A. McClane, Jr.
- Poet
- BA, MA, Cornell University
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University
- W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature, Cornell University
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James McConkey
- Fiction Writer
- Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emeritus, Cornell University
George McCormick
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: The Platted Grove
Diane McPherson
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1984
- Masters Thesis: Aspirations
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Erica Melack
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1986
- Masters Thesis: Noh Poems
Timothy Melley
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1993
- Masters Thesis: Going to the Elephant
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1995
- PhD Thesis: Empire of Conspiracy: Paranoia and the Representation of Social Control in Post-World War II America
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Emily Miller
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1989
- Masters Thesis: We Come Damn-Silver to the Lovely Round
Douglas Mitchell
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2007
- Masters Thesis: Birdhouses and Other Stories
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Sarah Mkhonza
- Fiction Writer
- Visiting Scholar, Africana Studies and English, 2006-2007
- Ithaca City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence, 2006-2008
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Amanda Moore
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell Univesity, 2002
- Masters Thesis: Requeening
Irvin Morris
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1994
- Masters Thesis: From A Glittering World
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Linda Myers
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1999
- Masters Thesis: The Girl with the Longest Hair in Chipiona and Other Stories
Christopher Nealon
- Poet
- PhD, Cornell University, 1997
- PhD Thesis: Material Fantasy: Identification as History in U.S. Lesbian and Gay Literature and Culture
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Lisa Neville
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1993
- Masters Thesis: The Meaning of Relativity
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Stewart O’Nan
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1992
- Masters Thesis: End of Memory
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Aimee Parkison
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2002
- Masters Thesis: My Exhibit in the Blue Museum
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Lydia Peele
- Fiction Writer
- BA, Cornell University, 2000
- MFA, University of Virginia, 2006
Micah Perks
- Fiction Writer
- BA, Cornell University, 1985
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1990
- Masters Thesis: Severance
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Mark Rader
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2002
- Masters Thesis: Yield
Saunders Redding
- Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Cornell University, 1971-1975
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Donald Reeves
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1979
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Jacqueline Reitzes
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2007
- Masters Thesis: Assisted Living
Nina Revoyr
- Fiction Writer
- Visiting Writer, Fall 2005
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1997
- Masters Thesis: The Necessary Hunger
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Ligaya Rogers
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1995
- Masters Thesis: Riff
Brian Roley
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1999
- Masters Thesis: America Son
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Edgar Rosenberg
- BA, MA, PhD, Cornell University
- Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Cornell University
Nancy Ross
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1988
- Masters Thesis: Still Ravine
Todd B. Rudy
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2001
- Masters Thesis: Dead Already, Dead Again
Paul Russell
- Novelist
- Professor of English, Vassar College, 1983-Present
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1982
- Masters Thesis: After Mariah
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1983
- Doctoral Dissertation: Vladimir Nabokov: The Habit of Exile
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Carl Sagan
- Fiction Writer
- Astronomer, Astrobiologist, and Author
- Professor, Cornell University, 1968-1996
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Pancho Savery
- Fiction Writer and Poet
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1976
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1980
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Helen Schulman
- Fiction Writer
- BA, Cornell University, 1983
- MFA, Columbia University, 1986
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Robert Schultz
- Fiction Writer and Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1976
- Masters Thesis: Poems
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1981
- Doctoral Dissertation: Ezra Pound’s Developing Poetics, 1908-1915: The Critical Prose
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Julie Schumacher
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1986
- Masters Thesis: The Body is Water
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Jennifer Scott
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1999
- Masters Thesis: Double or Nothing
Mark Scroggins
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1990
- Masters Thesis: Broken Book
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1993
- PhD Thesis: Zufkosky and Stevens: Poetry, Music and Knowledge
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Sean Serrell
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2003
- Masters Thesis: Kilter
Anna Shapiro
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 2003
- Masters Thesis: Fumes
Michael Paul Simons
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: Or With Us You Will Ride
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August Smith
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2003
- Masters Thesis: Under the Sun Swallowing Sea: Visions of a Mind Descending Eye
Lachlan (Will) Smith
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2003
- Masters Thesis: Silent Sky
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Paula V. Smith
- Fiction Writer and Poet
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1986
- Masters Thesis: At the Waterfall
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1987
- PhD Thesis: The Library and the Tea Table: Virginia Woolf and the Fiction of Henry James
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W.D. Snodgrass
- Poet
- Taught at Cornell University 1955-1957
- Visiting Professor, Department of English, Cornell University, Fall 1988
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Patrick Somerville
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 2004
- Master Thesis: Winter Kept Us Warm
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Wole Soyinka
- Fiction Writer and Poet
- Nigerian Playwright, Poet, Novelist, and Critic
- Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1986
- Fellow, The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, 1986
- Visiting Professor of African studies and theatre, Cornell University, 1988-1992
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David Staudt
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1993
- Masters Thesis: White Acres: A Collection of Poems
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Sam Stoloff
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 1989
- Masters Thesis: Half Lives
- PhD in American Studies, Cornell University
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Kyna Taylor
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, 1992
- Masters Thesis: Bone Tales
Charles Thompson
- Fiction Writer
- BA Cornell University, 1951
- MA Cornell University, 1952
Joyce Thompson
- Fiction Writer
- Novelist
- BA in English with Honors, Cornell University, 1970
Pauls Toutonghi
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction, Cornell University, 2003
- Masters Thesis: Paper Work
- PhD Cornell University, 2006
- PhD Thesis: “A World Without Maps: Post-National, English-Language Literature in the Late Twentieth-Century”
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Tien Tran
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2006
- Masters Thesis: The Cistern, Poems
Catherine Tufariello
- Poet
- MA in English, Cornell University, 1990
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 1994
- PhD Thesis: Language Experiments: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Poetics of Allusion
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Misty Urban
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2005
- Thesis Title: The Marks of the Burned World
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2008
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Machteld (Maggie) Vandermeer
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2002
- Master Thesis: Seven Degrees of Separation
David Vann
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1994
- Master Thesis: Myths of Vanishing: A Novel
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Chanda Wakefield
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2003
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Deborah Waldman
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1991
- Masters Thesis: The Litany of Dead Men and Other Stories
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Lynn Walker
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1991
- Masters Thesis: The Geromino Line
Rayfield Waller
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1992
- Masters Thesis: Death By Hanging
- PhD in English, Cornell University
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Wendy S. Walters
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1995
- Masters Thesis: The Better Days
- PhD in English, Cornell University, 2000
- Doctoral Thesis: A Dramatic Evolution of the Colonial Subject: Imagining Authorship in the Performance of History
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Kristie Wang
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2007
- Masters Thesis: Favor
Benjamin Warner
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2005
- Masters Thesis: On the Path of the Zealots
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JoElaine Wasson
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1987
- Masters Thesis: Third Street and Other Stories
Autumn Watts
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2005
- Masters Thesis: The Natural History of Ghosts and Rocks
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Susan Weinberg
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1985
- Masters Thesis: In Training
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James Welch
- Fiction Writer
- Visiting Professor, Department of English, Cornell University, Spring 1985 and Spring 1990
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Allison Wells
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1991
- Masters Thesis: Memory of Eden
Marvin Williams
- Poet
- BA, Cornell University, 1978
- MPS, Cornell University, 1982
- MFA, Cornell University, 1987
- Masters Thesis: Beyond Jou’vert
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Dylan Willoughby
- Poet & Novelist
- BA, Summa Cum Laude, College Scholar Program, Cornell University, 1992
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1995
- Masters Thesis: Thrive: Selected Poetry and Fiction
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James (Larry) Wilson
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1987
- Masters Thesis: Cornell Work
Cori Winrock
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 2007
- Masters Thesis: division of delicate circuits
Brennen Wysong
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1998
- Masters Thesis: Stories from Flatrock, West Virginia
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Emoretta Yang
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 1991
- Masters Thesis: A Book of Hours
Jake York
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1997
- Masters Thesis: Thick
- PhD, Cornell University, 2000
- PhD Thesis: The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
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Amy Zalman
- Poet
- MFA in Poetry, Cornell University, 1995
- PhD in English, New York University
- Masters Thesis: The Beloved Replies
Jacob Zuboy
- Fiction Writer
- MFA in Fiction Writing, Cornell University, 2003
- Mater Thesis: I’ve Got to Laugh
