Welcome to the NYU Creative Writing Program. For more than four decades, the Creative Writing Program has distinguished itself as a leading national center for the study of literature and writing. At the heart of the program is our exceptional faculty: Catherine Barnett, Jeffrey Eugenides, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, Terrance Hayes, Katie Kitamura, Hari Kunzru, Deborah Landau, Sharon Olds, Claudia Rankine, Matthew Rohrer, Darin Strauss, and Ocean Vuong. Our stellar visiting faculty members in 2022-2023 will include Nuar Alsadir, Cris Beam, Marie-Helene Bertino, Alex Dimitrov, Kimiko Hahn, Uzodinma Iweala, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, David Lipsky, Sally Wen Mao, Leigh Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, Julie Orringer, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Parul Sehgal, Brandon Taylor, Hannah Tinti, Philip B. Williams, and Monica Youn.
The program is also distinguished by its talented students—many of our gifted alums have published critically acclaimed and award-winning books.
The Creative Writing Program occupies a lovely townhouse on West 10th Street in the same Greenwich Village neighborhood where so many writers—James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Hart Crane, E.E. Cummings, Frank O’Hara, Mark Twain, Richard Wright, and Marianne Moore, to name just a few—have lived and worked. The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House allows writers—established and emerging—to share their work in an inspiring setting. Students come to the house to attend events, workshops, and craft classes, and also to gather informally, seeking out quiet corners in which to read and write. The beautiful reception floor, which features skylights and stained glass, is an ideal setting for the intimate readings, literary salons, panel discussions, book parties, lectures, and seminars that are held in the house throughout the year.
In addition to our renowned MFA Program in Creative Writing in New York City, the program also offers a low-residency MFA Writers Workshop in Paris. Undergraduate students may choose to pursue our popular Minor in Creative Writing. The program also includes innovative literary outreach programs, teaching opportunities, a prominent reading series featuring over 100 writers each year, seminars with editors and publishers, two celebrated literary journals, undergraduate writing contests, summer writing programs in New York, Florence, and Paris, and an exciting student reading series held at the famed KGB Bar.
The NYU Creative Writing Program is a vital and dynamic center for writers and writing located in the heart of Greenwich Village. If you would like to learn more about our graduate programs, please email us at creative.writing@nyu.edu.
Best wishes,
Deborah Landau
Director