Profile

Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the LA Times First Book Award); Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Award; and Weather, which has been shortlisted for the 2020
Women’s Prize.

She teaches at Bard College in upstate New York. Visit her at jennyoffill.com.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2022

Sunil Yapa

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2019

Jeffrey Thomas Leong

Visiting Alumni Poet & Translator, Summer 2018

Patricia Smith

Faculty, Postgraduate Writers' Conference; Visiting Poet, Winter 2023

Mary Cappello

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2017

Allison Grimaldi Donahue

Visiting Writer, MFA in Writing