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.

Vandana Khanna

Visiting Poet, MFA in Writing

Paul Yoon

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2021

Jeffrey Thomas Leong

Visiting Alumni Poet & Translator, Summer 2018

Khaled Mattawa

Visiting Poet & Translator, Summer 2021

Alexander Chee

Visiting Writer, Winter 2018

Major Jackson

Distinguished Visiting Poet, Winter 2016