Profile

Tommy Orange’s debut novel, There There (Knopf), was a New York Times bestseller and named as one of the paper’s 10 Best Books of the Year for 2018. Its many honors include the 2018 PEN America Hemingway Award, The National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California. He earned his MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he now serves as faculty. 

Wendy S. Walters

Visiting CNF Writer, Winter 2022

Mary Ruefle

Visiting Poet, Summer 2018

Alison Bechdel

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2016

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Visiting Literary Translation Writer

Jericho Parms

Alumnx Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2017

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Visiting Poet & Translator, Summer 2021