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. 

edwin bodney

Visiting Faculty, MFA in Writing

Ada Limón

Visiting Poet, Summer 2017

Kaveh Akbar

Visiting Poet, Summer 2022

Tommy Orange

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2021

Jericho Parms

Alumnx Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2017

Dominic Bucca

Visiting Alumnx CNF Writer, Summer 2022