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Meet the Faculty: David Orr
David Orr’s creative and critical work has been lauded by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.He has been a guest on PBS and NPR and called “highbrow brilliant” by New York magazine. The poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review, Orr’s poetry and critical collections include You, Too Could Write a Poem,The Road Not Taken,Beautiful and Pointless and Dangerous Household Items. A native South Carolinian, David lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife and daughter. You can visit his website here.
Meet the Faculty: Richard Murray
Richard Murray earned his B.A. from Goddard College in Vermont, a well known experimental school focused mainly on the creative arts. While there, he was the poetry editor of The Goddard Journal. He went on to earn his MA in English/creative writing from Rutgers University-Newark. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Moth, Poetry East, Slipstream, The Bitter Oleander, Santa Fe Literary Review, The Broome Review, Rattle, and other literary journals.
Richard is a member of the Board of Trustees for the New Jersey Folk Festival (run by Rutgers), where his work has primarily focused on New Jersey's Native American Indian tribes. He has also served on the Rutgers-New Brunswick Chancellor's Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Populations in Rutgers History. In this role, he focused on Native American issues, and obtained a grant from the Chancellor that enabled the New Jersey Folk Festival to showcase NJ's state-recognized tribes.
Meet the Faculty: Susan Miller
Susan Miller is a non-tenure track faculty member who has been at Rutgers since 2005. She has been writing since she was very young, and studied with Marie Ponsot for 11 years after completing graduate school. In her words, Ponsot "taught me by the observation method and that's also the way I teach--by observing technique, content, and style rather than critiquing them." Her book, Communion of Saints was published in 2017, and her poetry has been included in the anthologies Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion, and Spirituality and St. Peter's B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints. She won two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg awards for poetry and her work has been presented on BBC4 Radio.
Students Speak: Syeda Ahmed'19
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Students Speak: Candice M. Lopez ’19
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Students Speak: Syeda Saad
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130 Plays Later: An Interview with Writers House instructor Caridad Svich
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Students Speak: Tanya Banerjee
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Bring Us Your Gently Used Books
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Evie Shockley Finalist in the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Evie Shockley, our full time creative writing professor, was a finalist in the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. See the story in Rutgers Today.
