Summer Intensive in Creative Writing - Faculty and Visiting Writers

Improvisation workshops are taught by McGhee faculty and craft workshops in either poetry or prose are taught by distinguished visiting writers.

Ruth Danon is clinical professor of Creative and Expository Writing at the NYU-SCPS Paul McGhee Division and founder and director of the Summer Intensive in Creative Writing workshops. A poet and nonfiction writer, she is the author of Triangulation from a Known Point, and has had poems and essays published in Versal, Barrow Street, Moria, The New Hampshire Review, Crayon, Fence, 3rd Bed, BOMB, The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New England Review, and many other places. Her work appeared in Best American Poetry 2002, edited by Robert Creeley.

April Krassner is the co-director of the Summer Intensive in Creative Writing and the associate professor of Developmental Writing at the NYU-SCPS Paul McGhee Division. She has an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. A poet, her work has appeared in print and online in numerous publications. In 2008 she received an award for outstanding service to McGhee, and in 2011 she received an award for teaching excellence.

Visiting Writers

Chase Twichell (poetry) has published seven books of poetry: Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems, Dog Language, The Snow Watcher, The Ghost of Eden, Perdido, The Odds, and Northern Spy. She also is the translator, with Tony K. Stewart, of The Lover of God by Rabindranath Tagore, and co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach.

Roxana Robinson (fiction) is the author of the four novels, Cost (2008), Sweetwater (2003), This Is My Daughter (1998), and Summer Light (1988); three short story collections, A Perfect Stranger (2005), Asking for Love (1996), and A Glimpse of Scarlet (1991); and the biography Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life (1989). Four of her works were named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Daedalus, The Best American Stories, The American Scholar, and other publications. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Wilson Quarterly, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. Robinson has taught at the University of Houston, Wesleyan University, and The New School.

Michael Thomas (nonfiction) is the author of one novel, Man Gone Down and a memoir, The Broken King. Man Gone Down was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s top-five novels of the year, as well as a New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book. In June 2009, Thomas was awarded the prestigious IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He earned a B.A. from Hunter College, where he currently teaches; and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College.