MFA in Creative Writing Program
802-322-1693 paul.selig@goddard.edu I am deeply committed to the kind of transformational learning. Read More....
kyle.bass@goddard.edu I advise my playwriting students to read plays, see plays in performance, write honestly and rewrite bravely. Read More....
ryan.boudinot@goddard.edu I am a First Amendment absolutist. I believe in creative freedom. Let the writing answer to the writer's vision, and damn the torpedos. Read More....
deborah.brevoort@goddard.edu I like to rip apart plays and movies to see how they work technically and I encourage my students to do the same. Read More....
rebecca.brown@goddard.edu I have currently been collaborating a lot with artists in different disciplines. Read More....
jan.clausen@goddard.edu I always keep in mind the lessons of critical consciousness and democratic dialogue. Read More....
darrah.cloud@goddard.edu I love the stage picture and all the elements of performance that one can bring into an evocative piece of theatre. Read More....
kenny.fries@goddard.edu Much of my work has been concerned with the
body, as both subject and metaphor. Read More....
beatrix.gates@goddard.edu As a teacher, I try and discern where a writer is going, and then guide them towards the best form to carry the story. Read More....
elena.georgiou@goddard.edu Individuality, authenticity, and risk are the three qualities that interest me the most. Read More....
bhanu.kapil@goddard.edu I support my students both in the space before writing begins and at the places where their work approaches some kind of limit. Read More....
 Susan Kimsusan.kim@goddard.edu
Teaching dramatic writing isn’t like instructing someone how to ride a bicycle or mend a broken pipe. Read More....
michael.klein@goddard.edu I was in love with the possibilities in the genres we were teaching because so many students were making manuscripts they couldn’t call one thing. Read More....
aimee.liu@goddard.edu What a writer needs to hear is not so much what a teacher likes as what works, and what doesn't. Read More....
jeanne.mackin@goddard.edu Writing enlarges us so that we can imagine other futures, or simply better understand what is now. Read More....
micheline.aharonianmarcom@goddard.edu I believe that those of us who us who spend our lives using words to make art and story benefit greatly from collaboration and exchange. Read More....
douglas.martin@goddard.edu In teaching I focus on an open exchange and sharing of ideas, a critical empowering through prompting self-questioning. Read More....
rogelio.martinez@goddard.edu I encourage writers to make decisions and not to brood. I am a big believer in the bold theatrical moment. Read More....
john.mcmanus@goddard.edu I hesitate to give any sweeping delcaration about pedagogy because I believe an individual approach is best. Read More....
nicola.morris@goddard.edu I begin working with a student by asking what she or he most passionately wants to do. Read More....
victoria.nelson@goddard.edu Genres can be opened up, reshuffled, combined into meta-genres. Read More....
richard.panek@goddard.edu The editor said, “Think of it as an essay,” and I haven’t looked back. Read More....
Rachel Pollack rachel.pollack@goddard.edu Against the familiar dictum to 'write what you know best,' I advise people to write what they care about most deeply. Read More....
reiko.rizzuto@goddard.edu As a teacher, my initial focus is to help each student strip away analysis (and self consciousness) and find the unique urgency in her or his work. Read More....
juliana.spahr@goddard.edu I like it when students bring outside concerns into their writing so as to expand their work outward beyond emotion or self exploration. Read More....
darcey.steinke@goddard.edu In teaching I focus on close readings of master stories. Read More....
jane.wohl@goddard.edu I concentrate on the intersections between art and craft, the interaction between the individual's vision and portrayal of that vision. Read More.... |
Paul Selig, Program Director
Kyle Bass
Ryan Boudinot
Deborah Brevoort
Rebecca Brown
Jan Clausen
Darrah Cloud
Kenny Fries
Beatrix Gates
Elena Georgiou
Bhanu Kapil
Michael Klein
Aimee Liu
Jeanne Mackin
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Douglas A. Martin
Rogelio Martinez
John McManus
Nicola Morris, On Leave Spring 2012
Victoria Nelson
Richard Panek 
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Juliana Spahr
Darcey Steinke,
Jane Wohl