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| Paul Vangelisti - Department Chair |
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| BA Univ. of San Francisco; MA, ABD, USC. Author of twenty books of poetry. Translator, Journalist, and former Cultural Affairs Director at KPFK radio. NEA Translator Fellow, and NEA Poetry Fellow. Co-Editor of the literary magazine Invisible City, and Editor of Ribot, the annual publication of the College of Neglected Science. Currently, he is editing, with Luigi Ballerini, a five-volume anthology of contemporary American poetry, from 1960 to the present, Nuova poesia americana, for Mondadori publishing in Milan. |
| Paul Vangelisti, selected books |
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| Sarah Shun-lien Bynum – Assistant Chair |
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| BA, Brown University; MFA, University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first book, Madeleine Is Sleeping, was published by Harcourt in 2004 and was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her second novel, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, also from Harcourt, was published in fall 2008 and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009. In 2010, Bynum was named one of the New Yorker magazine's top "20 Under 40" fiction writers. Bynum joins Otis from the University of California, San Diego, where she was the director of the MFA Program in Writing, and Professor of Writing and Literature. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. |
| Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, selected books |
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| Guy Bennett - Professor |
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BA, PhD in French, University of California Los Angeles. Guy Bennett is the author of several works of poetry, non-fiction, and numerous translations. His writing has been featured in magazines and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad, and presented in poetry and arts festivals internationally. Publisher of Mindmade Books (formerly Seeing Eye Books) and co-editor of Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, he lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.
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| Guy Bennett, selected books |
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| Ben Ehrenreich - Senior Lecturer |
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Studied religion at Brown University. His articles and essays have been published in L.A. Weekly, the Village Voice, The Believer, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. His fiction has appeared in Bomb, McSweeney's, Black Clock, Swink, and elsewhere. His work has been reprinted in anthologies including The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004, The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers, and Notes from Underground: The Most Outrageous Stories from the Alternative Press. The Suitors, was published in 2006 by Counterpoint Press.
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| Ben Ehrenreich, selected books |
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| Peter Gadol - Professor |
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| B.A. Harvard College. Author of six novels, including The Long Rain, Light At Dusk, and most recently, Silver Lake. His work has appeared in Story and Tin House, and has been translated into several languages. After teaching writing at CalArts for nine years, he joined the Otis faculty in 2005. |
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| Peter Gadol, selected books |
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| Jen Hofer - Senior Lecturer |
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| Poet and translator Jen Hofer's recent publications include sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a bilingual edition of books two and three of the lifelong project Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes, lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzano's lobo de labio, Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women, slide rule, and the chapbooks laws and lawless. The Academy of American Poets selected her as the winner of the 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for her translation of Myriam Moscona's Negro marfil / Ivory Black, published by Les Figues Press. Forthcoming are The Route, an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin, Laws from Dusie Books, and a book-length series of anti-war-manifesto poems from Palm Press titled one. |
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| Jen Hofer, selected books |
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| Lewis MacAdams - Senior Lecturer |
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| BA Princeton Univ; MA, State University of New York at Buffalo. Author of ten books of poetry, including The River (2005) and of cultural study, Birth of the Cool (2001). He served as the Director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, and is currently a board member. He is a contributing editor to the L.A. Weekly and writes on culture and ecology for Rolling Stone and Los Angeles Magazine. |
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| Lewis MacAdams, selected books |
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| Douglas Messerli - Senior Lecturer |
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BA Univ of Wisconsin; MA, PhD Univ of Maryland. Author of numerous books of fiction, poetry and drama, as well as Editor of Sun & Moon Press, one of the country's foremost publishers of international new writing. Currently he is the publisher of Green Integer Books, Los Angeles.
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| Douglas Messerli, selected books |
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| Dennis Phillips - Senior Lecturer |
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| BFA, Cal Arts; MFA, Antioch University, Los Angeles. Author of ten books of poetry (among them Sand--2002, and Credence--1987) and one novel, Hope--2007. Former director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Venice. Past Editor of book reviews for Sulfur, and poetry editor of the L.A. Weekly. Co-founded and co-edited Littoral Books. Phillips is a professor in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Art Center College of Design and teaches creative writing regularly at Occidental College. |
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| Dennis Phillips, selected books |
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| Martha Ronk - Senior Lecturer |
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| BA Wellesley College, PhD Yale University. Author of more than ten books of poetry, among which State of Mind (1995), Eyetrouble (1998), Why/Why Not (2002), In a Landscape of Having to Forget (2004) and the forthcoming Vertigo, winner of the 2006 National Poetry Series Open Competition. Her In a Landscape of Having to Forget received PEN USA's 2005 Literary Award for poetry. She has also published numerous articles on Shakespeare and is the Irma and Jay Price Professor of English at Occidental College. |
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| Martha Ronk, selected books |
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| Benjamin Weissman - Senior Lecturer |
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BFA California Instutute of the Arts. Writer and visual artist, author of two collections of short fiction, Headless (Akashic) and, Dear Dead Person (Serpent's Tail). Exhibited art solo and in collaboration with Paul McCarthy and Jim Shaw at Kunsthalle, Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Essor Gallery, and Berkeley Art Museum. Lectured on and written extensively about art, books, music, skiing and pornography for M.I.T., MOCA, MOMA, Walker Art Center, as well as Artforum, Freeze, Frieze, Index, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Nerve, Parkett, Powder, Salon, and Spin. Hosts "New American Writing Series" at UCLA Hammer Museum.
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| Benjamin Weissman, selected books |
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