Geoff Dyer
Writer in Residence, Geoff Dyer, is an essayist, critic, and author of four novels.
Recipient of numerous awards such as the Somerset Maugham Prize (1992), the Lannan Literary Fellowship (2003), W. H. Smith Best Travel Book Award (2004), E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2006), ICP Infinity Award for Writing on Photography (2006), Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Best Comic Novel (2009), GQ Writer of the Year Award (2009), and the National Book Critics Circle Award (2012), Dyer is not only accomplished within his field but a joy to have in our department.
Robin Coste Lewis
Robin Coste Lewis is a renowned poet, artist, scholar, and former poet laureate of Los Angeles.
Numerous accolades highlight her stellar craftmanship: PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection (2023), National Book Award in Poetry (2015), Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship (2019) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2019). Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Transition, and The Massachusetts Review. We are grateful to have such a beloved faculty member as our Writer in Residence.
T.C. Boyle
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Writer in Residence Emeritus T.C. Boyle is the prolific author of numerous novels and short story collections, including Stories II, San Miguel, The Tortilla Curtain and World’s End.
Boyle, who received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, has won numerous awards and prizes, including the PEN/Faulkner Award (for 1988’s World’s End) and the National Magazine Award (in 2007 for his short story “Wild Child”). He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2009.