General Admission Contact
The New School for Social Research
Office of Admission
72 Fifth Avenue, 1st floor
New York, NY 10011
212.229.5600 or 800.523.5411
socialresearchadmit@newschool.edu
Program Contact
66 West 12th St.
New York, NY 10011
writingprogram@newschool.edu
212.229.5611
Directors, Chairs, and Coordinators
John Reed, Director, Creative Writing Program
Laura Cronk, Chair of Poetry
J. Mae Barizo,
Chair of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program
Caron Levis, Writing for Children and Young Adults Coordinator
Helen Schulman, Chair of Fiction
Margaret Rhee, Chair of Arts Writing
Program Staff
Lori Lynn Turner, Associate Director of Administration
The New School has been a vital center for creative writing since 1927, when NYC editor and literary critic Gorham Munson, who was a close friend of Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and William Carlos Williams, offered his first workshop in creative writing. Over the years, our writing and literature faculty have included many of the the United States' most acclaimed poets, novelists, and nonfiction writers.
The poets, essayists, memoirists, and novelists who have taught and studied at The New School compose an encyclopedia of modern American literature.
A brief, incomplete, and somewhat random list of historical literary figures tallies Berenice Abbott, Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, W. E. B. Du Bois, Kay Boyle, André Breton, Anatole Broyard, Peter Caret, Sigrid de Lima, Jacques Derrida, Ani DiFranco, Carol Muske Dukes, Betty Friedan, Robert Frost, Louise Glück, William Goyen, Horace Gregory, Daniel Halpern, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Hoagland, bell hooks, David Ignatow, Alfred Kazin, Jack Kerouac, Jamaica Kincaid, Carolyn Kizer, Kenneth Koch, Stanley Kunitz, Madeleine L’Engle, Pearl London, Robert Lowell, Thomas Mann, Jacques Maritain, David Markson, Bernadette Mayer, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank O'Hara, Mario Puzo, May Sarton, Gilbert Sorrentino, Mark Strand, Sekou Sundiata, Charles Tomlinson, Jean Valentine, John Waters, Eudora Welty, Ruth Westheimer, Tennessee Williams, and Marguerite Young.
Since the inception of the MFA Program in 1996, our Creative Writing faculty have spanned an extraordinary retinue of contemporary authors. A brief, incomplete, and somewhat random list of writers who have taught across our programs includes Hilton Als, Catherine Barnett, Angela Flournoy, John Freeman, Carol Goodman, Lucy Grealy, David Howe, David Hajdu, Amy Hempel, A. M. Homes, Richard Howard, Fanny Howe, Hettie Jones, James Lasdun, David Levithan, Phillip Lopate, Sarah Manguso, Greil Marcus, Douglas Martin, Patrick McGrath, Maggie Nelson, Sigrid Nunez, Sidney Offit, Francine Prose, Camille Rankine, Lucy Sante, Jill Santopolo, Sapphire, Tor Seidler, Dani Shapiro, Prageeta Sharma, Benjamin Taylor, Lynne Tillman, Sarah Weeks, Susan Wheeler, Tiphanie Yanique, and Jenny Zhang.
Today, our current faculty is no less accomlised.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.