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
Core faculty serve as chairs for each track offered by the program. The creative writing program’s extensive roster of full-time, part-time, and visiting faculty members includes award-winning poets, novelists, essayists, and visual artists who work across and between genres.
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.