Faculty

Larissa Pham is the author of Discipline, a novel forthcoming from Random House in 2026. Her previous books are the essay collection Pop Song (Catapult, 2021), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard prize, and Fantasian, a novella published by Badlands Unlimited. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, the NYTBR, Bookforum, Aperture, Art in America, Granta, and elsewhere. Her essays and short fiction have been anthologized in Kink (edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, Simon and Schuster, 2021), Wanting: Women Writing on Desire (Catapult, 2023), and Critical Hits, an anthology of writing on video games (Graywolf, 2024). She studied painting and art history at Yale University, and holds an MFA in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Previously, she worked at the New York City Anti-Violence Project, where she focused on messaging and education around the systemic underpinnings of bias-motivated and intimate partner violence, and received training on disability justice and vicarious trauma.