School of Humanities:
Creative Writing Faculty (Board of Study)

Monica Ferrell
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
A.B., Harvard University; M.F.A., Columbia University. Contemporary American poetry, modernism, visual arts, and poetry.
monica.ferrell@purchase.edu

Catherine Lewis
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
B.A., Fontbonne College; Ph.D., Florida State University. Fiction writing; contemporary American novel.
catherine.lewis@purchase.edu

Mark Puckett
Lecturer in Creative Writing (part-time)
B.A., Davidson College; M.A., M.Litt., English, Middlebury College; M.F.A., University of Houston.
mark.puckett@purchase.edu

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
B.A., Pacific Lutheran University; M.A., University of California, Davis. Fiction writing, the short story, contemporary women writers, writing and the environment, literature of the American West.
kirsten.lunstrum@purchase.edu

Nina Pelikan Straus
Professor of Literature
B.A., Bennington College; Ph.D., New York University. Comparative literature.
nina.straus@purchase.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Naomi Holoch
Associate Professor Emerita of French and Literature
B.A., Oberlin College; Licence-ès-Lettres, University of Aix-en-Provence; Ph.D., Columbia University. Contemporary French women writers; lesbian and gay fiction; creative writing.

Updated Aug. 27, 2008