MFA Faculty
Cyrus Cassells (Stanford) Poetry	The Mud Actor (Holt, 1982) Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (Copper Canyon Press, 1994) Beautiful Signor (Copper Canyon Press, 1997) More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)	2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship National Poetry Series Prize-The Mud Actor 1994 William Carlos Williams Award and named one of the Best Books of 1994 by Publisher's Weekly- Soul Make a Path Through Shouting 1998 Lambda Literary Award- Beautiful Signor Lannan Foundation Fellowship Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Peter I.B.Lavan Younger Poet Award from the American Academy of Poets
Dagoberto Gilb (MA University of California, Santa Barbara) Fiction	The Flowers (Grove Press, 2008) The Magic of Blood (University of New Mexico Press, 1993/Grove Press, 1994) The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña (Grove Press, 1995) Woodcuts of Women (Grove Press,2001) Gritos (Grove Press, 2003). Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of TexasMexican Literature (University of New Mexico Press, 2006).	National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1992 Whiting Writer's Award, 1993 Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1994, winner of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1994, and the Texas Institute of Letters' Jesse Jones Award for best book of fiction- The Magic of Blood 1994 New York Times Notable Book- The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Gritos
Tom Grimes (MFA Iowa) Fiction	A Stone of the Heart (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990/SMU Press, 1997) Spec (Iowa Review, Vol. 24:1), Full-length play, produced at The Met Theatre, Los Angeles Season's End (Little, Brown, 1992/Nebraska, 1996) City of God (Norton, 1995/Picador, 1996/Gallimard, 1998) The Workshop (Hyperion, 1999) New World (translated into Spanish for production in Spain), Full-length play, produced at The Met Theatre, Los Angeles, 2001 WILL@epicqwest.com (Ludlow Press/Gallimard, 2003).	1990 New York Times Notable Book- A Stone of the Heart 1991 Los Angeles Dramalogue Award 1991 James Michener Fellowship 1997 New York Times "New and Noteworthy" Paperback- A Stone of the Heart 1999 Barnes & Noble Discover Award BookSense "Pick" for July, 2003, WILL@epicqwest.com
Ogaga Ifowodo (MFA Cornell) Poetry	Homeland and Other Poems (Kraft Books, 1998; Africa World Press, 2008) The Oil Lamp (Africa World Press, 2005) Madiba (Africa World Press, 2003) Homeland (German-English selected poems, Karen Clark, Trans. Edition Solitude, 1999)	2005 Association of Nigerian Authors/Gabriel Okara poetry prize — The Oil Lamp 2003 Association of Nigerian Authors/Cadbury Prize — Madiba 2000 Fellow of the Iowa Writing Program 1998 Barbara Goldsmith Freedom-to-Write Award, American PEN Center 1998 Free Word Award of the Netherlands-based Poets of All Nations/Poetry Rotterdam Award 1993 Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize — Homeland and Other Poems
Roger Jones (PhD Oklahoma State) Poetry	Remembering New London (Texas Review Press, 1981) Strata (Texas Review Press, 1993) Are We There Yet? (Texas Review Press, 2006) Poems in various journals, including Southern Poetry Review, Hawaii Review, Poet Lore, Louisiana Literature, Baltimore Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, TexasReview, Arkansas Review, and others	1984 Academy of American Poets Prize
Debra Monroe (Ph.D. Utah) Fiction	The Source of Trouble (Georgia, 1990/Scribner's, 1995) A Wild, Cold State(Simon & Schuster, 1995/Scribner's, 1996) Newfangled (Simon & Schuster, 1998/Scribner's, 2000) Shambles (SMU, 2004)	1990 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction- The Source of Trouble 1992 John Gardner Fellowship 1995 Best Ten Books selection in Elle- A Wild, Cold State 1998 Borders Bookstores' New Frontiers selection- Newfangled
ZZ Packer (MFA Iowa) Fiction	Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead Trade, 2003)	2005 Guggenheim Fellowship 2003 New York Times Notable Book 2003 Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award 1999 Wallace Stegner Fellow 1999 Whiting Writer's Award 1997 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
Kathleen Peirce (MFA Iowa) Poetry	Mercy (Pittsburgh, 1991) Divided Touch, Divided Color (Windhover, 1995) The Oval Hour (Iowa, 1999) The Ardors (Ausable Press, 2004)	2007 Guggenheim Fellowship 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry- Mercy 1993 Whiting Writer's Award 1998 Iowa Poetry Prize, Finalist for the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award- The Oval Hour
Nelly Rosario (MFA Columbia) Fiction	Song of the Water Saints (Pantheon, 2002)	2008 The Sherwood Anderson Award in Fiction 2003 Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction 2002 Village Voice Literary Supplement 'Writer on the Verge' 2002 PEN/Open Book Award 1997 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award in Fiction
Steve Wilson (MFA Wichita State) Poetry	Allegory Dance (Black Tie, 1991) Editor, The Anatomy of Water: A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry (Linwood, 1992) The Singapore Express or Faith in the Knowing Hand of the Scientist (Black Tie, 1994) Editor, The Prose Poem His work has also appeared in the following: American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, and Sierra Songs and Descants Finding My Kerouac (Podcast)	1994 Fulbright Fellowship 2002 Fulbright Fellowship, Slovenia