Past Faculty

The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College is proud to celebrate the large and diverse group of faculty and literary voices who have helped shape and steer our MFA Program. On this page, you will find a comprehensive list of all of our past MFA Faculty.

Betty Adcock
Joan Aleshire
Debra Allbery
(MFA Director)
Agha Shahid Ali
Tom Andrews
A. Manette Ansay
Elizabeth Arnold
David Baker
Wilton Barnhardt
Rick Barot
Andrea Barrett
Charles Baxter
Don Belton
Karen Bender
Adria Bernardi
Sharon Bryan
Rob Cohen
Peter Cooley
Justin Cronin
Charles D’Ambrosio
Tracy Daugherty
Carl Dennis
Stacey D’Erasmo
Stuart Dischell
Stephen Dobyns
Judy Doenges
Stephen Dunn
Stuart Dybek

Jonathan Escoffery
Kim Edwards
Lynn Emanuel
Susan Engberg
Danielle Evans
Elizabeth Evans
B.H. Fairchild
Roger Fanning
Chris Forhan
Carol Frost
Reg Gibbons
Louise Glück
Barbara Greenberg
Linda Gregerson
Judith Grossman
Allan Gurganus
Matthea Harvey
Ehud Havazelet
Robert Hemenway
Laura Hendrie
Edward Hirsch
Tony Hoagland
Jonathan Holden
Marie Howe
CJ Hribal
David Huddle
Allegra Hyde
Mark Jarman

Diane Johnson
Joyce Johnson
Rodney Jones
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Pagan Kennedy
Laila Lalami
Victor LaValle
Mary Leader
Larry Levis
James Longenbach
Thomas Lux
Thomas Mallon
Kai Maristed
Michael Martone
Grace Dane Mazur
Campbell McGrath
Erin McGraw
Heather McHugh
James McMichael
Christopher McIlroy
Kevin McIlvoy
James McManus
T.M. McNally
Claire Messud
Lisel Mueller
Susan Neville
Steve Orlen
Gregory Orr

Tom Paine
Michael Parker
Alex Parsons
Janet Peery
Kathleen Peirce
Lucia Perillo
Katie Peterson
Carl Phillips
Connie Porter
Francine Prose
Nahid Rachlin
Claudia Rankine
Barbara Ras
Frederick Reiken
Mary Elsie Robertson
Marilynne Robinson
Kenneth Rosen
Mary Ruefle
Richard Russo
Michael Ryan
Ira Sadoff
Steven Schwartz
Rion Amilcar Scott
Nicole Sealey
Jim Shepard
David Shields
Grace Shulman
John Skoyles

Tom Sleigh
Jane Smiley
Dave Smith
Marcia Southwick
Irini Spanidou
Megan Staffel
Maura Stanton
Susan Stewart
Darcy Steinke
Ruth Stone
Sarah Stone
Jean Thompson
Pimone Triplett
Peter Turchi
(MFA Director)
Douglas Unger
Jean Valentine
Ellen Bryant Voigt (MFA Director)
Chuck Wachtel
Diana Wagman
James Wilcox
Eleanor Wilner
Anne Winters
Geoffrey Wolff
Renate Wood
Susan Wood
Robert Wrigley
Dean Young

The MFA Program for Writers at Goddard College (1976-1980)

Poet and educator Ellen Bryant Voigt founded the nation’s first low-residency MFA Program at Goddard College in Vermont in 1976. The program relocated to Warren Wilson College in 1981.

Faculty & Students at Goddard College (1979): BACK: Barbara Greenberg, Robert Hass, Tobias Wolff, Marita Garin, Faye Kicknosway, Raymond Carver, Geoffrey Wolf, Donald Hall, Michael Ryan, Stephen Dobyns. FRONT: Lisel Mueller, Ann Blackmer, Deborah Tall, Jane Shore, Janet Bloom, Heather McHugh, Gloria Still, Linda Nemec Foster, Louise Glück

Goddard Faculty (1976-1980)

Don Bredes
Rosellen Brown
Mary Carter
Raymond Carver
George Chambers
Frank Conroy

Stephen Dobyns
Richard Ford
Louise Glück
Barbara Greenberg
Donald Hall

Robert Hass
David Huddle
John Irving
Faye Kicknosway
Thomas Lux

William Matthews
Heather McHugh
Lisel Mueller
Craig Nova
Steve Orlen
Joyce Peseroff

Richard Rhodes
Michael Ryan
Jane Shore
Stephen Tapscott
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Geoffrey Wolff