Faculty

The Stonecoast community thrives on the interaction between students and faculty during residencies, in individual mentorships, and at gatherings formal and informal around the country and beyond.

Stonecoast faculty are valued and renowned not only for their talent and success as writers but also because they are approachable and encouraging teachers who create a nurturing, adventurous and inspiring atmosphere for literary creativity. Stonecoast faculty serve on panels with students, socialize with them, and mentor them outside of the workshop, maintaining high literary standards and challenging students with a model of the joyful discipline of the writing life.

Stonecoast faculty have earned so many major literary awards that only a small sample can be listed here. They include the Pulitzer Prize, a Lannan Foundation Grant, the Latino Heritage Award in Literature, the American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Guggenheim Fellowships, the Astraea Award from the Lesbian Action Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the Whiting Writer's Award. Faculty have also won the Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Society, made national Best-Seller lists and been selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Our faculty's books have found both critical acclaim and a wide general readership. Faculty publications are available online from the University of Southern Maine Bookstore.

If the Stone House is the soul of the Stonecoast program, our faculty are its mind and its heart. We appreciate and admire them, and we invite you to meet them at the links below.

Creative Nonfiction

Fiction

Popular Fiction

Poetry

Visiting Writers

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Creative Nonfiction Faculty

Fiction Faculty

Poetry Faculty

Popular Fiction Faculty