Johnson

Doty

Lisicky

Three prominent writers will lecture in an undergraduate writing course and teach in the English 581/Writers at Work guest seminars for graduate student writers in spring 2008. Funding is from two anonymous Cornell alumni.

The writers are:

• Denis Johnson, poet, fiction writer, playwright, essayist, memoirist and journalist, whose most recent book, the novel "Tree of Smoke" (2007), won the National Book Award. His short-story collection, "Jesus' Son," was adapted for a film in 1999.
• Mark Doty, nonfiction writer and poet, whose most recent book is "Dog Years" (2007) and whose poetry collection "My Alexandria" (1993) won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His new book, "Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems," is forthcoming from HarperCollins. He won the 1995 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.
• Paul Lisicky, fiction writer and memoirist, whose most recent novel is "Lawnboy" (2006). He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship, and his new novel, "Lumina Harbor," is forthcoming.