Literature Faculty
![Image of Benjamin Anastas](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/anastas-ben_320x230px.jpg?itok=odTMis30)
Benjamin Anastas has received support for his work as a novelist, literary journalist, and critic from the Lannan Foundation and the MacDowell Colony.
![Photo of Jenny Boully](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/jennyboully320w230h.png?itok=yRmtbDeQ)
![Image of Franny Choi](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Choi%2C%20Franny_320x230px.jpg?itok=8XwxD0VW)
Franny Choi is a poet and essayist. Books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On and Soft Science, winner of the Elgin Award for Science Fiction Poetry.
![Image of Alex Creighton](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/creighton-alex_320x230px.jpg?itok=GJpSp912)
Alex Creighton (he/they) writes about and teaches literature and culture in diverse fields, including the long eighteenth century, gender and sexuality studies, music and narrative, animal studies, and studies of time and temporality.
![Annabel Davis-Goff](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/DavisGoff_Annabel_320x230_2.jpg?itok=YXqC4Zc4)
Annabel Davis-Goff is a novelist, essayist, social justice advocate, and a driving force behind Bennington College’s Incarceration in America and Prison Education Initiatives.
![Image of Michael Dumanis](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/dumanismichael_320x230px.jpg?itok=4w0Cxzhg)
The acclaimed poetry of Michael Dumanis weaves together memories of childhood, diaspora, and dislocation.
![Image of An Duplan](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Duplan%2C%20Anais_320x230px.jpg?itok=n1LaKZ3Z)
Anaïs Duplan '14 is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of upcoming book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), and a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020). He founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, a residency program for artists of color, at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One.
![Image of Marguerite Feitlowitz](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/FeitlowitzMarguerite_320x230px.jpg?itok=hfYTteJr)
Marguerite Feitlowitz is the author of the internationally acclaimed A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture and four volumes of literary translation, many essays, fiction, and criticism.
![Manuel Gonzales headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Manuel_Gonzales_320x230.jpg?itok=X352CT02)
Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife and Other Stories, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the John Gardner Prize for Fiction, and the novel The Regional Office is Under Attack!
![Image of Camille Guthrie](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/GuthrieCamille_320x230px.jpg?itok=eNnKGHPs)
In Camille Guthrie's fourth collection of poems, DIAMONDS, she writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life—and the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love.
![Mark Wunderlich](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/mw_320x230.png?itok=Qe__2Q5e)
Mark Wunderlich is author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry, and his poems, interviews, reviews, and translations have appeared in journals such as Slate, The Paris Review, and Poetry, and in more than 30 anthologies. His most recent book, God Of Nothingness, was published by Graywolf in 2021.
Visiting Faculty
![Image of Libby Flores](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/flores-libby_320x230px.jpg?itok=yq7IrUdd)
Libby Flores MFA '14 has had her work appear in One Story Magazine, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, Tin House, The Guardian, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the Associate Publisher at BOMB magazine.
![Image of Nicolette Polek](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/nicolette-polek_320x230px_1.jpg?itok=nQTXjzvr)
Nicolette Polek '15 is the author of Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press, 2024) and Imaginary Museums (Soft Skull Press, 2020). She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and is currently based in New York.
![Image of Sandra Simonds](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/Simonds%2CSandra_320x230px.jpg?itok=ln2sEfD0)
Simonds is a poet and critic. She is the author of eight books of poetry and a novel. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine and elsewhere.
![Image of Jia Tolentino](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/tolentino-jia_320x230px.jpg?itok=b4i8R87z)
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.
![Image of Devon Walker-Figueroa](/sites/default/files/styles/faculty_320x230/public/sources/faculty/walker-figueroa-devon_320x230px.jpg?itok=mDYL-yYH)
Devon Walker-Figueroa '15 is a poet, short story writer, and literary editor.