Visiting Writers
Distinguished Visiting Canadian Fulbright Chair in Creative Writing
The 2010 Distinguished Visiting Canadian Fulbright Chair in Creative Writing is Rishma Dunlop.
Rishma Dunlop is an award winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. Her books of poetry are: Metropolis (Mansfield Press, 2005), Reading Like a Girl (Black Moss Press, 2004), and The Body of My Garden (Mansfield Press, 2002). Books as editor include: White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (Demeter Press, 2007) and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (Mansfield Press, 2004). She received the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003, and her radio drama, “The Raj Kumari’s Lullaby,” was produced by CBC Radio in 2005. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals including Blackbird, Literary Review of Canada, CV2, Canadian Literature, Descant, Event, Grain, and The Comstock Review. She has given keynotes and lectures at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki; University of New Mexico; McGill University; Queen’s University, School of Policy Studies; University of British Columbia; Lakehead University; Stanford, and Arizona State University. She is a professor in the Faculty of Education and the Department of English at York University, Toronto, where she is Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program. She is founding editor of the international poetry journal Studio.
Professor Rishma will mentor and meet with ASU MFA students, lecture and read from her work for the community.
Past Distinguished Visiting Canadian Fulbright Chairs have included Ron Smith, Tom Wayman, Ross Leckie and Warren Cariou. Click here for more information on the Distinguished Visiting Canadian Fulbright Chair in Creative Writing. (All applications and award decisions are made by the Canadian Fulbright Agency.)
The Piper Center Distinguished Writer in Residence
As part of the generous endowment from the Piper Charitable Trust, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing is pleased to begin welcoming Distinguished Writers in Residence into the ASU and Phoenix metro area communities for extended stays.
Distinguished Writers in Residence are selected for their overall contributions to American letters and literature and their demonstrated excellence in teaching. Selected writers execute a semester-long residency incorporating community and ASU-based teaching endeavors; public reading events, lectures, and receptions; and potential one-on-one interaction with students.
Our inaugural Distinguished Writer in Residence is Lee Gutkind, the "godfather of creative nonfiction" and founder and editor of the literary journal Creative Nonfiction. Mr. Gutkind was in residence at the Piper Center for Creative Writing from January 15, 2007 through May 15, 2007 and will once again be in residence from January 1, 2008 through May 15, 2008.
2009-10 Distinguished Visiting Writers Reading Series
Click here to view past visitors to the Piper Center for Creative Writing.
