WRITERS AT CORNELL. - J. Robert Lennon Writers at Cornell

Brenda
Shaughnessy's most recent collection of poetry is
Our
Andromeda,
from Copper Canyon Press. She’s also the author of Human
Dark with Sugar and
Interior
with Sudden Joy.
Her poems have appeared in Harpers,
McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Slate
and
elsewhere. She is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, and is Assistant
Professor of English in the M.F.A. Program at Rutgers-Newark. She
lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
Shaughnessy read from her work on September 26, 2013, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

Alison Lurie is the author of ten novels, including The Truth About Lorin Jones, Truth and Consequences,  and the Pulitzer-prizewinning Foreign Affairs.  She has also published two collections of essays on children's literature and edited three books of traditional folktales for children, as well as a nonfiction book on the semiotics of dress, The Language of Clothes,  and a forthcoming nonfiction book, The Language of Houses.  She was one of the first women hired by the Cornell English Department and is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American Literature emerita there. 
Lurie read from her work on September 19, 2013, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

Dana Spiotta is the author of three novels: Lightning Field, Eat the Document (which was nominated for the National Book Award), and Stone Arabia. She teaches writing at Syracuse University.

Spiotta read from her work on February 21, 2013, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

Jonathan Franzen is the author of seven books: the novels The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections (which won the National Book Award), and Freedom; and the nonfiction books How to Be Alone, The Discomfort Zone, and Farther Away. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and has been featured on Oprah’s Book Club. He lives in New York and California.
Franzen read from his work on November 1, 2012, in Cornell’s Sage Chapel. This interview took place earlier the same day.

Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine. His books include Squandermania (Salt Publishing), Union (Zoo Press), Seneca in English (Penguin Classics), and most recently a new book of poems, Wishbone (Black Sparrow Books), a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems (Faber and Faber), and Bunting’s Persia (Flood Editions). His translations of Miguel Hernández, collected in I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books) were awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán, and the PEN/New England Discovery Award; they will appear in a new edition from NYRB Classics. He co-hosts a monthly podcast with Poetry editor Christian Wiman, with whom he has co-edited The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine (University of Chicago Press). He blogs at Squandermania and Other Foibles, and can be found on twitter here.
Share read from his work on October 18, 2012, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

Claudia Emerson’s books include Late Wife and Figure Studies. Born and raised in Chatham, Virginia, she studied writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro; in addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for Late Wife, she has also earned two additional Pulitzer nominations, as well as fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has also served as poet laureate of Virginia. Her new book is Secure the Shadow.
Emerson read from her work on September 20, 2012, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.