Stacey D'Erasmo

Assistant Professor

Stacey D'Erasmo holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from New York University in English and American Literature. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University from 1995-1997. She is the author of the novels Tea (Algonquin, 2000), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and A Seahorse Year (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), which was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday, and won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Ferro-Grumley Award. Her essays, features, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Ploughshares. She is currently completing her third novel, tentatively titled A Secret Life. She was a senior editor at the Voice Literary Supplement from 1988-1995. She created and developed the fiction section of Bookforum from 1995-1996. She has taught undergraduate fiction writing at Yale, Barnard, Eugene Lang College at The New School, and Sarah Lawrence. She teaches graduate fiction writing in the MFA program at Brooklyn College. She has also taught in the Sarah Lawrence Summer Writing Conference and in the low-residency, graduate program at Warren Wilson College. In the summer of 2007, she will be a member of the fiction faculty at the Breadloaf Writers Conference. She is a member of PEN and of the MacDowell Colony Fellows Executive Committee.