Founded in 1993 by Thomas Lux and Jane Cooper, the Summer Seminar is a chance for writers to experience the Sarah Lawrence pedagogy, to work with a faculty of acclaimed writers and passionate teachers, and to spend a week in a stimulating atmosphere, where writing—and thinking about writing—is at the core.
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Fiona Maazel (born 1975, Cleveland) is the author of three novels: Last Last Chance (March 2008, from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), Woke Up Lonely (April 2013, from Graywolf Press), and A Little More Human (April 2017, Graywolf Press). In 2008, she was named a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2017, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Photo: Nina Katchadourian
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Kevin Young is the new Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, newly named a National Historic Landmark. He is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf, 2016), longlisted for the National Book Award; Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets; Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Knopf, 2011); and Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008). His collection Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Young's next nonfiction book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, will be out from Graywolf Press November 14, 2017. Young was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. Young will be Poetry Editor of the New Yorker starting in November 2017.