During the summer residencies for SNHU's MFA in fiction and nonfiction writing, students attend classes and at least one reading by a prominent writer who serves as visiting faculty in the SNHU MFA program.
2009 MFA visiting faculty; Author of the New York Times bestseller "Reading Like a Writer," 14 books of fiction, including "A Changed Man," winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and "Blue Angel," a finalist for the National Book Award, distinguished critic and essayist, she has taught literature and writing for more than 20 years at major universities. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ and The Paris Review; she is a contributing editor at Harper's and
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2008 visiting faculty; Fadiman won a National Book Critics’ Circle Award for her first book, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.” She is the first Francis Writer in Residence, Yale University’s first chair in nonfiction writing. She won National Magazine Awards for reporting and essays, is the editor of the 2003 edition of Best American Essays and Rereadings: SeventeenWriters Revisit Books They Love (2005). Her essay collection, “At Large and at Small:Familiar Essays,”came out in 2007.
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2007 visiting faculty; Rhodes is the author or editor of 22 books. His“The Making of the Atomic Bomb” won a PulitzerPrize for nonfiction, a National Book Award and aNational Book Critics Circle Award and “Dark Sun:The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb” was one ofthree finalists for a Pulitzer Prize for history.
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2007 visiting faculty; Sy Montgomery writes for adults and children. Hermost recent book, “The Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood,” was featured in People and O Magazine and on ABC’s“Good Morning America.” Her other acclaimed works include “Search for the Golden Moon Bear”and “The Snake Scientist.” She writes a nature column for the Boston Globe and contributes to National Public Radio’s “Living on Earth” and National Geographic “Explorer” Television.
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2006 MFA Visiting faculty; Award-winning novelist and screenwriter RussellBanks was the university’s 2006 visiting writer. Hisworks include “Affliction,” which was made intoan award-winning movie starring Nick Nolte andJames Coburn, and “The Sweet Hereafter,”“Cloudsplitter” and “Searching for Survivors.”
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