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  • Luis Jaramillo

    Director of the Creative Writing Program and Assistant Professor of Writing

    Email
    jaramillo@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Luis Jaramillo

    Profile

    Luis Jaramillo is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at The New School. He is the author of The Doctor’s Wife, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Contest, an Oprah Book of the Week, and one of NPR’s Best Books of 2012. His work has also appeared in Open City, Gamers (Soft Skull Press), Tin House Magazine, H.O.W. Journal, and Red Line Blues. In 2014 he was selected as a Sewanee Writers Conference Fellow. He teaches courses in fiction and nonfiction in the MFA Creative Writing program and the Riggio Honors Program: Writing & Democracy, and is co-editor of the journal The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food. He received an undergraduate degree from Stanford and an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School.

    Future Courses

    Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
    NWRG 5920, Fall 2022

    Past Courses

    Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
    NWRG 5920, Fall 2021, Spring 2022

    Fiction Workshop
    NWRG 5400, Fall 2021

    Writer's Life Colloq First Yrs
    NWRG 5801, Spring 2022

    Writer's Life Colloq: 2nd Yrs.
    NWRG 5800, Spring 2022

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