About the Harman Writing Fellow Program

Launched in the Spring of 2014, the Harman Writing Fellow Program brings acclaimed emerging authors, poets and journalists to Baruch College each semester to conduct a writing workshop with members of Encounters Magazine, Baruch’s literary and arts magazine, and other interested students.

Within an intimate setting, students get to experiment with their writing and receive feedback from the writer, while also discussing issues surrounding craft as well as the business of being a writer. Students receive gift copies of the writers’ books.

The Harman Writing Fellow Program is made possible by a gift from the Harman Foundation, which provides support to enhance the College’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program.

Since its inception, the Program has hosted a host of writers across genres: novelists Justin Torres (We The Animals), Tiphanie Yanique (Land of Love and Drowning), and Téa Obreht (The Tiger’s Wife); Nonfiction writer Nina Sharma and Poets Laurie Ann Guerrero (A Tongue in The Mouth Of The Dying), Quincy Scott Jones (The T-Bone Series); Wendy Xu (Phrasis), Morgan Parker (Other People’s Comfort Keps Me Up At Night) and Angel Nafis (BlakGirl Mansion); and short story writer Nafissa Thompson-Spires (Heads of the Colored People).

Spring 2020 Harman Writing Fellow

The Harman Program is proud to have Ingrid Rojas Contreras as our Spring 2020 Harman Writing Fellow this semester.

Don’t miss out on our “Activism in the Americas” panel discussion with Harman Fellow Ingrid Rojas Conteras, Harman Writer Jennifer Clement, Director of the CUNY Journalism’s Spanish-language program Graciela Mochkofsky, and Baruch College’s own Gisele Regatao.

Check out the bios and more on each writer:

• Camille Acker
• Ivelisse Rodriguez
• Jeremy Tiang
• Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• Justin Torres
• Laurie Ann Guerrero
• Morgan Parker
• Tiphanie Yanique
• Téa Obreht
• Quincy Scott Jones & Nina Sharma
• Wendy Xu
• Angel Nafis
• Nafissa Thompson-Spires

For more information on the Harman Program and Fellowship, contact Professor Esther Allen.

Esther.Allen@baruch.cuny.edu

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