Visiting Faculty
Each year, our program brings accomplished writers and poets to teach for a semester as visiting faculty. In the past, visiting faculty members have included such distinguished writers and poets as Wanda Coleman, Joanne Mescherry, Steve Kowitt, Jericho Brown, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Lidia Yuknavitchm and numerous others. They are a distinguished group that includes winners of American Book Award, Whiting Writers Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, finalists for PEN-Faulkner Award and LA Times Book Award, authors of popular text-books on creative writing, and active practicing writers.
For 2023-2024, we are proud to welcome:
Uri Bar-on has continuously created worldwide acclaimed shorts, documentaries, and
fiction. His debut feature film, "10% my child," won the Israeli Academy Award for
the best indie film and was nominated for Best Israeli Film of the Year. His documentary
series "Under the iron dome" was nominated for 3 Israeli T.V. academy awards, including
best series and best director. His short documentary "72 Virgins" was screened at
Sundance and Tribeca film festivals. His short drama "A Different Love Song" won Best
Short at Marbella Film Festival. Uri has now written and directed for nearly every
broadcast company in Israel, and his work was screened on major worldwide television
stations such as Arte. Uri is also a lecturer at Reichman University, Minshar School
for the Arts, and Beit Berl College. For more info, visit https://www.uri-bar-on.com/en.
Visiting Israeli Scholars and Artists are supported by the Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative.
Maya Tevet Dayan is a is an Israeli-Canadian poet and writer. She's the recipient
of the Israeli Prime Minister award for literature for 2018, and an honorable mention
from the Kugel Poetry Prize for 2016. Poems from her three critically acclaimed poetry
collections have been translated into English, Spanish, German and Chinese, and have
appeared ןn Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, Literary Review
of Canada, Granta, Asymptote, The New Quarterly, Rattle, Copper Nickle, Cagibi and
others. Her poem “Foreign-ness” was a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize for 2019,
and her poem “Cotton” won the 2021 Rhino translation prize. She holds a PhD in Indian
Philosophy and Literature and her translations of Sanskrit Poetry have appeared in
various venues in Israel, the US and India. Her latest book, “Feminism, as I Told
it to My Daughters” (Israel, 2023) is a short memoir in essays based on her highly
popular feminist columns and essays published over the years in “Haaretz” magazine.
Visiting Israeli Scholars and Artists are supported by the Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative.