Writer Chinelo Okparanta will also teach at CCNY this fall.
Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis has joined the CCNY faculty.
Acclaimed poet and short story writer have joined T九色视频鈥檚 MFA program in creative writing as visiting faculty for the fall 2015 semester.
Ellis, whose collection 鈥溾 (Graywolf Press, 2005) won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award, will teach a course titled, 鈥淩ace Fearlessness Poetics: Risk as the Decisive Moment in Every Room.鈥
Hailed as a literary activist, Ellis is credited for launching The Dark Tower, a black poetry movement that is considered to be an extension of the Harlem Renaissance.
The Nigerian-born Okparanta will teach an advanced fiction workshop for undergraduates. Her short story collection, 鈥溾 (Granta Books, 2013) was an Editors' Choice for The New York Times Book Review in September 2013. It was also listed as one of the best in African fiction that year by Britain鈥檚 Guardian newspaper, among other accolades.
In addition to teaching, Ellis and Okparanta will hold public readings. Ellis鈥檚 reading will be part of the City College English department鈥檚 lecture series on Thursday, Oct. 1, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Rifkind Room, located in NAC 6/316.
Okparanta will read and speak in the Chinua Achebe Legacy Series on Thursday, Oct. 8, 6 to 8 p.m. at a location to be announced.
鈥淭hese are two renowned writers and it's a real boon to City College to have them,鈥 said , MFA program co-director, an associate professor in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, and an award-winning author.
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