Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program and Roy J. Carver Professor Melissa Febos is the author of five books, including the national bestselling essay collection, Girlhood, which has been translated into 10 languages and was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and named a notable book of 2021 by NPR, Time, The Washington Post, and others. Her craft book, Body Work (2022), was also a national bestseller and an LA Times Bestseller. A new memoir, The Dry Season, was published in 2025 by Alfred. A. Knopf.

Nonfiction Writing Program Assistant Professor Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist and the author of books Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit, winner of the Noemi Press Book Award for Prose (2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020), a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award in Nonfiction, and winner of the Big Other Award in Nonfiction and the hybrid chapbook, The Persistence of The Bonyleg: Annotated (Essay Press 2016), winner of the Essay Press Digital Chapbook Contest. Her newest book, Carousel, was published by Yale University Press in 2026.