Session II Faculty

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over thirty books. An expert consultant with the United States Fulbright Commission and a twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Darling’s work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, a 2024 Villa Lena Foundation Fellowship, a 2024 Civita Institute Fellowship, and eleven juried residencies at the American Academy in Rome. Born and raised in the American Midwest, she now divides her time between Greece, Spain, and the Amalfi Coast.

Greg Harris has taught writing at Harvard University for over 20 years, and founded and co-directed Harvard’s literary festival, LITfest. He is an affiliate of the Shorenstein Center on the Media, Politics, and Policy, and was a 2023 Arctic Fulbright Scholar in Iceland. He is the founding editor of Pangyrus Literary Journal. His essays, reviews, and stories have appeared in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Review, Jewish Fiction, Earth Island Journal, and elsewhere.

Lisa Ko is the author of the new novel Memory Piece and the nationally bestselling novel The Leavers, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Ko’s writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, and The Believer.

Jenny Molberg’s third poetry collection, The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. An NEA fellow, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, Oprah Quarterly, and other publications. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she edits Pleiades: Literature in Context.

Meghan O'Rourke is the author of five books, including, most recently, the New York Times Bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. The recipient of a Guggenheim Award, a Radfliffe Award, and a Front Page Award for Criticism, she is a professor in the practice of Creative Writing at Yale University. She also serves as the editor of The Yale Review.

XU XI 許素細 is an Indonesian-Chinese native of Hong Kong and author of sixteen books of fiction and nonfiction. She held the Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts and was also writer-in-residence at Iowa, Arizona State, the City University of Hong Kong, among others, and directed two international MFA’s. Now a U.S. citizen she lives between New York and the rest of the world.