J. T. Barbarese has published four books of poetry, Under the Blue Moon, New Science, A Very Small World and The Black Beach, which won the Vassar Miller Prize. He has also published a translation of Euripides’ The Children of Heracles. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, and Poetry. His poems have been anthologized in The Italian-American Reader (Morrow, 2003) and The Poetry Daily Anthology (forthcoming), and his short fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly and The North American Review. His literary journalism has been included in Tri-Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, Studies in English Literature, The Journal of Modern Literature, The New York Times, and The Columbia History of American Poetry.
Lise Funderburg’s first nonfiction book, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity, was a collection of oral histories. Her forthcoming book is a combined social history and memoir called Pig Candy: A History of My Father, Race, and Place. And Pork. She has written book reviews, essays, and feature articles for such publications as The Nation, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, and The Hungry Mind Review. She has also served as an editor for Vogue, Lucky, and O, the Oprah Magazine.
Lauren Grodstein is the author of the short story collection The Best of Animals and the novel Reproduction is the Flaw of Love, an Amazon Breakout Book and a Borders Original Voice selection. She is also the author of the young adult novel Girls Dinner Club, which was named a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Her fiction has been published in nine countries and five languages, and has been a book of the month selection in the U.K. and Australia. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt, Small Spiral Notebook, The Ontario Review, and The New York Times. During the summer, she runs a creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy in Paris, France.
Tyler Hoffman is the editor of the electronic American studies journal The Mickle Street Review and associate editor of the Robert Frost Review. He is the author of two books—Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry and Teaching with The Norton Anthology of Poetry: A Guide for Instructors, He is completing work on a book on the history and theory of public performance poetry titled “States of Change: American Public Poetry and the Performance of Culture.” He has published many articles and book chapters, including work on John Brown and children’s literature, American Civil War verse, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Gary Snyder, Thom Gunn, and the contemporary slam poetry scene. He is past president of the international Robert Frost Society.
Elaine Terranova is the author of four books of poems: The Dog’s Heart, Damages, Not To, and The Cult of the Right Hand, winner of the Walt Whitman Award. She has also published a translation from Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshres and many other publications. She has received a Pew Fellowship, a National Endowment in the Arts Fellowship, and a Robert Frost Fellowship, among other awards.
Lisa Zeidner is the author of four novels: Customs, Alexandra Freed, Limited Partnerships and most recently Layover, which has been translated into six languages and is in production as a film. She has also published two books of poetry, Talking Cure and Pocket Sundial, which won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. She has also written screenplays for Universal Studios and Focus Features. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in GQ, Mademoiselle, The New York Times, Boulevard, Poetry, The Washington Post and other publications. Her creative nonfiction has been anthologized in Salon.com’s Life As We Know It and Tin House’s Cooking and Stealing. Zeidner is the recipient of the 1993 Warren I. Sussman Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Provost's Teaching Award.

Rutgers-Camden “New Voices” Visiting Writer
Every year, an emerging novelist, memoirist, or poet will be selected from a national competition to join the faculty for two semesters. The Rutgers-Camden Visiting Writer will teach workshops, give readings, supervise theses, and take part in the annual Summer Writers’ Conference