Amy Benson
Amy Benson is a Creative Writing professor at Columbia. Unknown to most students, she actually received an undergraduate degree in biology before studying writing. Along with Stacy Parker Le Melle and Wendy S. Walters, she started the First Person Plural Reading Series, which brings literary events to Harlem.[1]
She writes nonfiction and prose. In the undergraduate program, she teaches higher level nonfiction workshops and the Lyric Essay, an influential class which students will quote from and mention for the rest of their undergraduate career, incessantly, in every other course.
Benson is married with an adorable young son and can sometimes be spotted walking around the city with him in a stroller.
Along with Stacey D'Erasmo, she started the Paris Then and Now program in 2011.[2]
