Stacey D'Erasmo

Stacey D'Erasmo, a Barnard alum, is a Creative Writing professor in both the undergraduate and MFA program at Columbia. She is currently the director of the undergraduate program. Stacey is an accomplished writer, with three fiction novels out and one on the way. Her literary criticism and essays have been featured in the New York Times Magazine and Book Review and other prestigious publications. She is regularly acknowledged by students as being "intimidatingly cool." In workshop, her criticisms are spot-on and helpful, if not always the most coddling.

Along with Amy Benson, she started the Paris Then And Now summer program at Reid Hall.