David Daniel is director of the Creative Writing BA program.  His first full-length collection of poems, Seven-Star Bird, was published by Graywolf Press in 2004 and was awarded the Larry Levis Reading Prize for the best first or second book published in that year. The title poem was reprinted in Harold Bloom's The Library of America Anthology of  American Religious Poetry (2006).   His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely, and his next collection, Crash and Other Assorted Love Songs, is forthcoming from American Poetry Review.  Daniel is also the long-time poetry editor of the literary magazine Ploughshares and now serves as co-poetry editor of FDU's international quarterly The Literary Review. Before joining the Fairleigh Dickinson faculty, he taught literature and poetry writing at Emerson College in Boston for more than a decade. 

Walter Cummins has published more than 100 stories in such magazines as Kansas Quarterly, Other Voices, Connecticut Review, Florida Review, 3rd Bed, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Virginia Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Confrontation, and on the Internet. His story collections are Witness and Where We Live. He also has published novels, essays, articles, and reviews. From 1984 to 2002, he was editor-in-chief of The Literary Review, where he is now editor emeritus. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University, serves as a prose editor of Tiferet, and is on the editorial board of Web del Sol.

Martin Donoff, the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program, teaches dramatic writing and film studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the author and/or story editor of more than 125 network television scripts and plays including Alf (NBC), Timeline (PBS), and Captain Kangaroo (CBS). He taught script writing and film studies at Drexel University where he founded the Dramatic Writing Program.

David Grand is serving as writer-in-residence for 2008-2009 and is teaching workshops in fiction writing. Grand's first novel, Louse (1998), was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. His most recent novel,  The Disappearing Body (2002), is described by Salon.com as "A nifty update on the classic noir [which] plumbs an urban underworld of dames, dope rings, double-crossing heavies and poor saps set up to take a fall." Grand received his MFA from New York University, where he held the Fellowship in Fiction and studied with E.L. Doctorow. He has also taught in the creative writing program at the New School in New York City.

David Landau, an award winning published playwright and member of The Dramatists Guild, has worked as a writer and story consultant for TV, industrial videos, training videos, and independent film companies. He has had several scripts optioned and suffered through many Hollywood pitch meetings. His play "Deep Six Holiday" won The Blackburn award for excellence in playwriting, has been produced in regional theaters and his screenplay adaptation has been optioned by Allegra Films. His play "Murder at Cafe Noir" has become the most popular interactive mystery play in the country and is published by Samuel French along with his sequel "Noir Suspicions." "Murder at Cafe Noir" has just become an interactive feature film (written, directed, and produced by Mr. Landau) which has been a featured selection at the Freedom Film Festival and the Telluride IndieFest. His screenplay "Seance" was awarded first place in the Niad Management's Hollywood Screenwriter competition and his TV proposal "Murder To Go" won the People's Pilot TV Series competition. Mr. Landau has had articles published in The Dramatists Quarterly, Scr(i)pt Magazine and is a columnist for Screenwriter's monthly. He is also known as the inventor of the interactive mystery play and the founder and artistic director of Murder To Go Productions. Mr. Landau has a BS in Cinema Studies from Ithaca College and an MFA in Screenwriting from Goddard College.

Howard Libov, who teaches screen writing and film production, attended New York University’s film program and did graduate work at The American Film Institute.  He directed and co-wrote the feature film Midnight Edition, starring Will Patton, which played at The Hamptons, London, and Dublin Film Festivals, and won the Best First Feature Award at the Festival of Fantastic Film in Spain.  It was later seen on HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime.  Little Man, which co-starred Frankie Muniz of Malcolm in the Middle, was completed in 1999, and won the award for Best Short Drama at the International Festival of Sport Film in Italy.  Mr. Libov also wrote and directed the short subject, Men Will Be Boys, which was broadcast nationally on PBS affiliates and starred members of Chicago’s Second City theatre. 

René Steinke's latest novel, Holy Skirts, was published by William Morrow in 2005 (Harper Perennial paperback 2006), and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Holy Skirts is an an imaginative account of the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a German emigre, poet, performance artist,  collagist, nude model, and fashion avatar, who made her mark in Greenwich Village during the 1910s and 1920s, and who, as a friend of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, lived at the center of the New York  Dadaist movement. Holy Skirts was named one of the Best Books of 2005 by the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Steinke's non-fiction work has been published in such places as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsday, Vogue, and TriQuarterly. Her essay "The Peppy Girls of Friendswood, Texas" was published in With Love and Squalor: Writers on the Work of J.D. Salinger, and her essay "What Coco Ate" appears in the book Dog Culture. A reviewer of The Fires, her first novel, called it a "startling first novel. It is startling both in the beauty and precision of the prose and in the story narrated by the tormented Ella, a young woman who can appease her inner demons only by setting fires. . . .Once begun, it is a difficult book to put down." She served as Editor-in-Chief of The Literary Review from 2000-2007 and teaches fiction writing and contemporary literature.

William Zander (professor emeritus) is the author of Distances (poetry, Solo Press). His poems and articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications including Audubon, Connoisseur, Fly Fisherman, Yankee, Poetry Northwest, New Letters, kayak, New York Quarterly, Nimrod, Defined Providence, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Prairie Schooner.