Deborah Landau

Deborah Landau serves as Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program within the Department of English at New York University's College of Arts and Science, where she shapes curriculum and mentors emerging writers through her leadership role.

Her academic foundation includes advanced degrees from Stanford University, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brown University.

Landau's creative scholarship centers on contemporary poetry exploring physicality, vulnerability, and feminist perspectives through lyrical and experimental forms. Her work interrogates the body's relationship to identity and social structures while maintaining autobiographical resonance within compressed poetic frameworks.

Her publications span five critically acclaimed poetry collections and individual works featured across prestigious literary venues including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic. Landau's writing demonstrates consistent evolution toward more fragmented, embodied forms while maintaining thematic continuity around corporeal experience and female subjectivity.

Major recognitions include:

• Believer Book Award for 'Soft Targets'
• Jacob K Javits Fellowship
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 selection for 'Skeletons'

As program director, Landau oversees faculty development and student mentorship while maintaining an active national profile through readings, workshops, and contributions to literary discourse.