Meet The Faculty
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is the inaugural George R.R. Martin Chair in Storytelling at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. She is a Singaporean novelist, journalist, and the author of the novel “Sarong Party Girls” (William Morrow, 2016) and the memoir “A Tiger In The Kitchen” (Hyperion, 2011). Both books were international bestsellers. She is the co-creator and co-editor of “Anonymous Sex” (Scribner Books, 2022), which was also an international bestseller, and the editor of the anthology “Singapore Noir” (Akashic Books, 2014). The National Arts Council of Singapore has awarded her multiple grants in support of her writing. A 1997 Medill graduate, Tan has been a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, senior fashion writer at In Style magazine, and senior arts and entertainment writer at the Baltimore Sun. Tan has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, Hawthornden Castle, and The Studios of Key West among other places.
Julia Glass
Julia Glass is the author of the novels “Vigil Harbor,” “A House Among the Trees,” “And the Dark Sacred Night,” “The Widower’s Tale,” “The Whole World Over,” and the National Book Award–winning “Three Junes,” as well as the Kindle Single “Chairs in the Rafters.” “I See You Everywhere,” a collection of linked stories, won the 2009 SUNY John Gardner Fiction Award. Her personal essays and short stories have been widely anthologized, and for several years she reported on animals, women’s health issues, and parenting for a dozen publications including New York Magazine, Glamour, Redbook, the Washington Post, Woman’s Day, and the legendary 7 Days. She also published book reviews in the Chicago Tribune and travel articles in Gourmet and Condé Nast Traveler. Recognition for her work includes fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Julia is a cofounder of Twenty Summers, a nonprofit incubator for arts and ideas in Provincetown, a member of the Provincetown Book Festival Committee, and a Senior Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College.
Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer and AIDS historian. Her twenty books include “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, NY 1987-1993” and the novels “Maggie Terry” and “The Cosmopolitans.” She holds an endowed chair in Creative Writing at Northwestern University and is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Juan Martinez
Juan Martinez is the author of the novel Extended Stay, released in January 2023 from the University of Arizona Press’s Camino del Sol series. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it “a fresh and stunning debut.” The novel was shortlisted for the Chicago Review of Books prize, was a New York Public Library book of the day, and was one of Crimereads and Tor.com’s best horror novels of the year. His short-story collection Best Worst American was released in 2017 by Small Beer Press and won the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for debut speculative fiction. In another life, he was a teen movie critic for The Orlando Sentinel, a journalist for The Colombian Post, and a lifestyle and fashion reporter for The Desert Companion; he has also written occasional pieces for Las Vegas City Weekly and, most recently, Magnum Photos and The Believer. His fiction has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including EPOCH, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, The Chicago Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Conjunctions, NIGHTMARE, Huizache, Small Odysseys, NPR’s Selected Shorts, Ecotone, Shenandoah, Sudden Fiction Latino, and Norton's Flash Fiction America, and is forthcoming in The Sunday Morning Transport and a Simon & Schuster/Primero Sueño Latinx horror anthology.