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.
Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her books include “Ghost Summer: Stories,” “My Soul to Keep,” and “The Good House”. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.” She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1987. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, co-wrote an upcoming Black Horror graphic novel “The Keeper,” illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Before becoming an author, Due worked as a journalist and columnist at the Miami Herald, where she wrote a piece that was part of a Pulitzer-winning series of articles on Hurricane Andrew.
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.