Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Daniel Tam-Claiborne is a multiracial writer, multimedia producer, and nonprofit director. His debut novel, Transplants (Simon & Schuster, 2025), was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. He is the author of the short story collection What Never Leaves, and his writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, HuffPost, Catapult, Literary Hub, Off Assignment, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, he has also received fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Poets & Writers, Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, and others. Daniel holds degrees from Oberlin College, Yale University, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

 

Belinda Huijuan Tang joins CMC's Literature Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature. A novelist from San Jose, Calif., she is the author of A Map for the Missing, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and one of NPR’s best books of 2022. She holds degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Stanford University, and Peking University in Beijing. Her fiction has received the Truman Capote Fellowship, the Michener Copernicus Fellowship, and support from the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Institute and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 

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