Creative Writing Past Faculty

Mark Doten

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About

Mark Doten is the author of the novels Trump Sky Alpha and The Infernal. They were named to Granta’s once-a-decade “Best of Young American Novelists” list in 2017, and their writing has appeared in Granta, N+1, Guernica, The Believer, and Conjunctions. As a librettist, their work has been staged at BAM’s Next Wave Festival, the Los Angeles Opera, the San Francisco Opera, and the Music Theatre NOW festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands. They have received fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, MASS MoCA, and the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital. They are the executive literary fiction editor at Soho Press, and live in Princeton, NJ.