Colette Brooks
Emeritus Professor
Email
colette@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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Colette Brooks鈥檚听literary and cultural essays have appeared in many publications, among them听听Partisan Review,听The New York Times,听Virginia Quarterly Review,听The Georgia听Review,听The New Republic, Columbia:听听A Journal of Literature and Art,听and听Hotel Amerika.听 Her first book,听In the City:听 Random Acts of Awareness, was published by W.W. Norton in 2001 and won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction.听 Her second book,听Lost in Wonder:听 Imagining science and other mysteries, was published by Counterpoint Press in 2010, and designated Finalist/Honorable Mention in the 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Nonfiction. She has received a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts grants, and several writer's residencies at Yaddo, among other awards.听 Her creative nonfiction essays have twice received a 鈥淣otable Essays鈥 designation in the annual听Best American Essays听volumes.听 Several of her essays have been anthologized. Brooks is currently a faculty member at Lang College/The New School, where she is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies/Writing.
Degrees Held
MFA, Drama, Yale 好色先生
BA, Reed College
Professional Affiliation
PEN America