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Chanda Feldman

  • Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of Creative Writing

Areas of Study

Education

  • MFA, poetry, Cornell University, 2003
  • BA, University of Chicago, 1995

Biography

Chanda Feldman is the author of Approaching the Fields (LSU Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, New South, Prairie Schooner, the Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

Feldman has received awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Cave Canem Foundation, Cit矇 Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown summer workshops/Walker Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center/John Pavlis Fund.

She also was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University.

Feldman has taught creative writing at Cornell University and Stanford University. She has worked as an editor in academic and literary publishing and is currently a manuscript reader for the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Fall 2026

Documentary Poetics CRWR 311

Creative Writing Capstone Seminar CRWR 490

Long Projects Seminar CRWR 491

Spring 2027

Form and Flexibility CRWR 230

  • Approaching the Fields, LSU Press, 2018

  • Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award, 2016
  • Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Camargo Fellowship (Cassis, France), 2015
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in poetry, 2011
  • Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry at Stanford University, 2008-2010
  • Cave Canem Fellow, 2004, 2005, 2006

Notes

Chanda Feldman Poems Featured in Various Media

Blue Hour, a poem by Associate Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman, from American Public Media. Feldmans poems Blue Hour, Toured the Imperial Medieval Castle, and Palinode to a New Year of Trees also appeared in issue 61 of the Harvard Review. Her poems The Age of Discovery, The Dead Sea, and As a Side Note to a Side Note in the History appeared in the spring 2024 issue of EPOCH literary magazine. Feldmans poem Demonstration was anthologized in This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets.

Chanda Feldman Read at Literary Celebration; Published Two New Poems

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman read as part of the of 50 years of AGNI literary journal on Friday, November 4, 2022. Additionally, Chanda Feldman has published two new poems, "For the picnic in the sculpture garden" and "Shuk", in AGNI Issue 96.

Chanda Feldman Publishes Two Poems

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman publishes two poems, "[Independence Day]" and in the Southern Indiana Review.

Chanda Feldman Presents at Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman presented and participated in a panel, "Reverberation: The Book Review as Literary (Labor) Labor," at the 2022 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference held virtually and in Philadelphia, March 23-26.

New Poem by Chanda Feldman Published in Literary Journal

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman has a new poem, "Time for Open Air," in the latest issue (Spring 2022, Issue 34) of the University of Colorado Denver literary journal, Copper Nickel.

Chanda Feldman Named Loghaven Artist in Residence

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman is one of 25 fellows selected from more than 900 applicants for an artist residency at in 2022.

Poem by Chanda Feldman Selected for 2021 Best American Poetry Series

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman's poem "," originally published in the (Issue: Winter 2020), was selected for inclusion in the Best American Poetry series for 2021 by former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Tracy K. Smith.

Chanda Feldman publishes three new poems

Assistant professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman has published three new poems, "The Air Roiled," "Diaspora," and "The Birds Come" in the latest issue of the Denver Quarterly, Vol. 55. No.3.

Chanda Feldman publishes two new poems

Assistant professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman has two new poems at online. The poem "Glance" considers the sculpture "Head of a Negro" by Richmond Barth矇, which is in the Allen Art Museum collection.
 

Chanda Feldman presents talk on Jewish poets and racial justice

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman presented a talk, Race, Language, and Global Belonging on the panel "If Not Now: Jewish Poets and Racial Justice" at the 2021 Association of Writers and Writing Conferences.

Chanda Feldman interviewed for Plume Journal

Chanda Feldman, assistant professor of Creative Writing, is interviewed with poet Erika Meitner by Sally Bliumus-Dunn in the latest issue of . Feldman discusses and reads her own poetry, talks about craft choices and race, and discusses her current writing project.Feldman discusses and reads her own poetry, talks about craft choices and race, and discusses her current writing project.

Chanda Feldman publishes poems

Assistant professor Chanda Feldman published two poems, "It was the middle of February" and "That was the end of summer in , Volume 33/ Number 1.  

Chanda Feldman Publishes Poem

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman published a new poem, "" in the latest issue of the Image Journal.

Chanda Feldman Publishes Poem in Anthology

Chanda Feldman, assistant professor of creative writing, published the poem "To the Old Square," in the 2020 anthology, , from Northwestern University Press.

Chanda Feldman Publishes Poem in Southern Review

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman published the poem, "They Ran and Flew From You," in the , winter 2020 issue.

News

Illuminating the Intangible

The Allen Memorial Art Museums latest exhibit, Picturing the Intangible: 厙ぴ勛圖 Looks at Dawoud Beys Night Coming Tenderly, Black, is part of a series exploring the Underground Railroad.