Alan Ziegler

Professor and Director of Pedagogy and Teacher Training

Alan Ziegler received a B.A. from Union in 1970 and an M.A. from City College (New York) in 1974.  His awards include a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Word Beat Fiction Book Award, four PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, CAPS, and N.E.A. and NYSCA grants for Some literary magazine and Release Press.  He has taught at Teachers and Writers Collaborative, the Poetry Society of America, Interlochen Arts Academy, Bronx Community College, and for Poets-in-the-Schools.  He is the author of The Swan Song of Vaudeville: Tales and Takes; In the City of Mystery (tales), The Green Grass of Flatbush (stories), So Much To Do (poems), and The Writing Workshop: Volumes I and II (nonfiction).  He has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Party Train: An Anthology of New American Prose Poetry, The Ardis Anthology of New American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Village Voice, Carolina Quarterly, Sun, and Creative Writing in America.