Faculty
The ITI faculty offer a wide variety of approaches to the
written and visual arts. All are working contemporary artists who
publish and exhibit their work in national and international
contexts. Our faculty are dedicated to innovative approaches and
traditions that value psychologically, culturally and politically
engaged work.
Mark Nowak (Faculty) is the
author of Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House
Press, 2004), a New York Times
“Editor’s Choice,” and Coal
Mountain Elementary(Coffee House Press, 2009), which
Howard Zinn called “a stunning educational tool.” His
new book, Social Poetics, tracks “a
people’s history” of the poetry workshop in Watts,
Attica, South African anti-apartheid struggles, and contemporary
social movements and workers uprisings across the globe. Nowak is a
2010 Guggenheim fellow, a recipient of the Freedom Plow Award for
Poetry & Activism (2015), and a Lannan Literary Fellow (2015).
A native of Buffalo, He is founding director of the Worker Writers
School, currently in collaboration with PEN America, Domestic
Workers United, and other worker centers.[https://twitter.com/workerwriters]