CJ Hauser

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CJ Hauser

Associate Professor of English

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English and Creative Writing

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CJ Hauser (they/them) teaches creative writing and literature at Colgate University.

Their first full length work of nonfiction, The Crane Wife: a memoir-in-essays was recently released from Doubleday in the US and Viking in the UK.

Their second novel, Family of Origin, was published by Doubleday in 2019, and their debut, The From-Aways, by William Morrow in 2014.

Their work has also appeared in Tin House, Narrative Magazine, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Esquire, Third Coast, The Kenyon Review, The Guardian, Bon Appetit, Elle Magazine UK, Vogue UK and The New York Times.

They hold an MFA from Brooklyn College and a PhD from Florida State University.

BA, Georgetown University
MFA, Brooklyn College
PhD, Florida State University

Fiction (novel, short story)
Speculative fiction
Contemporary international fiction

The From-Aways, a novel
William Morrow/Harper Collins
May 2014

Tin House | “Blood: Twenty-Seven Love stories from Life”
Winter Issue 2016 (creative non-fiction)                      

Narrative | “Bangana”
Fall 2014 Contest Winner (fiction)

The Millions | “Just (Un)Like Me: On Our Favorite Characters”
Winter 2014 (essay)

Slice Magazine| “The Mechanicals”
Winter 2014 (creative non-fiction)

Tin House| “The Shapeshifter Principle" 
Fall 2012 (fiction)

 Third Coast | “Abandoned Cars”
Winner of the 2012 Jaimy Gordon Prize in Fiction
Judged by Jaimy Gordon

Esquire | “Letters in War Time”
Finalist for the Colum McCann and the Aspen Writers' Foundation Short Fiction Contest

The Laurel Review | “Throw In Your Coins”
Winter 2011 (fiction)

The Kenyon Review | “Buoys”
Fall 2010 (fiction)

The Brooklyn Review | “This Is About the Radio”
Summer 2009 (fiction)

The L Magazine | “Exactly Halfway Down”
Summer 2009 (fiction)