Brookdale Community College

New Jersey, United States

Residential program

Brookdale Community College is a 2-year college in northern NJ where students can receive an AA degree with a concentration in creative writing. The program includes classes in mixed genre, fiction, poetry, script-writing, and creative non-fiction. There is a student literary journal, Collage, and a Visiting Writers Series that hosts 6 readings per year. Students also have the option to be a part of the creative writing club, to participate in trips to the AWP Conference, the bi-annual Dodge Poetry Festival, and a study abroad program in Paris. The school has numerous articulation agreements for its creative writing students so they can transfer to four-year schools such as Rutgers, Farleigh Dickinson University, New School in NYC and more.

Contact Information

765 Newman Springs Road
English Department
Lincroft
New Jersey, United States
07738
Phone: (732) 224-2650
Email: sparker@brookdalecc.edu
www.suzanneparker.org



DEGREE PROGRAMS

Undergraduate Program Director

Suzanne Parker
Director, Creative Writing Program
765 Newman Psrings Road
Lincroft
New Jersey, United States
07738
Email: sparker@brookdalecc.edu
URL: www.brookdalcecc.edu




FACULTY

Suzanne Parker

Bio: Suzanne Parker is a winner of the Kinereth Gensler Book Award for her poetry collection Viral (Alice James Books, 2013), which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and was on the National Library Association’s Over the Rainbow List of recommended books for 2013. She is also a winner of Tupelo Press’s Sunken Garden Chapbook Award for her collection Feed (Tupelo Press, 2016). Her work has recently appeared in Passages North, Tampa Review, Notre Dame Review, Diode, Cimarron Review, and Hunger Mountain. Suzanne is a poetry editor at MEAD: A Magazine of Literature and Libations; she directs the creative writing program at Brookdale Community College in NJ and teaches in the MFA program at Manhattanville College.

www.suzanneparker.org





COMMUNITY

Brookdale Visiting Writers Series (www.brookdalecc.edu)