Rate My Professor Chand Feldman

Chanda Feldman is the Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College, where she has taught since 2017. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago (1995) and an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University (2003). Prior to her appointment at Oberlin, Feldman taught creative writing at Cornell University and served as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University from 2008 to 2010. Her professional experience also encompasses editorial work in academic and literary publishing, including roles with Chicago Review, Epoch, Glimmer Train, and Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation. Currently, she reads manuscripts for the Virginia Quarterly Review. At Oberlin, Feldman teaches a range of courses, including The Prose Poem (CRWR 213), Integrated Arts Workshop (PRAX 300), Creative Writing Capstone Seminar (CRWR 490), Documentary Poetics (CRWR 311), and Long Projects Seminar (CRWR 491).

Feldman is the author of two poetry collections: Glance (LSU Press, 2024), recipient of the 2024 L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award and a finalist for the Jewish National Book Award in Poetry, and Approaching the Fields (LSU Press, 2018). Her poems have been published in leading journals such as AGNI, The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, Orion Magazine, Pleiades, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Selected works include “They Ran and Flew From You” (Southern Review, winter 2020; featured in The Best American Poetry 2021), “Glance” (Conjunctions), “Time for Open Air” (Copper Nickel, Spring 2022), and contributions to anthologies like This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) and Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2020). Her accolades include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry (2011), Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award (2016), Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2022), Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund Award, and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (including Bakeless Camargo in Cassis, France, 2015), Cave Canem Foundation (2004, 2005, 2006), MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Loghaven Artist Residency (2022), and Vermont Studio Center. Feldman has presented at events such as the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference and engaged in public discussions on poetry, race, and craft.