Trinie Dalton, B.A. English, M.F.A. Creative Writing Faculty Profile

Trinie Dalton teaches all levels of Creative Writing, and English Literature courses in her subject areas. She also advises CSUEB's student-run literary magazine, Occam's Razor, and hosts the English Department's Distinguished Visiting Writers series. Dalton has written and curated seven books that move between fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Her most recent releases are a short story collection, Baby Geisha (Two Dollar Radio) and a micro-essay suite, Destroy Bad Thoughts Not Yourself, published as a limited edition artist’s book (The Pit Gallery, Los Angeles). She writes essays for artists’ monographs and is active in art book publication; she writes for Artforum. Dalton brings to CSUEB over a decade of teaching experience in English, Creative Writing, Critical Theory + Art Criticism, and Visual Art departments at NYU, Pratt, Columbia, SVA, Art Center College of Design, University of Southern California, University of Redlands, and Vermont College of Fine Arts where she is still Core Faculty in the MFA in Writing Program. Born and raised in California, Dalton is an avid naturalist who studies native flora and fauna. Both of her parents were first-generation college students who attended Cal State universities.