Leslie Dick, co-director of the Program in Art, is the author of two highly regarded novels — Without Falling (1987) and Kicking (1992) and a collection of short stories, The Skull of Charlotte Corday and Other Stories (1995). She was a visiting lecturer in Women's Studies at Vassar College and a Mellon Fellow in Arts Criticism at CalArts. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, notably Interview, Semiotext(e), Seven Deadly Sins, Sex and the City, Serious Hysterics, and Other Than Itself: Writing Photography and Uncontrollable Bodies. She joined the art faculty at CalArts in 1992 and, in Fall 1999, became co-director of the art program with Martin Kersels.