Hilton Als
Essayist, Critic & Curator
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
Famed New Yorker Staff Writer
Nuar Alsadir
Award-winning Poet, Essayist
Psychoanalyst
Jericho Brown
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet MacArthur Genius Award
The Tradition
Stephanie Burt
Critic, Poet & Essayist
NBCC Award Finalist
Kwame Dawes
Ghana-born Jamaican Poet
Novelist and Essayist
Windham Campbell Prize Winner
Camille Dungy
Award-winning Poet
Acclaimed Essayist & Critic
Adam Gopnik
Int'l Bestselling Author
New Yorker Staff Writer
Terrance Hayes
MacArthur "Genius" Award
National Book Award
Keetje Kuipers
Award-winning Poet
Culture, Identity, Motherhood
Dawn Lundy Martin
Poet, Critic, Memoirist
Kingsley Tufts Award
Meghan O’Rourke
NYT Bestselling Writer
National Book Award Finalist
Poet, Nonfiction Author, Editor
Editor of The Yale Review
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Award-winning Poet
Literary & Visual Art Critic
Claudia Rankine
NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize
MacArthur "Genius" Award
Roger Reeves
Acclaimed Poet, Essayist & Critic
Kingsley Tufts Award Winner
Griffin Poetry Prize Winner
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Writer, Curator, Artist
Lambda Literary Award
Whiting Award
Juliana Spahr
Literary & Ecological Scholar
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Award-winning Novelist & Critic
Black Queer Feminism
Frank B. Wilderson III
Award-winning Author
Poet, Scholar, Activist