Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

NYT Bestselling Novelist
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
National Book Award Finalist

Nuar Alsadir

Award-winning Poet, Essayist
Psychoanalyst

Donald Antrim

MacArthur "Genius" Award
Acclaimed Fiction Writer

Cole Arthur Riley

NYT Bestselling Author
Creator & Curator of Black Liturgies

Fatimah Asghar

Acclaimed Poet, Novelist, Screenwriter
National Book Award Longlist

Jami Attenberg

NYT Bestselling Novelist
Memoirist

Peter Balakian

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Black Dog of Fate

Destiny O. Birdsong

Award-winning Novelist & Poet
2021 PEN/Voelcker Award Longlist

Eula Biss

NYT Bestselling Author
National Book Critics Circle Award

Nickole Brown

Award-winning Poet & Educator
Winner of the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry
Animal Advocate

Stephanie Burt

Critic, Poet & Essayist
NBCC Award Finalist

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Poet & Translator
Immigration Advocate

Kwame Dawes

Ghana-born Jamaican Poet
Novelist and Essayist
Windham Campbell Prize Winner

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

Interdisciplinary Poet and Sound Artist
Whiting Award

Andre Dubus III

#1 NYT Bestselling Novelist
House of Sand and Fog

Camille Dungy

Award-winning Poet
Acclaimed Essayist & Critic

Anaïs Duplan

Award-winning Poet & Essayist
Whiting Award

Martín Espada

Award-Winning Poet
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Beth Ann Fennelly

Acclaimed Poet & Essayist
Micro-Memoirist

Adam Gopnik

Int'l Bestselling Author
New Yorker Staff Writer

torrin a. greathouse

Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Queer Poet and Essayist

Douglas Kearney

National Book Award Longlist
Race, Culture & Identity

Michael Kleber-Diggs

Award-winning Poet & Memoirist
Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

Keetje Kuipers

Award-winning Poet
Culture, Identity, Motherhood

Erika Meitner

Acclaimed Poet & Essayist
Jewish Book Award

Jamila Minnicks

Award-winning Fiction Author
PEN/Bellwether Prize

Rajiv Mohabir

Indo-Carribbean Poet
Memoir: Antiman

Rick Moody

Bestselling Novelist
Acclaimed Memoirist

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

NYT Bestselling Nature Writer
Acclaimed Poet
Sought-after School Speaker

Ladan Osman

Somali-born Poet
Gender & Displacement

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Windham Campbell Prize
Poet, Writer, Lawyer
Zong!

Casey Plett

Fiction & Short Story Writer
Lambda Literary Award

Maya C. Popa

Romanian-American Poet
North American Book Prize

Matthew Shenoda

Award-winning Poet
American Book Award

Sun Yung Shin

Poet, Memoirist & Cultural Worker
Minnesota Book Award

Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Writer, Curator, Artist
Lambda Literary Award
Whiting Award

Chris Stedman

Author & Activist
Host of Unread

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Award-winning Novelist & Critic
Black Queer Feminism

Daniel Torday

Acclaimed Novelist
Jewish Book Award

Brian Turner

Acclaimed Soldier-Poet
Poet, Memoirist & Essayist

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

NYT Bestselling Novelist
IMPAC Dublin Award