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NYT Bestselling Novelist
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
National Book Award Finalist
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Psychoanalyst
Donald Antrim
MacArthur "Genius" Award
Acclaimed Fiction Writer
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NYT Bestselling Author
Creator & Curator of Black Liturgies
Fatimah Asghar
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National Book Award Longlist
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NYT Bestselling Novelist
Memoirist
Peter Balakian
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Black Dog of Fate
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Award-winning Novelist & Poet
2021 PEN/Voelcker Award Longlist
Eula Biss
NYT Bestselling Author
National Book Critics Circle Award
Nickole Brown
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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
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Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Queer Poet and Essayist
Douglas Kearney
National Book Award Longlist
Race, Culture & Identity
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Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
Keetje Kuipers
Award-winning Poet
Culture, Identity, Motherhood
Erika Meitner
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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
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NYT Bestselling Novelist
IMPAC Dublin Award