Elizabeth Acevedo
Performance Poet & Novelist
National Book Award
Diane Ackerman
NYT Bestselling Author
Naturalist, Essayist, Poet
Richard Blanco
Obama's Inaugural Poet
Poetry Education Ambassador
Bryan Doerries
Theater of War Productions
Translator of Ancient Greek
Joy Harjo
US Poet Laureate (2019-22)
Memoirs: Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior
Saidiya Hartman
MacArthur “Genius” Award
Distinguished Literary Scholar
Jonathan M. Katz
Award-winning Journalist
Haiti, Epidemic, Disaster
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Asian-American Poet
Barnes & Noble Book of 2020
Claudia Rankine
NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize
Vaddey Ratner
NYT Bestselling Novelist
Khmer Rouge Survivor
Natasha Trethewey
US Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet