Nuar Alsadir
Award-winning Poet, Essayist
Psychoanalyst
Anastacia-Reneé
Author, Educator, Interdisciplinary Artist
Award-winning Poet
Fatimah Asghar
Acclaimed Poet, Novelist, Screenwriter
National Book Award Longlist
Ellen Bass
Award-winning Poet
Lambda Literary Award
Destiny O. Birdsong
Award-winning Novelist & Poet
2021 PEN/Voelcker Award Longlist
Mahogany L. Browne
Poet, Performer & Organizer Black Girl Magic
Nickole Brown
Award-winning Poet & Educator
Winner of the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry
Animal Advocate
Vanessa Chan
Bestselling Novelist
Former Technology Executive
Tina Chang
Acclaimed American Poet
Race, Culture, Identity
Marilyn Chin
Poet, Novelist, Translator
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Meg Day
Award-winning Poet
Poetry Editor for Quarterly West
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Interdisciplinary Poet and Sound Artist
Whiting Award
Camille Dungy
Award-winning Poet
Acclaimed Essayist & Critic
Tarfia Faizullah
Poet & Translator
Pushcart Prize-winning Author
Kimiko Hahn
Acclaimed Poet & Teacher
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Joy Harjo
US Poet Laureate (2019-22)
NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award
Memoirs: Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior
Pam Houston
Acclaimed Novelist
Animals, Outdoors, Nature
Marie Howe
Acclaimed Poet
NYS Poet Laureate (2014)
Vanessa Hua
Acclaimed Novelist
Immigration Issues
Keetje Kuipers
Award-winning Poet
Culture, Identity, Motherhood
Akil Kumarasamy
Award-winning Author
Bard Fiction Prize
Deborah Landau
Acclaimed Poet
The Uses of the Body
Malinda Lo
Award-winning Fiction & Nonfiction Writer
National Book Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award
Dawn Lundy Martin
Poet, Critic, Memoirist
Kingsley Tufts Award
Jamila Minnicks
Award-winning Fiction Author
PEN/Bellwether Prize
Honor Moore
Memoirst, Biographer, Poet
Bishop's Daughter
Eileen Myles
Acclaimed Poet and Critic
Lambda Pioneer Award
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
NYT Bestselling Nature Writer
Acclaimed Poet
Sought-after School Speaker
Alicia Ostriker
Distinguished Poet
Jewish Book Award
Molly Peacock
Acclaimed Poet
Memoir, Biography, Essay
Torrey Peters
NYT Bestselling Novelist
Detransition, Baby
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Windham Campbell Prize
Poet, Writer, Lawyer
Zong!
Deesha Philyaw
Award-winning Writer
Black Queer Intersectionality
Casey Plett
Fiction & Short Story Writer
Lambda Literary Award
Katha Pollitt
Poet, Essayist, Writer
PRO: Abortion Rights
Sapphire
Bestselling Novelist
Performance Poet
Nicole Sealey
Forward Prize
Former Executive Director of Cave Canem (2017-2019)
Emily Skillings
Acclaimed Poet & Teacher
Feminist Intertextualities
Danez Smith
Spoken Word Poet & Author
Lambda Literary Award
Maggie Smith
Award-winning Poet
NYT Bestselling Memoirist
Author of Good Bones
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Award-winning Novelist & Critic
Black Queer Feminism
Natasha Trethewey
US Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Anne Waldman
Writer, Editor, Teacher
Award-winning Poet
Co-Founder of The Poetry Project
Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ
Acclaimed Novelist & Short Story Writer
Tamara Winfrey-Harris
Acclaimed Writer
Dear Black Girl
Karen Tei Yamashita
Award-winning Author
Inheritance: Familial, Cultural, Artistic