Chris Abani

NYT Bestselling Novelist
Nigerian-born Poet

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

Jericho Brown

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
The Tradition

Bryan Doerries

Theater of War Productions
Translator of Ancient Greek

Camille Dungy

Award-winning Poet
Acclaimed Essayist & Critic

Bernardine Evaristo

Award-winning Novelist
Booker Prize Winner

Carolyn Forché

Award-winning Poet
Memoir: What You Have Heard Is True

Adam Gopnik

Int'l Bestselling Author
New Yorker Staff Writer

Joy Harjo

US Poet Laureate (2019-22)
NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award
Memoirs: Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior

Terrance Hayes

MacArthur "Genius" Award
National Book Award

Juan Felipe Herrera

US Poet Laureate (2015-17)
Performer & Activist

Major Jackson

Acclaimed Author
Host of The Slowdown
Roll Deep

Taylor Mali

Performance Poet
What Teachers Make

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

NYT Bestselling Nature Writer
Acclaimed Poet
Sought-after School Speaker

Pádraig Ó Tuama

Acclaimed Irish Poet
Podcast Host: Poetry Unbound

Claudia Rankine

NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize

George Saunders

NYT Bestselling Writer
Booker Prize Winner

Danté Stewart

Acclaimed Memoirist
Belonging & Religion

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Award-winning Fiction Author
PEN Open Book Award

Natasha Trethewey

US Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Novelist & Memoirist
Literary & Social Activist

Frank B. Wilderson III

Award-winning Author
Poet, Scholar, Activist

Karen Tei Yamashita

Award-winning Author
Inheritance: Familial, Cultural, Artistic

Lidia Yuknavitch

Bestselling Novelist
Acclaimed Memoirist