Nuar Alsadir
Award-winning Poet, Essayist
Psychoanalyst
Cole Arthur Riley
NYT Bestselling Author
Creator & Curator of Black Liturgies
Bryan Doerries
Author & Translator
Artistic Director: Theater of War Productions
Adam Gopnik
Int'l Bestselling Author
New Yorker Staff Writer
Jorie Graham
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Forward Prize
Joy Harjo
US Poet Laureate (2019-22)
NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award
Memoirs: Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior
Pádraig Ó Tuama
Acclaimed Irish Poet
Podcast Host: Poetry Unbound
Meghan O’Rourke
NYT Bestselling Writer
National Book Award Finalist
Poet, Nonfiction Author, Editor
Editor of The Yale Review
Claudia Rankine
NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize
MacArthur Genius Award
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Award-winning Fiction Author
PEN Open Book Award
National Book Award Longlist
Whiting Award Winner