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