Nuar Alsadir

Award-winning Poet, Essayist
Psychoanalyst

Bryan Doerries

Theater of War Productions
Translator of Ancient Greek

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

Award-winning Memoirist
Acclaimed Poet

Claudia Rankine

NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Award-winning Fiction Author
PEN Open Book Award