Chris Abani
NYT Bestselling Novelist
Nigerian-born Poet
Adrienne Brodeur
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Executive Director of Aspen Words
Nickole Brown
Award-winning Poet & Educator
Winner of the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry
Animal Advocate
Vanessa Chan
Bestselling Novelist
Former Technology Executive
Kwame Dawes
Ghana-born Jamaican Poet
Novelist and Essayist
Windham Campbell Prize Winner
Camille Dungy
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Acclaimed Essayist & Critic
Kimiko Hahn
Acclaimed Poet & Teacher
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Khaled Mattawa
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Culture, Narrative, Memory
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Acclaimed Poet
Sought-after School Speaker
Casey Plett
Fiction & Short Story Writer
Lambda Literary Award
Maya C. Popa
Romanian-American Poet
North American Book Prize
Maggie Smith
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NYT Bestselling Memoirist
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