Chris Abani

NYT Bestselling Novelist
Nigerian-born Poet

Adrienne Brodeur

Best-selling Novelist
Executive Director of Aspen Words

Nickole Brown

Award-winning Poet & Educator
Winner of the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry
Animal Advocate

Kwame Dawes

Ghana-born Jamaican Poet
Novelist and Essayist
Windham Campbell Prize Winner

Camille Dungy

Award-winning Poet
Acclaimed Essayist & Critic

Kimiko Hahn

Acclaimed Poet & Teacher
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Khaled Mattawa

Award-winning Poet & Author
Culture, Narrative, Memory

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Asian-American Poet
Barnes & Noble Book of 2020

Casey Plett

Fiction & Short Story Writer
Lambda Literary Award

Maya C. Popa

Romanian-American Poet
North American Book Prize

Maggie Smith

Award-winning Poet
NYT Bestselling Memoirist
Author of Good Bones