Elizabeth Acevedo
Performance Poet & Novelist
National Book Award
Simon Armitage
U.K. Poet Laureate Forward Prize
Peter Balakian
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Black Dog of Fate
Frank Bidart
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
National Book Award
Jericho Brown
Pulitzer Prize-winning PoetThe Tradition
Medar de la Cruz
Illustrator & Cartoonist
Library Advocate
Mark Doty
Distinguished Poet & Memoirist
National Book Award
Bernardine Evaristo
Award-winning Novelist
Booker Prize Winner
Forrest Gander
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Ecopoetics & Translation
Jorie Graham
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Forward Prize
Terrance Hayes
MacArthur "Genius" Award
National Book Award
Brenda Hillman
Griffin Poetry Prize
Environmental Advocate
Douglas Kearney
National Book Award Longlist
Race, Culture & Identity
Ted Kooser
US Poet Laureate (2004-2006)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Dawn Lundy Martin
Poet, Critic, Memoirist
Kingsley Tufts Award
Hisham Matar
Pulitzer Prize-winning Nonfiction Author
PEN America Jean Stein Book Award
Heather McHugh
MacArthur "Genius" Award
Distinguished Poet
John Murillo
Award-winning Poet
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Claudia Rankine
NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize
George Saunders
NYT Bestselling Writer
Booker Prize Winner
Philip Schultz
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Acclaimed Memoirst
Charif Shanahan
Award-winning Poet
National Book Award Longlist
Lambda Literary Award Winner
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Award-winning Fiction Author
PEN Open Book Award
Natasha Trethewey
US Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Anne Waldman
Writer, Editor, Teacher
Award-winning Poet
Co-Founder of The Poetry Project