Elizabeth Acevedo
Performance Poet & Novelist
National Book Award
Simon Armitage
U.K. Poet Laureate Forward Prize
Peter Balakian
Pulitzer Prize-winning PoetBlack Dog of Fate
Frank Bidart
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
National Book Award
Daniel Borzutzky
National Book Award
Immigration Politics
Jericho Brown
Pulitzer Prize-winning PoetThe Tradition
Mark Doty
Distinguished Poet & Memoirist
National Book Award
Carol Ann Duffy
U. K. Poet Laureate
T. S. Eliot Prize
Bernardine Evaristo
Award-winning Novelist
Booker Prize Winner
Forrest Gander
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Ecopoetics & Translation
Jorie Graham
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Forward Prize
Saidiya Hartman
MacArthur “Genius” Award
Distinguished Literary Scholar
Terrance Hayes
MacArthur "Genius" Award
National Book Award
Brenda Hillman
Griffin Poetry Prize
Environmental Advocate
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 Memoirist
Acclaimed Libyan Novelist
Heather McHugh
MacArthur "Genius" Award
Distinguished Poet
Claudia Rankine
NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize
George Saunders
NYT Bestselling Writer
Booker Prize Winner
Philip Schultz
Pulitzer Prize winning Poet
Acclaimed Memoirst
Charles Simic
US Poet Laureate (2007-2008)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Michael Thomas
Novelist & Memoirist
IMPAC Dublin Award
Natasha Trethewey
US Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet