Elizabeth Acevedo
Performance Poet & Novelist
National Book Award
Hala Alyan
Award-winning Poet, Novelist & Memoirist
Arab American Book Award
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
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 Poet MacArthur Genius Award
The Tradition
Mark Doty
Distinguished Poet & Memoirist
National Book Award
Bernardine Evaristo
Award-winning Novelist
Booker Prize Winner
Edda Fields-Black
Award-winning Author & Historian
Pulitzer Prize for History
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
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Race, Culture & Identity
Ted Kooser
US Poet Laureate (2004-2006)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
J. Drew Lanham
Cultural Ornithologist Naturalist, Educator
Poet & Memoirist
MacArthur "Genius" Award
Dawn Lundy Martin
Poet, Critic, Memoirist
Kingsley Tufts Award
Hisham Matar
Pulitzer Prize-winning Nonfiction Author
PEN America Jean Stein Book Award
NBCCA
John Murillo
Award-winning Poet
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Torrey Peters
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
NYT Bestselling Novelist
Detransition, Baby
Claudia Rankine
NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize
MacArthur "Genius" Award
George Saunders
#1 NYT Bestselling Writer
Man Booker Prize Winner
Philip Schultz
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Acclaimed Memoirist
Charif Shanahan
Whiting Award
National Book Award Longlist
NBCC Award Finalist
Juliana Spahr
Literary & Ecological Scholar
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Arthur Sze
United States Poet Laureate (2025-2026)
Poet, Translator & Editor
Bollingen Prize for American Poetry
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Award-winning Fiction Author
PEN Open Book Award
National Book Award Longlist
Whiting Award Winner
Natasha Trethewey
US Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet