Ariel Aberg-Riger

Visual Storyteller
2023 Kirkus Prize
2024 YALSA Nonfiction Finalist

Anastacia-Reneé

Author, Educator, Interdisciplinary Artist
Award-winning Poet

Fatimah Asghar

Acclaimed Poet, Novelist, Screenwriter
National Book Award Longlist

Ellen Bass

Award-winning Poet
Lambda Literary Award

Frank Bidart

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
National Book Award

Destiny O. Birdsong

Award-winning Novelist & Poet
2021 PEN/Voelcker Award Longlist

Richard Blanco

Obama's Inaugural Poet
Poetry Education Ambassador

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Native American Poet
Its Pronoun is It

Brian Broome

Award-winning Memoirist
Punch Me Up to the Gods

Jericho Brown

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
The Tradition

Nickole Brown

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

Stephanie Burt

Critic, Poet & Essayist
NBCC Award Finalist

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Poet & Translator
Immigration Advocate

Chen Chen

Acclaimed Poet
T. Gunn Gay Poetry Award

Meg Day

Award-winning Poet
Poetry Editor for Quarterly West

Mark Doty

Distinguished Poet & Memoirist
National Book Award

Anaïs Duplan

Award-winning Poet & Essayist
Whiting Award

Safia Elhillo

Award-winning Poet
Arab American Book Award
National Book Award Longlist

Keetje Kuipers

Award-winning Poet
Culture, Identity, Motherhood

Akil Kumarasamy

Award-winning Author
Bard Fiction Prize

Malinda Lo

Award-winning Fiction & Nonfiction Writer
National Book Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award

Dawn Lundy Martin

Poet, Critic, Memoirist
Kingsley Tufts Award

Rajiv Mohabir

Indo-Carribbean Poet
Memoir: Antiman

Eileen Myles

Acclaimed Poet and Critic
Lambda Pioneer Award

Pádraig Ó Tuama

Acclaimed Irish Poet
Podcast Host: Poetry Unbound

Torrey Peters

NYT Bestselling Novelist
Detransition, Baby

Casey Plett

Fiction & Short Story Writer
Lambda Literary Award

Charif Shanahan

Award-winning Poet
National Book Award Longlist
Lambda Literary Award Winner

Sun Yung Shin

Poet, Writer & Cultural Worker
Minnesota Book Award

Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Writer, Curator, Artist
Lambda Literary Award

Danez Smith

Spoken Word Poet & Author
Lambda Literary Award

Chris Stedman

Author & Activist
Host of Unread

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Award-winning Novelist & Critic
Black Queer Feminism

Phillip B. Williams

Acclaimed Poet
Lambda Literary Award

Lidia Yuknavitch

Bestselling Novelist
Acclaimed Memoirist