Samiya Bashir
Acclaimed Poet Executive Director of Lambda Literary
Ellen Bass
Award-winning Poet
Lambda Lit Award
Frank Bidart
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
National Book Award
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 PoetThe Tradition
Stephanie Burt
Critic, Poet & Essayist
NBCC Award Finalist
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Mexican Poet & Translator
Immigration Advocate
Chen Chen
Acclaimed Poet
T. Gunn Gay Poetry Award
Mark Doty
Distinguished Poet & Memoirist
National Book Award
Carol Ann Duffy
U. K. Poet Laureate
T. S. Eliot Prize
Anaïs Duplan
Award-winning Poet & Essayist
2022 Whiting Award-winner
Akil Kumarasamy
Award-winning Author
Bard Fiction Prize
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 Winner
Bushra Rehman
Award-winning Novelist & Poet
Sun Yung Shin
Poet, Writer & Cultural Worker
2016 Minnesota Book Award
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Award-winning Novelist & Critic
Black Queer Feminism
Crystal Valentine
Poet, Educator & Activist
Nat’l Poetry Slam Finalist
Phillip B. Williams
Acclaimed Poet
Lambda Literary Award
Lidia Yuknavitch
Bestselling Novelist
Acclaimed Memoirist