Chris Abani
NYT Bestselling Novelist
Nigerian-born Poet
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Bestselling Fiction Writer
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Nuar Alsadir
Award-winning Poet, Essayist
Psychoanalyst
Anastacia-Reneé
Author, Educator, Interdisciplinary Artist
Award-winning Poet
Raymond Antrobus
Rathbone Folio Prize
Communication, Connection, Cultural Inheritance
Samiya Bashir
Acclaimed Poet Executive Director of Lambda Literary
Destiny O. Birdsong
Award-winning Novelist & Poet
Brian Broome
Award-winning Memoirist
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Jericho Brown
Pulitzer Prize-winning PoetThe Tradition
Mahogany L. Browne
Poet, Performer & Organizer Black Girl Magic
Gabriel Bump
Acclaimed Novelist
Everywhere You Don't Belong
Tina Chang
Acclaimed American Poet
Race, Culture, Identity
Marilyn Chin
Poet, Novelist, Translator
Pushcart Prize-winning Author
Kwame Dawes
Ghana-born Jamaican Poet
Novelist and Essayist
Windham Campbell Prize Winner
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Interdisciplinary Poet and Sound Artist
Whiting Award Winner
Bryan Doerries
Theater of War Productions
Translator of Ancient Greek
Anaïs Duplan
Award-winning Poet & Essayist
2022 Whiting Award-winner
Tarfia Faizullah
Poet & Translator
Pushcart Prize-winning Author
Kimiko Hahn
Acclaimed Poet & Teacher
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Nathalie Handal
Arab American Book Award
Dislocation, Home & Exile
Terrance Hayes
MacArthur "Genius" Award
National Book Award
Major Jackson
Acclaimed Author
Host of The Slowdown
Roll Deep
Douglas Kearney
National Book Award Longlist
Race, Culture & Identity
Michael Kleber-Diggs
Award-winning Author
Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
Dawn Lundy Martin
Poet, Critic, Memoirist
Kingsley Tufts Award
Rajiv Mohabir
Indo-Carribbean Poet
Memoir: Antiman
John Murillo
Award-winning Poet
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Ladan Osman
Somali-born Poet
Gender & Displacement
Patrick Phillips
Poet & Nonfiction Writer
Blood at the Root
Deesha Philyaw
Award-winning Writer
Black Queer Intersectionality
Claudia Rankine
NYT Bestselling Author
NBCCA & Forward Prize
Bushra Rehman
Award-winning Novelist & Poet
Sapphire
Bestselling Novelist
Performance Poet
Nicole Sealey
Forward Prize
Former Executive Director of Cave Canem (2017-2019)
Tim Seibles
Acclaimed Poet
Nat'l Book Award Finalist
Matthew Shenoda
Award-winning Poet
American Book Award
Sun Yung Shin
Poet, Writer & Cultural Worker
2016 Minnesota Book Award
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Writer, Curator, Artist
Lambda Literary Award
Danté Stewart
Acclaimed Memoirist
Belonging & Religion
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Award-winning Novelist & Critic
Black Queer Feminism
Michael Thomas
Novelist & Memoirist
IMPAC Dublin Award
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Award-winning Fiction Author
Natasha Trethewey
US Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Crystal Valentine
Poet, Educator & Activist
Nat’l Poetry Slam Finalist
Frank B. Wilderson III
Award-winning Author
Poet, Scholar, Activist
Tamara Winfrey-Harris
Acclaimed Writer
Dear Black Girl
Karen Tei Yamashita
Award-winning Author
Inheritance: Familial, Cultural, Artistic
Ibi Zoboi
Award-winning YA Novelist
National Book Award Finalist
American Street