Simon Armitage
U.K. Poet Laureate
Forward Prize
Coleman Barks
Acclaimed Poet
Premier Translator of Rumi
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Poet & Translator
Immigration Advocate
Bryan Doerries
Author & Translator
Artistic Director: Theater of War Productions
Carolyn Forché
National Book Award Finalist
Memoir: What You Have Heard Is True
Haleh Liza Gafori
Vocalist, Poet, Educator
Premier Translator of Rumi
Forrest Gander
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Ecopoetics & Translation
Brenda Hillman
Griffin Poetry Prize
Environmental Advocate
Akil Kumarasamy
Award-winning Author
Bard Fiction Prize
Nikola Madzirov
Award-winning Poet
Exile & Refugees
Hisham Matar
Pulitzer Prize-winning Nonfiction Author
PEN America Jean Stein Book Award
Khaled Mattawa
Award-winning Poet & Author
Culture, Narrative, Memory
Dunya Mikhail
Iraqi-American Poet & Writer
Arab American Book Award
Rajiv Mohabir
Indo-Carribbean Poet
Memoir: Antiman
Valzhyna Mort
Acclaimed Belarusian Poet
Translator of Slavic
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Award-winning Poet
Literary & Visual Art Critic
Fernando Valverde
Award-winning Poet
The Insistence of Harm