Visiting Writers

Former Visiting Writers

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(*Writer-in-Residence)

2023-2024

K-Ming Chang, 

2022-23

Lesley Nneka Arimah, Jesús Castillo, Larissa Pham, Tatiana Lipkes, Kit Schluter.

2021-22

None due to the pandemic. 

2020-21

None due to the pandemic. 

2019-20

Hanif Abdurraqib, Jos Charles, Hilary Plum, She Who Has No Master(s), Janice Lee, Mei-mei Berseenbrugge (canceled), sidony o'neal (canceled).

2018-19

Gregg Bordowitz, Daniel Borzutzky, Madeleine ffitch, Renee Gladman, Esther Belin, Safiya Sinclair, Gabrielle Calvocoressi , Jess Arndt, Aisha Sabatini Sloan

2017-18

Ronaldo Wilson, Margaret Malone, Diane Williams, Layli Long Soldier , francine j. harris, John Keene, Brian Blanchfield, Ada Limón

2016-17

Dao Strom, Sofia Samatar, Nathaniel Mackey, Claire Vaye Watkins, Leslie Jamison, TC Tolbert, Robin Coste Lewis, Sara Jaffe

2015-16

Tom Barbash, Emily Hunt, Lucy Corin, Mary Jo Bang, Karen Russell, Amy Leach, Martine Syms, Mark Levine

2014-15

Lynne Tillman, Bruce Smith, Stacey Levine, Mary Szybist, Claudia Rankine, Yona Harvey, Jen Bervin, Randa Jarrar

2013-14

Paisley Rekdal, Carl Phillips, Alice Notley, Leni Zumas, Alan Shapiro, Natalie Diaz, George Makana Clark, Brian Evenson, Kazim Ali

2012-13

Rick Bass, Lysley Tenorio, D.A. Powell, Philip Metres, R. Erica Doyle, Natalie Serber, Maggie Nelson, Eileen Myles

2011-12

Amina Gautier, Madeline DeFrees, Skip Horack, Malena Mörling, Debra Gwartney, Nikky Finney, Ander Monson, Martha Collins

2010-11

Angie Chau, Carol Moldaw, David Bezmozgis, John Murillo, Eugene Gloria, Elyse Fenton, Ron Currie, Jr., Joe Wenderoth

2009-10

Dorianne Laux, Marc Acito, Matthew Dickman, Michael Dickman, Gail Tsukiyama, Ross Gay, Jon Raymond, Joanne Greenberg, David Shields, Alice Fulton

2008-09

Elissa Schappell, Pauls Toutonghi, Marie Howe, Stephen Elliott, C.S. Giscombe, Susan Straight, Katherine Dunn, Matthew Dickman, Endi Bogue Hartigan

2007-08

Lee Montgomery, Shin Yu Pai, Yiyun Li, Ross Gay, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Abigail Thomas, Peter Everwine, Patricia Smith

2006-07

Vern Rutsala, Dan Chaon, Maile Meloy, Ilya Kaminsky, Tayari Jones, Nick Flynn, Mary Szybist, Tess Gallagher, Bernard Cooper

2005-06

Kevin Sampsell, Lee Peterson, Joanna Scott, Greg Bottoms, David Biespiel, Adam Johnson, Brigit Pegeen Kelly

2004-05

A. Van Jordan, Chris Offutt, Jennifer Grotz, Ryan Harty, Julie Orringer, Tim Seibles, Percival Everett

2002-03

Joelle Fraser, Aurelie Sheehan, Debra Ginsberg, Catie Rosemurgy, Joseph Millar, Pinckney Benedict, Dorianne Laux, Sonia Sanchez, Pimone Triplett, Roy Parvin, Kevin Clark, Annie Callan

2001-02

Jemiah Jefferson, Peter Rock, Richard Robbins, Christopher Buckley, Susan Choi, Terrance Hayes, Sallie Tisdale, Crystal Williams, Maxine Scates, Jean Thompson, Sara Powers, Mark Richard

2000-01

Roger Weingarten, Primus St. John, Bonnie Burnard, Jeffrey McDaniel, Thisbe Nissen, Patricia Goedicke, David MacDonald, Robin Cody, David Shields, Henry Taylor

1999-2000

Sandra McPherson, Walter Pavlich, Ehud Havazelet, Alison Baker, Janice Gould, Janet Fitch, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Samuel Danon, Vern Rutsala, Myrlin Hermes, Pam Houston, Thomas Lux, David Carpenter, Gary Gildner

1998-99

Karen Joy Fowler, Tom McNeal, Fred Leebron, Karl Kirchwey, Erin McGraw, Henri Cole, C.S. Giscombe, Kathleen Halme, Fred Haefele, Michael Byers, Jim Shugrue

1997-98

Lisel Mueller, Alice Derry, Christopher Howell, Cyrus Cassells, Lisa Coffman, Diana Abu-Jaber, Annie Dawid, Maxine Scates*, Elizabeth Woody, Jim Daniels, Karen Tei Yamashita, Margaret Gibson, David McKain, Maggie Anderson, Lidia Yuknavitch, Judy Grahn

1996-97

Carolyn Forché, Jan Beatty, Carlos Reyes, Martín Espada, David Romtvedt, Kathleen Alcalá, Jennifer C Cornell, Robin Becker, Patricia Goedicke, Agha Shahid Ali.

1995-96

Tim Seibles, Leon Rooke, Steve Katz, Linda Raymond, Lisa Steinman, Sandra Williams, Paulann Petersen, Li-Young Lee, Eavan Boland, Sam Danon, Patrick Lane, Lorna Crozier, Glen Sorestad, Peter Christensen

1994-95

Kathleen Fraser, Bharati Mukherjee, C.S. Giscombe, Rick Hillis*, Nancy Packer, Henri Cole, Denis Johnson, Nathanial Tarn, Frances McCue, Chang-Rae Lee, Walter Kirn, Cornelius Eady

1993-94

Diana Abu-Jaber, Maxine Scates*, Gloria Bird, Nathaniel Mackey, Jim Shugrue, Sheila Nickerson, Maggie Anderson, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Sherod Santos, Lawson Inada, Yusef Komunyakaa, Linda McCarriston, Ed Ochester, Brenda Hillman, Lynn Emanuel

1992-93

Louise Glück, Tom Spanbauer, Patricia Goedicke, Vern Rutsala, Jean Valentine, Alfred Corn, Carolyn Kizer, Debora Greger, Judith Barrington, Chuck Rosenthal, Marie Howe, Eamon Grennan, Sam Danon, Henri Cole*

1991-92

Renate Dorrestein, Kate Daniels, Helena Maria Viramontes, Agha Shahid Ali, Jay Neugeboren, Richard Kenney, C.K. Williams, Carl Dennis, Alice Fulton

1989-90

Frank Bidart, August Kleinzahler, Lynda Sexon, Roland Flint, Garrett Hongo, Gerald Vizenor, Roo Borson, Alan Shapiro, Maxine Scates

1988-89

Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Heather McHugh, Robert Pinsky, Wendy Salinger, Jim Powell*