Past Writers Series Events
Peter Carey, Australian novelist
Pam Brown, Australian poet
Margaret Gibson, American poet and memoirist
Bliss Broyard, American fiction writer and memoirist
Katy Lederer, American poet and memoirist
Jennifer Atkinson, American Poet
Vona Groarke, Irish poet
Andrew Zawacki, American poet
Etgar Keret, Israeli novelist and filmmaker
Paul Muldoon, Irish poet and dramatist
Mark Doty, American poet and memoirist
Colson Whitehead, American novelist
A.S. Byatt, British novelist and critic
Kevin Young, American poet and critic
Jane Yolen, American children’s book writer
Marjorie Perloff, American poetry critic
David Shields, American prose writer
Gillian Conoley, American poet
Rae Armantrout, American poet
Linh Dinh, Vietnamese writer
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Sabrina Orah Mark, American poet
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Julie Carr, American poet
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G.C. Waldrep, American poet
Deborah Eisenberg,
American short story writer
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Danzy Senna, American novelist & memoirist
Donald Revell, American poet
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Aleš Šteger, Slovenian poet & essayist
Polina Barskova, Russian poet
George Saunders,
American short story writer
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Lecture Series
Werner Sollors
Jerome Christensen
Honor Moore
Carolyn Forché
Grace Lin
Robert Polito
Amina Gautier
Steve Almond
Lan Samantha Chang
Lecture Series
Ania Loomba
Maurice Lee
Zadie Smith
Lesléa Newman
Yusef Komunyakaa
Lecture Series
Stephen Metcalf
Susan Stewart
Robert Olen Butler
Amy Bloom
Christine Schutt
Maud Casey
Sam Lipsyte
Lecture Series
Evelyn Barish
Claudia Rankine
Šejla Šehabović
Semezdin Mehmedinović
Aleš Debeljak
Danez Smith
Poetry Festival: Chen Chen, Claudia Rankine, Peter Laberge, Anaïs Duplan, Tarfia Faizullah
Paul Beatty
Mohsin Hamid
Spring 2019:
Emily Hunt
Mary Ruefle
Jericho Brown
Fall 2018:
Mark McMorris
Elizabeth Willis
Chad Wellmon
Jennifer Moxley