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Poet and essayist, and winner of the Guggenheim and a Whiting Writers鈥 Award
Photograph 漏 Matt Valentine
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch and one of TIME鈥檚 100 most influential people of 2014
Photograph 漏 Beowulf Sheehan
Part IV of Making space鈥攆or home, for preservation, for performance, for community.
Rare-book dealer who brokered the sale of important archives such as the papers of Norman Mailer and Don DeLillo and the Watergate notebooks of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Photograph 漏 Mark Mahaney
Franny Choi is a poet and essayist. Books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On and Soft Science, winner of the Elgin Award for Science Fiction Poetry.
Zoe Tuck is a poet and author of the poetry collections Bedroom Vowel and Terror Matrix. Her work explores queer and trans life, and the spirituality of reading.
In Camille Guthrie's fourth collection of poems, DIAMONDS, she writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life鈥攁nd the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love.
Former dance editor of The Village Voice whose writings about dance, theatre, and books have appeared in New York鈥檚 Metro and the Philadelphia Inquirer
Phillip B. Williams is the author of Thief in the Interior, winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He received a 2017 Whiting Award and 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Phillip is the co-editor in chief of the online journal Vinyl.
Ari茅l M. Martinez is an MFA candidate at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has been published or is forthcoming from The Rumpus and Peach Mag. She is working on a memoir.
Investigative reporter, writer, and contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and other national outlets
Bestselling author of Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, former executive vice president of CNN, and before that a key player in the creation of the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1966 Civil Rights Act during the Johnson Administration
Bruna Dantas Lobato '15 is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words that Remain by St锚nio Gardel. She was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is forthcoming in October 2024 from Grove Atlantic.
Brando Skyhorse鈥檚 debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park (Simon & Schuster, 2010), received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Filmmaker, colorist, and founder of Horned Melon Productions. His directorial work explores the self-help obsessions of privileged Brooklynites and the grey areas between love and friendship and has been called 鈥渟harp-witted and literary鈥 by NoBudge. His color grading can be seen on the film Outlaw Posse, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Edward James Olmos, and Cedric the Entertainer.
Jordan McCord is a fiction writer and educator originally from the Midwest. Her stories are inspired by her travels through the American Southwest and in Europe.
Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collections Great Guns (Canarium 2013) and Granny Cloud (NYRB Poets 2024).
Artist, performer, and AIDS activist whose work helped create the first effective drug protocols to combat the syndrome
Photograph 漏 Walter Kurtz
Poet, author of That Blue Repair, and chair of the liberal arts department at the Curtis Institute of Music
Poet and professional troublemaker, Nico Amador's prior work has focused on teaching and writing about the skills and strategies needed to build effective movements for social change.
Critically acclaimed author of five books, Dan Hofstadter writes on topics ranging from the antiquities trade to Galileo and is a regular contributor to national publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Actress, poet, and writer best known for her role as 鈥淟ady Aberlin鈥 on the children鈥檚 television classic Mr. Rogers鈥 Neighborhood and more recently in movies including Dogma, Jersey Girl, and Red State
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a poet who holds fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and CantoMundo.
Jeanie Riess is a writer from New Orleans and is currently working on her first novel, which is about Mississippi.
Founder of Voices UnBroken, a nonprofit dedicated to giving vulnerable young people opportunity for creative self-expression.
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.
Mark Wunderlich is author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry, and his poems, interviews, reviews, and translations have appeared in journals such as Slate, The Paris Review, and Poetry, and in more than 30 anthologies. His most recent book, God Of Nothingness, was published by Graywolf in 2021.
Founding writer of Heatmap News, a new climate-focused publication, and the former executive editor and culture critic of TheWeek.com. Appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and additionally published in Vice, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
Anna Maria Hong is the author of the novella H & G (Sidebrow Books), winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation鈥檚 Clarissa Dalloway Prize, and Age of Glass, winner of Cleveland State University Poetry Center鈥檚 First Book Poetry Competition and the Poetry Society of America鈥檚 2019 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her second poetry collection, Fablesque, won Tupelo Press鈥檚 Berkshire Prize and is forthcoming in June 2020.