Former Visiting Writers
(*Writer-in-Residence)
2024-2025
E. Lily Yu, Kinsale Drake
2023-2024
K-Ming Chang, Tawanda Mulalu, Megan Milks, Lehua Taitano,
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*