SLU Writers Series

2012-2013 Visiting Writers

•    Kathryn Davis - 9/13/12
•    Kate Bernheimer - 10/18/12
•    Steve Gehrke - 11/8/12
•    Bernard Cooper - 1/31/12
•    Rebecca Solnit - 2/14/12
•    Timothy Donnelly - 3/21/12
•    Stephanie Elizondo Griest - 4/25/12 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

2011-2012 Visiting Writers

• Andre Dubus, III
• Ellen Akins
• Kevin Young
• Jaimy Gordon
• Joanie Mackowski
• Kristin Kimball
• Mark Slouka - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

2010-2011 Visiting Writers

• Gabriel Okara
• George Saunders
• Peter Campion
• Robert Finch
• Dinty Moore
• Gish Jen
• Patricia Smith
• Brock Clark
• Peter Selgin, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

2009-2010 Visiting Writers

• Francine Prose
• Steve Almond
• Scott Russell Sanders
• Nathaniel MAckey
• Antonya Nelson
• Christian Bok
• Gerald Early
• Richard Rubin, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

2008-2009 Visiting Writers

• Bill McKibben
• Jennifer Brice
• Stanley Moss
• Jennifer Egan
• Richard Rubin, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
• Lawrence Hill
• Cathy Park Hong
• David Shields
• Thomas McGuane

2007-2008 Visiting Writers

• Toi Derricotte
• Tess Gallagher
• Robert Root
• Jane Hamilton
• Phillip Lopate
• Alice Elliott Dark
• K.L. Cook, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
• Cornelius Eady
• Fath Adiele
• Sena Jeter Naslund

2006-2007 Visiting Writers

• Lee Martin
• Quraysh Ali Lansana
• Thomas Lynch
• Percival Everett
• Thaddeus Rutkowski
• Naomi Gutman
• Nick Carbo
• Lynn Freed
• Trudy Lewis, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

2005-2006 Visiting Writers

• Lorrie Moore
• Marion Roach
• Brenda Flanagan
• Stuart Dybeck
• Tom Chiarella and Dennis McNally
• Naiomi Shihab Nye
• David Lloyd
• John Daniel, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

2004-2005 Visiting Writers

• Peter Ho Davies
• John Irving
• Harryette Mullen
• Jane Satterfield
• Marjorie Sandor
• Carol Bly
• Rick Bass
• Timothy Liu
• John Daniel, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

2003-2004 Visiting Writers

• Cathy Bao Bean
• Charles Baxter
• Michael Steinberg
• Robin Hemley
• John Daniel, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
• Dionne Brand
• John Metcalf
• Nuala Ni Dhonhnaill
• Patricia Hempl
• Anthony Kellman

2002-2003 Visiting Writers

• Elizabeth Inness-Brown
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
• Janisse Ray
• Afua Cooper
• Heather Sellers, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
• Ishan Abdul Rahiim
• Alan Cheuse
• Jane Hamilton
• Cyril Dabydeen

2001-2002 Visiting Writers

• Joel Peckham & Susan Atefate-Peckham
• Gayle Pemberton
• Kate Cohen
• Joy Harjo
• Heather Sellers, Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
• Richard McBrien
• Richrd Ford
• Steven Dunn

2000-2001 Visiting Writers

• John D'Agata
• Carolyn Wright
• Colin Harrison & Katherine Harrison
• Alberto Rios
• David Shields
• Robin Hemley, Inaugural Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
• Paul Muldoon
• Chase Twichel

1999-2000 Visiting Writers

• Edwidge Danticat
• Amiri Baraka and Blue Ark
• Andrea Barrett
• Tobias Wolff
• Janette Turner Hospital
• Chinua Achebe
• Billy Collins
• Wole Soyinka

1998-1999 Visiting Writers

• Desmond Nakano
• Rosellen Brown
• Robert Coover
• Jo Ann Beard
• Susan Griffin
• Elizabeth Stuckey-French
• Lisa Jarnot
• Tim O'Brien

1997-1998 Visiting Writers

• Ishmael Reed
• Jay McInerney
• Colette Inez
• Russell Banks
• Sandra Cisneros

1996-1997 Visiting Writers

• Jay Wright
• Lucy Grealy
• W.P. Kinsella
• Paule Marshall
• Diana DiPrima

1995-1996 Visiting Writers

• Amiri Baraka
• Gloria Naylor
• Amy Hempel
• Shimmer Chinodya
• Diana Hume George
• Michael Ondaatje
• Elizabeth Denton