Visiting Writers

2024-2025 Visiting Writers

2023-2024 Visiting Writers

2022-2023 Visiting Writers

  • Pamela Erens - 9/8/22
  • Christopher Gonzalez - 10/27/22
  • Franny Choi - 11/15/22
  • Okey Ndibe - 2/2/23 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • Jenny Offill - 3/2/23
  • Tyler Mills - 4/13/23 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading

2021-2022 Visiting Writers

  • Aimee Baker - 9/16/21
  • Eli Clare - 10/21/21
  • Brenda Peynado - 11/4/21
  • Ana Maria Spagna - 2/3/22 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • Robin Hemley - 4/7/22
  • J. Drew Lanham - 5/5/22 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading

2020-2021 Visiting Writers

  • Leila Philip - 9/10/20
  • Robin Behn - 10/29/20
  • Angie Cruz - 11/17/20
  • James N. Kienitz Wilkins - 12/3/20
  • Ana Maria Spagna - 2/4/21 -Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • Lesley Nneka Arimah - 3/25/21
  • Ada Limòn - 4/8/21 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading

2019-2020 Visiting Writers

  • Ted Genoways - 9/12/19
  • Kali Fajardo-Anstine - 9/26/19
  • Aminatta Forna - 10/29/19
  • J. Michael Martinez - 12/5/19
  • Joe Wilkins - 2/6/20 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • Michelle Kuo - 3/5/20
  • GennaRose Nethercott - 4/16/20 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading

2018-2019 Visiting Writers

  • Jill Bialosky - 9/13/18
  • Hanif Abdurraqib - 10/11/18
  • Madeleine Thien - 11/5/18
  • Jac Jemc - 2/7/19 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • Brenda Miller - 3/7/19
  • Ross Gay - 4/18/19 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading

2017-2018 Visiting Writers

  • Sue Halpern - 9/7/17
  • Sara Schaff and Ben Landry - 11/9/17
  • Okey Ndibe - 2/1/18 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • John Edgar Wideman - 3/8/18
  • Stephanie Elizondo Griest - 3/29/18
  • Camille Dungy - 4/12/18 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading

2016-2017 Visiting Writers

  • Elizabeth Bradfield - 9/19/16
  • Valeria Luiselli - 10/20/16
  • Chang-rae Lee - 11/10/16
  • Fred Arroyo - 2/2/17 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • Kelly Grey Carlisle - 3/2/17
  • Mark Doty 4/13/17 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading

2015-2016 Visiting Writers

  • Angie Estes - 9/17/15
  • Adam Gopnik - 10/22/15
  • John McNally - 11/5/15
  • Lillian-Yvonne Bertram - 2/4/16 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • Hilton Als - 3/15/16 - CANCELED
  • Sandra Lim - 4/21/16 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading

2014-2015 Visiting Writers

  • David Means - 10/23/14
  • Steven Church - 11/13/14
  • John Dermot Woods - 2/5/15 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • Charlotte Boulay - 3/5/15
  • Mark Irwin - 4/2/15 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading
  • Lorrie Moore - 4/23/15

2013-2014 Visiting Writers

  • Pico Iyer - 9/12/13
  • Sven Birkerts - 10/3/13
  • Elizabeth & Ned Stuckey-French - 11/5/13
  • Kirsten Kaschock - 2/27/14 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
  • Daphne Kalotay - 3/27/14
  • Mary Biddinger - 4/10/14 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading
  • Lorrie Moore - 4/28/14

2012-2013 Visiting Writers

  •    Kathryn Davis
  •    Kate Bernheimer
  •    Steve Gehrke
  •    Rebecca Solnit
  •    Bernard Cooper
  •    Pam Houston
  •    Timothy Donnelly - Sandra Nelson Poetry Reading
  •    David Shields
  •    Stephanie Elizondo Griest  - 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