Visiting Writers

2024-2025 Visiting Writers

• Kim Fu - 9/12/24
• Joe Wilkins - 10/1/24
• Todd Davis - 10/10/24
• Susan McCarty & Matt Kirkpatrick - 11/7/24
• Santee Frazier - 2/6/25 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
• Lulu Miller - 3/27/25
• Andrew Zawacki - 4/10/25 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Judge

2023-2024 Visiting Writers

• Tom Piazza - 9/14/23
• Tessa Yang - 10/26/23
• Daphne Kalotay - 11/2/23
• Santee Frazier - 2/8/24 - Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
• Beth Nguyen - 3/28/24
• Jason Koo - 4/18/24 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Judge

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 Judge

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 Judge

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
• Lesley Nneka Arimah - 3/25/21
• Ada Limòn - 4/8/21 - Sandra Nelson Poetry Judge

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 Judge

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 Judge
  
   

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 Judge

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 Poet

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 Poet

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 Poet
• 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 Poet
• 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 Poet
•    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