Larry Patrick Levis was an American poet and teacher who published five books of poetry during his lifetime. Two more volumes of previously unpublished poems have appeared posthumously,and received general acclaim.
Lynda Hull was an American poet. She had published two collections of poetry when she died in a car accident in 1994. A third,The Only World,was published posthumously by her husband,the poet David Wojahn,and was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. Collected Poems By Lynda Hull,was published in 2006.
Anthony Dey Hoagland was an American poet. His poetry collection,What Narcissism Means to Me (2003),was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors included two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry,and a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems and criticism have appeared in such publications as Poetry Magazine,Ploughshares,AGNI,Threepenny Review,The Gettysburg Review,Ninth Letter,Southern Indiana Review,American Poetry Review and Harvard Review.
Carol Potter is an American poet and professor known for writing the book Some Slow Bees. She currently teaches at Antioch University.
Thomas Sayers Ellis is an American poet,photographer and bandleader. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,Bennington College in Vermont,and also at Sarah Lawrence College until 2012.
Albert Goldbarth is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" (2001) and "Heaven and Earth:A Cosmology" (1991),the only poet to receive the honor two times. He also won the Mark Twain Award for Humorous Poetry,awarded by the Poetry Foundation,in 2008. Goldbarth is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
David Wojahn is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University,and in the low residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has been the director of Virginia Commonwealth University's Creative Writing Program.
Ander Monson is an American novelist,poet,and nonfiction writer.
Vijay Seshadri is an American poet,essayist and literary critic based in Brooklyn.
Tom Sleigh is an American poet,dramatist,essayist and academic,who lives in New York City. He has published nine books of original poetry,one full-length translation of Euripides' Herakles and two books of essays. His most recent books are House of Fact,House of Ruin:Poems and The Land Between Two Rivers:Writing In an Age of Refugees (essays). At least five of his plays have been produced. He has won numerous awards,including the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award,worth $100,000,an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,The Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America,and a Guggenheim Foundation grant. He currently serves as director of Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Creative Writing. He is the recipient of the Anna-Maria Kellen Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Fall 2011.
Robin Hemley,born in New York City,is an American nonfiction and fiction writer. He is the author of fifteen books,and has had work published in The New York Times,New York Magazine,Creative Nonfiction,Brevity,Conjunctions,The Sun,and Narrative,among others. In 2020,he joined the faculty of Long Island University,where his is Director and Polk Professor in Residence of the George Polk School of Communications.
John Bensko is an American poet who won the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1981;he taught in the MFA program at the University of Memphis,along with his wife,the fiction writer Cary Holladay.
Mark Wunderlich,is an American poet. He was born in Winona,Minnesota,and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City,Wisconsin. He attended Concordia College's Institute for German Studies before transferring to the University of Wisconsin,where he studied English and German literature. After moving to New York City he attended Columbia University,where he received an MFA degree.
Eula Biss is an American non-fiction writer who is the author of four books.
Mary Leader is an American poet and lawyer.
Debra Spark is an American novelist,short story writer,essayist,and editor. She teaches at Colby College and at Warren Wilson College.
Allison Titus is an American poet. Titus is the author of the poetry collection Sum of Every Lost Ship,the chapbook Instructions from the Narwhal and the novel The Arsonist's Song Has Nothing to Do with Fire. Her chapbook was the winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Prize. She is the recipient of the 2011 Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Titus's poems and stories have appeared in Blackbird,Crazyhorse,Denver Quarterly,Ninth Letter,and Sycamore Review.
John D'Agata is an American essayist. He is the author or editor of six books of nonfiction,including The Next American Essay (2003),The Lost Origins of the Essay (2009) and The Making of the American Essay—all part of the trilogy of essay anthologies called "A New History of the Essay". He also wrote The Lifespan of a Fact,"Halls of Fame",and "About a Mountain".
Heid E. Erdrich is a poet,editor,and writer. Erdrich is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain.
Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian American poet,novelist,and editor. He is the author of the poetry collections Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell and of the novel Martyr!,a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the 2024 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.
