Donaldson Writer in Residence Program

 

2025-2026 Rachel Beanland

2024-2025 Xandra Clark

2022-23, Keli Jo Ford, author [website]

2020-21, Mark Richard, fiction-writer, memoirist, screenwriter, poet

• "The Good Lord Bird" producer relishes new role at W&M

2019-20, Allison Titus, author, poet [website]

2017-18, Shonda Buchanan, author, poet, memoirist, traveler [website]

2016-17, Eddy Harris, author, film-maker, traveler, public speaker [website]

• Harris' travel writing helps people see the world differently

2015-2016, Nicole Georges, author, graphic memoirist [website]

• Graphic memoir class offers new way to tell stories

2012-13, Rosalind Brackenbury, author, poet [website]

• W&M welcomes back Rosalind Brackenbury

2011-12,  Joshua Poteat, poet 

•   Writer in residence Poteat, his students, share a dream

2010-11, Kirsten Holmstedt, author 

• Holmstedt brings unique genre, experiences to writer-in-residence position

 2009-10, Blake Bailey, biographer and essayist 

2008-09, Tom De Haven, author, editor, journalist

• Craft vs. art: De Haven teaches undergrads to write  

2007-08, David L. Robbins, novelist

• Robbins inspires writers at alma mater

2006-07, Rosalind Brackenbury, author, poet [website]

• Novelist, Poet Enhances English Department
• Writing comes from living, says Brackenbury

2005-06, Ian Caldwell, novelist

• College's writer-in-residence dissatisfied with Hollywood's treatment of "The Evidence"
• Q&A with Caldwell: A new cop-show formula 

 2004-05, Henri Cole, poet [website] 

• Writer-in-residence Cole extracts hope from poetic struggle 

 2003-04, Carolivia Herron, author 

• Herron is back in the "Conversation"
• "Nappy" author to give reading on campus 

 2002-03, Reetika Vazirani, poet 

 2001-02, Terese Svoboda, novelist [website] 

• Writer on the Go

Earlier Writers in Residence: 

• Catherine Bowman
• Sam Kashner
• Christopher Bram
• Thomas Disch
• Nancy Schoenberger
• Marita Golden
• Mary Hazzard
• Wallace Terry
• Hugh Seidman
• Mary Carter
• Cornelius Eady
• Amy Clampitt
• Diane Ackerman
• Avram Davidson
• Michael Mott
• Bobby Jack Nelson
• Joe Hone
• Peter Klappert
• Herbert Burkholz
• Stephen Marlowe