Past Writers in Residence
Since 1971, the English Department has hosted a variety of accomplished artists through its Writer in Residence Program. Below we've provided links to more information about these writers, and how they have refreshed and contributed to the life of the department.
2022-23, Keli Jo Ford, author [website]
2020-21, Mark Richard, fiction-writer, memoirist, screenwriter, poet
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]
2015-2016, Nicole Georges, author, graphic memoirist [website]
2012-13, Rosalind Brackenbury, author, poet [website]
2011-12, Joshua Poteat, poet [website]
2010-11, Kirsten Holmstedt, author
2009-10, Blake Bailey, biographer and essayist [website]
2008-09, Tom De Haven, author, editor, journalist [website]
2007-08, David L. Robbins, novelist [website]
2006-07, Rosalind Brackenbury, author, poet [website]
2005-06, Ian Caldwell, novelist [website]
- 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]
2003-04, Carolivia Herron, author [website]
2002-03, Reetika Vazirani, poet [website]
2001-02, Terese Svoboda, novelist [website]
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
