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Past Authors
(in alphabetical order)
  • Edward Albee
  • Sherman Alexie
  • Kazim Ali
  • Wajahat Ali
  • Isabel Allende
  • Dorothy Allison
  • Gloria E. Anzaldùa
  • Rae Armantrout
  • Daniel Arnold
  • ASHA
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Peter Bacho
Paul
Beatty
T.C.
Boyle
  • Rebecca Black
  • Robert Bly
  • Boadiba
  • Eavan Boland
  • Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
  • Father Ernesto Cardenal
  • Ana Castillo
  • Virginia Cerenio
  • Lorna Dee Cervantes
  • Lan Samantha Chang
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  • Camille Dungy
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Stephen Elliott
  • Larry Engleman
  • Maggie Estep
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Ken Fields
  • William Finnegan
  • Nick Flynn
  • Carolyn Forche
  • James M. Freeman
  • Ru Freeman
  • Gloria Frym
  • Carlos Fuentes
  • Lawson Fusao Inada
  • Hayan Charara
  • Justin Chin
  • Kirsten Chin
  • Marilyn Chin
  • Susan Choi
  • Chong-hui
  • Sandra Cisneros
  • Lucille Clifton
  • Andrei Codrescu
  • J. M. Coetzee
  • Pat Conroy
  • Janis Cooke Newman
  • Julia Cosgrove
  • Robert Creeley
  • Jasmin Darznik
  • Vince Gotera
  • Michal Govrin
  • Larry Habegger
  • Kimiko Hahn
  • Sam Hamill
  • Daniel Handler
  • Jessica Hagedorn
  • John Hamamura
  • Barry Hannah
  • Joy Harjo
  • Robert Hass
  • Le Ly Hayslip
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  • Maria Hummel
  • David Henry Hwang
  • Ch'oe In-ho
  • Gish Jen
  • Ma Jian
  • Rita Joe
  • Denis Johnson
  • Diem Jones
  • June Jordan
  • Fady Joudah
  • Gary Kamiya
Seamus Heaney
Khaled Hosseini
  • Elmore Leonard
  • Yiyun Li
  • Genny Lim
  • Steve Lopez
  • Ling Ma
  • Carmen Maria Machado
  • Nathaniel Mackey
  • Norman Mailer
  • Peter Nathaniel Malae
  • Randall Mann
  • Rita Manning
  • Julia Markus
  • Ann M. Martin
  • Peter Matthiessen
  • Frances Mayes
  • Mike McGee
  • Jay McInerney
  • Terry McMillan
  • Terrence McNally
  • Persis Karim
  • Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
  • Ellyn Kaschak
  • Michael Katakis
  • Garrison Keillor
  • James Kelman
  • William Kennedy
  • Ken Kesey
  • Laleh Khadivi
  • Galway Kinnell
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Keetje Kuipers
  • Maxine Kumin
  • Tony Kushner
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  • Toni Morrison
  • Walter Mosley
  • David Mura
  • Denise Murray
  • Azar Nafisi
  • Maggie Nelson
  • Bich Minh Nguyen
  • Aldon L. Nielsen
  • Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Edna O'Brien
  • Tim O'Brien
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Sharon Olds
Mary
Oliver
Susan Orlean
  • Salam Pax
  • David Perez
  • Nils Peterson
  • Carl Phillips
  • Mary Pickering
  • Marc Pinate
  • Cecile Pineda
  • Ethel Pitts Walker
  • George Plimpton
  • Francine Prose
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  • Susan Shillinglaw
  • Porter Shreve
  • Gary Singh
  • Mark Slouka
  • Jane Smiley
  • Tracy K. Smith
  • Gary Snyder
  • Rebecca Solnit
  • Analicia Sotelo
  • Gary Soto
  • Juliana Spahr
  • Shelby Steele
  • Wallace Stegner
  • Susan Steinberg
  • Gerald Stern
  • Eric Puchner
  • James Ragan
  • Claudia Rankine
  • Ishmael Reed
  • Tennessee Reed
  • Barbara Jane Reyes
  • Scott Rice
  • Michelle Richmond
  • Gabriele Rico
  • Misako Rocks
  • Randy Rucker
  • Richard Russo
  • Thaddeus Rutkowski
  • Harold Schechter
  • Julia Scheeres
  • Studs Terkel
  • Paul Theroux
  • Truong Tran
  • Quincy Troupe
  • Margo True
  • Luis Valdez
  • Melanie Rae Thon
  • Sandra Tsing Loh
  • Richard VanDerBeets
  • Vendela Vida
  • Gore Vidal
  • Victor Villaseñor
Derek Walcott
Alice Walker
  • Geoffrey Wolff
  • Tobias Wolff
  • Merle Woo
  • Diane Wood Middlebrook
  • Emily Wu
  • Lois-Ann Yamanaka
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Al Young
  • C. Dale Young
and more to come!
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