Past Events
2012–2013
- Zadie Smith
- Colum McCann
- Antonya Nelson
- Christopher Kennedy
- Lia Purpura
- Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Amanda Coplin
- Elizabeth Larsen
- Shana Youngdahl
- Ethan Rutherford
- Tomas Morin
- Adeena Karasick
- Tobias Wolff
- Ed Bok Lee
2011–2012
- Philip Gourevitch
- Denis Johnson
- Jenny Boully
- Ronald V. Wilson
- Percival Everett
- Nuruddin Farah
- Amiri Baraka
- Joseph Harrington
- Arlene Kim
- Peter Geye
- Karen Rigby
- Jaap Blonk
- Carol Muske-Dukes
- Heid E. Erdrich
- Cylan Hicks
2010–2011
- Matt Burgess
- Kevin Fenton
- Francine Tolf
- Gayla Marty
- Alan Heathcock
- Mark Tredinnick
- Motionpoems
- Todd Boss
- Angella Kassube
- Tim Nolan
- Emma Burghardt
- Jay Orff
- Natasha Trethewey
- Nuruddin Farah
- D.A. Powell
- Josie Rawson
- Ingrid de Kok
- Eula Biss
- Dan Chaon
2009–2010
- Jim Shepard
- Adam Zagajewski
- Adam Hochschild
- Michael Medrano
- Michael Walsh
- Laura Flynn
- Lightsey Darst
- Peter Bognanni
2008–2009
- Nin Andrews
- Peter Johnson
- Andrea Elliott
- Junot Diaz
- Amy Shearn
- Todd Boss
- Thomas Lynch
- Ethan Canin
2007–2008
- Rattawut Lapcharoensap
- Jeffrey Harrison
- Melissa Fay Greene
- Alison Bechdel
- Lucille Clifton
2006–2007
- Juliet Patterson
- Deborah Keenan
- Alex Lemon
- Lauren Fox
- Laurie Lindeen
- Chris Fishbach
- Brian Malloy
- Shannon Olson
- John Vick
- Matt Rasmussen
- Erin Ergenbright
- Claudia Rankine
- Juliana Spahr
- Tracy Kidder
- Ben Marcus
- Heidi Julavits
- Michael C. Seward
- Haddayr Copley-Woods
- Rob McGinley-Myers
- Wendy Fernstrum
2005–2006
- Phillip Lopate
- Nicholas Delbanco
- T.C. Boyle
- Salman Rushdie
- Becca Barniskis
- Katrina Vandenberg
- Laressa Dickey
- Lydia Winter
- Stephen Burt
- Alex Lemon
- Rod Nelsestuen
- Kathleen Novak
- Joel Van Valin
- David Bradley
- Arielle Greenberg
- Rachel Zucker
2004–2005
- John Minczkeski
- GE Patterson
- Yuko Taniguchi
- Joni Tevis
- Edward P. Jones
- Anna Cypra Oliver
- Kirby Gann
- Thomas Sayers Ellis
- Steve Healey
- Gerald Stern
- Linda Gregerson
- Lan Samantha Chang
2003–2004
- Verlyn Klinkenborg
- Andrea Barrett
- A. S. Byatt
- Judy Blunt
- Garrison Keillor
- Jane Hirshfield
- Charles Simic
- Juan Felipe Herrera
- Angela Shannon
- Anna Meek
- Greg Hewett
- Charles Baxter
- Lorrie Moore
2002–2003
- Gretel Ehrlich
- Zoe Fairbairns
- Wang Ping
- Stephen Burt
- John Minczeski
- Connie Wanek
- Richard Robbins
- Colson Whitehead
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Kimiko Hahn
- Maxine Kumin
- Li-Young Lee
- Pura Lopez-Colome
- Helen Epstein
- Edmund White
- Jill Christman
- Mary Winstead
- Rick Barot
- Katie Ford
- Tom Barbash
2001–2002
- Anchee Min
- Alan Sondheim
- mIEKAL aND
- Robert Hedin
- Barry Lopez
- Ron Hansen
- Margaret Atwood
- Eavan Boland
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Heather McHugh
- Adrienne Rich
- Charles Baxter
- Vivian Gornick
- Cate Marvin
- Laird Hunt
- Rebecca Wee
- Chuck Klosterman
- Marie Arana