Past Distinguished Visiting Writers

• Ben Marcus, April 2012
• Rae Armantrout, March 2012
• Andy Fitch, March 2012
• Evie Shockley, October 2011
• ZZ Packer, September 2011
• Amitava Kumar, September 2011
• Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, April 2011
• Eula Biss, March 2011
• Major Jackson, February 2011
• Matthea Harvey, October 2010
• Paisley Rekdal, October 2010
• Jeffrey Eugenides, September 2010
• Eliot Weinberger, April 2010
• C. K. Williams, March 2010
• Jennifer Egan, March 2010
• Jo Ann Beard, October 2009
• Charles Baxter, October 2009
• Philip Schultz, September 2009
• Jean Valentine, March 2009
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, February 2009
• A. O. Scott, February 2009
• Stephen Dunn, October 2008
• Barbara Hurd, October 2008
• Robert Olen Butler, February 2008
• Yusef Komunyakaa, March 2008
• Vivian Gornick, April 2008
• Scott Russell Sanders, September 2007
• Cornelius Eady, February 2007
• Marge Piercy and Ira Wood, September 2006
• Bill Roorbach, February 2006
• Madison Smartt Bell and Elizabeth Spires, October 2005
• Lee Gutkind, February 2005
• Maxine Kumin, October 2004
• George Saunders, January 2004
• Joyce Carol Oates, September 2003
• Phillip Lopate, April 2003
• Carolyn Forché, October 2002
• W. P. Kinsella, April 2002
• Sharon Olds, October 2001
• Adrienne Rich, October 2001
• Donald Hall, April 2001
• Barbara Ehrenreich, October 2000
• Judy Grahn, March 2000
• Joy Williams, February 2000
• William Kennedy, September 1999