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Artist, performer, and AIDS activist whose work helped create the first effective drug protocols to combat the syndrome
Photograph © Walter Kurtz
Poet and memoirist. Author of How to Say Babylon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize in Nonfiction.
Poet and professional troublemaker, Nico Amador's prior work has focused on teaching and writing about the skills and strategies needed to build effective movements for social change.
Poet, author of That Blue Repair, and chair of the liberal arts department at the Curtis Institute of Music
Author of the novels After Birth and The Book of Dahlia and the short story collection How This Night Is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot.
Bruna Dantas Lobato '15 is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words that Remain by Stênio Gardel. She was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is forthcoming in October 2024 from Grove Atlantic.
National Book Award-winning translator of The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel and author of the novel Blue Light Hours. Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Grinnell College. Published in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, and A Public Space, among others.
Stephen Metcalf is a critic, essayist, podcaster, and screenwriter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the co-creator and host of the Slate Culture Gabfest, a podcast. He is writing a book about the 1980s and a screenplay for Amazon Studios.
Founder of Voices UnBroken, a nonprofit dedicated to giving vulnerable young people opportunity for creative self-expression.
Poet and essayist whose work has been honored by the Western World Haiku Society
Franny Choi is a poet and essayist. Books include The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On and Soft Science, winner of the Elgin Award for Science Fiction Poetry.
Founding writer of Heatmap News, a new climate-focused publication, and the former executive editor and culture critic of TheWeek.com. Appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and additionally published in Vice, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
Stefania Heim is an award-winning poet, scholar, translator, editor and educator, committed to the intersections between these pursuits.
Renee Gladman is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of writing, drawing, and architecture. She has published numerous books, most recently My Lesbian Novel, a work of autofiction.
Scholar, writer, and biographer whose book Margaret Fuller: A New American Life won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize
Reginald Shepherd '88 was an American poet and teacher. His latest publication, The Selected Shepherd: Poems, appeared in 2024.
Jordan McCord is a fiction writer and educator originally from the Midwest. Her stories are inspired by her travels through the American Southwest and in Europe.