Past Participants from 1999-2011

A-D

Megan Abbott
Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur
Mark A. Abramson
Chinua Achebe
Kenneth D. Ackerman
Kim Addonizio
Bruce Adelson
Leonard M. Adkins
Deborah Ager
Julie Agnone
Liaquat Ahamed
Akbar Ahmed
Naja Marie Aidt
Karen Alarie
Mitch Albom
Lalo Alcaraz
Karen LaLonde Alenier
Sherman Alexie
Jane Alison
Stephanie Allen
Steve Almond
Cathy Alter
Jonathan Ames
Mehdi Aminrazavi
Robyn Amos
Karen Leona Anderson
Mark Anderson
Betsy Andrews
Donna Andrews
Athena Angelos
Jean Renfro Anspaugh
Jessica Anthony
Tomasz Arciszewski
Rae Armantrout
Elizabeth Arnold
Robert P. Arthur
Nick Arvin
Jabari Asim
Alexander W. Astin
Helen S. Astin
Bart Astor
Jennifer Atkinson
Rick Atkinson
Philip Auerswald
Alexandra Avakian
Ellis Avery
Irene Awret
Naomi Ayala
Pam Bachorz
David Bacon
Gabeba Baderoon
Susan Baggette
Juliana Baggott
Julianna Baggott
John Balaban
Biyi Bandele
Mary Jo Bang
Russ Banham
Brian Barker
Neal Barnard
T.A. Barron
Douglas Bauer
Dan Baum
Noa Baum
Richard Bausch
Charles Baxter
Khris Baxter
Louis Bayard
Louis Bayard
Dan Beachy-Quick
Meriwether Beatty
Alison Bechdel
Edward Belfar
Mel Belin
Felicia Bell
Matt Bell
Margaret Bennett
Oscar H. Bennett
Jeff Benson
Elizabeth Berg
Scott W. Berg
Christopher Bergland
Debra Bergoffen
Carol Berkin
Charles Bernstein
Steven Bernstein
Anselm Berrigan
Michael Beschloss
Adam Besenyodi
R. Dwayne Betts
Benjamin Bever
Benjamin Bever
Tom Beveridge
Supriya Bhatnagar
Linda Bierds
Jim Bildner
Sven Birkerts
Margaret Bishop
DeAnne Blanton
Deborah Blum
Don Bogen
Paula Bohince
Noelle Bolou
Bruce Bond
Matt Bondurant
Katherine Boo
Fergus M. Bordewich
Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Fred Bowen
Catherine Bowman
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Arlette Braman
Page Brannon
Binnie Syril Braunstein
Eric Brende
Connie Briscoe
Donna Britt
Jeff Broadwater
Brian Brodeur
Brian Brodeur
K.S. Brooks
M. Evan Brooks
Carrie Brown
Ellen F. Brown
Peter Brown
Rita Mae Brown
Warren Brown
Mahogany Browne
Renée Brozic
Robert Brustein
Nicholas Buccola
Ken Budd
Suzanne Buffam
Leslie Bumstead
Patrick K. Burke
Sandra Burt
Orville Vernon Burton
Jason Byrd
Nelinia Cabiles
Scott Cairns
Carmen Calatayud
John Calderazzo
Liam Callanan
Austin S. Camacho
SueEllen Campbell
Ethan Canin
Karen Cantwell
Karen Cantwell
Bryan Caplan
Michael Capobianco
Ron Carlson
Burrus M. Carnahan
Charisse Carney-Nunes
Vincent Carretta
Rodney Carroll
Wiley Cash
Ray Cashman
P.W. Catanese
Sharon Cavileer
Jack R. Censer
Jane Censer
Michael Chabon
Benjamin Chadwick
Jennifer Chang
Lan Samantha Chang
Margaret and Ralph Chatham
Alan Cheuse
Alan Cheuse
Staceyann Chin
Ginjer Clarke
Sam Clay
Carol Cleaveland
Brenda Clough
Christopher Coake
Christopher Coake
Allison Cobb
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Daniel Cohen
Meredith Cole
Teju Cole
Katharine Coles
Martha Collins
Danny Duncan Collum
Maureen Connors
Pat Conroy
Cathy Cook
Ryan Coonerty
John Copenhaver
Diana Cosby
Sarah L. Courteau
Michael W. Covel
Tyler Cowen
Rachel S. Cox
Nancy Crampton
Ellen Crosby
Caren Cross
Chris Crutcher
Ann Cummins
Michael Cunningham
Ramola D
Jacques d'Amboise
Robert Dallek
Robert Dallekis
Pat Daly-Lipe
Tsitsi Dangaremgba
Dennis Danvers
Kyle Dargan
Alice Elliott Dark
Martin J. De Nys
Danza del Rio
Lulu Delacre
Frank Delaney
Marion Deshmukh
Dieter Dettke
Danielle Deulen
Danielle Cadena Deulen
Danielle Cadena Deulen
Willis Van Devanter
Faisal Devji
Thomas Norman DeWolf
Domingo Diaz
Susie and Ming Diaz
Joann DiGennaro
Michael Dirda
E.L. Doctorow
Ben Doller
Sandra Doller
Daniel A. Domenech
Susan Donaldson
Jean Donnelly
Moira Donohue
Gregory Donovan
Michael Dooling
Mark Doty
Ross Gregory Douthat
Rita Dove
Buck Downs
Dennis Drabelle
Gerald Duff
Rebecca Dunham
Joe Durham

E-K

Cornelius Eady
David Ebenbach
Mary Eccles
Ric Edelman
Scott Edelman
Bob Edwards
Ethan Louis Edwards
Ryan Effgen
Barbara Effron
Jennifer Egan
Solveig Eggerz
Barbara Ehrenreich
Kurt Eichenwald
Cathy Eisenhower
L.M. Elliott
Aime Ellis
Joseph J. Ellis
James Ellroy
Jan Elvin
Jason Emerson
Nathan Englander
W. Perry Epes
Garrett Epps
Daniel Mark Epstein
Kathryn Erskine
Haleh Esfandiari
W. Ralph Eubanks
Edward Falco
Allan Fallow
Stephen Farnsworth
Michael Farquhar
Tim Farrington
Michael K. Fauntroy
Paul Fauteax
Jane Feldman
D.W. Fenza
Andrew Ferguson
Kennan Ferguson
Larrie Ferreiro
David Finkel
Alec Finlay
Patricia Finney
Maribeth Fischer
Robert Fitterman
Mark Fitzgerald
Richard Florida
Elizabeth Price Foley
Carolyn Forché
Katie Ford
Rebecca Kanak Fox
Trisha Foxwell
Robert A. Franklin
Ru Freeman
Judith Freidenberg
Susan Froetschel
Harvey Frommer
Gregory Frost
Simon Fruelund
Alexandra Fuller
Heather Fuller
Neil Gaiman
Donald R. Gallehr
Jeff Galloway
James Galvin
Forrest Gander
Jenny Gardiner
Joan Gardiner
John Rolfe Gardiner
Michael R. Gardner
George Garrett
Clifford Garstang
Clifford Garstang
John Gaudet
Harold Geller
Judy Gelman
Bruce George
Jack Germond
David Gewanter
Caroll R. Gibbs
Jack Gilbert
Chester Gillis
John Gilstrap
John Gilstrap
Nikki Giovanni
Robert Girardi
Robert L. Giron
Todd Gitlin
Tina Glasneck
Julia Glass
James K. Glassman
Ruth Glick
Bill Glose
Ronald Goldfarb
Diane Goldstein
Odi Gonzales
Allegra Goodman
Amy Goodman
Eric Goodman
Richard Goodman
Chris Goodrich
Steve Goodwin
Robert Goolrick
James Gordon
John Steele Gordon
Nada Gordon
Carol Gould
Barbara Graham
Daniel Graham
Maryemma Graham
Senator Bob Graham
Reyna Grande
Brad Graper
Eleanor Graves
Amelia Gray
Michelle Y. Green
Michael Greenberg
Kate Greenstreet
Michele Greet
Conor Grennan
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Kathleen Grissom
Mimi Clark Gronlund
Anthony Grooms
Andrej Grubacic
Maurice Kilwein Guevara
Dan Gutstein
Elizabeth Gutting
Helon Habila
Joyce Hackett
Bassam Haddad
Michael Hais
Donald C. Hakenson
Joe Hall
Keith Hall
Dixiane Hallaj
Muhammad Hallaj
Alexandra Hamlet
Melissa Hammerle
Chris Hamner
Carol Lee Hamrin
Ernest Hardy
Joy Harjo
A.G. Harmon
Chuck Harmon
Claudrena N. Harold
E. Lynn Harris
Judith Harris
Jeffrey Harrison
Joseph Harsh
Alison Hart
Lenore Hart
Carol Harter
Adam Haslett
Robin Hathaway
Elizabeth Hatrick
Kate Haulman
Terrance Hayes
Alex Heard
J. Roderick Heller III
Donna Hemans
Peter Henriques
Maria Herrara-Sobek
Brenda Hillman
Stan Hinden
Jane Hirshfield
Frederick P. Hitz
Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Ellen Hoffman
Richard Hoffman
Ron Hogan
Janet Holmes
Linwood Holton
Harold Holzer
Sarah Collins Honenberger
Cathy Park Hong
James D. Hornfischer
Khaled Hosseini
Silas House
Dave Housley
James Houston
Pam Houston
Karen Howard
Fanny Howe
Susan Howe
Christopher Howell
Huan Hsu
Susan Hubbard
Dallas Hudgens
Dallas Hudgens
Mary T. Hufford
Craig Hughes
Scott Huler
Matt Iden
Matt Iden
Walter Isaacson
Kathleen Toomey Jabs
G. Winston James
J.A. Jance
Charlene Drew Jarvis
Michael Jawer
Emyl Jenkins
Pam Jenoff
Charles Jensen
Robert Jensen
Lisa Jervis
Cheryl Jewett-Koblinsky
Clint Johnson
Jason Miccolo Johnson
Joyce Johnson
Kathryn Johnson
Lindsay Johnson
Lindsay Johnson
Mat Johnson
Merri Lisa Johnson
Edward P. Jones
Joy Jones
Tayari Jones
Allison Joseph
Frank S. Joseph
Jacqueline Jules
Tim Junkin
Connie Kaldor
David Kaplan
Wayne Karlin
Mary Karr
Gary Karton
Todd B. Kashdan
Alma Katsu
Alma Katsu
Donna Kauffman
Thomas Kaufman
Wendi Kaufman
Scott Keeter
Scott Keeter
Christian B. Keller
Katy Kelly
David Keplinger
John Kessel
Pam Kessler
Caroline Kettlewell
Shakta Kaur Khalsa
Rushworth M. Kidder
Tracy Kiely
Linda Killian
Eugenia Kim
Michael Kimball
Robert Hillary King
Stephen King
John Kiser
Matthew Klam
Michael Klare
Annette Curtis Klause
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
Jeff Kleinman
Dr. Sheppard Kominars
Beth Konkoski
Amy Goldman Koss
Nick Kotz
Steven Krasner
Richard Krevolin
Mark Krikorian
Vicki Levy Krupp
Joshua Kryah
Peter Kuper
Chris Kuzneski

L-R

Gerry LaFemina
Brian Lamb
Martin Lammon
L. Jagi Lamplighter
Sue Lange
Shannon Lanier
Ana-Maurine Lara
Michael Largo
Alison Larkin
Jim Larranaga
Tara Laskowski
Gretchen Moran LaskaNelda Lateef
Roger Lathbury
Alvin Lau
Will Lavender
Victoria Law
Jennifer Lawler
Elaine J. Lawless
Elizabeth K. (Liz) Lawner
David M. Lawrence
Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Chris Lear
Niki Lee
Marc Leepson
Jim Lehrer
Kate Lehrer
Joan Leotta
Jill Lepore
Nathan Leslie
Lawrence Lessig
Jonathan Lethem
Vladimir Levchev
Cornelia Levine
Lawrence Levine
Debbie Levy
E.B. Lewis
Mindy Lewis
Reta Lewis
Yiyun Li
Eric Lichtblau
S. Robert Lichter
Andrew Light
Carl Lindahl
Elinor Lipman
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman
Reb Livingston
Gary Lloyd
Jamey Long
Jamey M. Long
Bret Lott
Maryann Cusimano Love
Maryann Cusimano Love
Elaina Loveland
Sallie Lowenstein
Beverly Lowry
Noah Lukeman
Adrian Lurssen
Victoria Lynne
Annabel Lyon
Jonathan Lyons
Alain Mabanckou
Josh MacPhee
Joshua MacPhee
Kristen-Paige Madonia
Mike Maggio
G.M. Malliet
Nara Malone
Julianne Malveaux
James Mann
Peter Manseau
David Maraniss
Doug Marlette
Dawn Martin
Sarah Martin
J. Michael Martinez
Siwar Masannat
Sujata Massey
Jay Matthews
Charles Mauro
Charles Mauro
Ron Maxwell
Bill Mayhew
C.M. Mayo
Melanie McCabe
Richard McCann
Kathleen McCleary
Kathy McCleary
Susan McCorkindale
Jill McCorkle
Sharyn McCrumb
Alice McDermott
Bernice McFadden
Bernice L. McFadden
Kevin McFadden
Tim McGrath
Ralph McInerny
Catherine McKenzie
Bill McKibben
Ann L. McLaughlin
Zan McLeod
Mark McMorris
Sheila McMullin
Maria McNaught
Tracye Lynn McQuirter
Georgia Me
Pablo Medina
Ved Mehta
Kevin Merida
Jim Merkel
Mischa Merz
Carrie Meyer
Nadine Sabra Meyer
E. Ethelbert Miller
James Miller
John Miller
Laura Miller
Sue Miller
Margaret Mills
Valerie Miner
Deborah Miranda
Pankaj Mishra
Anna Mohamadi
Jeff Monahan
Rick Moody
Honor Moore
Kathleen Dean Moore
Lisa C. Moore
Miles David Moore
Cherríe Moraga
Linda Morelli
Yvette Neisser Moreno
Kyoko Mori
Barbara Bradlyn Morris
James McGrath Morris
Fred Morsell
Greg Mortenson
Harriet S. Mosatche
Walter Mosley
Tom Mould
Denis Moynihan
Manuel Muñoz
Cedric Muhammad
Barbara Mujica
Harryette Mullen
Joshua Muravchik
Elisabeth Murawski
Eileen Murdock
Teresa Burns Murphy
Robert K. Musil
Kirin Narayan
Meena Nayak
Chris Nealon
Christopher Nealon
Mariah Burton Nelson
Michael P. Nelson
Peter Neofotis
Nan Netherton
Laura Neuman
Bich Minh Nguyen
Mel Nichols
Mel Nichols
Tahra Nichols
Scott Nicholson
Scott Nicholson
Marc Tyler Nobleman
Gary Noesner
Jerdine Nolen
George Norfleet
Howard Norman
Matt Norman
Mark Nowak
Dorothy Noyes
John O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
Joyce Carol Oates
Mark Obmascik
Martin Ogle
Gregory Orfalea
Alan Orloff
E.C. Osondu
Trevor Owens
Randall Packer
Sedat Pakay
Michael A. Palmer
Eric Pankey
Frances Park and Ginger Park
Michael Parker
Owen Parry
Sandra Parshall
Ann Patchett
Bethanne Patrick
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Valerie O. Patterson
Jacob Paul
Richard Peabody
Matthew Pearl
Stephen Pearlstein
Nancy K. Pearson
Garrett Peck
Richard Peck
Sarah Pekkanen
Benjamin Percy
Erica S. Perl
Linda Perlis
Sarah Perrier
Andre Perry
Deborah Perry
Diana Peterfreund
Britt Peterson
Jim Peterson
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Tori Phillips
Tom Philpott
MaryBeth Piccinino
Noah Pickus
Julia Pierpont
Leslie Pietrzyk
Jon Pineda
pober
Peter Pober
Robert M. Poole
Ellen F. M. Posner
Tom Pow
Tom Pow
D.A. Powell
Nani Power
Nani Power
Skip Press
David A. Price
Francine Prose
Leslie Prosterman
Mary Jo Putney
Mary Quattlebaum
Tala Abu Rahmeh
Lee Rainie
Peter Ramos
Claudia Rankine
Candice Ransom
Lynnie Raybuck
B.W. Read
Srikanth Reddy
Nick Reding
Diane Rehm
Nicole Louise Reid
Laura I. Rendón
Sonya Renee
Yelizaveta Renfro
Stanley Renshon
Frederick Reuss
Carter Revard
Barbara Jane Reyes
Sheri Reynolds
Elizabeth Rhodes
Katherine Russell Rich
Michael Richman
Phyllis C. Richman
Lee Riley-Hammer
David C. Rine
Rick Rinehart
Alexandra Robbins
Karen Griffin Roberts
Larry Robertson
Ray Robertson
Curtis Christopher Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson
Larry L. Rockwood
Carmen Rodrigues
Celia Herrera Rodriguez
Joe Romano
Mariana Romo-Carmona
Ruth Preston Rose
Tricia Rose
Roy Rosenzweig
Davy Rothbart
Davy Rothbart
Peter Rothbart
David Rovics
Lucinda Roy
Marina Koestler Ruben
Richard E. Rubenstein
Josh Ruebner
Karen Russell
Mary Doria Russell
Andrew Ryan
Tim Ryan
Kent Ryden

S-Z

Ariel Sabar
Omid Safi
Susan Salluzo
John S. Salmon
Robert J. Samuelson
Marjorie Sandor
Esmeralda Santiago
Mark Satin
Mark Harril Saunders
Joe Schall
Rosalyn Schanzer
Jane Schapiro
Joan Schenkar
Renee Schettler
Diana Schmidt
Robert J. Schneller, Jr.
Olivia Schoeller
Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder
Nancy Schwalb
Caren Scott
Laura Ellen Scott
Meryle Secrest
Francine Segan
Tim Seibles
Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Linda Seligmann
Kyle Semmel
Yvonne Seng
Vince Sescoe
Ann Falcone Shalaski
Alan Shapiro
Daniel J. Sharfstein
Susan Sharpe
Anne Sheldon
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Judy Shepard
Caitlin Shetterly
David Shields
Jessica Shines
Craig Shirley
Nicole Shivers
Colleen J. Shogan
Jane Shore
Porter Shreve
Susan Shreve
Susan Richards Shreve
Clyde Shugart
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Michael Signer
Sarah Silberman
Ron Silliman
Dwayne Renal Sims
Michael Sims
Patsy Sims
Michelle Singletary
George Singleton
Jon Skovron
Joanna Campbell Slan
Jane Smiley
Abraham Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith
Charlene E. McGee Smith
J.D. Smith
J.D. Smith
Karen Lee Smith
Lori Smith
Richard Norton Smith
Rob Smith
Rod Smith
Rod Smith
Suzanne Smith
Michelle Smith-Bermiss
Kevin Smokler
Charlotte Smutko
Jack Snyder
Asali Solomon
Lisa Russ Spaar
Dean Spade
Leah St. James
Jonathan Stalling
Tom Stamp
Niall Stanage
Les Standiford
Sofia M. Starnes
Daniel Stashower
Peter Stearns
Garth Stein
Mike Stein
Jonny Steinberg
Nancy Steorts
Dr. Esther M. Sternberg
Esther M. Sternberg
Sarah Stillman
Susan Stockdale
Susan Stockdale
Kathryn Stockett
Brooke C. Stoddard
Dick Stohr
Mark Strand
Emma Straub
Darin Strauss
Katie Strotman
Connie & Mayo Stuntz
Allan Stypeck
Ned Sublette
Amy Sullivan
Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan
Robert Sullivan
Robin Sullivan
Robin Sullivan
Terese Svoboda
Susan Swain
David Swanson
James Swanson
James L. Swanson
Michael Swanwick
Robert Sward
Sarah Mansfield Taber
Veronique Tadjo
Pia Tafdrup
Lee M. Talbot
Marcia Talley
Jayanti Tamm
Amy Tan
Deborah Tannen
David Taylor
David Taylor
Henry Taylor
Michelle Tea
Brian Teare
Hilary Tham
Lori L. Tharps
Charlie Thomas
Lee Thomas
Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas
Christina Thompson
John Thorn
Adam Throne
Mark Thurston
Susan Tichy
Mike Tidwell
Gioia Timpanelli
Charles Todd
Stephen Trachtenberg
Lisa Tracy
Jack Trammell
Timothy Travaglini
Timothy Travaglini
Natasha Trethewey
Peter G. Tsouras
Eugenia Tsutsumi
Elizabeth Tucker
Melissa Tuckey
Dietlinde Turban
Brian Turner
James S. Turner
John Turner
Penelope Tzougros
Marylouise Uhlig
Jessica Valenti
Laura van den Berg
Robert Vay
Reetika Vazirani
Dan Vera
George Vercessi
María Eugenia Verdaguer
Abraham Verghese
Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave
Teun Voeten
Matthew Vollmer
Sidney Wade
Diana Wagman
Margaret E. Wagner
Joan C. Waits
Amy Waldman
Alice Walker
Jeanne Murray Walker
Karen Thompson Walker
Ryan Walker
Mark Wallace
Randall Wallace
Robert Wallace
Peter Wallenstein
David Wallis
Ken Walsh
Mike Walsh
Jess Walter
Eric Ward
Howard Wasdin
Michelle Waslin
James Webb
Robyn Webb
Janine R. Wedel
Turtle Wegerzyn
Erik Weihenmayer
Steven H. Weinberger
Beckie Weinheimer
Alan Weisman
John Weisman
David Welker
Bill Wellington
Tim Wendel
Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Cornel West
Robert Whitaker
Amy Brecount White
Ed White
Philip White
Frank Whittington
Isabel Wilkerson
Ben Wilkins
Roger Wilkins
C.K. Williams
David R. Williams
Juan Williams
Lisa Williams
Abby Wilner
D. Harlan Wilson
Ronaldo V. Wilson
Mark Winegardner
Andrew Wingfield
Andrew Wingfield
Morley Winograd
Barb Winters
Martha Witt
Laurin Wittig
Michelle Wolf
Tobias Wolff
Diane Wolkstein
Carmen Rose Marshall Wong
Diane R. Wood
Karenne Wood
Jacqueline Woodson
Angela Woodward
Carolyne Wright
Jay Wright
John C. Wright
Robyn Wright
Susi Wyss
Amy Waters Yarsinske
Margaret Yocom
Edwin Yoder
Leslie Young
Ramunda Young
Jeffrey Zaslow
Ande Zellman
Bob Zellner
Mary Kay Zuravleff