Guest Writers

We’re honored and thrilled that these incredible writers have agreed to join us for a week of wild invention this coming June!


Faculty are in residence all week; they teach daily workshops and give an evening reading followed by Q&A. Some offer Craft Sessions and one-to-one manuscript consultations.

Visiting Poets & Writers are in residence for 3 days; they teach Craft Sessions, hold one-on-one mentor meetings with independent residency participants, give an evening reading followed by Q&A, and join a panel.

Workshop Faculty

‘Pemi Aguda

’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her writing has been published in Granta, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, One Story among others, and won O. Henry Prizes. Her novel-in-progress won the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. She was a 2021 Fiction Fellow… Read More »

Jessica Anthony

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Jessica Anthony is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the novel The Most (Little, Brown & Co.), which was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction. Her novel Enter the Aardvark (Little, Brown & Co.) was a finalist for the New England Book Award. Anthony’s novels have been published in… Read More »

Tiana Clark

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Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the… Read More »

Safia Elhillo

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Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, Safia Elhillo is the author of the books The January Children, Girls That Never Die, Home Is Not A Country, and Bright Red Fruit. Elhillo’s work appears in Poetry Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New… Read More »

T Kira Māhealani Madden

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T Kira Māhealani Madden is a diasporic Kanaka ‘ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) writer, photographer, and amateur magician. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, DISQUIET, NYSCA/NYFA, and Yaddo. Her debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, a finalist for the… Read More »

Jeff Parker

Jeff Parker is the author of the nonfiction book Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal (Harper Collins), the novel Ovenman (Tin House), and the short story collection The Taste of Penny (Dzanc). With Pasha Malla, he co-assembled the book of found sports poetry Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion (Featherproof), and with Annie Liontas he… Read More »

Sam Sax

Sam Sax is a queer, Jewish writer and educator. Their most recent book is the debut novel, Yr Dead (McSweeney’s, 2024), longlisted for a National Book Award in Fiction, and called “profoundly original” by Kirkus Review in a starred review. Their most recent book of poems is Pig (Simon & Schuster, 2023), which was shortlisted… Read More »

Visiting Poets & Writers

Shastri Akella

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Shastri Akella (he/they) is a queer migrant of color who is neurodivergent and comes from a working class background. Their debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published in 2023 by Flatiron Books (USA) and Penguin (India). A queer bildungsroman set in 90s India, it was named a most anticipated debut by Good Morning America, Poets… Read More »

Dur e Aziz Amna

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Dur e Aziz Amna is from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and now lives in Newark, USA. Her debut novel, American Fever, was published in 2023 and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the South Asia Book Award. Her work also appears in The New York Times, Financial Times, and Al Jazeera, among others. She was… Read More »

Abigail Chabitnoy

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Abigail Chabitnoy is the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan 2022); How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2019), shortlisted for the 2020 International Griffin Prize for Poetry and winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award; and the linocut illustrated chapbook Converging Lines of Light (Flower Press 2021). Her poems have appeared… Read More »

Noor Hindi

Noor Hindi (she/her/hers) is calling on you to join the global fight for the survival and liberation of Palestinians and all oppressed people. Anywhere and everywhere you are, you can disrupt, advocate, speak out and refuse in small and big ways. Revolution until freedom. Hindi is a Palestinian-American poet. Her debut collection of poems, Dear… Read More »

Annie Liontas

Annie Liontas is the genderqueer author of the crip-queer memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery (Scribner, 2024), which was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and selected as SELF Magazine’s Book of the Month. Their debut novel, Let Me Explain You (Scribner, 2015), was selected as New York Times… Read More »

Maggie Millner

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Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, one of The Atlantic‘s ten best books of 2023, and a finalist for the LA Times Book Award in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian poetry. Couplets has been (or will be) translated into six languages and published in seven… Read More »