Past Residents
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Jeffrey Yang, Poet and Translator, Fall 2018
Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Hey, Marfa, Vanishing-Line, and An Aquarium (Winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s... -
Mai Der Vang, Poet, Fall 2018
Mai Der Vang is the author of Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), which received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Virginia... -
Claire Dederer, Writer, Fall 2018
Claire Dederer is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning and Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, which was a New York Times bestseller.... -
Donika Kelly, Poet, Summer 2018
Donika Kelly is the author of the chapbook AVIARIUM, and the full-length collection BESTIARY (Graywolf 2016), winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award... -
Stephen Motika, Poet, Summer 2018
Stephen Motika's first book of poems, Western Practice, was published by Alice James Books in 2012. He is also the author of three poetry chapbooks: Arrival and at Mono (2007), In the... -
Charles Rice-González, Writer, Activist, Spring 2018
Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBTQ activist, co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and an... -
Don Mee Choi, Poet, Translator, Spring 2018
Don Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016), The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), a chapbook, Petite Manifesto (Vagabond, 2014), and a pamphlet, Freely Frayed,... -
Averill Curdy, Poet, Spring 2018
Averill Curdy is the author of Song & Error (Farrar, Straus, Giroux; 2014), which was named one of the 10 best poetry collections of the year by Slate. The recipient of fellowships... -
Lesley Stern, Writer, Spring 2018
Lesley Stern writes across, and through, a mélange of genres, including fiction, memoir, history and criticism. Her books include The Smoking Book, The Scorsese Connection and Dead and... -
Brad Watson, Writer, Spring 2018
Brad Watson was born in Meridian, Mississippi and currently lives in Wyoming, where he teaches in The University of Wyoming creative writing program. He previously taught at The University...