Past Residents
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NoViolet Bulawayo, Writer, Fall 2019
NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of We Need New Names, which has been recognized with the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Pen/Hemingway Award, the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award... -
Jamel Brinkley, Writer, Summer 2019
Jamel Brinkley is a writer from New York City. He is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Bingham Prize,... -
Toni Jensen, Writer, Summer 2019
Toni Jensen is the author of a short story collection, From the Hilltop, and a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, Carry, forthcoming from Ballantine. She is the recipient of the Katherine... -
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Writer, Summer 2019
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author from the Texas/Mexico borderlands. Her five award-winning books include Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican... -
David Shook, Poet, Writer, Translator, Summer 2019
David Shook is a poet, translator, and editor who was raised in Latin America. In their debut collection, Our Obsidian Tongues (2013), Shook explores the violence and hunger of everyday... -
Kaveh Akbar, Poet, Spring 2019
Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Paris Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf... -
Carolina Ebeid, Poet, Spring 2019
Carolina Ebeid was born in West New York, NJ and is the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press). She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and is pursuing... -
Stephanos Papadopoulos, Poet, Translator, Winter 2019
Stephanos Papadopoulos was born in North Carolina in 1976 and raised in Paris and Athens. He is the author of Lost Days, Hôtel-Dieu, and The Black Sea, and Carrboro Station (forthcoming) as... -
Kerry Howley, Writer, Winter 2019
Kerry Howley is the author of Thrown (Sarabande, 2014), a New York Times Notable Book, New York Times Editor’s Choice, and pick for best-of-the-year lists in Time, Salon, Slate, and many... -
Jenny George, Poet, Winter 2019
Jenny George is the author of The Dream of Reason, published by Copper Canyon Press. She is also a winner of the “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a recipient of fellowships from...