Steven Mackey

American composer

Conlon Nancarrow

Composer

Trimpin

Sculptor

Rachel Manley

Writer

Jane Shore

James Alan McPherson

American essayist

Susan Choi

American novelist

Shulamit Ran

Israeli-American composer

Bill Klein

Author

Melinda Wagner

Composer

Zipporah

Moses' wife

Susan Cheever

Writer

Wendy Kesselman

American playwright

Rackstraw Downes

Author

John Lowenstein

American baseball player

Derek Bermel

American composer

Yehudi Wyner

American composer

Elizabeth Spires

American poet

Christopher Shinn

American playwright

Stephen Hartke

American composer

Anne Wilkes Tucker

American museum curator

Patrick Phillips

American poet

Shiva Naipaul

British novelist

Dagoberto

Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil

Lourdes Portillo

American-Mexican screenwriter

Charles Baxter

American novelist

Julie Otsuka

American author

Frederick Seidel

American poet

Stacey Steers

Film director

Marjorie Wilkins Campbell

Canadian writer

Luís Alberto Urrea

American-Mexican poet

Romulus Zachariah Linney

Former United States Representative

Akosua Adoma Owusu

Ghanaian-American filmmaker

Lee Blessing

American playwright

Brendan Gill

American journalist

Susan Shreve

American novelist

Francine du Plessix Gray

American writer

Adam Bock

Canadian playwright

James Purdy

American novelist

Caveh Zahedi

American film director

Ben Russell

American artist

Jane Brox

American author

Louis Simpson

American poet

Amy Clampitt

American poet

Tory Dent

American poet

Valerie Martin

American novelist

Kevin Powers

American fiction writer

Joan Kane

American poet