Eric Puchner

Eric Puchner is the author of the novel Model Home, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and two collections of stories, Music Through the Floor and Last Day on Earth, which won the 2018 Towson Award for Literature. His work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including GQ, Granta, Tin House, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Puschart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and The Best American Short Stories 2012 and 2017. He has received a California Book Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among other places, he has taught at Stanford University, Claremont McKenna College, and San Francisco State University.

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James Arthur

James Arthur is the author of two poetry collections, The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press, 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Southern Review, and The American Poetry Review. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to the Seamus Heaney Centre in Northern Ireland, and a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.

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Anna Celenza

Anna Celenza is the author of eight award-winning children’s books, including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Beethoven’s Heroic Symphony and Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite. She has also published six scholarly books, most recently Jazz Italian Style (winner of the Bridge Book Prize) and the The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin. Her current book project, Music that Changed America, is under contract with W.W. Norton. Trained as a musicologist, Celenza holds a joint appointment at Peabody Institute.

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Susan Choi

Susan Choi is the author of five novels, including Trust Exercise, which received the 2019 National Book Award for fiction. She has also been recipient of the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award, a Lamba Literary award, the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She serves as a trustee of PEN America and on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown.

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Danielle Evans

Danielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN American Robert W. Bingham prize, the Hurston-Wright Award, the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 selection. Her stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The Paris Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, The Sewanee Review, Callaloo, and New Stories From the South. ?

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Dora Malech

Dora Malech is the author of four books of poetry, Flourish ?(Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020), Stet (Princeton University Press, 2018), Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011) and Shore Ordered Ocean (The Waywiser Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in publications that include The New Yorker, Poetry, The Best American Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, and Poetry London. Her visual art has appeared in publications that include Poetry and Poetry Northwest. Her honors include an Amy Clampitt Residency Award from the Amy Clampitt Fund, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Writing Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, participation in the Visiting Artists and Scholars Program at the American Academy in Rome, a Crenson-Hertz Award for Community Based Learning ?and Participatory Research from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Concern, and a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award for early career faculty. She serves as an associate editor of The Waywiser Press and as an advisory board member of Writers in Baltimore Schools.

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Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion is the author of 13 books of poetry, most recently Essex Clay (2018). He has also written biographies (of John Keats and Philip Larkin among others), and two novels (Silver and The New World) as well as a book of essays, Ways of Life. Motion was the UK Poet Laureate from 1999-2009, and is the co-founder and co- director of the Poetry Archive and Poetry by Heart; he was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. Before joining The Writing Seminars he was Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London.

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Katharine Noel

Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Katharine Noel was the Writer in Residence at Claremont McKenna College, from 2009 to 2013. From 2002 to 2009, she was the Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where she held Wallace Stegner and Truman Capote fellowships in 2000–2002. Prior to teaching at Stanford, she worked for two years at Gould Farm, a program in the Berkshire Mountains for adults with mental illnesses, and for four years at a shelter for homeless women and children.

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Shannon Robinson

Shannon Robinson's stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Water-Stone, Nimrod, failbetter, and Joyland. She has received Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and a Hedgebrook Fellowship, as well as grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Robinson has been a writer in residence at the Interlochen Arts Academy; she has also taught fiction and nonfiction at Washington University in St. Louis, and through Stanford University’s School of Continuing Studies.

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Bruce Snider

Bruce Snider is the author of three poetry collections, Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press; Paradise, Indiana; The Year We Studied Women, and the co-editor of The Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice. His poems and essays have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Iowa Review, New England Review, Poetry, and Threepenny Review, among others. His awards include a James A. Michener Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington award, as well residencies from Yaddo, the Millay Colony, the Amy Clampitt House, the James Merrill House, VCCA, and the Bogliasco Foundation.

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Lysley Tenorio

Lysley Tenorio is the author of Monstress, named a book of the year by The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Son of Good Fortune, winner of the New American Voices Award from the Institute for Immigration Research. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Manoa, and Zoetrope: All-Story, and have been adapted the for the stage in San Francisco and New York City. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, Macdowell, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Edmund White Award, a Whiting Award, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born in the Philippines and raised in California, he is an Associate Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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Greg Williamson

Greg Williamson's most recent book is The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True (Waywiser Press). His other books include A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck (Waywiser Press), Errors in the Script (Overlook Press) and The Silent Partner (Story Line Press), which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize in 1995. He was a winner of a Whiting Writer’s Award in 1998. His work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and others. Along with Daniel Groves (BA '00, MA '01), he is co-editor of the anthology, Jiggery-Pokery Semicentennial (Waywiser Press, 2018).

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David Yezzi

David Yezzi’s latest books of poetry are Black Sea (2018) and More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems (2022). His verse play Schnauzer, produced by the Baltimore Poets Theater, was published by Exot Books (2019). A former director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York, he is currently writing a biography of the poet Anthony Hecht.

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