Past Guest Authors

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Jia Tolentino
Staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.

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Brit Bennett
Author of New York Times bestseller The Mothers

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Major Jackson
Author of New England Book Award winner The Absurd Man

Martha McPhee
Hofstra professor, novelist and recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Mary Norris
Author and longtime copyeditor for The New Yorker

Linda Gregerson
Author of six collections of poetry, finalist for the National Book Award, and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Emily Wilson
MacArthur "Genius" grant recipient. Author, translator, and professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Natasha Trethewey
Former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner

Kenny Fries
Award-winning memoirist, poet and librettist

Colson Whitehead
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad

Mitchell Jackson
Author of the acclaimed debut novel, The Residue Years

Zingonia Zingone
Multilingual poet, novelist and translator

David Baker,
Award-winning poet

TV writer/producer
Gary Janetti

New York Times Book Review Editor
Pamela Paul

Bestselling author and Harper’s columnist
Daniel Mendelsohn

Author Lily King and Grove Atlantic Vice President and Editorial Director
Elisabeth Schmitz

Poet and MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient
Claudia Rankine

Longtime New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
John McPhee

This Is the  Place contributors and editor
Sonya Chung, Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, and Kelly McMasters

Literary translators
Giovanna Calvino, Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee

Poet and spoken word/performance artist
Tara Betts

Essayist, memoirist, poet and novelist Phillip Lopate

Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Jhumpa Lahiri

Hofstra professors: poet Miguel-Angel Zapata & novelist Álvaro Enrigue

Poet, essayist, and Pushcart Prize recipient
Lia Purpura

Whiting Writers Award and Pushcart Prize-winning poet
A. Van Jordan

Bestselling author and staff writer for The New Yorker
Susan Orlean

Whiting Writers’ Award and PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award-winning poet
Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Author, short story writer, and Pulitzer Prize finalist
Karen Russell

Hofstra professor, novelist, and biographer
Julia Markus

Novelist and National Book Award finalist
Emily St. John Mandel

Poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist
Laurie Sheck

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-winning playwright
Amy Herzog

New York Times best-selling memoirist and novelist 
Dani Shapiro

Former poet laureate of Maryland
Michael Collier

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
Jeffrey K. Eugenides

Kirkus Outstanding Debut Book Award winner
Belinda McKeon

Author and New Yorker staff writer
D.T. Max

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Quiara Alegría Hudes

Poet and children's book author
Elizabeth Spires

Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner
Philip Levine

Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Jennifer Egan

National Book Critics' Circle Award-winner
Anne Fadiman

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Annie Baker

Hofstra professor and award-winning poet
Phillis Levin

Mark Strand

Colum McCann

Vivian Gornick

Erik Brogger

Marilyn Nelson

John Edgar Wideman

Gerald Stern

Alice McDermott

Tom Sleigh

David Lindsay-Abaire

Tomaž Šalamun

Stephen Dunn

Thomas Lynch

Amy Hempel

Martha McPhee

Christopher Durang

Patricia Hampl

Frank Bidart

Craig Lucas

Mona Simpson

Rosanna Warren

Ann Beattie

Molly Peacock

Deborah Eisenberg

Paul Muldoon

Sarah Ruhl

Eavan Boland

Antonio Cisneros

Kiran Desai

Edmund White

Jonathan Letham

Lynn Nottage