Past Visitors

2010-2011 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
Nicole Cooley | Heather McHugh | Jim Shepard | Brad Watson | Eleanor Wilner

2011 ASU Writers Conference
Tiffany Atkinson | Andrea Barrett | Robert Boswell | Rus Bradburd | Shannon Cain | K.L. Cook | Gretel Ehrlich | Mark Haunschild | Lucy Hawking | Tony Hoagland | Victor LaValle | Naeem Murr | Antonya Nelson | Laura Newbern | Jem Poster | Josh Rathkamp | David Shields | Renee Simms | Connie Voisine | C.Dale Young

2009-2010 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
Charles D'Ambrosio | Rishma Dunlop | Stephen Dobyns | Kimiko Hahn | Bob Hicok | Francine Prose
Harold Schechter | Franz Wright

2008-2009 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
Kunal Basu | Warren Cariou | Chang-Rae Lee | William Pitt Root | Charles Simic | Jane Smiley | Pamela Uschuk | Luis Valdez

2009 ASU Writers Conference
Kazim Ali | Steve Almond | Laurie Brooks | Christopher Burawa | Alison Calder | Warren Cariou | Brock Clarke | Martha Collins | Bernard Cooper | Laura Cruser | Jaime Dempsey | Elin Maria Evangelista | Percival Everett | Carolyn Forché | Rigoberto González | Lee Gutkind | Meridith Hall | Tina Hammerton | Philip Joseph Holden | A. Van Jordan | Tania Katan | Adib Khan | Ross Leckie | William Henry Lewis | Chandani Lokuge | Nancy Mairs | Erin McGraw | Kevin McIlvoy | Dinty W. Moore | Patricia Murphy | Jem Poster | C.E. Poverman | Kevin Prufer | Mary Ruefle | Elizabeth Searle | Alice Sebold | Rebecca Seiferle | Danzy Senna | Peggy Shumaker | Mary Sojourner | Michael A. Stackpole | Natasha Trethewey

2007-2008 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
Ralph Angel | Marvin Bell | MacKenzie Bezos | Forrest Gander | Tony Kushner | Ross Leckie | Aimee Nezhukumatathil | Pamela Painter | Mary Sojourner | C.D. Wright

2008 ASU Writers Conference
Sally Ball | Steve Beisner | Jeff Biggers | Michael Bourret | Jay Boyer | Laurie Brooks | Orson Scott Card | Bernard Cooper | Mark E. Cull | Ann Cummins | Cindy Dach | Jim Daniels | Jaime Dempsey | Denise Duhamel | Beth Ann Fennelly | Carolyn Forché | Kate Gale | Beckian Fritz Goldberg | Lee Gutkind | T.R. Hummer | Bret Anthony Johnson | Tania Katan | Christopher Lane | Susan Lang | Ross Leckie | Kevin McIlvoy | Rick Moody | Dinty W. Moore | Paul Morris | Antonya Nelson | Melissa Pritchard | Guillermo Reyes | Elizabeth Searle | Aurelie Sheehan | Peggy Shumaker | Richard Siken | Mary Sojourner | Michael A. Stackpole | Terese Svoboda | Philip Taylor | Carolyne Wright | C. Dale Young

2006-2007 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
Ben Bova | Michael Chabon | Edith Grossman| Ilya Kaminsky | Zadie Smith | Tom Wayman

2007 ASU Writers Conference
Anjana Appachana | Sally Ball | Steve Beisner | Michael Bourret | Marilyn Bowering | Jay Boyer | Bernard Cooper | Mark Crockett | Carolyn Forché | Diana Gabaldon | Tony Hoagland | Cynthia Hogue | Bob Hoover | T.R. Hummer | Charles Jensen | Tania Katan | Peter Lehman | William Luhr | Kevin McIlvoy | T.M. McNally | James Masao Mitsui | Paul Morris | Walter Mosley | Laurie Notaro | Melinda Palacio | Peter Pereira | Barbara Peters | Claudia Rankine | Guillermo Reyes | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Jim Sallis | Elizabeth Searle | Aaron Shurin | Richard Siken | Mary Sojourner | Michael A. Stackpole | Philip Taylor|
Gail Tsukiyama | Tom Wayman | Betty Webb | George Witte | Paula Woods

2005-2006 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
Russell Banks | Rigoberto Gonzales | Lee Gutkind | Dr. Miriam Haddu | Robert Hampson  | Araceli Herrera | Athena Mandis | Suzan-Lori Parks  | Sonia Sanchez  | Patricia Smith | Ron Smith | Art Spiegelman

2006 ASU Writers Conference
Reagan Arthur | Sally Ball | Daniel Bosch | Jay Boyer | Ron Carlson | Paul Cook | Bernard Cooper | Gerald Costanzo | Jen Currin | Chitra Divakaruni | Carolyn Forché | Forrest Gander | Lee Gutkind | Robert Haas | Cynthia Hogue | Charles Jensen | Hershman John | Tania Katan | William Loizeaux | Marylee MacDonald | Alistair MacLeod | Kevin McIlvoy | T.M. McNally | Paul Morris | G. Lynn Nelson | Sean Nevin | W.H. New | Laurie Notaro | Stephen Pyne | Guillermo Reyes | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Sharman Russell | Tomaz Salamun | Katharine Sands | Jeannine Savard | Elizabeth Searle | Gary Short | Peggy Shumaker | Aaron Shurin | Patricia Smith | Ron Smith | Nat Sobel | Mary Sojourner | Michael A. Stackpole | Indu Sundaresan | Gail Tsukiyama | David L. Ulin | Sarah Vap | Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker

2004-2005 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
Edward Albee | Reagan Arthur | Charles Baxter | E. L. Doctorow | Robert Pinsky | Alexander McCall Smith | Dave Smith | Gail Tsukiyama | Chase Twichell

2005 ASU Writers Conference
Malaika Adero | Jorn Ake | Sally Ball | Lynne Barrett | Chris Becker | Peter Blegvad | Jana Bommersbach | Barbara Bova | Ben Bova | Jay Boyer | A. S. Byatt | Denise Chávez | Tomaz Salamun | Michael Collier | Billy Collins | Paul Cook | Elisabeth Lewis Corley | Ann Cummins | Alison Hawthorne Deming | Robert Eversz | Alan Dean Foster | Mary Gannon | Rigoberto González | Lee Gutkind | Beckian Fritz Goldberg |Goffrey Kloske |Brian Leary | William Loizeaux | Marylee MacDonald | Kevin McIlvoy | T. M. McNally | Kelly McWilliams | Joseph Megel | Tom Miller | David Morley | Paul Morris | Barbara Nelson | G. Lynn Nelson | Sean Nevin | Naomi Shihab Nye | Redell Olsen | Lori Pfeiffer | Melissa Pritchard | D. A. Powell | Guillermo Reyes | Jewell Parke Rhodes | Alberto Ríos | Jeannine Savard | Elizabeth Searle | Tim Seibles | Jim Simmerman | Dave Smith | Mary Sojourner | Michael A. Stackpole | Miles Hood Swarthout | Jon Talton | Margo Tamez | Jean Valentine | Sarah Vowell | Betty Webb | Maximilian Werner | C. D. Wright

2003-2004 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series
Janet Burroway | Billy Collins | Alexs Pate | John Edgar Wideman | C. D. Wright

2004 Piper Center Grand Opening
Amy Tan and E. L. Doctorow

2004 ASU Writers Conference
Chris Abani | Malaika Adero | Jorn Ake | Susan J. Allspaw | Sally Ball | Jana Bommersbach | Ben Bova | Jay Boyer |A. Papatya Bucak | Stephen J. Cannell | Ron Carlson | Jeanne E. Clark | Mary Clyde | Paul Cook | Mark E. Cull | Clive Cussler | Oliver de la Paz | Norman Dubie | Lynn Emanuel | Kate Gale | Beckian Fritz Goldberg | Cynthia Hogue | Valerie Vadala Homer | Charles Jensen | Hershman John | Susan Lang | Kevin McIlvoy | Josie Milliken | Paul Morris | Miguel Murphy | Barbara Nelson | G. Lynn Nelson | John Nichols | Joyce Carol Oates | Paul Perry | Barbara Peters | Melissa Pritchard | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Adrienne Rich | Wendy White Ring | Alberto Ríos | Jeannine Savard | Mary Sojourner | Michael A. Stackpole |Gary Stuart | Margo Tamez | Joyce Carol Thomas | Laura Tohe | Sarah Vap | Betty Webb | Richard Yanez | Lisa Zeidner

2003 ASU Writers Conference
Victor Asaro | Jay Boyer | Ron Carlson | Michael Collier | Paul Cook | Ed Dee | Joanne Dobson | Norman Dubie | Diana Gabaldon | Mary Gannon | Miriam Goderich | Beckian Fritz Goldberg | Marita Golden | Rigoberto González | Denis Johnson | Robert Johnson, Jr. | Tayari Jones | Mary Kenagy | Josh Kendall | Ruth Ellen Kocher | Frances Kuffel | Bret Lott | Amanda Michno | E. Ethelbert Miller | Paul Morris | Barbara Nelson | G. Lynn Nelson | Rick Noguchi | Oliver de la Paz | Joseph Wolveskill Pequeno | Barbara Peters | Melissa Pritchard | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Jon Richard | Thelma Richard | Alberto Ríos | Jeannine Savard | Steve Scafidi | Richard Shelton | Jennifer Spiegel | David St. John | Chase Twichell | Betty Webb

VISITING WRITERS

DISTINGUISHED VISITING WRITERS SERIES