Past Residents
Heather Rogers, Writer
Heather Rogers is a journalist and author. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and The Nation. Her first book, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, traces the history and politics of household rubbish in the United States. The book received the Editor’s Choice distinction from The New York Times Book Review, and Non-Fiction Choice…
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Eleni Sikelianos, Poet
Eleni Sikelianos has published six collections of poetry including Body Clock (2008), The California Poem (2004), and The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls, winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series, as well as a memoir, The Book of Jon (2004). Her numerous honors and awards include an NEA Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative…
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Daniel Alarcón, Writer
Daniel Alarcón is the author of the story collection War by Candlelight, a finalist for the 2005 PEN-Hemingway Award, and Lost City Radio, named a Best Novel of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, among others, and winner of the 2009 International Literature Prize given by the House of World Culture in Berlin. He is Associate…
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Philipp Meyer, Writer
Philipp Meyer is the author of the novel American Rust, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009. In 2010, The New Yorker named him one of the 20 best writers under 40. He grew up in Baltimore, dropped out of high school, and got his GED when he was sixteen.…
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Timothy P. McLaughlin, Poet
Timothy P. McLaughlin is a teacher and poet. He is the founding director of the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) Spoken Word Program, featured in The New York Times, PBS News Hour, and the HBO series about teen poetry, Brave New Voices. Timothy produced a poetry CD with the Spoken Word Team entitled Moccasins and Microphones: Modern Native Storytelling, which…
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Fady Joudah, Poet, Translator
Fady Joudah‘s first poetry collection, The Earth in the Attic, was a Yale Series recipient in 2007, chosen by Louise Glück. His second book, Alight, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. Joudah’s translations from the Arabic of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry have earned him a Banipal prize from the UK and a PEN prize, for The Butterfly’s Burden and If I…
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Rick Moody, Writer
Rick Moody is one of the most acclaimed American novelists of his generation. His first novel, Garden State (1992), won the Pushcart Press Editor’s Choice Award. Two years later, he published The Ice Storm, which became an award-winning film directed by Ang Lee. His most recent novels are The Four Fingers of Death, The Diviners, Purple America, and Right Livelihoods…
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Michael McGriff, Poet, Translator
Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. His books include Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (Truman State University Press, 2010), and a co-translation (with Mikaela Grassl) of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer Books, 2010). His next collection of poems,…
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Mark McMorris, Poet
Mark McMorris was born in Jamaica and attended Excelsior School. Since 1979, he has lived and worked in the United States. He has published on American and Caribbean poetry, and is the author of Entrepôt (2010), The Café at Light (2004), The Blaze of the Poui (2003), a finalist for the Lenore-Marshall Prize, and other poetry titles. In 1996, working…
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Harryette Mullen, Poet
Harryette Mullen‘s poetry collection, Recyclopedia (Graywolf 2006), won a PEN Beyond Margins Award in 2007. Her previous book, Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California, 2002), was a finalist for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2004 she received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and in 2005…
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