Past Residents
David Mills, Poet, Summer 2013
David Mills is a writer and actor who has worked professionally in the dramatic and literary communities for more than a decade. For three years, he lived in Langston Hughes’ landmark home where he was inspired to create a one-person dramatic rendition of Hughes’ poems and short stories. He has two collections of poetry: The Dream Detective, a small-press bestseller,…
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Caryl Phillips, Writer, Spring 2013
Caryl Phillips was born in 1958 in St. Kitts, West Indies, and went with his family to England that same year. He was brought up in Leeds and educated at Oxford. He has written numerous scripts for film, theatre, radio and television. His nonfiction books include The European Tribe that won the 1987 Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, and most…
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Rikki Ducornet, Artist, writer, Spring 2013
Rikki Ducornet is the author of eight novels, three collections of short fiction, a book of essays, and five books of poetry. She has received the Bard College Arts and Letters Award, an Academy Award in Literature, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ducornet is also a visual…
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Activist, Writer, Winter 2013
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a doctoral candidate in the department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is active in local housing struggles in Chicago and is an organizer with the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. She is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and is a frequent contributor on the subject of race and class. Her articles also…
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Ali Abunimah, Writer, Winter 2013
Ali Abunimah is a journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a nonprofit, independent online publication focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago, he is a frequent speaker and commentator on the Middle East, contributing regularly to the Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere. Abunimah is the author of…
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Ed Skoog, Poet, Winter 2013
Ed Skoog is the author of two collection of poems, Mister Skylight (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and Rough Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Narrative, Ploughshares, Tin House, and elsewhere. His work has received awards from the Faulkner Society and the Poetry Society of America. Skoog grew…
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Laurel Reuter, Curator, Winter 2013
Laurel Reuter is the Founding Director and Chief Curator of the North Dakota Museum of Art. Reuter has curated countless exhibitions ranging from “Light and Shadow: Japanese Artists in Space” (1992), to “The Disappeared” (2005), and “Shared Histories” (2010). Publications include Whole Cloth, Marking the Land: Jim Dow in North Dakota, Into the Tussock: Contemporary Icelandic Art, and a collaboration…
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Naeem Murr, Writer, Fall 2012
Naeem Murr‘s first novel, The Boy, was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998, and won a Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of The Genius of the Sea, and The Perfect Man, was awarded The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best Book of Europe and South Asia, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Nude,…
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Mona Simpson, Writer, Fall 2012
Mona Simpson’s recent novel My Hollywood tells the story of Claire and Lola, a new mother and her Filipina nanny, whose lives entwine amidst the glitter of Los Angeles—kept shiny by its immigrant laborers. Discussing her motivation in writing the book she said, “I thought a lot about the question, ‘Can you buy love?’ We all want children raised with…
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Natalie Diaz, Poet, Fall 2012
Natalie Diaz is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community. After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia for several years, she completed her MFA in poetry and fiction at Old Dominion University. She was awarded the Bread…
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