Past Residents
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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Christian Campbell, Poet
Christian Campbell is a writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage and the author of Running the Dusk. He studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received a PhD at Duke. His work has been published widely in journals and anthologies in the Caribbean, the UK, the US and Canada. An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto,…
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A.J. Verdelle, Writer
A.J. Verdelle‘s debut novel, The Good Negress, won five national prizes—including from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the American Library Association, and finalist prizes at The Los Angeles Times, the IMPAC/Dublin Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Her essays on subjects ranging from slavery to art to motherhood have been published widely. |
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Kristin Naca, Poet
Kristin Naca is a long-time member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop in San Antonio, Texas. Her collection of poetry, Bird Eating Bird, was selected for the National Poetry Series mtvU Prize and appears with Harper Perennial. Bird Eating Bird was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Prize and Lambda Literary Award. She has received fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts…
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Deniz Perin, Poet, Translator
Deniz Perin‘s poetry has appeared in Pacific Review, Atlanta Review, Golden Handcuffs, and other publications. Her translation of Turkish poet Ece Temelkuran’s Book of the Edge was published by BOA Editions, as part of the Lannan Translations Selection Series. Other translations have been published in the anthologies The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry and Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from…
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Ben Lerner, Poet, Writer
Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry: The Lichtenberg Figures (Copper Canyon, 2004), Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon, 2006), and Mean Free Path (Copper Canyon, 2010). Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of…
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