Past Residents
Adrian Matejka, Poet
Adrian Matejka‘s first collections of poems, The Devil’s Garden, won the 2002 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. Mixology was subsequently nominated for an NAACP Image Award. His other awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and…
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Writer
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and educated at Jomo Kenyatta University and the University of Reading. She received the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story, “Weight of Whispers,” described by the BBC as a “subtle and suggestive work of fiction that dramatises the condition of refugees.” She has worked as a screenwriter and…
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Kevin Young, Poet
Kevin Young is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebellion (Knopf, 2011). His Jelly Roll: A Blues, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. He is the editor of five volumes, including 2010’s The Art of…
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Allison Hedge Coke, Poet, Writer
Allison Hedge Coke is a poet, memoirist, anthologist, fiction and scriptwriter whose authored books include the poetry collections Dog Road Woman, which received the American Book Award, and Off-Season City Pipe from Coffee House Press; Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer, a memoir from the University of Nebraska Press; and Blood Run, a verse-play from Salt Publications. Hedge Coke has edited eight…
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Liliana Segura, Writer
Liliana Segura is an independent journalist and editor with a focus on social justice, prisons and harsh sentencing. A graduate of Barnard College, she has written for The Nation, AlterNet, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. Her article, “‘Justifiable Homicides’ Are on the Rise: Have Self-Defense Laws Gone Too Far?” was published in The Best American Legal Writing 2009, edited…
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Gary Kamiya, Writer
Gary Kamiya was a co-founder of the online magazine Salon.com and its longtime executive editor where he wrote about politics, literature, the Middle East, sports, music, art, race, travel, and film, among other subjects. He has written for The New York Times Book Review, Sports Illustrated, Artforum and many other magazines. His first book, Shadow Knights: The Secret War…
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Robin Robertson, Poet
Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. His fourth collection of poetry, The Wrecking Light, was published in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Costa, the Eliot and the Forward Prize. His translation of Medea was recently staged at the Dublin Fringe Festival and dramatised by RTÉ. He has received a number of accolades, including the E.M.…
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Sherwin Bitsui, Poet
Sherwin Bitsui is originally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. He is Diné of the Todich’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl’‘zilani (Many Goats Clan). His first collection of poems was Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press 2003) and his second, Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press 2009), for which he received a 2010 PEN Open Book Award and…
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Robin Romm, Writer
Robin Romm is the author of two books. Her memoir, The Mercy Papers, was named a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, and Top 100 Nonfiction Book by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her collection of stories, The Mother Garden, was a finalist for the PEN…
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Deborah Eisenberg, Writer
Deborah Eisenberg is the author of five collections of short stories, All Around Atlantis, The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg, Under the 82nd Airborne, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, and the most recent, Twilight of the Super Heroes: Stories. Eisenberg is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a…
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