Previous Authors

 2008-2009:

• Galway Kinnell
• Anna Quindlen
• Jonathan Kozol
• Terry McMillan
• Julie Fay
• Bruce Lansky

2007-2008:

• Thomas Rain Crowe
• Duchess of Abercorn
• Walter Isaacson
• Frank McCourt
• Tracy Kidder
• Mark Powell
• Jane Smiley
• Jon Scieszka  

2006-2007

• James Bradley
• John Updike
• Anthony S. Abbott, Davidson College -- Visiting Writer in Residence
• Nikkey Finney, U. Kentucky
• Gary Snyder, U. California, Davis
• Christopher Paul Curtis

2005-2006

• le thi diem thuy, Smith College
• Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated, NPR
• Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton U.
• Kelly Link, Northhampton MA
• Naomi Shihab Nye, San Antonio, TX
• Tim O'Brien, Southwest Texas State U.

2004-2005

• Ron Whitehead, U. of Louisville
• Anne Fadiman, Yale U.
• Jonathan Lethem, New York
• Thomas Lynch, Milford, Michigan
• Sharon Olds, NYU
• Bob Inman, Charlotte, NC
• Alice Walker, Northern California
• Adrian Rice, Lenoir-Rhyne College
• Dale Bailey, Lenoir-Rhyne College

2003-2004

• Billy collins, Lehman College, NYC
• Joan McBreen, Sligo, Ireland
• Kathy Reichs, UNC-Charlotte and Quebec, Canda
• Richard Ford, New Orleans, LA and Montana
• Michael Knight, U. Tennessee-Knoxville
• Samuel R. Delany, Temple U. 
• Martin Espanda, U. Off Massachusetts-Amherst

2002-2003

• Coleman Barks, U. of Georgia
• Seamus Heaney, Harvard U.
• Bill Bryson, New Hampshire
• Marilyn Nelson, U. of Connecticut
• Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Howard U.
• Mary Hood, Georgia 
• Saleem Peeradina, India, Wake Forest U.

2001-2002

• Richard Chess, UNC-Asheville
• Robert Conley, Tahlequah, OK
• Nicolae Dabija, Moldova
• Bret Lott, C. of Charleston
• Josephine Humphreys, Charleston, SC
• John Stone, M.D., Emory U., Alanta GA 
• Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• R.T. Smith, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
• Kyle Gann, Bard College, Annadal-on-Hudson, NY
• Leroy Quintana, El Cajon, California

2000-2001

• Carolyn Kizer, San Francisco, CA -- Pulitzer Prize Winner
• Ernest Suarez, Catholic U., Washington, D.C.
• Pat Conroy, SC
• Eavan Boland, Stanford U.
• Joe Connelly, NYC
• Afaa M. Weaver, Simmons College, Boston
• Ron Rash, Clemson, SC
• Michael Strickland, New Jersey City U.
• Lucinda Roy, Virginia Tech
• Benjamin Alire Saenz, U. of Texas, El Paso

  1999-2000

• Yusef Komunyakaa, Princeton U.
• Linda Beatrice Brown, N. Carolina
• Vandorn Hinnant, N. Carolina
• Donald Hall, New Hampshire
• Adrian Rice, Northern Ireland
• Nathalie Anderson, Swarthmore College
• Jill Jones, N. Carolina
• Robert Morgan, Cornell U.
• Sue Ellen Bridgers, N. Carolina
• Luis Rodriguez, Chicago, IL
• Orson Scott Card, N. Carolina
• Joseph Bathanti, N. Carolina
• Leslie Marmon Silko, Tuscon, AZ
• Connie Brisco, Maryland

1998-1999

• Lee Smith, N. Carolina
• Lee Eric Shackleford, Alabama
• Lewis Nordan, Pennsylvania
• E. Ethelbert Miller, Howard U.
• Jan Karon, Blowing Rock, NC
• Jorge Velasco Mackenzie, Equador
• Jade Ngox Quang Huynh, Appalachian State U.
• Shelby Foote, Mississippi
• John Shelton Reed, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Kathryn Stripling-Byer

1997-1998

• Jill McCorkle, Boston, MA
• Billy Collins, NYC
• Paul Muldoon, Princeton U.
• Dori Sanders, S. Carolina
• Bob Inman, Charlotte, NC
• Saleem Peeradina, Siena Heights C.
• Ernest J. Gaines, Louisianna
• J. California Cooper, San Francisco, CA
• Todd McEwen, New York

1996-1997

• Michael Longley, Belfast, N. Ireland
• Clyde Edgerton, N. Carolina
• Wilma Dykeman, N. Carolina
• Eleanora E. Tate, N. Carolina
• Terry Gifford, England
• Ron Whitehead, U. of Louisville
• Peter Fallon, Ireland
• James Welch, Missoula, MT
• Nigel Jenkins, Wales
• Menna Elfyn, Wales
• Iwan Llwyd, Wales

1995-1996

• Steven Yount, N. Carolina
• Kathryn Stripling-Byer, Western Carolina U.
• Julie Kate Howard, CCC&TI
• Betty Adcock, Meredith C.
• Kate Gibbons, N. Carolina
• Mark and Gail Mathabane, South Africa
• Todd McEwen, New York
• Marie Heaney. Ireland
• Ruthanne Lum McCunn, California

1994-1995

• Ellen Gilchrist, Arkansas
• Scott Owens, Charlotte, NC
• Bret Lott, C. of Charleston
• Kate Daniels, Wake Forest U.
• Dannye Romine Powell, N. Carolina
• Ciaran Carson, Belfast, N. Ireland
• R.S. Gwynn, Lamar U. Beaumont, Texas
• Terry Gifford, Bretton Hall C. Sheffield, England
• Billy Collins, City U. of NY-NYC

1993-1994

• Reynolds Price, Duke U.
• James Applewhite, Duke U.
• Deborah Pope, Duke U.
• Susan Ludvigson, Winthrop U.
• Linda Lightsey Rice, U.T. Knoxville
• Donald Davis, N. Carolina

1992-1993

• Lee Smith, NC State U.
• Gerald Barrax, NC State U.
• Chuck Sullivan, N. Carolina
• Fiona Cheong, Howard U.
• Fred Chappell, UNC-Greensboro
• Linda Lightsey Rice, U.T. Knoxville
• John Montague, Ireland

1991-1992

• Michael Yeats, Ireland
• Declan Kiberd, University C., Dublin
• Dori Sanders, SC
• Sarah Gilbert, Columbia, S. Carolina
• Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Ireland
• Nola Richardson, Tennessee
• Betty Adcock, Meredith C.
• Seamus Heaney, Harvard U.

1990-1991

• Derek Mahon, New York U.
• Helen Vendler, Harvard U.
• Eamon Grennan, Vassar C.
• David Bottoms, Georgia State U.
• Olga Broumas, Boston C.
• Charles Simic, U. of New Hampshire
• Donald Seacrest, U. of Iowa
• Linda Lightsey Rice, U.T. Knoxville
• Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Trinity College, Dublin
• John Skoyles, Warren Wilson C.
• Linda Bragg-Brown, Guilford C.
• Betty Adcock, Meredith C.
• Richard Murphy, Dublin

1989-1990

• Paul Muldoon, Princeton U.
• Robert Hedin, Wake Forest U.
• Nathalie Anderson, Swarthmore C.
• Michael Waters, Sweet Briar C.
• Jennifer Jordan, Howard U.