Previous Authors

2011-2012:

Wes Moore
Natasha Trethewey
Edward P. Jones
Isaac Anderson
Judy Goldman
Sandra Cisneros
Lynne Cherry
Alexander McCall Smith

2010-2011:

John Feinstein
Cathy Smith Bowers
Joan McBreen
Rhett Iseman Trull
A. J. Jacobs
Luis Alberto Urrea
John Granger
W. S. Merwin
Amina McIntyre
Kevin Young
David Baldacci
Deborah Wiles

2009-2010:

Richard Rodriguez
Marisha Pessl
Tess Gallagher
Paula Meehan
Jeannette Walls
Paula Vogel
Mitchell Gold
Abigail DeWitt
Julia Alvarez

THE SPIRIT OF BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE:

Ted Pope
Lee Ann Brown
Lisa Jarnot
Thomas Meyer
Jeff Davis
Michael Rumaker
Thomas Rain Crowe

2008-2009:

Galway Kinnell
Anna Quindlen
Jonathan Kozol
Terry McMillan
Julie Fay
Geraldine Brooks
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
James McBride
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
Karen Joy Fowler
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
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 Briscoe, 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 Ngoc 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
Robert 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 & 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 Brown Bragg, Guilford C.
Betty Adcock, Meredith C.
Richard Murphy, Dublin

1989-1990

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

1988

Paul Muldoon, Princeton U.