Charlene Choi

Novelist, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection, and The Unsettled, inaugural winner of McSweeney's Gabe Hudson Prize.

Poet Laureate of Texas; author of Burn Lake, a National Poetry Series winner, along with Instant Winner and The Life.

Guggenheim Fellow, author of unalone and Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going, winner of the Devil's Kitchen and Goldie Awards; founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.

Author of Scale and Previously Owned, longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award; fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee, and Bread Loaf.

Author of Martyr!, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, and the collections Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf; Guggenheim Fellow.

Author of Scorched Earth, a National Book Award finalist, and I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

MacArthur Fellow; author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and a Whiting Award, and the novels On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and The Emperor of Gladness.

Seventh Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine; author of Refused a Second Date, a Maine Literary Award finalist, and recipient of the Maine Humanities Council's Constance Carlson Public Humanities Prize.

Winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize for We Are the Young Magicians and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award for Renaissance; author of the children's books Curls and Glow.

Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner; author of Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems and Leaving Saturn, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

Author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award.

24th Poet Laureate of the United States; author of The Carrying, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bright Dead Things, a National Book Award nominee.

MacArthur Fellow; author of Lighthead, winner of the National Book Award, and American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, winner of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry.

Poet and translator, author of Debts & Lessons and And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight; co-editor of Canarium Books.

Author of Bonfire Opera, winner of the Northern California Book Award, and The Moons of August, winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize; recipient of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award.

Author of Upend, longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award; a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award. Now goes by Claire Hong.

Author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award.

Poet Laureate of Texas; author of Burn Lake, a National Poetry Series winner, along with Instant Winner and The Life.

Winner of a Whiting Award and the Rome Prize in Literature; author of The Dug-Up Gun Museum, Rapture & the Big Bam, and Vellum; director of Smith College's Boutelle-Day Poetry Center.

Sixth National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and the first from Indiana; a Harvard graduate and recipient of the Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize for poetry.

Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner; author of The Sobbing School, a National Poetry Series selection, and The Study of Human Life, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize.

Winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Hard Love Province; author of Sage and Rhapsody in Plain Yellow.

Winner of the National Book Award for Floaters and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize; author of Jailbreak of Sparrows and Imagine the Angels of Bread, an American Book Award winner.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Tradition; author of Please, an American Book Award winner, and The New Testament, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

Novelist; The Far Field won the JCB Prize for Literature and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.

Author of 85 books, including Heather Has Two Mommies and October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, a Stonewall Honor Book; former Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA.

The first undergraduate to win Yale's Theron Rockwell Field Prize, for Donde el plomo flota; author of Central America in My Heart / Centroamérica en el corazón.

Guggenheim Fellow, author of unalone and Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going, winner of the Devil's Kitchen and Goldie Awards; founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.

MacArthur Fellow; author of There's Always This Year, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and A Little Devil in America, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal.

Poet Laureate of Vermont; author of What Is Otherwise Infinite, winner of the Vermont Book Award, and co-founder of the Ruth Stone House.

Author of Scorched Earth, a National Book Award finalist, and I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize for It Is Daylight; author of Star Lake.

Author of Deluge, winner of the Levis Reading Prize and the Luschei Prize for African Poetry, and Wildness Before Something Sublime.

Recipient of the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award; author of the verse memoir Mama Phife Represents and Arrival, a Paterson Poetry Award finalist; founder of the Calypso Muse series.

Author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award.