Visiting Authors: 2020-present
Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series
2023 Robert Jones, Jr.: Novelist and essayist
New York Times bestselling author, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, NAIBA Book of the Year Award,
National Book Award finalist
Major Works: Son of Baldwin, The Prophets
2022 Brit Bennett: Novelist and essayist
New York Times bestselling author, Hopwood Award, Hurston/Wright Award
Major works: The Mothers, The Vanishing Half
2020-21 Roxane Gay: Writer of memoir and fiction, essayist, editor, and anthologist
Pen Center USA Freedom to Write Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Eisner Award,
two Lambda Literary Awards
Major works: Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Difficult Women, Hunger,
Not that Bad, The Best American Short Stories 2018, The Banks, the Selected Works of Audre Lorde,
Graceful Burdens, The Sacrifice of Darkness​​
