Prose writers Lelia Aboulela, John Barth, Joy Castro, Dan Chaon, Emily Danforth, Amber Dermont, Siobhan Fallon, Nurrudin Farah, Mary Gordon, Lauren Groff, Philip Gourevitch, Cynthia Hand, Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), Amy Hempel, Daisy Hernandez, Mary Karr, Dan Kennedy, Roy Kesey, Dylan Landis, James Magruder, Rahul Mehta, James McBride, Colum McCann, Ander Monson, Maggie Nelson, Lia Purpura, Irina Reyn, Jim Shepard, Jane Smiley, Anna Solomon, Anthony Swofford, Hannah Tinti, Justin Torres.

Poets Sandra Beasley, Nicky Beer, Elana Bell, Charles Bernstein, Jericho Brown, Cathy Linh Che, Eduardo Corral, Dick Davis, Mark Doty, Denise Duhamel, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Rhina Espaillat, Tarfia Faizullah, Carolyn Forché, Matthea Harvey, Yona Harvey, Terrance Hayes, Harvey Hix, TJ Jarrett, Saeed Jones, Meg Kearney, Ted Kooser, Deborah Landau, Shara Lessley, Dora Malech, Hugh Martin, Jamaal May, Idra Novey, Benjamin Paloff, Claudia Rankine, Mira Rosenthal, Mary Jo Salter, Jason Schneiderman, Patricia Smith, Ryan Teitman, Natasha Trethewey.