Meet Our Writers

Meet our visiting authors for an inviting two-day event
with readings and master classes!

Marianne Chan

Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of  “All Heathens” (Sarabande Books, 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry, the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in ”Poetry,” “New England Review,” “Kenyon Review,” “Michigan Quarterly Review,” and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati. 

Clancy McGilligan

Clancy McGilligan is the author of the novellaHistory of an Executioner,” winner of the Miami University Novella Prize and a Shirley Jackson Award finalist. His writing has appeared in “Cimarron Review,” “Columbia Journal,” “Sycamore Review,” “Kenyon Review,” the “Ploughshares” blog, “USA Today,” “The Christian Science Monitor,” and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University and has worked as a journalist in the U.S. and abroad. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He’s online at clancymcgilligan.com. 

Past Festival Writers

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1991

Mark Strand
Judith Hemschmeyer

March 30
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1992

Billy Collins
W.P. Kinsella

March 30
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1993

Robin Hemley
Henry Taylor

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1994

Lucien Stryk
Sapphire

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1995

William Hathaway
Michael Martone

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1996

William Heyen
Jonis Agee

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2004

Tom Montag
Paul Zimmer

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2005

Beth Ann Fennelly
Larry Watson

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2006

Marilyn Taylor
Sebastian Matthews

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2007

Philip Dacey
Margaret Dawe

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2008

Tom Franklin
Linda Aschbrenner

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2009

David Lehman
Stacey Harwood

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2010

Michael Kriesel
Shannon Kring Buset

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2011

Joyce Dyer
Hailey Leithauser

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2012

Matthew Henriksen
Dawn Hogue
Jean Kuehnel
Jodie Liedke

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2013

Nick Lantz
Allyson Goldin Loomis

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2014

David Jauss
Karla Huston

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2015

A.E. Stallings
Nickolas Butler

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2016

Joe Wilkins
David Steingass

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2017

Kevin McFadden
Emily Ruskovich

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2018

Barton Sutter
Christian Wiman

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2019

Kathleen Heideman
Paul Hostovsky

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2021

Ryan Ireland
Cathryn Cofell

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2022

Anna Harris-Parker
Tony Woodlief

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2023

Marianne Chan
Clancy McGilligan

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