FALL

Adrienne Rich (poet)
Stephen Kuusisto (teaching a short course), Jim Crenner, and David Weiss (poets)
Francisco Aragon (poet)
Montserrat Fontes (fiction)
Matt Brennan (poet)

SPRING

Russell Leong (fiction)
Quincy Troupe (poet)
Suji Ganeshananthan (fiction)

Note: for detailed information on the current year's visiting writers, including reading times and links to additional information, see the Current Readings page.

2007-08

FALL

Rick Wirick (nonfiction, poet)
Kevin Kopelson (nonfiction)
Marvin Bell (poet)
Peter Cole (translationist)
Judith Tannenbaum (nonfiction, poet)
Tessa Rumsey (poet) -- taught a short course
Amy Scattergood (poet, nonfiction)

SPRING

Josh Elder (nonfiction)
Paget Powell (fiction)
F. D. Reeve (poet)
Steve Andrews (nonfiction) -- Grinnell Faculty
and Harley McIlrath (fiction) -- Grinnell Staff
Ana Castillo (poet, fiction, essayist)
Steven Kuusisto (nonfiction) and Kenny Fries (nonfiction, poetry)--taught a non-fiction short course

2006-07

FALL

Elizabeth Graver (novelist)
Brian Strause (novelist) -- Grinnell Class of 1990
Francine Prose (novelist, essayist)
Terri Witek (poet)
Page Coulter (poet)
Eugene Gloria (poet)
Molly Peacock (poet)

SPRING

David Campbell (nonfiction) -- Grinnell faculty
Geri Doran (poet)
Stephen Kuusisto (nonfiction)
Marvin Bell (poet) -- taught a short course
Lan Samantha Chang (fiction)
John Edgar Wideman (fiction)
Ralph Savarese (nonfiction) -- Grinnell faculty

2005-06

FALL

Kevin Brockmeier (novelist) -- taught a short course
William Logan (poet, critic)
Margot Livesey (novelist)
Marilyn Chin (poet)

SPRING

Dan O’Brien (nonfiction)
Dominic Smith (novelist)
Joy Castro (nonfiction)
Marilynne Robinson (novelist)
Rebecca Wee (poet)
Willard Spiegelman (nonfiction)
Ed Hirsch (poet) -- Grinnell Class of 1972
Emily Wilson (poet) -- taught a short course

2004-05

FALL

Slimane Benaissa (novelist)
Steven Sidor (novelist) -- Grinnell Class of 1990
Debra Marquart (poet, essayist, fiction writer)

SPRING

James Hynes (novelist) -- taught a short course
Pete Fromm (novelist)
W.S. Merwin (poet)

2003-04

FALL

Taha Muhammad Ali (poet)
Michael Hoffman (poet)
Erick Pankey and Jennifer Atkinson (poets)
Daniel Beachy-Quick (poet)
Elizabeth McCracken (poet)
David Lynn (fiction writer, editor)

SPRING

Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman (poets) -- taught a short course
Margaret McMullan (novelist) -- Class of 1982
Christopher Merrill (poet)
Kevin Brockmeier (fiction)
Judith Mitchell (fiction)
Robert Olen Butler (fiction)

2002-03

FALL

Erika Krouse (novelist) -- Grinnell Class of 1991
Derek Walcott (novelist)
May-Lee Chai (novelist) -- Grinnell Class of 1989
F.D. Reeve (novelist and poet)
Chris Offutt (novelist) -- taught a short course
David Mura (poet) -- Grinnell Class of 1974
Alex Parsons (novelist)

SPRING

Sheryl St. Germaine (poet)
Cole Swensen (poet) -- taught a short course
David Heath (journalist) -- Grinnell Class of 1981
Kevin Brockmeier (novelist)
Ellen Bryant Voigt (poet)