• Lee Smith '67, novelist and Shannon Ravenel '60, Smith's editor at Algonquin Books. Their visit was in celebration of Smith’s latest novel, The Last Girls.
• Wayne Johnston, novelist and spring 2002 Writer-in-Residence; author of The Divine Ryans and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams.
• Matthew Klam M.A. ’92, author of Sam the Cat and Other Stories. Named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best young fiction writers in America, his work, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared widely in all the best places, and one of his stories won an O. Henry Award.
• Natasha Trethewey M.A.'91, author of Domestic Work, winner of the prestigious Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first collection of poems by an African-American poet.
• Paul Zimmer, poet and spring 2001 Writer-iin-Residence; author of many volumes of poetry, including Big Blue Train, The Great Bird of Love, and Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems.
• Madison Smartt Bell M.A. '81, author of 10 novels, including All Souls Rising, a 1995 finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Bell's 10th novel is Master of the Crossroads.
• David Huddle M.A. '69. Among his books of short fiction are Intimates, Only the Little Bone, and the short novel Tenorman. His most recent novel, The Story of a Million Years, has been greeted with wide critical acclaim.
• Ethel Morgan Smith M.A. ’90, professor of English at West Virginia University and author of From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community of Hollins College.

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