Past Residencies
2023 Writer-in-Residence
Ann Pancake
2022 Writer-in-Residence
Barbara Kingsolver
2021 Writer-in-Residence
Marie Manilla
2020 Writer-in-Residence
Dorothy Allison
2019 Writer-in-Residence
Crystal Wilkinson
2018 Writer-in-Residence
Karen Spears Zacharias
2017 Writer-in-Residence
Wiley Cash
2016 Writer-in-Residence
Charles Frazier
2015 Writer-in-Residence
Nikki Giovanni
2014 Writer-in-Residence
Homer Hickam
2013 Writer-in-Residence
Frank X Walker
2012 Writer-in-Residence
Gretchen Moran Laskas
2011 Writer-in-Residence
Ron Rash
2010 Writer-in-Residence
Bobbie Ann Mason
2009 Writer-in-Residence
Silas House
2008 Writer-in-Residence
Adriana Trigiani
2007 Writer-in-Residence
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2006 Writer-in-Residence
Terry Kay
2005 Writer-in-Residence
Jayne Anne Phillips
2004 Writer-in-Residence
Fred Chappell
2003 Writer-in-Residence
Robert Morgan
2002 Writer-in-Residence
Denise Giardina
2001 Writer-in-Residence
George Ella Lyon
2000 Writer-in-Residence
Marilou Awiakta
1999 Writer-in-Residence
Sharon McCrumb