Profile

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times-bestselling author of Wench (2010), Balm (2015), and Take My Hand (April 2022). Wench was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction.  In 2013, Dolen wrote the introduction to a special edition of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave, published by Simon & Schuster, which became a New York Times bestseller. Dolen is the current Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is Associate Professor in the Literature Department at American University in Washington, DC. dolenperkinsvaldez.com »

Alexander Chee

Visiting Writer, Winter 2018

Brendan Constantine

Distinguished Visiting Alumnx in Poetry

Kiese Laymon

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2020

Wendy S. Walters

Visiting CNF Writer, Winter 2022

Sydney Lea

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

Victor LaValle

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2017