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 »

Yusef Komunyakaa

Visiting Poet, Winter 2022

Dionne Irving

Visiting Writer, MFA in Writing

Victor LaValle

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2017

Clifford Thompson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF][hybrid]

Laura Warrell

Faculty, Novel Retreat; Visiting Alumnx Fiction Writer, Winter 2023

Mary Cappello

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2017