The Writing Seminars

Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds (W. W. Norton) and Arctic Revival, winner of the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems appear in the Atlantic,Kenyon Review, Yale Review, and Paris Review. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she lives in Los Angeles, where she is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Taylor […]

Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, and is co-founder of The Poetry Archive and Poetry by Heart. His most recent publications are New and Selected Poems 1977-2022, The Penguin Book of Elegy (co-edited with Stephen Regan) and Waders. He is Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins, and lives in Baltimore. Declan Ryan is a […]

Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the critically acclaimed debut story collection If I Survive You (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the 2023 Booker Prize. His next book is the forthcoming novel Play Stone Kill Bird. Escoffery is the winner of The Paris Review’s 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and is the recipient of a 2020 National Endowment for […]

Christopher Childers is a poet and translator living in Baltimore, MD. He has published poems, essays and translations in The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Matters, and Smartish Pace, among others. He is the recipient of several awards, including an NEA Translators' Fellowship and the Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace, and has […]

Hari Kunzru is the author of seven novels, including Blue Ruin, forthcoming from Knopf on May 14, 2024. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the “Easy Chair” column for Harper’s Magazine. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been […]