2017-18
Eduardo Corral, poet
Milka Djordjevich, choreographer
Chitra Ganesh, visual artist
Dipika Guha, playwright
Marc Andre Robinson, visual artist
2016-17
NoViolet Bulawayo, fiction writer
Jenny Johnson, poet
Jiehae Park, playwright
Joshua Sanchez, filmmaker
Karen Sherman, choreographer
2015-16
Natalie Diaz, Poet
Beth Gill, Choreographer
Phil Klay, Writer
Matt Saunders, Performance artist/scenic designer
2014-15
Nora Chipaumire, Choreographer
Gabriel Jason Dean, Playwright/screenwriter
Roger Reeves, Poet
Miko Veldkamp, Visual artist
2013-14
Chinonye Chukwu, Filmmaker
Katy E. Didden, Poet
Adam Ross, Writer
Pam Tanowitz, Choreographer
2012-13
James Arthur, Poet
Yasmine El Rashidi, Writer
Melinda Moustakis, Fiction Writer
A. Rey Pamatmat, Playwright
2011-12
Anthony Carelli, Poet
Danai Gurira, Playwright
2010-11
Cynthia Cruz, Poet
ZZ Packer, Fiction Writer
EM Lewis, Playwright
2009-10
Michael Dickman, Poet
Zachary Lazar, Fiction Writer
Jordan Harrison, Playwright
2008-09
Christian Barter, Poet
Tarell Alvin McCraney, Playwright
Whitney Terrell, Fiction Writer
2007-08
Monique Truong, Fiction Writer
Kathleen Graber, Poet
J. Michael Friedman, Composer and Lyricist
2006-07
Gabe Hudson, Fiction Writer
Dan O’Brien, Playwright and Poet
David Orr, Critic/Poetry Reviewer
2005-06
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fiction Writer
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Writer
Will Eno, Playwright
2004-05
Daisy Fried, Poet
Adam Kirsch, Poet
2003-04
Anthony Doerr, Fiction Writer
Sarah Manguso, Poet
2002-03
Andrea Ashworth, Prose Writer
Marlys West, Poet
2001-02
Craig Arnold, Poet
Veronica Chambers, Fiction Writer
2000-01
Karen Hartman, Playwright
Greg Hrbeck, Fiction Writer
1999-2000
Mary Jo Bang, Poet
Lan Samantha Chang, Fiction Writer
1998-99
Sharona Ben-Tov, Poet
Naomi Iizuka, Playwright
1997-98
W. David Hancock, Playwright
1996-97
Susan Power, Novelist
1995-96
Khaled Mattawa, Poet
1994-95
Mark Levine, Poet
1993-94
Doug Wright, Playwright
1992-93
Cristina Garcia, Journalist/Novelist
1991-92
Red Hawk, Poet
1990-91
Joanna Szczesna, Journalist
1989-90
Andrew Hudgins, Poet
1988-89
Jane Shore, Poet
1987-88
Mona Simpson, Novelist
1986-87
Tama Janowitz, Novelist
1985-86
Stephen Wright, Novelist
1984-85
Ewa Kuryluk, Artist
1983-84
Darryl Pinckney, Novelist
1982-83
Angeline Goreau, Biographer/Novelist
1981-82
Judish Hemschemeyer, Poet/Translator
1980-81
Howard Norman, Novelist/Translator
1979-80
Phyllis Janowitz, Poet
1978-79
Richard McKane, Poet/Translator
1977-78
Christine Gordon Owen, Short Story Writer
1975-76
Peter Conrad, Literary Critic
1974-75
Eugene Eoyang, Sinologist
1973-74
William Mullen, Classicist
1972-73
Alessandra Comini, Art Historian
1970-71
James Magnuson, Playwright
1971
George McCulley, Historian
1970
Jay Wright, Poet/Playwright
1969
Paul Oppenheimer, Poet/Writer
1969
John Eaton, Musician/Composer
1968
William S. Pechter, Film Critic
1967
Robert Erwin, Political Scientist
1965
Kenneth Frampton, Architect
1963
Richard Schmitt, Philosopher
1962
Hans Staub, Literary Critic
1961
James H. Billington, Russian Historian
1960
Frederick Olafson, Philosopher
1959
Walter Clemons Jr., Writer
1958
John Arthur Hanson, Classicist
1957
Joseph Kerman, Musicologist
1955
Peter J. Gay, Political Scientist
1954
Richard T. Burgi, Slavicist
1952
Richard W.B. Lewis, Writer
1950
John Berryman, Poet
1948
Joseph C. Sloane, Jr., Art Historian
1946
William Aydelotte, Historian
1944
Richard P. Blackmur, Critic
