During the visit of each Fellow, a reading will take place on Monday at 6:30 PM. On Tuesday at
10 AM the Writers House will host a brunch followed by a one-hour interview/conversation;
attendance for both programs is by rsvp only (rsvp to
whfellow@writing.upenn.edu).
Both programs will be broadcast live worldwide on KWH-TV
and both of the Monday and Tuesday programs will generally be available as a link from this page a week or so after the events.
The coordinator of the Writers House Fellows program is Sophia DuRose.
Click on the images below for the biographies of the past fellows, as well as links to archived
webcasts of their visits.
Jamaica Kincaid February 26-27, 2024 |
Harryette Mullen April 1-2, 2024 |
Maggie Nelson April 29-30, 2024 |
Joan Retallack Feb 20-21, 2023 |
Wayne Koestenbaum April 24-25, 2023 |
Jason Reynolds March 27-28, 2023 |
Amitav Ghosh February 21-22, 2022 |
Caroline Bergvall March 28-29, 2022 |
Doug Glanville April 25-26, 2022 |
Erica Hunt February 22-23, 2021 |
Hilton Als March 29-30, 2021 |
Gabrielle Hamilton April 26-27, 2021 |
Saidiya Hartman February 17-18, 2020 |
Erín Moure March 30, 2020 |
Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris April 27-28, 2020 |
John Keene February 11-12, 2019 |
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge March 25-26, 2019 |
Rosanne Cash April 22-23, 2019 |
Paul Auster February 14-15, 2018 |
Bernadette Mayer March 26-27, 2018 |
Charles M. Blow April 23-24, 2018 |
Lydia Davis April 24-25, 2017 |
Nathaniel Mackey March 20-21, 2017 |
Maria Bamford February 6-7, 2017 |
Matthew Weiner April 25-26, 2016 |
Eileen Myles March 21-22, 2016 |
Samuel Delany February 15-16, 2016 |
Anne Waldman February 16-17, 2015 |
Dorothy Allison March 23-24, 2015 |
Jessica Hagedorn April 27-28, 2015 |
Buzz Bissinger February 17-18, 2014 |
T.C. Boyle March 31-April 1, 2014 |
Rae Armantrout April 28-29, 2014 |
John Ashbery February 11-12, 2013 |
Janet Malcolm March 18-19, 2013 |
Rodrigo García April 22-23, 2013 |
Karen Finley February 13-14, 2012 |
Ron Silliman March 19-20, 2012 |
John Barth April 23-24, 2012 |
Susan Cheever February 14-15, 2011 |
Edward Albee March 21-22, 2011 |
Marjorie Perloff April 25-26, 2011 |
Joyce Carol Oates February 15-16, 2010 |
Susan Howe March 22-23, 2010 |
David Milch April 26-27, 2010 |
Robert Coover February 23-24, 2009 |
Joan Didion March 30-31, 2009 |
Mary Gordon April 27-28, 2009 |
Art Spiegelman February 18-19, 2008 |
Lynne Sharon Schwartz March 24-25, 2008 |
Jerome Rothenberg April 28-29, 2008 |
John McPhee February 12-13, 2007 |
Jamaica Kincaid March 19-20, 2007 |
Donald Hall April 16-17, 2007 |
Richard Ford February 13-14, 2006 |
Cynthia Ozick March 20-21, 2006 |
Ian Frazier April 17-18, 2006 |
Roger Angell February 28-March 1, 2005 |
E.L. Doctorow March 21-22, 2005 |
Adrienne Rich April 18-19, 2005 |
Russell Banks February 16-17, 2004 |
Lyn Hejinian February 21-22, 2005 |
James Alan McPherson April 19-20, 2004 |
Walter Bernstein March 17-18, 2003 |
Laurie Anderson March 24-25, 2003 |
Susan Sontag April 21-22, 2003 |
Michael Cunningham February 11-12, 2002 |
John Ashbery March 25-26, 2002 |
Charles Fuller April 15-16, 2002 |
Tony Kushner February 12-13, 2001 |
David Sedaris March 5-6, 2001 |
June Jordan April 23-24, 2001 |
Grace Paley February 14-15, 2000 |
Robert Creeley April 10-11, 2000 |
John Edgar Wideman April 24-25, 2000 |
Gay Talese February 3, 1999 |