Writers in Residence
Pulitzer Prize winners and National Book Award winners, MacArthur Fellows, a Poet Laureate, and best-selling authors—all have taught in the Center for the Writing Arts. The Center is proud of its tradition of providing Northwestern University's talented undergraduate students access to some of the most highly acclaimed novelists, poets and journalists of our day. These writers provide our students with an opportunity to work closely with successful practitioners of the writer's art.
Current and Upcoming Writers in Residence
Winter Quarter 2014 - Alex Kotlowitz, Visiting Writer in Residence. He'll teach Writing 303, The Art on Nonfiction:Telling Stories
Spring Quarter 2015 -Maaza Mengiste, Visiting Writer in Residence, teaching Writing 301, The Art of Fiction.
Past Writers in Residence
- Chris Abani
- Sefi Atta
- Ann Beattie
- Rosellen Brown
- Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Peter Ho Davies
- W.S. Di Piero
- Stuart Dybek
- Jules Feiffer
- Richard Ford
- Arthur Golden
- Larry Heinemann
- William Jeanes
- Landon Y. Jones
- Ward Just
- Tracy Kidder
- Alex Kotlowitz
- Zakes Mda
- Mary Anne Mohanraj
- Sara Paretsky
- Carl Phillips
- Robert Pinsky
- Richard Powers
- Ed Roberson
- Alexander Stille
- Jane Taylor
- Mark Turcotte
- Scott Turow
- Eleanor Wilner