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

Fall Quarter 2008 - Sefi Atta, Visiting Writer in Residence. She'll teach Writing 301, The Art of Fiction.

Winter Quarter 2009 - Alex Kotlowitz, Visiting Writer in Residence. He'll teach Writing 303, The Art on Nonfiction:Telling Stories

Past Writers in Residence

• Ann Beattie
• Rosellen Brown
• 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
• Mary Anne Mohanraj
• Sara Paretsky
• Carl Phillips
• Robert Pinsky
• Richard Powers
• Ed Roberson
• Alexander Stille
• Scott Turow
• Eleanor Wilner