Visiting Writers & Editors

Every academic year three Distinguished Visiting Writers spend a semester at Saint Mary's teaching workshop. We also invite three editors or agents to stay for two-day visits and meet one-on-one with students interested in publishing.

Writers-in-Residence

2015-2016

Rachel Howard (creative nonfiction)
Cristina Garcia (fiction)
Sarah Manguso (creative nonfiction)
Geoffrey G. O'Brien (poetry) ;
Porter Shreve (fiction)

Editors and Agents

2015-2016

Anna Moschovakis (poetry), Ugly Duckling
Chelsea Lindman (creative nonfiction), Agent, Greenburger Associates
Karolina Waclawiak (fiction), The Believer

 
 
2014-2015

Cristina Garcia (creative nonfiction)
Cedar Sigo (poetry)
Mary Volmer (fiction)
2014-2015

Aviya Kushner (creative nonfiction)
Carmen Gimenez Smith (poetry)
Caitlin Roper (fiction)
2013-2014

Norma Cole (poetry)
Joshua Mohr (fiction)
Kaya Oakes (creative nonfiction)
2013-2014

Laura Cogan (fiction)
David Groff (creative nonfiction)
Lynn Xu (poetry)
 
2012-2013

Kazim Ali (poetry)
Lou Berney (fiction)
Susan Griffin (creative nonfiction)
2012-2013

Lisa Alvarez (fiction)
Brett Fletcher Lauer (poetry)
Linda Spalding (creative nonfiction)
2011-2012

Samina Ali (creative nonfiction)
Shane Book (poetry)
Judith Claire Mitchell (fiction)
2011-2012

Amy Rennert (fiction)
Judith Taylor (poetry)
Ryan Van Meter (creative nonfiction)
2010-2011

Elizabeth Stark (fiction)
Josh Braff (fiction)
Kathryn Ma (fiction)
Dora Malech (poetry)
David Lau (poetry)
Peter Trachtenburg (nonfiction)
Alex Green (nonfiction)
2010-2011

Jordan Bass (fiction: McSweeney’s)
Steven Church (creative nonfiction: The Normal School)
John Gallaher (poetry: The Laurel Review)
2009-2010

Glen David Gold (fiction)
Bruce Snider (poetry)
Jane Vandenburgh (nonfiction)
2009-2010

Alison Biggar (San Francisco Chronicle Magazine)
Andrew Tonkovich (Santa Monica Review) 
Rebecca Wolff (Fence Magazine and Fence Books)
2008-2009

Rusty Morrison (poetry)
Katharine Noel (fiction)
Eric Puchner (fiction)
Leslie Carol Roberts (nonfiction)
2008-2009

Kazim Ali (Nightboat Books)
Brenda Miller (Bellingham Review)
Lee Montgomery (Tin House Books )
2007-2008

Sandra Lim (poetry)
Jane Miller (poetry)
Sue Miller (fiction)
Russ Rymer (nonfiction)
2007-2008

Ben Lerner (NO: A Journal of the Arts)
Emma Sweeney (Emma Sweeney Agency)
Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell (Tin House)
2006-2007

Tom Barbash (nonfiction)
Cristina Garcia (fiction)
Michael Palmer (poetry)
2006-2007

Charis Conn (Harper's)
Joyelle McSweeney (Action Books)
Ann Patty (Harcourt)
2005-2006

Norma Cole (poetry)
Julie Orringer (fiction)
Michelle Richmond (fiction)
Linda Spalding (nonfiction)
John Daniel  (nonfiction)