Haben Girma
Lea Vigi2020-09-11T12:11:55-04:00Haben Girma is an American disability rights advocate, and the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School.…
John Grisham
Lea Vigi2020-09-11T10:59:51-04:00John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American novelist, attorney, politician, and activist, best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide.…
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Lea Vigi2020-04-30T16:47:16-04:00Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California…
Gene Luen Yang
Lea Vigi2020-04-30T16:45:43-04:00Gene Luen Yang is an American cartoonist. He is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of graphic novels and comics, at comic book conventions and universities, schools, and libraries. In addition, he was the Director of Information Services and taught computer science at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California.…
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Lea Vigi2020-04-30T16:44:22-04:00Fatima Farheen Mirza was born in 1991 in California. Her parents are of Indian descent; her mother is from Birmingham, her father from Hyderabad. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. A Place for Us is her first novel.…
Tracy K. Smith
Lea Vigi2020-04-02T12:01:36-04:00Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars.…
Billy Collins
Lea Vigi2020-04-02T11:58:02-04:00William James “Billy” Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida.…
Adrian Matejka
Lea Vigi2020-04-02T11:55:37-04:00Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
He is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) which won the New York / New England Award and Mixology (Penguin, 2009), a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. …