Writer-in-Residence
Based on our long-standing Poet-in-Residence program, the Writer-in-Residence program brings an eminent writer of fiction or literary nonfiction to campus for an extended visit each academic year. The Writer-in-Residence presents a public reading, engages in a Q&A session, and meets individually with select students.
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The Writer-in-Residence is arranged by invitation only; the Stadler Center does not accept applications for this position.
2023-24 Writer-in-Residence
Akil Kumarasamy
Photo by: Vidhya Manivannan
Akil Kumarasamy is the author of the novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea (FSG, 2022), and the linked story collection, Half Gods, (FSG, 2018), which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, American Short Fiction, BOMB, among others. She has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program.
Former Writers-in-Residence
- 2022-23 Asali Solomon
- 2021-22 Garth Greenwell
- 2020-21 Angie Cruz
- 2019-20 Robert Boswell
- 2018-19 Vu Tran
- 2017-18 Sarah Manyika