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 a one-week visit each academic year. The Writer-in-Residence presents a public reading, a Q&A session, a craft workshop 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.
2024-25 Writer-in-Residence
V. V. Ganeshananthan
V.V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications.
A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and is presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. The National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the American Academy in Berlin have awarded her fellowships. She has served as visiting faculty at the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan and at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota, where she is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor of English. She co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.
Former Writers-in-Residence
- 2024-25 V.V. Ganeshananthan
- 2023-24 Akil Kumarasamy
- 2022-23 Asali Solomon
- 2021-22 Garth Greenwell
- 2020-21 Angie Cruz
- 2019-20 Robert Boswell
- 2018-19 Vu Tran
- 2017-18 Sarah Manyika