Previous Literary Arts Festival Writers

2015
Novelist and short story writer Dinaw Mengestu

2014
Poet Cornelius Eady

2013
Katie Dellamaggiore, Pobo Efekoro

2012
Novelist and short story writer Junot Diaz

2011
Novelist Sapphire

2010
Poet Willie Perdomo

2009
Novelist and short story writer Colson Whitehead