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