River City Writers' Series Past Speakers

1977-1978
Eudora Welty, Margaret Walker Alexander, Robert Bly, Lawrence Raab

1978-1979
Gwendolyn Brooks, Peter Taylor, Gary Snyder, Al Young

1979-1980
William Harrison, Philip Levine, Ishmael Reed, Dianne Wakoski

1980-1981
Robert Bly, Richard Hugo, Maxine Kumin, Sonia Sanchez

1981-1982
Carlos Fuentes, Adrienne Rich, David Wagoner

1982-1983
Howard Nemerov, Ernest Gaines, Carolyn Forche, Tillie Olson

1983-1984
Marge Piercy, Linda Pastan, Dudley Randall, James Dickey, Shelby Foote, Barry Hannah

1984-1985
Alice Adams, Galway Kinnell

1985-1986
Nancy Willard, Joy Williams, Rust Hills, William Stafford, Padgett Powell, Robert Mezey

1986-1987
W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Ford, Shelby Foote, Mark Strand

1987-1988
Barry Hannah, Marvin Bell, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ellen Gilchrist, Charles Johnson, Luisa Valenzuela, Heather McHugh, Thea Astley, Peter Taylor

1988-1989
Donald Justice, Tobias Wolff, Mona Van Duyn, Thomas Keneally, Michael Harper, James Tate, Ellen Bryant Voigt, James Welch

1989-1990
Pattiann Rogers, Toni Cade Bambara, Charles Baxter, Seamus Heaney, Richard Russo, Joan Silber, Marvin Bell, Alice Quinn, Daniel Halpern, Stanley Lindberg, Ishmael Reed, Michael Waters

1990-1991
John Updike, W.S. Merwin, Frederick Busch, Ellen Douglas, Rosellen Brown, Jorie Graham, Stanley Plumley, Deborah Digges

1991-1992
Larry McMurtry, Charles Wright, Madison Smart Bell, Elizabeth Spires, Arthur Flowers, Margaret Skinner, Cynthia Macdonald, Josephine Humphreys, David Leavitt

1992-1993
Czeslaw Milosz, Harry Crews, Lucille Clifton, Carolyn See, Charles Simic, Barry Hannah

1993-1994
Peter Carey, Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai), Michael Palmer, Susan Minot

1994-1995
Nancy Willard, Nathaniel Mackey, Stuart Dybek, James Conaway, Eavan Boland, John Bensko, Margaret Skinner

1995-1996
Heather McHugh, Ishmael Reed, Kamau Brathwaite, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Mary Gaitskill, Edward Hoagland

1996-1997
Lewis Nordan, Li-Young Lee, Ellen Gilchrist, Eve Shelnutt, Stephen Dobyns, Safiya Henderson-Holmes

1997-1998
Marvin Bell, George Garrett, Richard Bausch, Randall Kenan, Kim Addonizio

1998-1999
Janet Burroway, Allen Wier, Dorothy Allison, Junot Diaz, Dorianne Laux

1999-2000
Tina Barr, Derek Walcott, Cary Holladay, Allison Joseph, Michael Waters, Richard Ford, Fred D=Aguiar, Bernie Mackinnon

2000-2001
John Bensko, Randall Kenan, Pam Durban, Joelle Fraser, Thomas Glave, Terrance Hayes, Patti Kim, James Kimbrell, Mia Leonin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Collier, Carol Frost, Laurence Lieberman, Ed Ochester, Tony Earley, Charles Wright

2001-2002
Mary Leader, Shara McCallum, Marjorie Agosin, David Galef, Susan Orlean, Steve Stern, Claude Wilkinson

2002-2003
Rodney Jones, Margaret Skinner, James McKinley

2003-2004
Richard Jackson, Robert Olen Butler, Elizabeth Dewberry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Steve Yarbrough, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Dara Wier

2004-2005
Frederick Busch, John Dufresne, Robert Morgan+, Antonya Nelson, Stephen Dunn, Tom Williams, Mark Yakich

2005-2006
Mark Jarman, Kaylie Jones, Jill McCorkle+, Ann Beattie, Dave Smith, Allen Wier, Naomi Shihab Nye

2006-2007
Mark Doty, Robert Stone+, Linda Gregerson, Richard Lyons & Tina Barr, Alan Shapiro, Josephine Humphreys, Thomas Mallon

2007-2008
Joyce Maynard, Charles Baxter, Percival Everett, C.K. Williams

2008-2009
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Trevor Corson, James McBride, Eric Schlosser, Elizabeth Strout, James Brasfield

2009-2010
Wyatt Prunty*, *Allen Wier*, Elizabeth Spencer*

2010-2011
Terry Hummer, Beth Ann Fennelly & Tom Franklin, Allan Gurganus*, Dorothy Allison*, Albert Goldbarth, Madison Smartt Bell*

2011-2012
Richard Tillinghast, Bobbie Ann Mason*, Randall Kenan*, Sonja Livingston, Roy Blount, Jr*

2012-2013
Mary Leader, Lee K. Abbott, Lee Smith**

2013-2014
Pam Durban, Dan Chaon, Hampton Sides**

2014-2015
Steve Schottenfeld, JoAnn Beard, Liz Robbins

2015-2016
Nickole Brown, Derrick Harriell

+ Cosponsored by a donation from UM alumna Deborah Talbot.
* In partnership with the Fellowship of Southern Writers
** In partnership with MOCH Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities.
Note: Pam Durban's visit supported in part by a grant from SouthArts c/o the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sponsored by the Department of English, the Creative Writing Club, Student Event Allocation, and The Hohenberg Foundation.