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Chloé Caldwell
Chloé is the author of the national bestseller, Women, which The Atlantic called a “frenetic cult classic.” About her new memoir, Trying, The Washington Post wrote “Caldwell shows readers how to endure catastrophe with aplomb; there can be no better recommendation for literature.” She is also the author of the books I’ll Tell You In Person, The Red Zone, and Legs Get Led Astray.
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The Afterlife of ArtPeter Cameron
Peter is the author of seven novels and three collections of stories. His short fiction and poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Mademoiselle, Rolling Stone, Grand Street, The New Republic, and The Yale Review. He has taught at Columbia, Oberlin, Yale, Sarah Lawrence, and The New School. Photo by Orson Santos.
The Afterlife of ArtNadia Conners
Nadia is a writer and director whose most recent film, The Uninvited, is a Hollywood satire starring Walton Goggins, Pedro Pascal, Elizabeth Reaser, Rufus Sewell, and Lois Smith. The film premiered at SXSW and is now being adapted for the stage in the U.K. She previously co-directed and co-wrote the acclaimed environmental documentary The 11th Hour with Leila Conners and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Michael Dumanis
Born in Moscow to Jewish parents of mixed Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian descent, he immigrated to the United States at the age of five. His second book of poems, Creature, was published by Four Way Books in 2023, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His first, My Soviet Union, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry. He is also coeditor, with poet Cate Marvin, of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. With Kevin Prufer, he coedited the volume Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master. He is a member of the Literature Faculty at Bennington College, where he runs the Poetry at Bennington reading series and serves as Editor of Bennington Review.
"I Too Dislike It." Why Poetry Endures
Temim is the author of City of Laughter, a 2024 New York Times Editors’ Pick. A queer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer, she holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn.
Queering the Queer MemoirTemim Fruchter
Monica Ferrell
"I Too Dislike It." Why Poetry EnduresMonica is the author of four books of fiction and poetry, including The Future and the collection You Darling Thing, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and Believer Book Award in Poetry. Her novel The Answer Is Always Yes was named one of Booklist's Top Ten Debut Novels of the Year. Her first collection of poems, Beasts for the Chase, was a finalist for the Asian American Writers Workshop Prize in Poetry and won the Sarabande Books Kathryn A. Morton Prize. She has been recognized with residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. She has taught fiction and poetry for the MFA Programs at Columbia University and Bennington College and is Professor of Creative Writing at Purchase College (SUNY). She was born in Delhi, India, and divides her time between Vermont and New York.
Eliot Glazer
Eliot is a comedian, actor, podcaster, musician, and writer for beloved TV shows including New Girl,Younger, and Broad City, on which he played "Eliot" in his most challenging role to date. He lives in Los Angeles. Published by Gallery Books, his first book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay comes out on August 11.
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Lulu Grey
Lulu is an 11-year-old singer-songwriter, born and raised in upstate New York. With a profound passion for music from a young age, Lulu has dedicated years to refining their craft, drawing inspiration from various genres and personal experiences.
In September 2025, Grey released their debut album, “Dreamin’ Grey,” featuring seven original compositions. They also premiered a music video for their single “Look At Us Now.”
In their burgeoning career, they have already performed at the esteemed Caffe Lena, Art on Lark and on the main stage at the 2025 and 2026 Pride Festival in Washington Park, in front of thousands of spectators.
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Amitava is the author of the novels My Beloved Life and Immigrant, Montana, as well as several other books of nonfiction and fiction. In 2016, Kumar was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (General Nonfiction) as well as a Ford Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists. He lives in Poughkeepsie, where he is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College.
The Unreliable PastAmitava Kumar
Henry Hoke
Henry is an editor at The Offing and the author of five books. His most recent novel Open Throat—a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction—was adapted for the stage at Little Island in New York City. The First Girl in Hell, a western, is coming in 2027 from FSG and Granta.
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Richard Mirabella
Richard is a writer and civil servant living in Upstate New York. His stories have appeared in Story Magazine, American Short Fiction, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. He's the author of the novel Brother & Sister Enter the Forest, a New York Times Editors' Choice and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction.
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Emily Nemens
Lulu is an 11-year-old singer-songwriter, born and raised in upstate New York. With a profound passion for music from a young age, Lulu has dedicated years to refining their craft, drawing inspiration from various genres and personal experiences.
In September 2025, Grey released their debut album, “Dreamin’ Grey,” featuring seven original compositions. They also premiered a music video for their single “Look At Us Now.”
In their burgeoning career, they have already performed at the esteemed Caffe Lena, Art on Lark and on the main stage at the 2025 and 2026 Pride Festival in Washington Park, in front of thousands of spectators.
Live Performance on the Bank Lawn
Sigrid is the author of nine novels, including The Vulnerables, What Are You Going Through, and The Friend, which was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and made into a 2025 feature film of the same name.
The Afterlife of ArtSigrid Nunez
Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro is an Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-nominated stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and podcaster. Known for her observational comedy and deadpan delivery, she was named one of the "50 best stand-up comics of all time” by Rolling Stone.
An Evening With Tig Notaro
Francine is the author of twenty-three works of fiction including the highly acclaimed Five Weeks in the Country; The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised 1974: A Personal History, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. Prose is the recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
The Unreliable PastFrancine Prose
Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne is the author of six novels. Night Watch was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. Her work has been a finalist once for the National Book Award and twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Ben’s most recent book, The History of Sound was the recipient of the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His film adaptation of the title story premiered at the 2025 Cannes film festival. His first book, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau , was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a New England Bestseller, and was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a recipient of the PEN Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Pushcart Prize. He spends time between Brooklyn and coastal Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793.
The Afterlife of ArtBen Shattuck
Hughs an award-winning historian, and the author of the recent memoir My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond, as well as When Brooklyn Was Queer and The Women's House of Detention. He holds an MFA from Bennington College, where he also teaches, and is a Lead Historian at the new American LGBTQ+ Museum.
Queering the Queer MemoirHugh Ryan
Bianca is a Vermont-based poet and scholar currently serving as Vermont’s poet laureate. Stone is the author of the poetry collections, What is Otherwise Infinite, winner of the 2022 Vermont Book Award; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows, and The Near and Distant World. She collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Carson’s Sophocles translation, Antigonick, as well as illustrated a children’s book A Little Called Pauline, using a Gertrude Stein poem. Her poetry and writings have appeared widely in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poets and Writers, The Nation and the Best American Poetry series. In 2013 she co-founded the poetry-based nonprofit, Ruth Stone House, with her partner the poet, Ben Pease, in honor her grandmother, the late poet, Ruth Stone, Ruth Stone House, where she organizes events and retreats, teaches classes on poetry and poetic study, hosts the Ode & Psyche Podcast and is editor-at-large for the poetry magazine, ITERANT.
"I Too Dislike It." Why Poetry EnduresBianca Stone
Lauren Weedman
Lauren Weedman is an award-winning performance artist, playwright, author, teacher, and host. She was nominated for a 2026 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Mayor Jo Pezzimenti on Hacks.
An Evening With Tig Notaro
Mark is the author of the forthcoming book, Matey, from Graywolf Press and four books of poems, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness, published by Graywolf in 2021. His other books include The Earth Avails, which received the Rilke Prize, Voluntary Servitude, and The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Amy Lowell Trust, and he has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow and held two fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he now serves as Chair of the Writing Committee. His poems, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, and his poems are widely anthologized. Since 2003, he has taught writing and literature at Bennington College, where he became the Director of the Writing Seminars in 2017. He is now the Executive Director. He holds a BA in German Literature and English from the University of Wisconsin, and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University School of the Arts.
"I Too Dislike It." Why Poetry Endures