Our Recent Residents
2024 Residents
Nonfiction/Memoir:
Char "Cici" Adams
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Geetha Balakrishnan
Christina Berke
Jaymie Campbell
Kit Carlson
Elena Dudum
Kristina Gaddy
Yasmin Halima
Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho
Alexandra Manglis
Kyana Moghadam
Lilly Nguyen
Mary Pan
Slandie "Blu" Prinston
Kunaka Pearl Ratunil
Marian Schembari
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Allie Spikes
Gina Srmabekian
JM Wong
Kayte Young
Fiction:
Parisa Akhbari
Victoria Bañales
Pritha Bhattacharyya
Jennifer Cody Epstein
Carolyn Holthoff
Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Amina Kayani
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Joy Lanzendorfer
Su-Yee Lin
Becky Mandelbaum
Frances de Pontes Peebles
Lindsay Quintanilla
Amanda Rizkalla
Jennifer Rosner
Joanne Sills
Jeneé Skinner
Vauhini Vara
Rose Wong
Playwriting:
Alexa Derman
AriDy Nox
Christina Pumariega
Mabelle Reynoso
**Katie Ka Vang
**Wendy Weckworth
Poetry:
Gauri Awasthi
Oliver Brickman
Ana Portnoy Brimmer
Lauren Camp
Patty Crane
jessamyn duckwall
*Edil A Hassan
Esther Lin
Mariama Lockington
Catalina Ocampo Londoño
Penda Mbaye
Na Mee
Deborah Ann Miranda
Michaela RedCherries
Shelley Wong
TV Writing/Screenwriting:
Elaine Hsieh Chou
Elisa Durrette
Jasmine Jones
Gigi Lee
Monica Cecilia Lucas
**Greta L Oglesby
Tamara Shogaolu
Sara Tardiff
2025 Residents
Nonfiction:
Kayla Blau
*Caroline Catlin
Melissa Febos
Danielle Amir Jackson
Pamela E Johnston
Jordan Kisner
Sonali Kolhatkar
Zefyr Lisowski
Leslie Nguyen-Okwu
Valerie Salley
Caroline Chung Simpson
Dana Walrath
Fiction:
Nic Anstett
***Diamond Braxton
F.E. Choe
Kelsey Ford
Kathleen Gibbons
Scarlet Gomez
Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam
Violet Kupersmith
Siqi Liu
Mimi Lok
Shivani Manghnani
Chido Muchemwa
Emma Needell
Janika Oza
Eman Quotah
Sanjena Sathian
Kaile Shilling
S.M. Sukardi
Rachael Warecki
Amanda Wenger
**Kao Kalia Yang
Poetry:
Jade Cho
Lan Duong
Chloe Martinez
Brittany E Rogers
Lisa Shen
Playwriting:
**Gethsemane A Herron-Coward
Other:
**Raven Johnson
* Indicates our Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellows
**Indicates our McKnight Fellows
*** Indicates our Carol Shields Fellows
2023 Residents
Nonfiction/Memoir:
Gabby Cohen
Chenxing Han
Keeonna Harris
Judy Bolton-Fasman
Elizabeth Owuor
Leila Nadir
Angelique Stevens
Rima Rantisi
Stephanie Krzywonos
Fiction:
Sophie Wereley
Colwill Brown
Charlene Allen
Catherine Carberry
*Lisa Lee
**Abbey Mei Otis
Laura Maria Censabella
Wandeka Gayle
Gloria Munoz
Kenzie Allen
May-Lee Yang
Tiffany Melanson
Jennifer Buentello
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Madhu Kaza
Ciara Alfaro
Carlina Duan
Isha Karki
Joumana Altallal
Tian Zheng
Jori Lewis
Emi Macuaga
Ebony Haight
Jerilynn Aquino
Alisha Espinosa
Robin Farmer
Melarissa (Mela) Sjarief
Adjenai Worrell
Monique Ferrell
Leila Mottley
Playwriting:
Gursimrat Kaur
**Saymoukda D Vongsay
Nkenna Akunna
Jessica Fechtor
Hope Price-Lindsay
Seayoung Yim
Olga El
Poetry:
Ashaki Jackson
Jade Yeung
Itiola Jones
Yvette Siegert
Kanika Agrawal
Julia McDaniel
Angela Penaredondo
TV Writing/Screenwriting:
Ayn Carrillo-Gailey
Anika Kan Grevstad
Courtney Young
Kate Tsang
Francine Daniels
Songwriting:
Nikki Bonsol
Sruti Sarathy