Previous Writers-in-Residence

Frank B. Hanes Writers-in-Residence

• 2023 – Monique Truong
• 2022 – Lorrie Moore
• 2021 – The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and North Carolina poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green
• 2020 – Nikky Finney
• 2019 – Tayari Jones
• 2018 – Julia Alvarez
• 2017 – Ted Conover
• 2016 – Natasha Trethewey

Distinguished Writers-in-Residence

• 2015 – Terry Tempest Williams
• 2014 – Stewart O’Nan
• 2013 – Mary Karr

Morgan Writers-in-Residence

• 2012 – Athol Fugard
• 2011 – Amy Hempel
• 2010 – Edward P. Jones
• 2009 – Mark Strand
• 2008 – Alice McDermott
• 2007 – Tim O’Brien
• 2006 – Joan Didion
• 2005 – Robert Hass
• 2004 – Alice Walker (with Center for the Study of the American South)
• 2003 – Calvin Trillin
• 2002 – Tobias Wolff
• 2001 – John Edgar Wideman
• 2000 – Russell Banks
• 1999 – Richard Wilbur
• 1998 – Robert Pinsky / Rita Dove
• 1997 – Richard Ford
• 1996 – Beth Henley
• 1995 – Annie Dillard
• 1993 – (fall) Shelby Foote