Core Faculty (in-person)
Guest Speakers
Writers- and Poets-in-Residence (in-person)
There will be additional guest lectures by writers, editors, and historians in Nairobi and Lamu, which we will be announcing to participants.
Past Faculty
Past faculty members of ILS’s parent program, SLS, include U.S. Poet Laureates, and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and MacArthur Foundation Genius Award. Such luminaries include:
Aimee Bender
Christian Bok
Amy Bloom
George Elliot Clarke
Billy Collins
Robert Coover
Robert Creeley
Toi Derricotte
Stephen Dobyns
Cornelius Eady
Dave Eggers
Stephen Elliot
Tibor Fisher
Mary Gaitskill
Vivian Gornick
Saskia Hamilton
Robert Hass
Steven Heighton
Brenda Hillman
Edward Hirsch
Tony Hoagland
Fanny Howe
Denis Johnson
Wayne Johnston
Laia Jufresa
Joe Kertes
Sam Lipsyte
Phillip Lopate
Glyn Maxwell
William Meredith
Erin Moure
Eileen Myles
Padgett Powell
Francine Prose
Claudia Rankine
Dawn Raffel
George Saunders
Lynne Shareon Schwartz
Rebecca Seiferle
Gary Shteyngart
Johanna Skibsrud
Christopher Sorrentino
Anthony Swofford
Lynne Tillman
William T. Vollman
Binyavanga Wainaina
Mac Wellman
C. K. Williams
Lawrence Wright