Nonfiction (MFAW): Related Content

Shawna Kay Rodenberg is the author of the memoir Kin. She has been the recipient of a Jean Ritchie Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, and her essays have appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, and Elle. 

Sven Birkerts is author of The Gutenberg Elegies. His many books and essays examine the fraught interrelationship between reading culture and electronic culture.

Garrard Conley is the author of the memoir Boy Erased (Riverhead/Penguin, 2016), a New York Times bestseller adapted into a major motion picture, and the novel All the World Beside (Riverhead/Penguin, 2024).

Dinah Lenney is the author or editor of five books of nonfiction, most recently Coffee, for Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. She has written for many publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she is an editor-at-large.

Lance Richardson is the author of two internationally acclaimed books, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (2025), which was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row (2018), which is being adapted for television by a major studio. He is the recipient of several other awards and fellowships, including a year-long residency at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, most recently Proxies. A collection of essays—part cultural close reading, part dicey autobiography—Proxies was awarded a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction, and was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Memoir and the PEN USA Literary Award in Nonfiction.

Paul Lisicky is the author of seven books including Song So Wild and Blue, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, The Narrow Door, and Unbuilt Projects.

Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart and the essay collection, Abandon Me, which The New Yorker called “mesmerizing,” and was an Indie Next Pick and named a Best Book of 2017 by Esquire, Book Riot, The Cut, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Bustle, Refinery29, Salon, and The Rumpus. Her second essay collection is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2019.

Eula Biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had. Her book On Immunity was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review.  She is on leave for the current term.

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the poetry collections Tsim Tsum and The Babies, the story collection Wild Milk, and the essay collection Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales.