Every year visiting writers and translators read student manuscripts, offer editorial advice, and present public readings. This is a partial list of recent guests:

SABINA MURRAY (fall 2006) is the author of the novel Slow Burn and a former Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Ontario Review, New England Review, and other magazines. She also wrote the screenplay for the movie Beautiful Country. She teaches at U. Mass-Amherst.

A.E. STALLINGS (fall 2006) is the author of two poetry collections, Archaic Smile (U. of Evansville) and Hapax (Northwester/TriQuarterly 2006), and the translator of Lucretius's De rerum natura (Penguin Classics). Her awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry, and the James Dickey Prize from Five Points.

WILLIAM GAY (spring 2006) is the author of three novels (The Long Home, Twilight, Provinces of Night) and a story collection (I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down). Esquire called him "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit."

THOMAS LYNCH (spring 2006) is an essayist, poet and funeral director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. His collections of poems include "Still Life in Milford" (Norton 1998), "Grimalkin" (Cape 1994), and "Skating with Heather Grace" (Knopf 1986).

ETHAN CANIN (fall 2005) is the author of The Palace Thief, a short story collection whose title story was made into the film The Emperor's Club; Emperor of the Air, a short story collection; and Blue River and For Kings And Planets, both novels. Canin is also a physician and is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

PATTIANN ROGERS (fall 2005) has published eleven books of poetry, including Generations (Penguin 2004) and Firekeeper: New and Selected Poems (1994), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She has been the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Poetry Fellowship.

THOM SATTERLEE (fall 2005) is the author of one volume of poetry, Burning Wyclif (Texas Tech 2006), and the translator of another, Henrik Nordbrandt's The Hangman's Lament (Green Integer 2003). His poetry has appeared in Image, Southwest Review, The Southern Review, and on Poetry Daily. He teaches at Taylor University.

MAURICE MANNING (spring 2005) is the author of Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions (2001), which received the Yale Younger Poets Award, selected by W.S. Merwin, and A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman (Harcourt 2004).

JEAN THOMPSON (spring 2005) is the author of four novels, Wide Blue Yonder, The Woman Driver, My Wisdom, and City Boy, and three short story collections, Little Face and Other Stories, The Gasoline Wars, and Who Do You Love, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book.

FRANZ WRIGHT (spring 2004) received the Pulitzer Prize for Walking to Martha's Vineyard. His most recent works include Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems and an expanded edition of translations entitled The Unknown Rilke. He has been the recipient of two NEA grants, a Whiting Fellowship, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, among other honors.

KHALED MATTAWA (spring 2003) was born in Libya and came to the US in his teens. He is the author of Zodiac of Echoes and Ismailia Eclipse, and the translator of three volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Hodder Fellowship, an NEA translation grant, and other awards.

COLUM McCANN (spring 2003) was born in Dublin in 1965. His books include Fishing the Sloe Black River, Song Dogs, This Side of Brightness, Everything In This Country Must, and Dancer. His awards include a Hennessey Award in 1990, and The Rooney Prize. He lives in New York.

GERALD STERN (spring 2003) is the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award, the Lamont Prize, a Guggenheim, three NEA awards, a fellowship from The Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He is the author of What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life.