The Creative Writing Program is pleased to bring authors to campus to read for faculty, students, and the surrounding community. Check our calendar for upcoming events, and watch UO Today interviews with our past visiting writers.

2024-2025

• Thea Matthews
• Jason Brown
• Peter Vertacnik
• Karen Thompson Walker
• Henri Cole
• Tania James

2023-2024

• Matthew Dickman
• Dan O’Brien
• Claire Luchette
• Morgan Thomas
• Maurice Ruffin
• Mark Jarman
• Aaron Baker

2022-23

• Mat Johnson
• Betsy Bonner
• Alycia Pirmohamed
• Jayme Ringleb
• Thomas Beller
• Kate Daniels
• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

2021-22

• Chad Abushanab
• Sameer Pandya
• Nathan Harris
• Julia Dasbach
• Paisley Rekdal

2020-21

• Juliana Gray
• Jason Brown
• Tina Mozelle Braziel
• Michelle Penaloza
• Kimberly King Parsons
• Major Jackson
• Jamel Brinkley

2019-2020

• Geri Doran
• Mat Johnson
• David Mura
• Derek Palacio

2018-19

• Cai Emmons
• Matt Rader
• Erin Hoover
• Karen Walker
• Juliana Gray
• Justin Torres
• Michael Collier

2017 – 2018

• Michael Copperman
• Mia Alvar
• Andre Dubus III
• Robin Coste Lewis
• Matt Donovan
• Mary Jo Salter

2016 – 2017

• Solmaz Sharif
• Sara Jaffe
• C. Dale Young
• Ocean Vuong
• Rick Barot
• Chinelo Okparanta

2015 – 2016

• Marjorie Celona
• Kirsten Valdez Quade
• Karen Thompson Walker
• Lisa Coutley
• Elizabeth McCracken
• Edward Hirsch

2014 – 2015

• Katy Didden
• Amanda Coplin
• Sara Eliza Johnson
• Jeffrey Schultz
• Sidney Wade
• Karen Russel

2013 – 2014

• Natalie Serber
• Robert Pinsky
• Gina Ochsner
• Danny Anderson
• Anthony Doerr
• Kathleen Graber

2012 – 2013

• Susan Straight
• Mary Szybist
• Terry Hummer
• Linda Gregerson
• Keith Scribner

2011 – 2012

• Michelle Latiolais
• Charles Wright
• Geri Doran
• Andrew Hudgins
• Randall Kenan

Click here for an extended list.