Chris Cander, novelist
Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, Poet Laureate of Houston
Ches Smith, novelist
Leslie Contreras Schwartz, poet
Ayokunle Falomo, poet
Jason E. Carmichael, actor and playwright
Cameron Dezen Hammon, essayist and memoirist
Daniel Peña, novelist
Nick Flynn, poet and memoirist
The Village Works, co-working and writing