2024-2025 WRITERS IN RESIDENCE
Rozina Ali (September 2024)
ROZINA ALI is a journalist based in New York City who writes about the war on terror, Islamophobia, the Middle East, South Asia, and literature. A contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, she won a 2023 National Magazine Award in Reporting. She’s held fellowships at Type Media Center and New America, and was a Cullman Fellow at New York Public Library for 2022-23.
Timothy Donnelly (October 2024)
TIMOTHY DONNELLY has published four collections of poetry. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, including the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A professor in the writing program at Columbia University, he’s received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation, and New York State’s Writers Institute.
Ersi Sotiropoulos (November 2024)
ERSI SOTIROPOULOS lives in Athens. In Greece she’s won two National Literature Awards, the Book Critics’ Award and the Athens Academy Prize. She’s received the Dante Alighieri Prize for poetry and been shortlisted for the European Book Prize. Her novel, What’s Left of the Night (2015), won the Prix Méditerranée Étranger in France and the ALTA Award in the U.S.
Manan Kapoor (April-May 2025)
MANAN KAPOOR is Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review. His interests range from multiethnic literature of the U.S. to poetry in the 21st century. His debut novel, The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky, was published in 2016. His writing has appeared in The Stockholm Review of Literature, Scroll, The Ghazal Page, Travel-Writing Quarterly, Arré, and Indian Review of Literature.
Joao Tordo (June 2025 )
JOÃO TORDO was born in Lisbon, Portugal. He’s the author of twenty books, divided between novels, detective stories and essays. He won the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2009, with the novel The Three Lives, and the Fernando Namora Literary Prize in 2021, with Felicidade. As a screenplay writer, he participated in the Netflix series Until Life Do Us Part and Turn of the Tide.
Suji Kwock Kim (July 2025)
SUJI KWOCK KIM is a playwright and poet who received the 2003 Walt Whitman award for her debut collection, Notes from the Divided Country. A Yale graduate, she attended Seoul National University as a Fulbright Scholar, and Stanford University as a Stegner Fellow. Her plays have been performed at Pablo Casals Hall in Tokyo and the Art Institute of Chicago.
David Yezzi (August 2025)
DAVID YEZZI is author of Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet’s Life and More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems, and editor of The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets. As an actor, he’s performed King Lear (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory) and Hamlet’s Ghost (Chesapeake Shakespeare). He teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins.
Katie Peterson (September 2025)
KATIE PETERSON is author of six poetry collections, including the forthcoming Fog and Smoke (2024). Her collection, The Accounts, won the 2014 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas. A Piece of Good News was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and Life in a Field won the Omnidawn Open Book Prize. She teaches poetry and creative writing at UC Davis
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Will Dowd (Virtual Fellow 2024-2025)
WILL DOWD is a poet, essayist, and cartoonist, will hold the first Virtual Merrill House Fellowship. Recipient of a Massachusetts Book Award’s “Must Read” prize for his essay collection, Areas of Fog, Dowd is a contributor to the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and NPR. He has a special interest in assistive technology, which he uses to compensate for a visual disorder.
MERRILL FELLOWS / 1995-2024
Peter Hawkins (1995–1996)
Scott Westrem (1996–1997)
Daniel Hall (1997–1998, YYP 1989)
Annie Deppe (1998–1999)
Ted Deppe (1998–1999)
Aidan Wasley (1999–2000)
Michael Madonick (2000–2001)
Brigit Pegeen Kelly (2000–2001, YYP 1987)
Molly McQuade (Fall 2001)
Jeffrey Skinner (Spring 2002)
Sarah Gorham (Spring 2002)
Paul Merrill (Fall 2002)
Matthew Zapruder (Spring 2003)
Michael Tyrell (2003–2004)
J.S. Marcus (2004–2005)
Jason Zuzga (2005–2006)
Michael Snediker (Fall 2006)
Jacob Gamage (Spring 2007)
Anna Potter (Spring 2007)
Rick Hilles (Fall 2007)
Nancy Reisman (Fall 2007)
Langdon Hammer (Spring 2008)
Piotr Gwiazda (Fall 2008)
Ivy Pochoda (Spring 2009)
Cate Marvin (Fall 2009)
Bruce Snider (Spring 2010)
Christina Davis (2010)
Josh Weil (Fall 2010)
Jedediah Berry (Spring 2011)
Will Schutt (Fall 2011, YYP 2012)
Peter Filkins (Spring 2012)
Lydia Conklin (September 2012)
Amy Glynn (October 2012)
Gimbiya Kettering (November 2012)
Sally Ball (December 2012)
James Reidel (Spring 2013)
Dan O'Brien (June 2013)
Caitlin Doyle (September 2013)
Amy Beeder (October 2013)
Mieke Eerkens (November 2013)
Brittany Perham (December 2013-January 2014)
Peter Kline (December 2013-January 2014)
Kelle Groom (Spring 2014)
Eryn Green (June 2014, YYP 2013)
Molly Anders (September 2014)
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán (October 2014)
Anna Noyes (November 2014)
Adam Wilson (November 2014)
Kathleen Winter (December 2014-January 2015)
Damiano Abeni (Spring 2015)
Moira Egan (Spring 2015)
Ansel Elkins (June 2015, YYP 2014)
Kay Ryan (Invited Summer Fellow, July 2015)
Susan Steinberg (September 2015)
Julia Glass (October 2015)
Terese Svoboda (November 2015)
Geri Doran (December 2015-January 2016)
Adam Giannelli (Spring 2016)
Noah Warren (June 2016, YYP 2015)
Lorrie Moore (Invited Summer Fellow, July 2016)
Nate Klug (September 2016)
Catherine Pond (October 2016)
Jennifer Clarvoe (November 2016)
Caoilinn Hughes (December 2016-January 2017)
Mark Wunderlich (Spring 2017)
Airea Dee Matthews (June 2017, YYP 2016)
Walter Perrie (August 2017)
Dan Chiasson (September 2017)
D.M. (Damilola) Aderibigbe (October 2017)
Maxim Loskutoff (November 2017)
Mike Alberti (December 2017-January 2018)
Suzanne Rivecca (Spring 2018)
Duy Doan (June 2018, YYP 2017)
Christa Romanosky (September-October 2018)
Jordan Jacks (November-December 2018
Sigrid Nunez (December 2018-January 2019)
Joanna Scott (Spring 2019)
James Longenbach (Spring 2019)
Yanyi (June 2019, YYP 2018)
Gabriella Gage (August 2019)
Matthew Minicucci (December 2019-January 2020)
Lysley Tenario (February 2020)
Keith Wilson (March 2020-May 2020)
Jill Osier (June 2020, YYP 2019 *residency postponed due to pandemic)
Claire Luchette (July 2020)
Talvikki Ansel (August 2020, YYP 1996)
Walt Hunter (September 2020)
Ryan Chapman (October 2020)
Jennifer Grotz (November 2020)
Nicholas Boggs (December 2020-January 2021)
Kirstin Valdez Quade (February-March 2021)
Greg Wrenn (April-May 2021)
Desiree C. Bailey (June 2021, YYP 2020 )
Armen Davoudian (July-August 2021)
Henri Cole (September 2021)
Marlon James (October 2021)
Michael Collier (November 2021)
John Cotter (January 2022)
Kamran Javadizadeh (February-March 2022)
Medhi Tavana Okasi (April-May 2022)
Robert Wood Lynn (June 2022, YYP 2021)
Lauren Sandler (August 2022)
Mehdi Tavana Okasi (2022)
Robert Wood Lynn (2022)
Lauren Sandler (2022)
Eduardo Corral (* unable to attend residency)
Laura Kolbe (2022)
Christopher Spaide (2022)
Pemi Aguda (2023)
Rob Schlegel (2023)
Maureen N. McLane (2023)
ANGIE ESTES (October 2023)
PAUL MADDERN (November 2023)
ADRIENNE RAPHEL (December 2023-January 2024)
LISA KO (February/March 2024)
JUDITH DUPRÉ (April/May 2024)
CINDY JUYOUNG OK (June 2024)
TOCHUKWU OKAFOR (August 2024)