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Peter Godwin, newly-elected President of PEN American Center and 2010 Guggenheim fellow, is an award winning foreign correspondent, author, documentary filmmaker, and screenwriter. Born and raised in Africa, Godwin studied law at… More

Parker Posey was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1968. She will next be seen in two films: Happy Tears, starring opposite Demi Moore and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, and Warner Bros.’ Spring… More

I was born and raised in Los Angeles county. I, along with illustrator Christian Jenning, have written State of Corrections, a 31-chapter, 40,000-word manuscript that includes the 2008 PEN… More

I was born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1968, the eldest child of one brother and two sisters. My father was a career serviceman, the Army, so I grew… More

I am a forty-five year old musician (alternative rock/folk) who has written eighty-plus songs (words & music), and have written several other short (one-hour) fantasy screenplays. I am a… More

Kwame Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at NYU, in New York and Abu Dhabi. He’s written three novels and many works of philosophy. His most recent books are Lines of Descent: W.… More

As much as I’ve been honored to connect and work with such literary greats as Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, and Junot Diaz, without the comitted presence of the… More

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our… More

I am a poet and prisoner serving a term at the Kentucky State Penitentiary. I am the winner of three PEN Prison Writing Awards. I was awarded Second Place… More

Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England on August 27, 1959 and was adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby milltown of Accrington. She wrote her first novel,… More