Authors Engaging Students Authors
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Diya Abdo | Xhenet Aliu | Omar Ali | Kianna Alexander | Diya Abdo | |
| Omar Ali | Huda Al-Marashi | William L. Andrews | Issac Bailey | Malaika Adero | |
| Ali Al-Khasrachi | Issac Bailey | Thomas Boatwright | Cinelle Barnes | Alex Albright | |
| Tonya Armstrong | Brian Belovitch | Gabriel Bump | Traci Brimhall | Kay Barrett | |
| Cameron Awkward-Rich | Michele Berger | Tessie Castillo | Nickole Brown | Cherry Beasley | |
| Marwa Azage | Jeffrey Billman | Casey Cep | Diana Cejas | Daniel Black | |
| Tilda Balsley | Carol Boston Weatherford | Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne | Billy Collins | Tona Brown | |
| John Claude Bemis | Jeffery Boston Weatherford | Gilda Daniel | Naima Coster | Gabriel Bump | |
| Gabrielle Brant Freeman | Jamey Bradbury | Susan Darraj | Leesa Cross-Smith | Monica Byrne | |
| Linda Beatrice Brown | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | Molly Dektar | Rosie Danan | Ann J. Cahill | |
| Nickole Brown | Bethany Chafin | Julia Ebel | Rod Davis | Tessie Castillo | |
| Megan Bryant | Fred Chappell | Frank Baumgartner | Mason Deaver | Casey Cep | |
| Ellen C. Bush | Dhonielle Clayton | Asha Gomez | Nita Tyndall | Marcie Cohen Ferris | |
| Katie Button | Mary Coyne Wessling | Leah Naomi Green | Ginger Gaffney | John Copenhaver | |
| Nora Shalaway Carpenter | Michael Croley | Vivian Howard | Roxane Gay | Michael Croley | |
| Coen Cauthen | Ann Luisa Daigneault | Nancy MacLean | Shanna Greene Benjamin | Megan Culhane Galbraith | |
| May-Lee Chai | Laurel Davis Huber | Emily Nemens | Kaitlyn Greenidge | Colin Cutler | |
| Melanie Conklin | Tyree Daye | Gene Nichol | I.W. Gregorio | Daniel de Visé | |
| Naima Coster | Ani DiFranco | Daniel Pierce | Allan Gurganus | St. Clair Detrick-Jules | |
| Leesa Cross-Smith | Lauralyn Dossett | Sister Helen Prejean | Kyra Gurney | H’Rina DeTroy | |
| Hal Crowther | Rebecca Erbelding | Robert Brown | John Hart | Stuart Dischell | |
| Steve Cushman | Teresa Frohock | James Shields | James Tate Hill | Jelani Favors | |
| Heidi Czerwiec | Frye Galliard | Carter Sickels | Jessica Jacobs | T. Frohock | |
| Tony Di’Terlizzi | Michael Gaspeny | Lee Smith | Denise Kiernan | Benjamin Gilmer | |
| John Duberstein | Ross Gay | Connor Towne O’Neill | Lisa Levenstein | Holly Goddard Jones | |
| John T. Edge | Chris Giarusso | Erin Geiger Smith | Joanna Lowell | Tara T. Green | |
| Laurie Edwards | Claire Gibson | Dennis McCarthy | Christine Hamel | ||
| Emily Edwards | Lamar Giles | Ricky Moore | Nikole Hannah-Jones | ||
| Stephanie Elizondo Griest | Marianne Gingher | Nicholas Nehamas | Elisheba Haqq | ||
| Sarah Ficke | Robert Gipe | Whitney Otawka | Lynden Harris | ||
| David Finnegan-Hosey | Jenna Glass | Alice Quinn | Cheris Hodges | ||
| Ellen Fischer | Jordan Green | Ron Rash | Ann Hood | ||
| Kerri French | Jo Hackl | Amy Reed | Mary Ann Jacobs | ||
| Marianne Gingher | Jessica Handler | Ivelisse Rodriguez | Timothy Janovsky | ||
| Nikki Giovanni | Cathryn Hankla | Omid Safi | Thien-Kim Lam | ||
| Scott Gould | James Tate Hill | Sharon Salzberg | Ashley Lumpkin | ||
| Juliana Gray | Dennis Johnson | Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle | Beth Macy | ||
| Daisy Hernandez | Jen Julian | John Sayles | Emily Maloney | ||
| Marcelo Hernandez Castillo | Soniah Kamal | Bakari Sellers | Jason Mott | ||
| Ross Howell, Jr | Randall Kenan | George Singleton | Valerie Nieman | ||
| Eddie Huffman | Joe Killian | Amber Smith | Alexis Orgera | ||
| Jessica Jacobs | Cassandra Kircher | Rivers Solomon | Julia Ridley Smith | ||
| Janine Joseph | Bill Konigsberg | K.M. Szpara | Kathryn Schulz | ||
| Terry Kennedy | Brian Lampkin | Candacy Taylor | Jaki Shelton Green | ||
| Erik Lars Myers | Heath Lee | Kasey Thornton | Robert Shetterly | ||
| Dana Alison Levy | Ted Lee | D. Watkins | Crystal Simone Smiith | ||
| Tara Luebbe | Robert Lee | Jay Weaver | Julia Skinner | ||
| Ashley Lumpkin | Matt Lee | Jim Wyss | Brendan Slocumb | ||
| Carmen Maria Machado | Dana Alison Levy | David Zucchino | Wanda Smalls Lloyd | ||
| Beth Macy | Constance Lombardo | Laurie Stone | |||
| Charlotte Matthews | Ashley Lumpkin | Cynthia Tucker | |||
| Caroline McAlister | Rebecca Makkai | Cadwell Turnbull | |||
| Stacy McAnulty | Mesha Maren | David Wright Faladé | |||
| Thomas McConnell | Jill McCorkle | Nicole Zelniker | |||
| Michael McFee | Gillian McDunn | Phoebe Zerwick | |||
| Joe Mills | Erika Meitner | ||||
| Jim Minick | Frank Morrison | ||||
| Ray Morrison | Matt Myers | ||||
| Lauren Moseley | Ricardo Nazario y Colon | ||||
| Jen Nails | Valerie Nieman | ||||
| Joan Nathan | Adam Parker | ||||
| Elaine Neil Orr | Michael Parker | ||||
| Ali Noorani | Baptiste Paul | ||||
| Sarah Rose Nordgren | Miranda Paul | ||||
| Jennifer Nyirandikumana | Rebecca Petruck | ||||
| Abdoul Raoufou Ousmane | Amy Reed | ||||
| Michael Parker | Jason Reynolds | ||||
| Baptiste Paul | Heidi Rhodes | ||||
| Miranda Paul | Sage Roundtree | ||||
| Julie Peeples | Brenda Rufener | ||||
| Emilia Phillips | Etaf Rum | ||||
| Daniel Pink | Alejandro Rutty | ||||
| Kevin Powers | Connie Schofield Morrison | ||||
| John Shelton Reed | Deborah Seabrooke | ||||
| Jordan Rice | Cleveland Sellers | ||||
| Susan Rivers | Samia Serageldin | ||||
| Deonna Kelli Sayed | Megan Shepard | ||||
| Deborah Seabrooke | Susan Shetterly | ||||
| Moises Serrano | Carter Sickels | ||||
| Krystal A. Smith | Lee Smith | ||||
| Lee Smith | Brian Smith | ||||
| Chris Stamey | Zadie Smith | ||||
| Kelly Starling Lyons | Kelly Starling Lyons | ||||
| James Swanson | Jennifer Swanson | ||||
| Josephus Thompson | Astra Taylor | ||||
| Rebecca Todd Peters | Shree Renee Thomas | ||||
| Kate Torney | Rick Van Noy | ||||
| John Francis Trump | Corrie Wang | ||||
| Susan Verde | Jim Whiteside | ||||
| Daniel Wallace | Jeremy Whitley | ||||
| Maura Way | Liza Wieland | ||||
| Lea Williams | Alicia D. Williams | ||||
| Amy Wright | Allan Wolf | ||||
| Jared Yates Sexton | Barry Yeoman | ||||
| Michele Young-Stone | Leslie C. Youngblood | ||||
| Tanya Zabinski | |||||
| Phoebe Zerwick | |||||
| Alicia D. Williams | |||||
| Allan Wolf | |||||
| Barry Yeoman | |||||
| Leslie C. Youngblood | |||||
| Michele Young-Stone | |||||
| Tanya Zabinski | |||||
| Phoebe Zerwick | |||||