House Writers-in-Residence

Hugo House Writers-in-Residence

David Wagoner is professor emeritus at the University of Washington, where he taught for 51 years. He is the author of 17 books of poetry and 10 novels, one of which was adapted for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola. Wagoner's collection of poetry (1979) was nominated for an American Book Award in 1980. He has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fels Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, among others, and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A former chancellor of The Academy of American Poets (succeeding Robert Lowell), Wagoner was the editor of the venerable poetry journal Poetry Northwest from 1966 until 2002. His latest book of poems, "Good Morning and Good Night," was recently published by the University of Illinois Press.

David Wagoner meets with people on Mondays from noon to 5 p.m. for more information or to schedule an appointment email amyjones@hugohouse.org.

Wendy Call co-edited "Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide" (Plume/Penguin, 2007), an anthology of writing advice from 51 literary journalists and nonfiction authors, including some of the country's best-known writers. Her nonfiction has appeared in English, Spanish and French in more than 20 magazines and journals, including Blue Mesa Review, Chain, ColorLines: Race-Culture- Action, Revista: Harvard Review of the Americas, Terrain: A Journal of Built & Natural Environments and Viva NY/New York Daily News, as well as in several anthologies. In many publications, her photographs accompany her writing.