Past Literary Southwest Events
2008 to present
2023-24
Joni Wallace
Author of "Landscape with Missing River"
Brooke Sahni
Author of "Before I had the Word"
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Author of "Mexican Gothic"
Alice Wong
Author of "Disability Visibility"
2022-23
TJ Klune
Author of "The House in the Cerulean Sea"
Laraine Herring
Author of "A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens"
Tara Ison
Author of "At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf"
The Mexican Gothic Visual Art Exhibition
2021-22
Tracy K. Smith
Author of "Wade in the Water"
Terry Tempest Williams
Author of "The Moon is Behind Us"
Tara Westover
Author of "Educated"
Ivy Pochoda
Author of "These Women"
2020-21
Lisa Ko
Author of "The Leavers"
Ben Fountain
Author of "Beautiful Country Burn Again"
Tommy Orange
Author of "There There"
Diana Gabaldon
Author of "Outlander" series
2019-20
Rebecca Skloot
Author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"
Craig Johnson
Author of "Longmire" series
Layli Long Soldier
Author of "Whereas"
Janet Fitch
Author of "White Oleander"
2018-19
Lynne Thompson
Author of "Beg No Pardon"
Laraine Herring
Author of "A Constellation of Ghosts"
Joe Ide
Author of "IQ" series
Anthony Marra
Author of "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"
Alberto Rios
Author of "A Small Story About the Sky"
2017-18
Kay Ryan
Author of "The Niagara River"
Christopher Merrill
Author of "Watch Fire"
T. Jefferson Parker
Author of "Roland Ford" series
Ana Castillo
Author of "The Guardians"
2016-17
Camille Dungy
Author of "Trophic Cascade"
Geoff Dyer
Author of "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition"
Ron Koertge
Author of "Where the Kissing Never Stops"
Marsha de la O
Author of "Antidote for Night"
Domingo Martinez
Author of "My Heart Is a Drunken Compass"
2015-16
Susan Terris
Author of "Dreamcrashers"
Jane Hirshfield
Author of "The Beauty"
Bernard Cooper
Author of "The Bill From My Father: A Memoir"
Ilyse Kusnetz
Author of "Small Hours"
Brian Turner
Author of "Here, Bullet"
Lisa See
Author of "On Gold Mountain"
2014-15
CJ Box
Author of "Joe Pickett" series
Susan Orlean
Author of "The Orchid Thief"
Laura Tohe
Author of "Tseyi, Deep in the Rock"
Laila Lalami
Author of "The Moor's Account"
Naomi Shihab Nye
Author of "Famous"
2013-14
Chitra Divakaruni
Author of "The Palace of Illusions"
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Author of "Martin and Meditations on the South Valley"
Jim Krusoe
Author of "Iceland"
T.R. Hummer
Author of "The Infinity Sessions: Poems"
Gayle Brandeis
Author of "Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write"
Dorothy Barresi
Author of " West Branch"
2012-13
Craig Johnson
Author of "Longmire" series
Charles Harper Webb
Author of "Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology"
Tara Ison
Author of "Reeling Through Life: How I Learned To Live, Love & Die at the Movies"
Jane Miller
Author of "A Palace of Pearls"
Aimee Bender
Author of "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"
K. L. Cook
Author of "Last Call"
Natalie Diaz
Author of "When My Brother Was an Aztec"
Richard Garcia
Author of "Chickenhead"
Naomi Hirahara
Author of "Mas Arai" series
2011-12
Mark Doty
Author of "Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems"
Manuel Munoz
Author of "What You See in the Dark"
Ralph Angel
Author of "Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006"
Kim Addonizio
Author of "Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within"
Steve Heller
Author of "The Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman"
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Author of "Stairway to Heaven"
Sean Nevin
Author of "Oblivio Gate"
2010-11
Al Young
Author of "Bodies and Soul: Musical Memoirs"
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Author of "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe"
Dunya Mikail
Author of "Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea"
Beau Beausoleil
Author of "Concealed in Language"
Alan Dean Foster
Author of "Pip and Flinx" series
Eloise Klein Healy
Author of "The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho"
Bertram Harry Fairchild, Jr
Author of "Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest"
Ron Carlson
Author of "The News of the World"
2009-10
Ann Cummins
Author of "Red Ant House"
David St. John
Author of "Study for the World's Body"
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Author of "Ghost Boys"
Sherwin Bitsui
Author of "Flood Song"
Peter Turchi
Author of "A Muse and A Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic"
Rebecca Seiferle
Author of "Wild Tongue"
Marvin Bell
Author of "Dead Man" series
Sean Huze
Author of "The Sandstorm: Stories from the Front"
2008-09
Gerald McDermott
Author of "Anansi the Spider"
Linda Hogan
Author of "Mean Spirit"
James Sallis
Author of "Drive"
Susan Lang
Author of "Small Rocks Rising"
Arthur Sze
Author of "The Ginkgo Light"
Demetria Martinez
Author of "Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana"
Alberto Rios
Author of "TITLE"
Ofelia Zepeda
Author of "A Tohono O'odham Grammar"
Sharman Apt Russell
Author of "Distinguished Nature Writing for Diary of a Citizen Scientist"