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ROIAL Visiting Artists

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1997

• Carol Barrett – Poet from Union Graduate School Faculty, Washington
• Samuel Delaney – Science Fiction Writer from New York City, New York

1998

• Carol Davis – Poet from Los Angeles, California
• Jeanine M. Hathaway – Poet and Professor at Wichita State University
• Judith McCombs – Poet, Atwood scholar, Professor at Detroit's Center for Creative Studies College of Art
• Kate Snodgrass – Playwright and Artistic Director, The Boston Playwrights Theater, Boston University

1999

• Gayle Davis – Professor of Women's Studies, Wichita State University
• Malcolm Hacksley – Scholar and Director, Literary Museum of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Rick Mulkey – Poet from Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
• Isabel Wilkerson – Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Ferris Professor at Princeton University

2000

• Martha Bates – Editor at Michigan State University Press
• James Cowan – Australian Author
• George Ellenbogen – Poet from Bentley College, Boston, Massachusetts
• Lisa Fishman – Shelley Scholar and Poet, Professor of English at Beloit College
• Evelyn Shakir – Fiction Writer from Bentley College, Boston, Massachusetts

2001-2002

• Julie Adams – Song Writer and Singer from Mountain Stage, West Virginia
• Colleen Anderson – Song Writer and Folk Musician from West Virginia
• Guillermo Delgado – Art Educator from Chicago, Illinois
• Victor Hanson – Author, Historian, Classics Professor, and Farmer
• Clarence Major – Artist and Writer
• Valerie Miner – Novelist and Memoirist from University of Minnesota
• Carol Zika – Art Educator from Baltimore, Maryland

Fall 2002

• Elspeth Cameron – Writer and Scholar from the University of Toronto
• Tanya Hartman – Painter from University of Kansas
• Tom Woodward – Episcopal Priest and Clown from Salinas, California

Spring 2003

• Katie Daley – Performance Artist
• Crystal Williams – Poet from Reed College in Portland, Oregon

Fall 2003

• Julie Adams – Song Writer and Singer from Mountain Stage, West Virginia
• Colleen Anderson – Song Writer and Folk Musician from West Virginia
• Aryn Bartley – Actor and Director, Doctoral Student at MSU
• Chad Gasta – Professor of Spanish from Iowa State University and former ROIAL Teaching Assistant
• Kate Snodgrass – Playwright and Artistic Director from The Boston Playwrights Theater, Boston University

Spring 2004

• Julie Adams – Song Writer and Singer from Mountain Stage, West Virginia
• Colleen Anderson – Song Writer and Folk Musician from West Virginia
• Guillermo Delgado – Art Educator from Chicago, Illinois
• Jeanne Drewes – Assistant Director for Access & Preservation, MSU Libraries
• Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. – Chicano Poet from Denver, Colorado
• Karen Vuranch – Storyteller, Actress, and Writer from West Virginia

Fall 2004

• Joyce Cavarozzi – Actor, Director, Professor, etc. from Wichita State University
• Eric Gansworth – Onondaga Author from Buffalo, New York
• Jim Daniels – Poet and Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University

Spring 2005

• Carol Barrett – Poet from Union Graduate School Faculty, Washington
• Jeanne Drewes – Assistant Director for Access & Preservation, MSU Libraries
• Melina Esse – Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
• Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. – Chicano Poet from Denver, Colorado
• Jane Taylor – Poet from University of Central Oklahoma, Chambers Library
• Holly Watkins – Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music

Fall 2005

• Carol Barrett – Poet from Union Graduate School Faculty, Washington
• Sam Esquith – Henfield Prize Winning Fiction Writer
• Donna Keegan – Playwright and Actor
• Larry Vining – Russian Language and Culture Scholar

Spring 2006

• Julie Adams – Song Writer and Singer from Mountain Stage, West Virginia
• Colleen Anderson – Song Writer and Folk Musician from West Virginia
• Jeanne Drewes – Assistant Director for Access & Preservation, MSU Libraries
• Scott Phillips – Author and Screenwriter from Wichita, Kansas

Fall 2006

• Jane Congdon – Author and Dracula Aficionado from Ohio
• Visiting Actors, Designers, and Director from Stratford, Ontario
• Guillermo Delgado – Art Educator from Chicago, Illinois

Spring 2007

• Jeanne Drewes – Chief of Binding and Collections Care at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• Kate Perry – Actor and screenwriter featured on BBC Radio, Northern Ireland
• Julie Adams – Song Writer and Singer from Mountain Stage, West Virginia
• Colleen Anderson – Song Writer and Folk Musician from West Virginia