Join us as we talk with Gregory Pardlo, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet & Guggenheim fellow, who discusses his newest book, Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America.

Alexander Chee is with us at AWP 2018 talking about his newest book, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays. Mr. Chee has won numerous awards and fellowships, is an Associate Professor at Dartmouth College as well as being a contributing editor at The New Republic, an editor at large at The Virginia Quarterly Review and a critic at large at The Los Angeles Times.

Tyehimba Jess, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2017, is up next to talk with us about his book, Olio. Jess has won numerous awards, is also a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, as well as a TEDx poetry alum.

We welcome to the set, Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, as well as Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble: Stories. Machado has been awarded fellowships and residencies from several foundations. Currently, she is the Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. Link was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2016 and Get In Trouble was on severa

Danez Smith is here with PBS Books at AWP 2018 to talk with us about his book of poetry, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems. Danez has won numerous awards and fellowships and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2017.

Lesley Nneka Arimah is joining us to talk about her book, What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky: Stories. Lesley was selected as a National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honoree last year.

We’re sitting down with Ishion Hutchinson, author of House of Lords and Commons: Poems. Hutchinson won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 2016 for House of Lords and Commons.

Wiley Cash is here discussing his book, The Last Ballad: A Novel. Chicago Public Library and the American Library Association named The Last Ballad a Best Book of 2017.

On set with Marcus Wicker talking about his second collection of poetry, Silencer. His first collection, Maybe the Saddest Thing, was a National Poetry Series winner as well as a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.

Nathan Englander is with PBS Books to talk about his latest novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth. Englander was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013. He’s also a Guggenheim fellow and was selected as one of “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by The New Yorker.

We welcome Ada Limón to the set, author of Bright Dead Things: Poems. Limón was a finalist for the National Book Award, The National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limon’s next book, The Carrying: Poems is due to be released this summer.

Lauren Groff, author of the New York Times best selling book, Fates and Furies, is with us to talk about her forthcoming book, Florida. Groff has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize and the LA Times Book Prize.

Chris Abani, a poet and novelist, has won numerous awards and fellowships for both his poetry and his works of fiction. We talk with him today about his psychological literary thriller, The Secret History of Las Vegas.

Host Rich Fahle talks with Jennifer Benka, Executive Director of The Academy of American Poets, and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Adrian Matejka.

Host Rich Fahle talks with the David Haynes, Chairman of AWP Board of Directors.

We welcome Sigrid Nunez to our PBS Books set to discuss her latest book, The Friend: A Novel. Nunez has written several books and has won numerous awards through the years, including a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize in Literature and a Berlin Prize Fellowship.

At AWP 2018 talking with Kiese Laymon about his debut novel Long Division: A Novel.

National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado discusses her book, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, at the 2017 Miami Book Fair.

Lisa Ko discusses The Leavers at the 2017 Miami Book Fair.

Carl Hiaasen discusses. “Razor Girl: A Novel” at the 2017 Miami Book Fair.