Writer-in-Residence Program

Author of Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River. An award winning author and journalist, he spent thirty years at the Chicago Tribune. His other works include five nonfiction books about wildland fires—Fire on the Mountain, Fire and Ashes, The Thirtymile Fire, The Esperanza Fire, and River of Fire. Join us for his program on Sept. 27.

Author of The Quick and the Dead, a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize–and four collections of stories, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Visiting in partnership with Boise State University’s MFA Program and leading two student workshops during her time here.

Second annual Sun Valley Playright’s Residency. Born in Bytom, Poland and raised in New Jersey and Chicago, Majok was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living, which debuts Fall 2022 on Broadway. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages. Join us for a conversation with her on October 25.

Playwright and novelist.

Artist.

Fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history—the first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role. Author of several collections of poetry, chapbooks, and memoirs. 2020 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture

Obie-award-winning playwright and inaugural Sun Valley Playwrights’ Resident. Playwright reception on Vimeo.

Writer, translator, and the author of The Line Becomes a River, winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. “The Line Becomes a River” on Vimeo.

Historian.

Fiction writer and author of Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You. “Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You” on Vimeo.

Writer.

Writer. 2021 Hemingway Distinguished Lecturer.

Writer.

Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and author of On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. Jack Grove Writer-In-Residence. “Trees and Writing” on Vimeo.

Author. 2020 Winter Read Keynote.

Author.

Violinist with The Chelsea Symphony. Community concerts.

Writer.

Writer.

Photographer.

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries and the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction. Craig Johnson on Vimeo.

Screenwriter, actor, producer, activist. “The Wrong Kind of Women” on Vimeo.

Journalist.

Screenwriter and inaugural Writing by Writers residency recipient. “Dispatches from a Residency” on Vimeo.

Actor and director.

Author of the novels The Roxy Letters and Wildfire. Writing workshop.

Former Chief of Disguise in the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and co-author of Spy Dust: A True Story of Espionage and Romance, Argo and The Moscow Rules.

Ali Noorani is the Program Director of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s U.S. Democracy program, and formerly the president & chief executive officer of the National Immigration Forum. “Crossing Borders” on Vimeo.

Filmmaker.

Writer.

Environmental historian and author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West. Jack Grove Writer-In-Residence. “True West” on Vimeo.

Novelist, Crested Butte indie bookstore owner, and second annual Writing by Writers residency recipient. “A New West” on Vimeo.

Economist.

Teacher, administrator, consultant, and author of Influencing Hemingway. “Papa’s Places” on Vimeo.

Journalist.

Nonfiction writer and author of All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf. Writing workshop.

Emmy-nominated producer, documentary filmmaker, activist, and Co-founder of Advocates for Inclusion in Media. “Media and Ourselves” on Vimeo.

16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and author of twelve books on leadership, the oceans, maritime affairs, and Latin America. His most recent books include 2034: A Novel of the Next World War and The Sailor’s Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea.

Author of the bestselling memoir Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough, and the novel Torch. Virtual writing workshop and “Cheryl Calling” on Vimeo.

Author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, The Lonely Polygamist, and Letting Loose the Hounds. Writing workshop.

Tucson-based musician and artist whose work uses songwriting, sampling, field recording, video, installation and collaboration to ask questions about place, the duality of inner and outer landscapes and one’s role in the natural world. Deep Listening Workshop.

2019 Hemingway Distinguished Lecturer.

Senior Lecturer at Miami Herbert Business School. “Hemingway’s Coda” on Vimeo.

Educator and biologist from Salt Lake City where he teaches at Rowland Hall. Natural history survey of the Hemingway House Preserve and high school lesson plans blending science and literature.

Writer.

Writer.