Marcus Kwame Anderson is an illustrator and fine artist. Much of his work explores the beauty and diversity of the African Diaspora.

April Bernard is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Her most recent books are Brawl & Jag (poems) and Miss Fuller, a novel.

Betsy Bonner is the author of The Book of Atlantis Black, a memoir. She “writes with the precision of a poet and the courage of a survivor.

Robert Boyers is Director of The New York State Summer Writers Institute, Editor of SALMAGUNDI Magazine and Professor of English at Skidmore College.

Peg Boyers is Executive Editor of Salmagundi magazine and author of Hard Bread, Honey With Tobacco, To Forget Venice and most recently The Album, a volume of ekphrastic poems with images of the works which inspired them.

Beau Breslin is a professor and chair of the department of government at Skidmore College and a specialist in constitutional law and civil liberties.

James Bruchac was raised in the Adirondack foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York.

Jesse Bowman Bruchac is a Native American author and language teacher from the Abenaki tribe.

Joseph Bruchac is a highly acclaimed Abenaki children's book author, poet, novelist, and storyteller, as well as a scholar of Native American culture.

In this hands-on workshop lead by C.R.E.A.T.E. Community Studios, we’ll create a simple hand-made book that can be used as a journal or to write your own short masterpiece.

Peter Cameron is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, he moved to New York City after graduating college in 1982.

Frances Cha is a former travel and culture editor for CNN in Seoul. She grew up in the United States, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

Armando Lucas Correa is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and the recipient of several awards from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the Society of Professional Journalism.

Carol Daggs is an educator and multi-faceted creative. Her work was included in the 2017 anthology Before They Were Our Mothers: Voices of Women Born Before Rosie Started Riveting (Patricia Nugent, editor, Journal Arts Press).

Jennifer Dugan is a writer, a geek and a romantic, who writes the kind of stories she wishes she’d had growing up. She is the author of Some Girls Do, Verona Comics, and Hot Dog Girl. which has been called a “great fizzy rom-com” by Entertainment Weekly and “one of the best reads of the year, hands down” by Paste Magazine.

Thom Francis is the president of Albany Poets and has been organizing, promoting, and hosting open mics and poetry / spoken word events in Albany such as Nitty Gritty Slam, School of Night, Albany Poets Presents…, Brass Tacks, and the Word Fest for over 20 years.

Gates is the author of the novels Jernigan (Knopf, 1991) and Preston Falls (Knopf, 1998) and two collections of stories, The Wonders of the Visible World (Knopf, 1999) and A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (Knopf, 2015).

Krystyna Poray Goddu is author of the middle-grade biographies Becoming Emily: The Life of Emily Dickinson and A Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, winner of the SCBWI 2017 Golden Kite Honor Book for Nonfiction, as well as a picture-book about Alicia Markova, An Unlikely Ballerina, and a collective biography, Dollmakers and Their Stories: Women Who Changed the World of Play, and is co-author, with Krystyna Mihulka, of Krysia—A Polish Girl’s Stolen Childhood During World War II: A Memoir.

Matt Hranek is the author of The Negroni, A Man & His Watch, and A Man & His Car, as well as a photographer, a director, and the founder/editor of the men’s lifestyle magazine WM Brown.

Brad Kessler is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Lick Creek and Birds in Fall, which was a recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a memoir, Goat Song.

Nancy Klepsch is a poet and teacher who was born in Brooklyn and currently lives in upstate New York. She has been writing poetry since she was in the fourth grade and decided to go to college after watching her mother type envelopes for a penny a piece in the late 1960s.

Jamie Malanowski has been an editor at Time, Spy and other magazines. He is the author of the biography, Commander Will Cushing, Daredevil Hero of the Civil War, and two novels, The Coup and Mr. Stupid Goes to Washington.

Tom Piazza is celebrated as a novelist and a writer on American music. His twelve books include the novels A Free State and City Of Refuge, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and the essay collection Devil Sent The Rain.

Chana Porter is a novelist, playwright, teacher, MacDowell fellow, and co-founder of the Octavia Project, a STEM and fiction-writing program for girls, trans and gender non-conforming youth from underserved communities.

Rory Power is the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down.

Robert Repino is the author of several works of fiction, including the science fiction novel Mort(e) from Soho Press and the middle grade novel Spark and the League of Ursus from Quirk Books.

Before joining Yaddo in 2000, award-winning writer and editor Elaina Richardson was the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine. Among her responsibilities were supervision of a staff of 64, oversight of all aspects of the magazine production and marketing, and responsibility for the visual and written content.

Jonathan Santlofer is the author of "The Last Mona Lisa" and 6 other novels, "The Death Artist," "Color Blind," "The Killing Art", "The Murder Notebook," and "Anatomy of Fear," which won the Nero Wolfe Award for best crime novel of 2009.

Em Sauter is an Advanced Cicerone® (like a sommelier but for beer), cartoonist, author, beer reviewer, international beer judge and public speaker who runs the award winning website Pints and Panels, which focuses on visual beer education.

Jim Tracy has won multiple national and state writing awards, including first place in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editor contest. Around this time, he spent ten years at The Post-Star, a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper in Glens Falls, New York.

Chase Twichell is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Things as It Is (Copper Canyon, 2018). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010) won both the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize.

Kim van Alkemade has written two historical fiction novels: Orphan #8 (William Morrow, 2015) and Bachelor Girl (Touchstone, 2018). Her creative nonfiction essays have appeared in literary journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, CutBank, and So To Speak.

Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl (2019) and The Glass Eye (2017). Both books are published by Tin House Books in the US and Duckworth Books in the UK.

English Lit from Berry College, which has the distinction of being the world's largest college campus. He now lives in the scenic Hudson Valley/Adirondack region of NY with his wife Patty.

Elizabeth Zunon is an illustrator and writer of children’s books, including Grandpa Cacao, A Tale of Chocolate from Farm to Family, published by Bloomsbury Childrens Books. She grew up in the Ivory Coast, went to art school in the United States, and now lives in upstate New York.