Fall 2025 | WSU Visiting Writers Series

Alexandra Teague is the author of Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir (Oregon State University Press 2023) and the poetry collection [ominous music intensifying] (Persea 2024), recently selected by the New York Times poetry editor as a recommended title. She is previously the author of three books of poetry and a novel, as well as co-editor of Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. A former recipient of fellowships from Civitella Ranieri and the NEA, she is a professor of creative writing and chair of English at University of Idaho.

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Thomas Dai is the author of the recently published essay collection Take My Name but Say It Slow. Recent pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Georgia Review, Longreads, and other publications, and he has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary, PLAYA, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Thomas holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD in American Studies from Brown University. Born and raised in East Tennessee, Thomas now lives in the Inland Pacific Northwest, where he is an assistant professor of English at the University of Idaho.

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Michael McGriff is the author of six poetry collections, Inquest, Angel Sharpening its Beak, Eternal Sentences, Early Hour, Home Burial, and Dismantling the Hills. He is also the author of the short story collection Our Secret Life in the Movies, which was co-authored with J.M. Tyree and selected as one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year. His other books include a translation of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola and an Edition of David Wevill’s To Build My Shadow a Fire, a selection of the Canadian poet’s essential work. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, Poetry London, The Academy of American Poets, and American Poetry Review. He is a Professor of English at the University of Idaho, where he serves as the Director of the Creative Writing Program.

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