Literature
- Mohamad Bazzi - journalist
- Maurice Berger - cultural critic
- Peter Carey - writer
- Colin Channer - writer, musician, co-founder of Calabash International Literary Festival Trust
- Colette Inez - poet, academic, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and two NEA Fellowships
- Martin Greif - writer, publisher, former Managing Editor of Time-Life Books
- Ada Louise Huxtable - writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic
- Audre Lorde (1959), African-American poet, essayist, educator and activist
- Paule Marshall - author, MacArthur Fellow "genius grant," Dos Passos Prize for Literature
- Grace Paley - writer, attended
- Sylvia Field Porter - economist/journalist, former Financial Editor of the New York Post
- Sonia Sanchez - poet
- Augusta Huiell Seaman - writer
- Ned Vizzini - writer
- Joy Davidman - writer, poet
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