Literature and Poetry
- Cecelia Holland ('65): novelist
- Gayl Jones ('72) novelist, poet, playwright
- Michael Collier ('76): Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2001–2004; Director of The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Middlebury College
- Donald Gallinger ('76) novelist
- Luanne Rice ('77): novelist
- William Lychack ('88): novelist
- Dobby Gibson ('93) Poet
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