Fall 2025

Nathan Hill

Spring 2025

Annabelle Tometich

Fall 2024

Bret Anthony Johnston

Bret Anthony Johnston, a native of Corpus Christi, is the internationally bestselling author of the novels We Burn Daylight and Remember Me Like This, and the multi-award-winning collection Corpus Christi: Stories. 

He also edited Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and wrote the documentary film Waiting for Lightning, which was released in theaters around the world by Samuel Goldwyn Films

Spring 2024

Donald Ray Pollock

Pollock has lived his entire adult life in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he worked as a laborer and truck driver from 1973 to 2005, when he enrolled in the English program at Ohio State University. While there, Doubleday published his debut short story collection, Knockemstiff, which was awarded the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. He has published two novels, The Devil All the Time and The Heavenly Table, and his work has appeared in numerous literary journals. The Devil All the Time was made into a Netflix film in 2020 starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson. The New York Times said he is a “talented, serious and agile writer, who possesses genuine tenderness for the dim and luckless, the uncouth and poor” and that he “grants each of his many characters, no matter how minor or wretched, a story and a soul.”

Spring 2021

A Saturday Night Creative Celebration

The Corpus Christi Literary Reading Series and the Department of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi presented “A Saturday Night Creative Celebration,” a virtual event in support of the CCLRS, and in celebration of the publication of Windward Review, Vol. 18.

Fall 2020

Carrie Fountain

Carrie Fountain, Poet Laureate of the state of Texas, has been featured in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, and The New Yorker. Her first collection, Burn Lake, was a National Poetry Series winner. Her second collection, Instant Winner, was published by Penguin Random House. Fountain’s debut novel for young adults, I’m Not Missing, was published by Flatiron Books (Macmillan). Her first children’s book, The Poem Forest, about the life and legacy of poet and ecologist W.S. Merwin, is forthcoming from Candlewick Press.

Fall 2019

Lisa See

Author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Shanghai Girls, Dreams of Joy, and other novels about the lives of women. Her book, On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of my Chinese-American Family, is a memoir. Barnes & Noble chose her novel The Island of Sea Women for its nationwide March 2019 Book Club.

Spring 2015

Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson teaches creative writing at the University of Houston, and is the award-winning author of three novels and four short story collections. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Best American Short Stories. She divides her time among Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.

Fall 2013

Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, The Souvenir Museum, and The Hero of This Book. She’s received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Thunderstruck & Other Stories won the 2015 Story Prize. Her work has been published in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The O. Henry Prize, The New York Times Magazine, and many other places.

Fall 2009

George Saunders

George Saunders is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children’s books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008.