Authors, Poets, Screenwriters

Born in, living in, or influenced by Detroit - past and present

Mitch Albom Eddie B. Allen Jr. Marvin V. Arnett Samiya A. Bashir Holly Baxter Ruth Behar John Berryman Terry Blackhawk Diane Burton Margaret Carroll Michelle Celmer Francis Ford Coppola Jim Daniels Toi Derricotte Natalie Dunbar Jack Epps Jr. Howard Estabrook Loren D. Estleman R. Barri Flowers Carolyn Forché Vievee Francis Donald Goines Edgar Guest

Robert Hayden Lawrence Joseph Ruth Ryan Langan Elmore Leonard Philip Levine M.L. Liebler Gail Gaymer Martin Sylvia McClain Tom McGuane Dorene O'Brien Sandra Orr Karen White Owens Marge Piercy Stirling Silliphant Ellen Slezak Vina St. Fran Doug Tanoury Elizabeth Turner Kimberley White Karen White-Owens Shawn Woodard

  Literary Groups, Projects, Festivals

• Ann Arbor Book Festival
• Detroit Writer's Guild
• Eastern Michigan Writing Project
• Greater Detroit Romance Writers of America
• InsideOut Literary Arts Project
• Meadow Brook Writing Project
• Michigan Writers Network
• Oakland Writing Project