Glenn Schaeffer, President of the Mandalay Resort Group, and Founder of the International Institute of Modern Letters at UNLV
Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize-winning playwright from Nigeria, former President of the International Parliament of Writers, and one of the progenitors of the City of Asylum program in Las Vegas
Amber Withycombe, Associate Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at UNLV
Russell Banks, widely translated novelist and short story writer, and President of the International Parliament of Writers
Christopher Merrill, Author and Director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa
