2010-2011 - James McManus
[Mackey Chair]James McManus is a novelist, poet, and a winner of the Peter Lisagor Award for sports journalism. He teaches writing and comparative literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, including a course on the literature and science of poker.
- 2012-2013 - Kevin Young
- 2011-2012 - Giles Foden
- 2010-2011 - James McManus
- 2009-2010 - Linda Gregerson
- 2008-2009 - Scott Russell Sanders
- 2007-2008 - Richard Bausch
- 2006-2007 - Robert Stone
- 2005-2006 - William Least Heat-Moon
- 2003-2004 - Billy Collins
- 2002-2003 - Pam Houston
- 2001-2002 - Patricia Hampl
- 2000-2001 - Bei Dao
- 1999-2000 - Ron Carlson
- 1998-1999 - Li-Young Lee
- 1997-1998 - Amy Hempel
- 1996-1997 - Denise Levertov
- 1995-1996 - Edward Hoagland
- 1994-1995 - Peter Matthiessen
- 1993-1994 - Carolyn Kizer
- 1992-1993 - Rick Bass
- 1991-1992 - Ursula K. LeGuin
- 1990-1991 - William Stafford
- 1989-1990 - Tess Gallagher
- 1988 - Raymond Carver