Novelist and Screenwriter Richard Price

University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

Richard Price, celebrated author of Clockers, and a key screenwriter for HBO’s "The Wire," is a renowned author of gritty crime fiction set in the devastated neighborhoods of America’s cities.

Kazim Ali: Poet, Translator, Novelist, Essayist

University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

Kazim Ali, UAlbany alum (B.A. ‘93, M.A. ’95), is an award-winning poet, translator, novelist, essayist, founder of the nonprofit press Nightboat Books, and Professor of Creative Writing at UC San Diego.