Each year the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at Waldorf University brings two or three nationally recognized authors to campus. Each writer visits a creative writing class, works individually with writing students, and gives a public reading.

2015-2016 Distinguished Visiting Writers
Lauren Alleyne
Jim Heynen
2014-2015 Distinguished Visiting Writers
Kij Johnson
Mary Swander
2013-2014 Distinguished Visiting Writers
Paul Dickey
Tricia Currans-Sheehan
2012-2013 Distinguished Visiting Writers
Steven Coughlin
Patrick Hicks

2011-2012 Distinguished Visiting Writers
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Debra Marquart
2010-2011 Distinguished Visiting Writer
Dean Bakopoulos
2009-2010 Distinguished Visiting Writers
Benjamin Percy
Sean Prentiss
Todd Marshall