Gail Galloway Adams
Holmes Moss Alexander
Belinda Anderson
Maggie Anderson*
Tom Andrews
Allen Appel
Bob Henry Baber
Julie Baker
Jean Battlo
Clair Bee
Sandra Belton
Pinckney Benedict*
June Langford Berkley
John Billheimer
John Peale Bishop
W. E. Blackhurst
Elaine Blue
Daniel "Danny" Boyd
Irene Brand
Mark Brazaitis
Jeanne Bryner
Pearl S. Buck [pseudonym John Sedges]*
Joseph Bundy
Betsy Byars*
Edward J. Cabbell
Bernard "Bernie" Casey
Grace Cavalieri
Eleanor Carroll Chilton
Stephen Coonts*
Richard Currey*
Danske Dandridge
Julia Davis (Julia Davis Adams) [pseudonym F. Draco]*
Mark DeFoe
Martin R. Delany*
William Demby
Victor Depta
John Douglas
Muriel Miller Dressler
Robyn Eversole (Robyn Harbert Eversole)*
Wendy Wakefield Ferrin
George "Douglas" Fetherling
Ann Kathryn Flagg
Seseen Francis
Frank Gagliano
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.*
Denise Giardina*
Davis Grubb*
Granville Davisson Hall
Alberta Pierson Hannum
Rebecca Harding Davis (Rebecca Harding)*
James Harms
Marc Harshman*
Homer H. Hickam, Jr.*
Ellesa Clay High
William Hoffman
John Hoppenthaler
Kermit Hunter
Christopher G. Janus
J. McHenry Jones
Norman Jordan [pseudonym Peterr Jesus]
Kirk Judd
Lawrence "Larry" Kasdan*
Earl R. Keener
Chuck Kinder
Wallace E. Knight
John Knowles*
Lisa Koger
Tom Kromer
Millard Lampell [pseudonym H. Partnow]*
P. J. Laska
Gretchen Moran Laskas
Jean Lee Latham [pseudonym Janice Gard]*
Maryat Lee
J.T. LeRoy
Kate Long
Cleta M. Long
Pare Lorentz
Keith Maillard*
Jeff Mann
Russell Marano
Catherine Marshall*
David Lozell Martin
John F. Matheus
Lee Maynard
Joe McCabe
John McKernan
Llewellyn McKernan
Irene McKinney*
G. D. McNeill
Louise McNeill*
Margaret Prescott Montague [pseudonym Jane Steger]*
Florence Musgrave
Walter Dean Myers*
Valerie Nieman (Valerie Nieman Colander)
John O'Brien
Sean O'Leary
Ann Pancake
Breece D'J Pancake*
Edwina "Eddy" Pendarvis
Jayne Anne Phillips*
Melville Davisson Post*
Eugenia Price
Sara Pritchard [pseudonym Delta B. Horne]
Johnny Quarles
Carlos Rubio (Carlos Rubio Albet)
Timothy Russell
Cheryl Ryan
Cynthia Rylant*
Mary Ann Samyn
Brenda Seabrooke
Alvena Seckar
David Selby
Mary Lee Settle*
Susan Sheppard
Ellen Harvey Showell
Hobert Skidmore
Hubert Skidmore
Joseph Slate
Barbara Smith
Agnes Smith
Anna Egan Smucker*
Anne Spencer
Richard Spilman
Kevin Stewart
Frank R. Stockton
A.E. "Art" Stringer
David Hunter Strother [pseudonym Porte Crayon]*
John F. Suter
Felix Sutton
Carlene Thompson
Carolyn Thorman
Clyde Ware
Cheryl Ware
Booker T. Washington*
Don West
Billy Edd Wheeler*
Meredith Sue Willis*
John R. "Jack" Zierold

West Virginia Poet Laureates
The Soupbean Poets

*author is listed on front of the printed map