National Endowment for the Arts
CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS
Thirty-six fiction and nonfiction writers each received a $25,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. They are Renée Branum of Cincinnati; Liz Breazeale of Denver; Amy Knox Brown of Lincoln, Nebraska; Marina Budhos of Maplewood, New Jersey; Jill Christman of Muncie, Indiana; Paula Closson Buck of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; Lee Conell of New York City; Michael Dahlie of Indianapolis; Lindsey Drager, Janalyn Guo, and Lance Olsen, all of Salt Lake City; Jonathan Escoffery of Long Beach, California; Danielle Valore Evans of Baltimore; Micah Dean Hicks of Oviedo, Florida; Ben Hoffman, Ling Ma, and Frances de Pontes Peebles, all of Chicago; Vanessa Hua of Orinda, California; Tara Ison and Sarah Viren, both of Tempe, Arizona; Toni Jensen of Fayetteville, Arkansas; Hester Kaplan of Providence; Sonya Larson of Somerville, Massachusetts; Claire Luchette of Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Greg Marshall and Karen Olsson, both of Austin, Texas; Meghan Phillips of Manheim, Pennsylvania; Brian Ascalon Roley of Montgomery, Ohio; Aisha Sabatini Sloan of Ypsilanti, Michigan; Anjali Sachdeva of Pittsburgh; Peng Shepherd of Las Vegas; Maggie Shipstead of Los Angeles; Joni Tevis
of Greenville, South Carolina; Emma Törzs of Minneapolis; Theodore Wheeler of Omaha; and Jennifer Wortman of Lafayette, Colorado. The annual fellowships are given in alternating years to poets and prose writers to allow for research, travel, time to write, and career development. The 2020 creative writing fellowships will be given in poetry; the deadline has passed. The next deadline, for the 2021 fellowships in prose, has not been set.
LITERATURE TRANSLATION FELLOWSHIPS
Twenty-four translators received fellowships of $12,500 from the National Endowment for the Arts. They are Jeffrey Angles of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Nancy Naomi Carlson of Silver Spring, Maryland; Jessica Cohen of Denver; Robyn Creswell and Allison Markin Powell of New York City; Marguerite Feitlowitz of Washington, D.C.; Gwendolyn Harper of Emeryville, California; Brian T. Henry of Richmond, Virginia; William Maynard Hutchins of Todd, North Carolina; Adriana X. Jacobs of New York City and Oxford, England; Bill Johnston of Bloomington, Indiana; Elizabeth Lowe of Gainesville, Florida; Rebekah Maggor and Valzhyna Mort, both of Ithaca, New
York; Valerie Miles of Barcelona; Armine Kotin Mortimer of Urbana, Illinois; Suneela Mubayi of New York City and Cambridge, England; Greg Nissan of Tesuque, New Mexico; Julia Powers of New Haven, Connecticut; Frederika Randall of Rome; Sherry Roush of State College, Pennsylvania; James Shea of Hong Kong; Kaija Straumanis of Rochester, New York; and Spring Ulmer of Essex, New York. The annual fellowships are given to support the translation into English of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from writers around the world. The 2020 deadline has passed; the 2021 deadline has not been set. National Endowment for the Arts, 400 7th Street SW, Washington, D.C. 20506.
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