National Endowment for the Arts
CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS
Thirty-five poets each received a $25,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. They are Albert Abonado of Rochester, New York; Threa Almontaser of Raleigh, North Carolina; Toby Altman of Denver; Aldo Amparán of El Paso, Texas; Ruth Awad of Columbus, Ohio; Quenton Baker of Seattle; Jamaica Baldwin of Lincoln, Nebraska; Oliver Baez Bendorf of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Kayleb Rae Candrilli of Philadelphia; Leila Chatti of Cincinnati; Aaron Coleman and Paul Tran, both of Saint Louis; Flower Conroy of Key West, Florida; Kyle Dacuyan and Nicole Sealey, both of New York City; Oliver de la Paz of Holden, Massachusetts; Mitchell L. H. Douglas of Indianapolis; Natalie Eilbert of Madison, Wisconsin; Adam Giannelli of Waterville, Maine; torrin a. greathouse of Minneapolis; Sally Wen Mao of Las Vegas; James Davis May of
Macon, Georgia; Diana Khoi Nguyen of Pittsburgh; Matthew Olzmann of White River Junction, Vermont; Joy Priest of Houston; Valencia Robin of Charlottesville, Virginia; David Roderick Jr. of Berkeley, California; Leslie Sainz of Miami; Robin Beth Schaer of Oberlin, Ohio; Lauren Goodwin Slaughter of Birmingham, Alabama; Christopher Soto of Los Angeles; Jacqueline Allen Trimble of Montgomery, Alabama; Vanessa Angélica Villarreal of Glendale, California; Marcus Wicker of Memphis; and Phillip B. Williams of Bennington, Vermont. 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 2022 creative writing fellowships will be given in prose; the deadline has passed. The deadline for the 2023 fellowships in poetry has not been set.
LITERATURE TRANSLATION FELLOWSHIPS
Twenty-four translators received fellowships of $12,500 or $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts. They are Naveed Alam of Lahore, Pakistan; Michael Berry and Hilary Kaplan, both of Los Angeles; Dick Cluster of Oakland; Lowell Cook of Alpharetta, Georgia; Sean Cotter of McKinney, Texas; Allison A. deFreese of Portland, Oregon; Sharon Dolin and Aaron Robertson, both of New York City; Rachel Galvin of Chicago; Chloe Garcia Roberts of Milton, Massachusetts; Johannes Göransson of South Bend, Indiana; Tyrell Haberkorn of Madison, Wisconsin; Patricia Hartland of Turners Falls, Massachusetts; Mona Kareem of Binghamton, New York; Jae Kim of Saint Louis; Hamzat A. Koriko of Grand Forks, North Dakota; David Lisenby of Kansas City, Missouri; Johnny Lorenz of Montclair, New Jersey; JD Pluecker of Houston; Jamie Richards of Milan, Italy; Raquel Salas Rivera of San Juan, Puerto Rico; Brian Sneeden of Eastford, Connecticut; and Maggie Zebracka of Iowa City. Cotter and Haberkorn received $25,000 each; Alam, Berry, Cluster, Cook, deFreese, Dolin, Galvin, Garcia Roberts, Göransson, Hartland, Kaplan, Kareem, Kim, Koriko, Lisenby, Lorenz, Pluecker, Richards, Robertson, Salas Rivera, Sneeden, and Zebracka received $12,500 each. The annual fellowships are given to support the translation into English of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The deadline for the 2022 translation fellowships has passed;
the deadline for the 2023 fellowships has not been set.
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