Guggenheim Fellows Span the Genres, From Experimental Verse to Travel Memoir [1]
Today the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced its 2010 U.S. and Canada fellows, including twenty-eight literary writers. The fellowship winners, who can only receive the award once, include J. Allyn Rosser, whose work takes on traditonal forms and experimental, and poet-documentarian Mark Nowak; recent Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novelist Paul Harding and David Rhodes, who published his latest novel, Driftless, in 2008 after thirty-three years without publication; and creative nonfiction writers Maggie Nelson, who has also published five poetry collections, and memoirist and travel writer Tom Bissell.
The poetry fellows are:
Joel Brouwer
Angie Estes [2]
Kimiko Hahn [3]
Barbara Hamby [4]
Juan Felipe Herrera [5]
Nathaniel Mackey
Mark Nowak
Patrick Phillips [6]
J. Allyn Rosser [7]
Richard Tillinghast [8]
The fellows in fiction are:
Lorraine Adams
Ethan Canin [9]
Anthony Doerr [10]
Nell Freudenberger
Paul Harding [11]
Victor LaValle
Colum McCann
Joseph O’Neill
David Rhodes [12]
Christine Schutt
Salvatore Scibona [13]
Monique Truong
The creative nonfiction fellows are:
Tom Bissell [14]
Peter Godwin
Molly Haskell
Maggie Nelson
Peter Trachtenberg
Irene Vilar
The amount of each writer's grant varies, but the average given last year in literature was upwards of thirty-six thousand dollars. Midcareer North American writers who have "demonstrated exceptional creative ability in the arts" are invited to apply for the fellowships through September 15.