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Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. Among the largest awards offered to young poets in the US, the $27,000 prize is intended to support exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age.

The fellowships were established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly and expanded in 2013 with a gift from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund.

How to Apply

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All applicants will need to register and apply through the Poetry Foundation’s new Grants and Awards Online Portal. To access the portal, applicants must submit an initial registration form. Registrations will be approved within 3-5 business days.

If you registered for an account in 2023, please do not register again. Your username is your email address and you can request a new password here.

After your registration is approved, applicants will be required to upload 10 pages of poetry as a single PDF and answer questions regarding their creative practices.

Information Session

Join us for a scheduled information session webinar on how to apply for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Awarded annually, the fellowships are among the largest awards offered to young poets in the US, with a $27,000 prize intended to support exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age.

Starting March 4, 2024, applications will be available via the awards portal. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM (CT). During this webinar, we will review the guidelines and eligibility requirements as well as how to access the application through our awards portal. There will also be plenty of time for questions. ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided. If you have any questions or accessibility needs, please contact [email protected].

Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Time: 12 PM CT - 1 PM CT

Please register here to join.

View a video of the Fellowship Information Session from March 22, 2023.

Alternative Application Formats

The Poetry Foundation offers alternative application formats (e.g., audio format, video format, and interview with transcription). Please contact [email protected] or call 312-799-8072 by April 1, 2024 to arrange a method of submitting the application that best meets your accessibility needs.

Application Process and Timeline

Requirements

  • Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and no older than 31 years of age as of April 30, 2024.
  • Applicants should be able to demonstrate a commitment to poetry.
  • Applicants must be US citizens or currently reside in the US.

Important Dates

  • March 4 - Applications open.
  • March 26 - Virtual Information Session
  • April 1 - Deadline to request alternative application formats.
  • April 8 - Cutoff to register for the online portal.
    • Allow adequate time to complete your application.
  • April 15, 5PM (CT) - Applications due.
  • All applicants will be notified by mid-August 2024.

Information on the 2024 Decision Process

All applications have been reviewed by paid external reviewers who are working poets. Finalists and awardees will be determined by an external committee of paid final round judges.

One of the Poetry Foundation’s priorities when selecting the 2024 Fellows is to support poets who have not had substantial institutional support in their careers thus far.

For any questions about the application process, please contact [email protected].

Past Fellowship Recipients

2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

  • 2023 Fellow

    Bhion Achimba (they/he) grew up in rural southeastern Nigeria and came to the US as a Scholar-at-Risk fellow at Harvard University. Their manuscript Cantos from the Crossing won the 2023...

  • 2023 Fellow

    Roda Avelar (she/they) is a trans woman poet from Fresno, California. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of California Riverside, where she taught creative writing and...

  • 2023 Fellow

    Ariana Benson (she/they) is a southern Black poet born in Norfolk, Virginia. Their debut collection, Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023), won the 2022 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Benson has...

  • 2023 Fellow

    Chrysanthemum (she/her) is a poet, a performance artist, and a public historian. She is the winner of a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and was a Kundiman...

  • 2023 Fellow

    Poet, designer, and musician Willie Lee Kinard III (he/they) earned a BFA from the University of South Carolina and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. His publications include Orders...

2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

  • 2022 Fellow

    Tarik Dobbs is a writer, an artist, and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Their poems appear in the Best New Poets and Best of the...

  • 2022 Fellow

    Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, won the 2019 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her awards and prizes include the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and the College...

  • 2022 Fellow

    Poet and community organizer Tariq Luthun was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in nearby Dearborn. His first collection of poetry, How the Water Holds Me (Bull City Press, 2020),...

  • 2022 Fellow

    Troy Osaki is the grandson of Filipino immigrants and the great-grandson of Japanese immigrants. A three-time grand slam poetry champion, Osaki earned fellowships from Kundiman, Hugo House, and the Jack...

  • 2022 Fellow

    Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez is an Afro-Indigenous poet; an installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México; and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Lopez’s debut visual...

2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

  • 2021 Fellow

    Bryan Byrdlong grew up in Chicago. He earned a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in creative writing from University of Michigan. His poetry has appeared in many journals,...

  • 2021 Fellow

    Steven Espada Dawson grew up in Los Angeles. He earned a BA from University of Colorado Denver and an MFA in creative writing from Purdue University. His poems have appeared...

  • 2021 Fellow

    Noor Hindi is a Palestinian-American poet and reporter. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry magazine, Hobart, and Jubilat. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American...

  • 2021 Fellow

    Natasha Rao is the author of Latitude (September 2021), selected by Ada Limón as winner of the 2021 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared or are...

  • 2021 Fellow

    Simon Shieh is a Taiwanese American poet, an essayist, and an educator. He is the author of Master (Sarabande Books, 2023), winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize. His...

2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

  • 2020 Fellow

    Isabella “Isa” Borgeson (she/they) is a queer, mixed race, white and Filipina poet, community organizer, and educator from Oakland, California. She was named a “Best New Poet” of 2018 after...

  • 2020 Fellow

    Luther Hughes (they/them) is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022) and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). They are the founder of Shade Literary...

  • 2020 Fellow

    Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (he/they) is the author of SLINGSHOT (Nightboat Books, 2019), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He earned a BA from Hampshire College, and MS...

  • 2020 Fellow

    Darius Simpson is a writer, educator, performer, and disruptor from Akron, Ohio. His first poetry collection is Conversion Theory (2018). He earned his BA in Political Science from Eastern Michigan University...

  • 2020 Fellow

    Khaty Xiong is the author of the poetry collection Poor Anima (Apogee Press, 2015) and the chapbooks Ode to the Far Shore (2016), Deer Hour (2014), and Elegies (2013). Her...

2019 Fellows

2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

The winners were selected from 1,573 submissions, including 2019 finalists Noah Baldino, Mia Kang, Alan Pelaez Lopez, Julian Randall, Monica Sok, and Noah Warren.

  • 2019 Fellow

    Franny Choi is the author of the poetry collections Soft Science (Alice James, 2019) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), as well as the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017)....

  • 2019 Fellow

    Jane Huffman grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan. She earned a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have...

  • 2019 Fellow

    José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, the author of Citizen Illegal (2018), the co-author of Home Court (2014), and the co-host of the poetry podcast The Poetry Gods....

  • 2019 Fellow

    Poet and essayist Justin Phillip Reed was born and raised in South Carolina. He earned his BA from Tusculum College and an MFA from Washington University, where he was also...

  • 2019 Fellow

    Michael Wasson is the author of the forthcoming collection Swallowed Light, as well as This American Ghost (YesYes Books, 2017). He earned a BA from Lewis-Clark State College and an MFA in...

2018 Fellows

2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

  • 2018 Fellow

    Safia Elhillo is Sudanese by way of Washington, DC. She is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for...

  • 2018 Fellow

    Hieu Minh Nguyen is a queer Vietnamese American poet and performer based in Minneapolis. He is the author of the poetry collections Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018) and This...

  • 2018 Fellow

    Sam sax is the author of the poetry collections PIG (Scribner, 2023); bury it (Wesleyan University Press, 2018), winner of the James Laughlin Award; madness (Penguin, 2017), winner of the...

  • 2018 Fellow

    Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) and The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015). She earned a BA from University of Texas...

  • 2018 Fellow

    Paul Tran earned a BA from Brown University and an MFA in poetry from Washington University. Their work appears in the New Yorker, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere, including in the...

2017 Fellows

2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

  • 2017 Fellow

    Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a South-Asian American Muslim writer. Asghar is the author of the poetry collection If They Come for Us (One World/Random House, 2018) and...

  • 2017 Fellow

    Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar. Her debut collection of poetry is Arrow (Alice James Books and Carcanet Press, forthcoming September 2020). She earned a BA from Wellesley...

  • 2017 Fellow

    Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. He began writing and...

  • 2017 Fellow

    Roy G. Guzmán was born in Honduras and raised in Miami. Their work has been featured in Kenyon Review, Verse of April, and The Best American Poetry blog. Guzmán has...

  • 2017 Fellow

    Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017), winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize, selected by Maggie Smith. Her first full-length collection, A Cruelty Special...

2016 Fellows

2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

  • 2016 Fellow

    Kaveh Akbar is the author of Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf Press, 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017; Penguin UK, 2018). He is also the author of...

  • 2016 Fellow

    Trans poet, writer, translator, and intertextual artist jos charles is the author of the poetry collections Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016) and feeld (Milkweed Editions, 2018), a winner of the 2017...

  • 2016 Fellow

    Angel Nafis is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012). She earned her BA at Hunter College and is an MFA candidate in poetry at Warren Wilson...

  • 2016 Fellow

    Alison C. Rollins was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), a...

  • 2016 Fellow

    Poet Javier Zamora was born in the small El Salvadoran coastal fishing town of La Herradura and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine, joining his parents...

2015 Fellows

2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

  • 2015 Fellow

    Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. His first book, Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He is a coeditor of...

  • 2015 Fellow

    Erika L. Sánchez is a CantoMundo fellow and winner of the 2013 “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize. She has received scholarships from the Fulbright Program and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her poetry has...

  • 2015 Fellow

    Danniel Schoonebeek’s first book of poems, American Barricade (YesYes Books, 2014), was named one of the year’s ten standout debuts by Poets & Writers and was called “a groundbreaking first book...

  • 2015 Fellow

    Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Her first full-length collection, Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), won a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from...

  • 2015 Fellow

    Called “a modern-day Renaissance woman” by the Chicago Sun-Times, Jamila Woods is a poet, singer, and teaching artist. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry has been published by...

2014 Fellows

2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

  • 2014 Fellow

    Hannah Gamble (they/them) is the author of Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast (Fence Books, 2012), selected by Bernadette Mayer for the 2011 National Poetry Series. They have received fellowships...

  • 2014 Fellow

    Born in Istanbul, Turkey, to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York...

  • 2014 Fellow

    Danez Smith was born St. Paul, Minnesota. They are the author of Don't Call Us Dead (2017), a finalist for the National Book Award; [insert] Boy (2014), winner of the Lambda...

  • 2014 Fellow

    Born in Saigon, poet and editor Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned a BA at Brooklyn College (CUNY). In his poems, he often explores transformation, desire, and...

  • 2014 Fellow

    Born in Shandong, China, poet Wendy Xu was raised in New York and Iowa. She earned a BA from the University of Iowa and MFA from the University of Massachusetts,...

2013 Fellows

2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows

  • 2013 Fellow

    Born in Waterloo, Iowa, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday is the daughter of Northern Soul singer/songwriter Jimmy Holiday. Her father died when she was five, and she and her mother...

  • 2013 Fellow

    Matthew Nienow was born in Los Angeles and spent most of his youth in Seattle. He earned an MFA from the University of Washington and a degree in Traditional Small...

  • 2013 Fellow

    Hannah Sanghee Park was born in Tacoma, Washington. She earned a BA from the University of Washington, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and an MFA in Writing for...

  • 2013 Fellow

    Natalie Shapero was born in Chester, Pennsylvania and earned a BA in Writing Seminars from the Johns Hopkins University, an MFA in Poetry from the Ohio State University, and a...

  • 2013 Fellow

    Phillip B. Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois and earned his MFA from Washington University, where he was a Chancellor’s Graduate fellow. He is the author of the poetry collection...

2012 Fellows

2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows

  • 2012 Fellow

    Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of a memoir and three books of poetry. His memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (Avery/Penguin,...

  • 2012 Fellow

    Nicholas Friedman is the author of Petty Theft, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize. In a comment on this “brilliant, beautifully crafted first book,” poet B.H. Fairchild notes: “As the...

  • 2012 Fellow

    Richie Hofmann is a graduate of the University Professors Program at Boston University and earned an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University and PhD from Emory University, where he also...

  • 2012 Fellow

    Rickey Laurentiis grew up in New Orleans and earned an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. They are the author of Boy with Thorn, selected by Terrance Hayes for the...

  • 2012 Fellow

    Poet and editor Jacob Saenz was born in Chicago and raised in Cicero, Illinois. He earned a BA in creative writing from Columbia College in Chicago. His first collection of...

2011 Fellows

2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows

  • 2011 Fellow

    Olivia Clare was born in New York in 1982 and raised in Louisiana. She earned a BA in English from University of California, Berkeley, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an...

  • 2011 Fellow

    Theodore Zachary Cotler was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1981 and raised in Marin County, California. Cotler earned a BA in English from Cornell University in 2003 and an...

  • 2011 Fellow

    Farnoosh Fathi was born in 1981. Raised in California, she attended UCLA, NYU, and the University of Houston, where she earned her PhD in creative writing and literature. She is the author...

  • 2011 Fellow

    Allison Seay was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1980. She earned a BA in English at Mary Washington College (now University of Mary Washington) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 2002 and...

  • 2011 Fellow

    Marcus Wicker was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the author of Silencer (2017), which won the Society of Midland Authors Award, as well as the Arnold Adoff Poetry...

2010 Fellows

2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows

  • 2010 Fellow

    Brooklyn Copeland was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection Siphon, Harbor (2012), as well as numerous chapbooks, including Salt Ballads (2012), Laked, Fielded,...

  • 2010 Fellow

    Miriam Bird Greenberg was born in 1980 and grew up in rural Texas. Her limited-edition letterpress chapbook The Other World (2019), is available from the Center for Book Arts. Her poetry collections...

  • 2010 Fellow

    Nate Klug was born in Minnesota, grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and earned a BA in English at the University of Chicago and a Masters from Yale Divinity School. He is the...

  • 2010 Fellow

    Dora Malech grew up in Maryland and earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale University and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her awards include a...

  • 2010 Fellow

    Christopher Shannon was born in Beech Grove, Indiana in 1981. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he received a BA in English and Creative Writing as well as...

2009 Fellows

2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows

  • 2009 Fellow

    Malachi Black is the author of Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) and two limited edition chapbooks: Quarantine (2012) and Echolocation (2010). A recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship,...

  • 2009 Fellow

    Eric Ekstrand lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with his husband, Danny, and his father, Ken. He teaches writing at Wake Forest University. He is the recipient of a 2009 Ruth...

  • 2009 Fellow

    Chloe Honum grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA from the University of Arkansas, and a PhD from Texas Tech University. Honum...

  • 2009 Fellow

    Jeffrey Schultz lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Pepperdine University. He received the 2009 “Discovery” / Boston Review prize.

  • 2009 Fellow

    Joseph Spece received BA degrees in English and philosophy from Boston College in 2005 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2009.

2008 Fellows

2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows

  • 2008 Fellow

    Nicky Beer (she/her) is a bi/queer writer and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022), winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. Her other...

  • 2008 Fellow

    Roger Reeves's poems have appeared in journals such as PoetryPloughshares, American Poetry ReviewBoston Review, and Tin House, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded...

  • 2008 Fellow

    Originally from Charlottesville, Virginia, Michael Rutherglen is the recipient of a 2012–2013 Amy Clampitt fellowship and a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. His work has been published...

  • 2008 Fellow

    Alison Stine is the author of five books, including three books of poems: Wait (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), winner of the Brittingham Prize; Ohio Violence (University of North Texas...

  • 2008 Fellow

    Caki Wilkinson's poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Black Warrior Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere, She is a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati.

  • 2007 Fellow

    Sean Bishop earned his MFA from the University of Houston, where he was the managing editor of Gulf Coast. His first collection of poetry, The Night We’re Not Sleeping In...

  • 2007 Fellow

    Megan Grumbling received the 2004 Robert Frost Award. Appearing in this issue are poems from Booker’s Point, her book-length portrait of a quintessential Maine codger. She is a theater...

  • 2006 Fellow

    Colin Cheney is the recipient of a 2006 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, and Ploughshares, among others. He teaches...

  • 2005 Fellow

    Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He earned his BA at the University of Oregon and his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where...

  • 2005 Fellow

    Miller Oberman is the author of The Unstill Ones (Princeton University Press, 2017). He lives with his family in Queens, New York.

  • 2004 Fellow

    Nathan Bartel

  • 2004 Fellow

    Emily Moore is a graduate of Phillips Academy and Princeton University. Her poems have been published in The Best American Poetry blog, Ploughshares, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review,...

  • 2003 Fellow

    Katherine Larson is the author of Radial Symmetry (2011), selected by Louise Glück as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. She holds degrees from The University of...

  • 2003 Fellow

    Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets...

  • 2002 Fellow

    Marc Bittner

  • 2002 Fellow

    Emily Rosko earned her BA from Purdue University, her MFA from Cornell University, and her PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her collections of poetry include Raw Goods Inventory (2006),...

  • 2001 Fellow

    Poet Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union city of Odessa. He lost most of his hearing at the age of four after a doctor misdiagnosed mumps as...

  • 2001 Fellow

  • 2000 Fellow

    Wayne Miller was born in Cincinnati and earned his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA from the University of Houston. His books of poetry include the chapbook What Night...

  • 2000 Fellow

    Christina Pugh is a poet and critic. Her fifth book of poems, Stardust Media, was awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020). Her other books of poetry include Perception (Four Way...

  • 1998 Fellow

  • 1998 Fellow

    Born and raised in Maryland, poet and fiction writer Christine Stewart earned a BA at Goucher College, an MA at Hollins University, and an MFA at the University of Maryland. ...

  • 1997 Fellow

    Born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, poet Morri Creech earned a BA at Winthrop University and an MA and MFA at McNeese State University. His formal poems engage human questions...

  • 1997 Fellow

    Delisa Mulkey was born and raised in Georgia and earned her PhD from Georgia State University. She is the author of the chapbook Peacock by Moonlight (1999), and her poems...

  • 1996 Fellow

    Erin G. Brooks

  • 1996 Fellow

    Zarina Mullan Plath

  • 1995 Fellow

    Matt Douglas Collinsworth earned his BA from Georgetown College and his MFA from Ohio State University. He received the 1995 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and his poetry has appeared in journals...

  • 1994 Fellow

    Poet, translator, editor, and essayist Christian Wiman was raised in West Texas and earned a BA at Washington and Lee University. A former Guggenheim fellow, Wiman served as the editor...

  • 1993 Fellow

    Davis McCombs was raised in Hart County, Kentucky. He earned a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from the University of Virginia. His collections of poetry include Ultima Thule...

  • 1992 Fellow

    Born in Jackson, Mississippi, James Kimbrell received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author...

  • 1991 Fellow

    Greg Sellers attended Louisiana State University and earned his MFA at Arizona State University and his MLIS from the University of Alabama. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship,...

  • 1990 Fellow

    Catherine Wagner’s collections of poems include Nervous Device (2012), My New Job (2009), Macular Hole (2004), Miss America (2001); and a dozen chapbooks, including Imitating (Leafe Press, 2004). She has performed...

  • 1989 Fellow

    Born in Washington, DC, poet and editor Saskia Hamilton earned a BA at Kenyon College, an MA at New York University, and a PhD from Boston University. She coedited Words...