MacDowell Names 86 New Fellows

The MacDowell Colony has awarded fellowships to 86 artists from 18 states and nine countries working in seven disciplines, a large number of whom are poets and writers. The fellowships are for upcoming late winter and spring residencies. The fellowships, each with an average value of $10,000, were awarded from a pool of 846 applications received by the most recent of MacDowell’s three annual deadlines. 

The most recent group of writing-related fellows includes, according to discipline: 

• Theatre artists: Annie Baker, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Dominic Finocchiaro, Peter Gray, Aleshea Harris, M.J. Kaufman, Richard Marshall, Julian Maynard Smith, and Jonathan Spector
• Poets: Alfredo Aguilar, Ari Banias, Victoria Chang, Juan Andrés García Román, Katie Hale, Sara Lefsyk, Aurora Masum-Javed, and Hoa Nguyen
• Nonfiction writers: Cal Flyn, Vincent Granata, Frank Huyler, Christopher Ketcham, Mary Kosut, Raghav Krish, Kimberly Meyer, Joanna Rakoff, Kenneth Rosen, and Farah Stockman
• Fiction writers: Gbolahan Adeola, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Rachel Cantor, Kia Corthron, Jennifer Down, Patrick Flanery, Amina Gautier, Rachel B. Glaser, Adam Haslett, Sheila Heti, Ladee Hubbard, Genevieve Hudson, Maxim Loskutoff, Lydia Millet, Michael Moore, Anna Noyes, Tommy Orange, and Mikkel Rosengaard

Pictured here are incoming fellows Tamar Baruch, David Hertzberg, Kia Corthron, Tommy Orange, Matthew Connors, Joseph Keckler, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, and Aleshea Harris.