She has won two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, the Poet's Prize and, last year, went to West Point to receive the Commander's Award for Public Service from the Department of the Army.
NEA announces 2014 creative writing fellowships.
She is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, a James A. Michener Fellowship at the University of Texas-Austin and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing fellowship at Bucknell University.
In 1959 he received a creative writing fellowship from Stanford to study with Wallace Stegner.
He published his first novel, "The Boys in the Island," in 1958, which helped him win a creative writing fellowship to Stanford a few years later.
As an unsuccessful applicant for a 2002 creative writing fellowship, I was dismayed to discover that among those receiving grants were successful authors like Donald Antrim, Matthew Klam and Jonathan Franzen.
She recently received a Creative Disturbance Fellowship, and has been listed by Forbes as one of the 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa.
To name just two contributors who've received creative-writing fellowships: the U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey; and the magazine's incoming poetry editor, Kevin Young.
It was primarily to be with Kitay, his lifelong partner, that Gunn applied for a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University, California, which he was awarded in 1954 and where he worked with the great, if wayward, poet-critic Yvor Winters.
A recent Creative Code Fellowship recipient, Taurin Barrera, developed an environmental data visualization and sonification piece called Aethera, which used DIY collection devices he designed to monitor environmental metrics around the city.
