The literary winners of Guggenheim fellowships

We applaud all 184 recipients of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship.

But of course we’re especially excited for the twenty-six writers and poets who won grants for being “exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship … and creation.”

Here are their names; you can read more about each on the Guggenheim Foundation website.

Poetry 

• Ellen Bass

• Don Mee Choi

• Andrea Cohen

• Stephen Kuusisto

• Sandra Lim

• Tracie Morris

• Craig Morgan Teicher

• Roberto José Tejada

• Connie Voisine

• Mark Wunderlich 

Fiction 

• Kaitlyn Greenidge

• Mitchell S. Jackson

• Tayari Jones

• Daniel Mason

• Laura van den Berg

• Paul Yoon 

General nonfiction

• Alexander Chee

• Ian Frazier

• William Giraldi

• Farah Jasmine Griffin

• Helen Molesworth

• George Prochnik

• Wendell Steavenson

• Robert Sullivan

• Michelle Tea

• Kate Zambreno