Literature: FY2002 Grants

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Access | Challenge America Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation

Literature Fellowships | Organizational Capacity | Panelists

Access

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the coordination of National Poetry Month, a project that brings poetry to schools, libraries, bookstores, cultural organizations and communities across the country in new and imaginative ways. During April 2002, the academy will host library readings, panel discussions, outreach efforts and special features on the organization's Web site.

Adirondack Community College (on behalf of the Writers Institute)
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
To support the creation of a writer's institute. The institute will present readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers to students and community members.

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$35,000
To support the development of Interlit, a Web site devoted to international literature. The site will feature between 50 and 100 works of nonfiction, short stories, poems and novel excerpts a year drawn from 20 to 25 languages.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a writing retreat for emerging African American poets. Cave Canem also will expand and improve its new Web site to include more information about available programs and participating poets.

Hawaii Literary Arts Council
Honolulu, HI
$5,000
To support a series of readings and writing workshops at men's and women's prisons. Scheduled participants include Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Chris McKinney, author of the novel Tattoo, which isset in Halawa prison.

Jewish Heritage Writing Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the National Initiative in the Literature of the Holocaust, a residency program coupling young, established writers with Holocaust survivors to produce publishable literary memoirs. Jewish Heritage will partner with schools, museums and community organizations across the country to produce and promote quality manuscripts.

PEN Center USA West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support mentorships targeted to emerging writers from underserved and minority communities, and seminars on practical topics for professional writers in California, New Mexico, Washington and Colorado. PEN West also will expand and reprint its Author Access catalogue, which lists more than 300 writers who are available for readings and speaking engagements.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$7,500
To support the expansion of the Poetry Flash Online Web site. The new site will feature improved editorial archives and frequent updates to a calendar of literary events throughout California and the West Coast.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems around the country. Targeted cities include Boston, MA; Washington, DC; Atlanta, GA; and Minneapolis, MN.

Poets House, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the expansion of the Poetry in the Branches program to libraries throughout the nation. In collaboration with the American Library Association, the organization will present a three-day training conference for librarians from branches nationwide.

Santa Monica College
Santa Monica, CA
$7,500
To support the production of a series of one-hour theatrical readings of 20th century short fiction about the immigrant experience. To be aired on public radio station KCRW to 500,000 listeners, the series will be designed for both local and national audiences as well as Internet broadcast.

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
To support a targeted distribution initiative. The project will provide individuals, libraries and bookstores in all 50 states with publications from 500 small and independent presses.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
$5,000
To support the Poetic Principles Series, featuring readings at the museum by established authors. Scheduled guests include Seamus Heaney and Anita Desai, who will read and comment on the museum's upcoming exhibition of painting from India.

Writer's Garret
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for TEX!, a free literary magazine written by and about Texas writers. The magazine is distributed to 500,000 readers via schools, libraries, festivals, tourist bureaus, stores and as an insert in The Dallas Morning News.

Challenge America Access

National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support literary outreach programs that link National Book Award authors with underserved communities throughout the country. Programs include American Voices, which brings writers to American Indian reservations nationwide, and a Summer Writing Camp for inner-city teens and adults.

Poets & Writers, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support Carried Voices: Writers & Books in the West, a program to increase access to established writers in rural communities throughout Washington, Oregon and Montana. The program will develop a new model for writers' residencies and more effectively link publishers, presenters and audiences outside of major urban centers. Consortium members include the Western States Arts Federation, Mountain Writers Center (Portland, OR), The Writers Voice of the Billings, Montana Family YMCA, and the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library.

Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
$40,000
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo to be held at historically black colleges and universities around the country. Writers will visit Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA; Xavier University in New Orleans, LA; Fisk University in Nashville, TN; and Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD.

Creativity

92nd Street Y (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Asso.)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series, featuring readings, performances, literary tributes and live interviews. The center will present first American readings of new works of verse drama.

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
$18,000
To support the publication and promotion of poetry titles selected from two annual competitions, the Beatrice Hawley Award and the New York/New England Award. Titles will be promoted to more than 8,000 individuals, bookstores, libraries and literary organizations nationwide.

American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of The American Poetry Review. The tabloid will seek to increase its current circulation of 20,000 through a targeted direct mail campaign to more than 240,000 prospective readers.

Another Chicago Magazine (Left Field Press, Inc.)
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of Another Chicago Magazine. Edited by poet and fiction writer Barry Silesky since 1981, the magazine features work of approximately 25 writers in each issue, including the winner of the Chicago Literary Award for fiction and poetry.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support publication and promotion of Fish-Hair Woman, a novel by Australian Filipina author Merlinda Bobis. The press will organize a reading tour for Ms. Bobis to 13 cities around the country with large Filipina and Filipina American communities.

Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
$7,000
To support the publication, distribution and promotion of issues of Bamboo Ridge, an annual journal of Hawaiian literature and arts. Authors featured in the issues will promote the journal through readings and workshops at community colleges, high schools, educational conferences, bookstores and local organizations.

Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$11,000
To support publication, circulation and related expenses, including authors' fees, for issues of Conjunctions. Each issue will be distributed to bookstores throughout the country and subscribers in more than 40 states and 15 countries.

Big River Association (on behalf of River Styx Magazine)
St. Louis, MO
$5,000
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of River Styx, St. Louis's oldest literary magazine. River Styx annually publishes the work of approximately 60 poets and 20 prose writers.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support production, promotion and related expenses for new volumes of poetry. Scheduled poets to be published include Ellen Bass, Wendy Mnookin, Adrie Kusserow and Olga Orozco.

BorderZone Arts (Intersection)
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies in San Francisco. Proposed artists include Jessica Hagedorn, Mike Davis, Kevin Powell and Suzan Lori Parks. Each residency will include a public reading and at least one free outreach event tailored to the writer's interests and expertise.

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of "New and Selected" works by established writers of fiction and poetry. Scheduled writers include Jack Marshall, Anne Waldman, Quincy Troupe, Maxine Chernoff and Jonis Agee.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$55,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry by emerging and established poets, and books in translation. Promotional author readings will be scheduled throughout the country at bookstores, libraries and literary conferences.

Creative Nonfiction Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA
$7,500
To support the publication and promotion of an issue of Creative Nonfiction. In addition to author readings, special mailings, and advertisements on its Web site, the journal will promote its issues by binding a subscription card into Poets and Writers magazine.

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$60,000
To support the translation, publication and promotion of contemporary poetry and fiction by writers from Latin America, Vietnam and Algeria. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings by international writers in bookstores, libraries, schools and community centers.

Divinity, Inc.
Florissant, MO
$5,000
To support the fifth annual Langston Hughes St. Louis/World Black Poetry Festival. Participating poets include Quincy Troupe, Rita Dove, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Reggie Gibson, Eugene B. Redmond and Yusef Komanyakaa.

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the publication and national distribution of books in the International Women's Writing Project. Works proposed for publication include Dance With a Poor Man's Daughter by South African author Pamela Jooste and Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita, a novel exploring the political and cultural landscape of Mauritian society.

Fence Magazine, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support production, promotion and related expenses, including artists' fees, for issues of Fence. The magazine will increase payments to contributors and advertise in journals such as Poets and Writers, American Poetry Review, Boston Review and Poetry Flash.

Fiction, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the publication and promotion of a double issue of Fiction. The 330-page issue will include short stories, novel excerpts, translations and essays.

Gettysburg College (on behalf of Gettysburg Review)
Gettysburg, PA
$10,000
To support an increase in payments to contributors and promotional expenses for the Gettysburg Review. A direct mail campaign on behalf of the literary journal will target 50,000 potential readers across the country.

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$55,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors include Katie Ford, Eamon Grennan, Natasha Trethewey, Nick Flynn, and Leslie Miller.

Guild Complex (on behalf of Tia Chucha Press)
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support the publication and promotion of volumes of poetry. Proposed books include The Poetry Deal by Diane DiPrima; a collection by a Chicago or Midwestern writer; and two books selected from minority communities.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the 2002 Women Writers Series and Conference. Now in its 7th year, the program will consist of five readings held between April and September. It will conclude with a three day conference of lectures, panel discussions, open mike readings, workshops and keynote readings by Naomi Shihab Nye and Rosellen Brown.

Heyday Books (Clapperstick Institute)
Berkeley, CA
$9,500
To support Heyday Books's publication and related costs for an anthology of Hispanic, Latino and Chicano writers who have lived in or written about California. Co-edited by Francisco Jimenez and Juan Velasco, the anthology will include novel excerpts, short stories, letters, literary essays, autobiographies, reminiscences, interviews, journalism, theater pieces and poetry.

Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$7,500
To support the Literary Presentation Series, featuring live readings by distinguished writers, and Open Mike Nights, a series of readings by local regional poets and writers. The Literary Presentation Series will feature public readings at the restored Philipse Manor Railroad, the historic home of Washington Irving in Tarrytown, NY and at other educational institutions in Westchester County.

Illinois State University (on behalf of Unit for Contemporary Literature)
Normal, IL
$5,000
To support publication and promotion of issues of American Book Review. A direct mail campaign will target Associated Writing Programs' faculty lists, offering MFA graduates free, one-year subscriptions.

Indiana University (on behalf of Indiana Review)
Bloomington, IN
$5,000
To support publication and promotion of a special issue of Indiana Review featuring new work by writers of color. Scheduled contributors include Cornelius Eady, Virgil Suarez, Tina Chang, Carl Phillips, Timothy Liu and Terrence Hayes.

Kelsey Street Press
Berkeley, CA
$5,000
To support the production, promotion and related expenses, including artists' fees, of volumes of poetry by women. Titles include The Girl Riding Through the Story Garden by Patricia Dienstfrey; Nest by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge; and Frayed Edges, a collaboration between poet Ann Lauterbach and visual artist Ann Hamilton.

Lenoir-Rhyne College (consortium)
Hickory, NC
$5,000
To support the Word Wide: Writers of the Americas residency program, which will bring Leroy Quintana to counties throughout western North Carolina. The consortium will distribute 300 copies of his books to residency participants.

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers, which presents readings by established authors and provides mentors for emerging writers throughout the state. Mentors committed to the project include Victor Hernandez Cruz, Agymah Kamau, Dorianne Laux and Amy Bloom.

Louisiana State University (on behalf of Louisiana State University Press)
Baton Rouge, LA
$10,000
To support production costs and related expenses for books of poetry. Scheduled titles include Kelly Cherry's Rising Venus, Daniel Hoffman's Darkening Water, and Kathryn Stripling Byer's Catching Light.

Mad Alex Arts Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support artists' fees and related expenses for readings by emerging and well established writers in the New York City area. Previous guests include Jayne Cortez, Robert Creeley, David Henderson, Grace Paley, Ed Friedman, Kimiko Hahn, Gordon Lish, Lynne Tillman and Hugh Seidman.

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$5,000
To support a day of readings and workshops with Edwidge Danticat as part of the college's Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. The program will be promoted through direct mailings to more than 200,000 students and residents in downtown Detroit.

Mountain Writers Series
Portland, OR
$25,000
To support readings, residencies and special events throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Proposed authors include Andrea Barrett, Charles Baxter, Ann Carson, W.S. DiPiero, Rita Dove, Mary Oliver, Carl Phillips, Anne Carson, Charles Simic and Sherman Alexie.

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$7,500
To support publication costs for five poetry volumes selected from the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Chosen by distinguished poets, the five winning manuscripts will be published by HarperCollins Publishers, Louisiana State University Press, Sun & Moon Press, the University of Illinois Press, and Viking Penguin.

North Carolina State University (on behalf of Obsidian III)
Raleigh, NC
$8,000
To support the publication and promotion of issues of Obsidian III. The journal will increase its direct mail campaign with new lists and more frequent mailings.

Oakland Community College (on behalf of Witness)
Farmington Hills, MI
$5,000
To support the production and promotion of a special issue of Witness magazine on aging in America. The issue will feature work of writers such as Carol Bly, Stanley Kunitz, Robin Hemley, Kathleen Norris, George Garrett, Henry Taylor, Maxine Kumin, Joyce Carol Oates and Donald Hall.

Open City, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support publication and related costs, including artists' fees, for issues of Open City. New issues will include fiction, poetry, and essays from ethnically diverse contributors such as Ariel Leve, Paco Brown, Vince Passaro, Honor Moore and Will Eno.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
To support the publication and national circulation of issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The winter 2002-03 and spring 2003 issues will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

Poetry Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support the Annual Reading Series of nationally renowned writers, and the Discover Reading Series, featuring monthly readings by Chicago poets in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago. Scheduled participants include Andre Codrescu, Billy Collins, Thomas Lynch, Lisel Mueller and James Tate.

Poetry Flash (consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$7,000
To support the seventh annual Watershed Festival set in the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in downtown Berkeley. The festival features a day of readings by poets and writers such as Joy Harjo, Jane Hirschfield, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kay Ryan, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jim Dodge and Brenda Hillman.

Poetry in Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the publication, promotion and related expenses of issues of Parnassus: Poetry in Review. Proposed authors include Mary Karr, Marjorie Perloff, Eric Ormsby, William Logan, Marilyn Chin, David Barber, Thomas M. Disch, Helene J.F. de Aguilar and Jay Ladin.

Poetry Project, Ltd.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series, which will feature live presentations by more than 100 poets and performers. Writers under consideration include Paul Auster, Amiri Baraka, Carolyn Chute, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Barbara Guest, Rick Moody and U Sam Oeur.

Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry, and translations of established foreign poets. The press will organize author readings and advertise in magazines such as Crossroads, Parnassus, The New York Review of Books, American Poetry Review and Poets and Writers.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story. The project is a series of live readings featuring classic and new short fiction read by distinguished stage and screen actors.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of the Threepenny Review. Featuring work by 100 established and emerging writers, the proposed issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 100,000 readers.

University of Chicago (on behalf of Chicago Review)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support publication, promotion and related expenses, including translators' fees, for an issue of Chicago Review devoted to new writing in German since 1989. The issue will feature poetry, prose, essays, verse, reviews and interviews by more than 70 German-language writers, including previously untranslated writers from the generation that has emerged since German unification.

University of Hawaii at Manoa (on behalf of Manoa)
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support publication, promotion, distribution and related expenses for issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature new writing from Korea, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands and include poetry and prose by American writers from diverse cultural backgrounds.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público Press)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support publication and promotion of anthologies of works by Latino authors. Featured authors will read at more than 180 venues nationwide, including libraries, community centers, trade shows, inner-city schools, and alternative schools for at-risk youth.

University of Iowa (on behalf of University of Iowa Press)
Iowa City, IA
$8,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two winning selections from the Iowa Short Fiction Award competition. Titles will be selected by Barry Hannah, author of High Lonesome.

University of Maine (on behalf of National Poetry Foundation)
Orono, ME
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of new volumes of poetry as part of the foundation's Contemporary Poets Series. Scheduled titles include two book-length poems by Theodore Enslin, Axes and Ranger; and the Collected Poems of Joanne Kyger, 1957-1990.

University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$18,000
To support publication, promotion, and related expenses for issues of The Missouri Review. The magazine will enhance its Web site, increase authors' fees, and target 50,000 potential readers through a national direct mail campaign.

University of Nevada at Las Vegas
(on behalf of University of Las Vegas Press)
Las Vegas, NV
$10,000
To support publication and promotion of poetry titles by University of Nevada Press. The press will schedule readings and classroom visits for each author throughout the state, and will promote its author events via direct mail and on its Web site.

White Pine, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support the translation, publication and promotion of titles in the World of Voices Project. White Pine will partner with the Buffalo School System and Just Buffalo Literary Center to bring its authors and books to local high schools and colleges.

Women's Review, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
$12,000
To support the publication and promotion of special issues of The Women's Review of Books. The issues will include fiction, poetry, essays, critical analyses and personal narratives by women who identify themselves as members of a diaspora.

Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support a series of readings, exhibits and workshops in Milwaukee's inner city. Scheduled authors include Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Michael Harper, Anselm Hollo, Fanny Howe, Ed Roberson, Kathleen Fraser, Juan Filipe Herrera, Myung Mi Kim, Joanne Kygar and James Welch.

Xavier University of Louisiana Audubon Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support readers' fees, promotion and related expenses for a reading series targeting African American students and community members. Scheduled participants include E. Ethelbert Miller, Dorianne Laux, Harryette Mullen, Bruce Weigl, Lenard D. Moore, Peggy Shumaker, David Brendan Hopes and Henry Taylor.

Zephyr Press (Aspect, Inc.)
Brookline, MA
$15,000
To support the translation, publication and promotion of contemporary literature from China and Poland. Zephyr Press will publish an anthology of contemporary Polish poets and arrange bilingual readings of featured authors in communities with large Polish American populations.

ZYZZYVA, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support publication, promotion and related costs, including authors' fees, for issues of Zyzzyva, a magazine featuring the work of West Coast writers. Each issue includes approximately 20 writers, one-third of whom have never been in print.

Heritage/Preservation

Americas Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Central American Writing Today, a program of bilingual author readings and school visits, and publication and marketing of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts. Scheduled writers include Claribel Alegria of Nicaragua and El Salvador; Roberto Quesada of Honduras; and Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez of Nicaragua.

ArtSanctuary
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support the 18th Annual Celebration of Black Writing. Scheduled speakers include Major Jackson, Elizabeth Nunez, Paule Marshall and Dr. Manthia Diawara, chair of the African Studies Department at New York University.

Center for Book Culture
Normal, IL
$40,000
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern fiction by Dalkey Archive Press . Authors whose works will be republished as part of the press's International Recovery Project include Susan Daitch, Osman Lins, Brigid Brophy, Ann Quin, Nigel Dennis, and Louis Paul Boon.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$5,000
To support Latina Letters: A Conference on Latina Literature and Identity. Proposed authors include Migdalia Cruz, Aurora Levins Morales, Demetria Martínez, Dolores Prida and Ana Castillo.

Naropa University
Boulder, CO
$20,000
To support the preservation of recordings of central literary figures who have visited the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics since 1974. Authors featured on the tapes include Robert Creeley, Barbara Guest, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, Gary Snyder, Rikki Ducornet, Ishmael Reed and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support eight Writers-at-Work interviews in The Paris Review. Potential interviewees include Michael Ondaatje, Jorie Graham, David Foster Wallace, John Edgar Wideman, Ann Beattie, Adrienne Rich, Wole Soyinka, Edward Hirsch, Richard Powers, Stephen King and Annie Proulx.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the tenth annual Poetry Publication Showcase, a series of programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. Poets House will exhibit new poetry books to 20,000 librarians at the American Library Association Conference in Atlanta, and will publish the Directory of American Poetry Books, the only bibliographic resource that tracks the annual publication of poetry.

San Francisco State University (on behalf of the Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the restoration of historical film footage from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. Authors featured in these original recordings include Ernest J. Gaines, Audre Lorde, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff, William S. Burroughs and Ted Hughes.

Words Given Wings Literary Arts Project
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support Mercury House's publication and national distribution of an anthology of fiction, drama, poetry and nonfiction by Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, with an introduction by Japanese American poet Lawson Fusao Inada. A Japanese-German American naturalized in 1894, Hartmann devoted most of his life to championing American art and artists.

Literature Fellowships

The 2002 Literature Fellowships recognize the following writers in fiction and creative nonfiction, encouraging the production of new work by affording these writers the time and means to write.

Each grantee will receive $20,000

Adrian, Chris
Norfolk, VA

Allen, Mary
Iowa City, IA

Antrim, Donald E.
Brooklyn, NY

Bender, Karen E.
New York, NY

Block, Ronald D.
North Platte, NE

Brockmeier, Kevin
Little Rock, AR

Budnitz, Judith
New York, NY

Chadwick, Cydney Marie
Petaluma, CA

Clark, George
Lafayette, LA

Doenges, Judith A.
Fort Collins, CO

Doerr, Anthony
Bosie, ID

Eggers, Paul Samuel
Forest Ranch, CA

Franzen, Jonathan
New York, NY

Hill, Ingrid M.
Iowa City, IA

Hodgen, Christie
Louisville, KY

Hurd, Barbara
Frostburg, MD

Jones, Stephen
Lubbock, TX

Klam, Matthew
Washington, DC

Klimasewiski, Marshall N.
St. Louis, MO

Labiner, Norah
Minneapolis, MN

Montemarano, Nicholas
Warrensburg, MO

Mulligan-Webb, Sheila
Gettysburg, PA

Novakovich, Josip A.
Blue Creek, OH

Paola, Suzanne
Bellingham, WA

Paterniti, Michael
Portland, ME

Roorbach, William F.
Farmington, ME

Schmidtt, Richard
Sparr, FL

Searcy, David
Dallas, TX

Sherrill, Kenneth Steven
Altoona, PA

Skibell, Joseph F.
Atlanta, GA

Small, Catherine
Kirkland, WA

Sullivan, Robert
Brooklyn, NY

Varallo, Anthony
Yorklyn, DE

Waters, Mary
Long Beach, CA

Wysong, Maurice Brennen
Geneva, NY

TRANSLATION PROJECTS IN PROSE

The 2002 Literature Fellowships also support the following translation projects.

Batki, John J.
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Hungarian of Geza Ottlik's novel Buda. Published posthumously, this experimental novel is an outgrowth of the author's earlier magnum opus, School on the Border, which is his only novel translated into English and is now out of print.

Batt, Herbert
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Chinese of Horatio Alger Comes to China, a collection of short stories by different authors about the self-made person. Works include Bai Xianyong's "A Death in Chicago," Fang Fang's "Landscape," He Jia's "Apple Pie," Ma Yuan's "Smooth Tongued Gigolo," Su Tong's "Flight from Home in 1934," and Yan Geling's "The Roleplayer."

Bononno, Robert
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from French of Seven Years in the Life of a Woman: Isabelle Eberhardt, Letters and Journals. Eberhardt's writings from her travels with the French Foreign Legion reveal a woman tormented by uncertainty and ill health, but filled with a romantic vision of the desert.

Felstiner, Jr., Louis John
Stanford, CA
$10,000
To support the translation from French of the collected correspondence between poet Paul Celan and his wife, French artist Giséle Celan-Lestrange. Written between 1951 and 1970, when Celan committed suicide, the more than 600 letters explore critical aesthetic questions and include first drafts of renowned poems.

Frye, David L.
Ann Arbor, MI
$10,000
To support the translation from Spanish of El Periquillo Sarniento (The Mangy Parrot) by Mexican writer José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi. Published in 1816, El Periquillo Sarniento is widely recognized as the first Mexican and the first Latin American novel.

Merrill, Christi Ann
Charlottesville, VA
$20,000
To support the translation from Hindi and Rajasthani of selections from Vijay Dan Detha's Baton ri Phulwari (A Garden of Tales). This collection includes 14 volumes of stories inspired by the folktales of Detha's feudal village of Rajasthan, India.

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Italian of a collection of essays by Natalia Ginzburg. Essays will be selected from three volumes, the latter two of which have yet to published in the U.S.: Le piccole virtù (The Little Virtues), Mai devi domandarmi, and Vita immaqinaria.

Sengupta, Sagaree
Madison, WI
$10,000
To support the translation from Hindi of Ek naukrani ki diary (The Diary of an Indian Maidservant), a novel by Krishna Baldev Vaid. The novel explores the little-documented relationship between middle-class masters and their household help.

Valentino, Russell
Iowa City, IA
$10,000
To support the translation from Serbo-Croatian of Predrag Matvejevi_'s Between Exile and Asylum: An Eastern Epistolary. Through the author's personal journey into his family's past, this work of creative nonfiction explores the historical role of the Russian intelligentsia and the responsibilities of European public intellectuals.

Organizational Capacity

Associated Writing Programs
Fairfax, VA
$60,000
To support the production, printing and distribution of The Writer's Chronicle, the AWP Job List, continued development of the AWP Web site, and the 2003 AWP Conference in Baltimore, MD. AWP will promote the publications and its annual conference through a 100,000-piece direct mail campaign.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY
$35,000
To support new and enhanced services for independent literary publishers. Scheduled activities include an interactive Web site, a national conference and updated publications such as the triquarterly newsletter CLMPages and the Directory of Literary Magazines & Presses.

Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine and the continued development and promotion of Poets & Writers Web site. Other activities include the Literary Horizons, a series of seminars, panels, lectures and pamphlets providing writers with practical information on the business of writing.

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