Literature Fellowships

Below is a list of all NEA Literature Fellowships awarded since 1965. You can search by year, name, or fellowship type (creative writing or translation). 

We also have sections where you can find out more information about some of the fellows. You can meet some of the fellows who received creative writing awards from 2001 to the present. You can meet some of the fellows who received translation awards from 2011 to the present.

Name Year Type Language
Lorenzo Thomas 1983 Creative Writing
Charif Shanahan 2019 Creative Writing
Cynthia Huntington 1984 Creative Writing
Kim Stafford 1976 Creative Writing
Thomas Absher 1976 Creative Writing
Kathleen Fraser 1977 Creative Writing
Eugene Redmond 1978 Creative Writing
Michael Heffernan 1978 Creative Writing
Charles Stein 1979 Creative Writing
Roberta Spear 1993 Creative Writing
Paul Kahn 1979 Creative Writing
Lisa Sandlin 1994 Creative Writing
Clifford Mason 1980 Creative Writing
Bonnie ZoBell 1995 Creative Writing
Tatyana Tolstaya 1995 Creative Writing
Catherine Sasanov 1997 Creative Writing
Tracy Daugherty 1998 Creative Writing
Liza Wieland 2000 Creative Writing
Cleopatra Mathis 2003 Creative Writing
Jonathan Waterman 2004 Creative Writing