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
Jascha Kessler 1975 Creative Writing
Lucy Lim 1977 Creative Writing
Peter Seaton 1979 Creative Writing
Irina Kirk 1981 Creative Writing
Nicholas Delbanco 1983 Creative Writing
Toi Derricotte 1985 Creative Writing
Donald Revell 1988 Creative Writing
Lynda Leidiger 1990 Creative Writing
Carol Frost 1993 Creative Writing
Tatyana Tolstaya 1995 Creative Writing
Rosemary Mahoney 2006 Creative Writing
Mark Neely 2015 Creative Writing
Ben Maddow 1969 Creative Writing
Robert Flanagan 1974 Creative Writing
Barbara Keiler 1977 Creative Writing
Esther Broner 1979 Creative Writing
David H. Perkins 1983 Creative Writing
Joe Ashby Porter 1985 Creative Writing
Sharon Bryan 1987 Creative Writing
Barbara Esstman 1990 Creative Writing