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
Walter McDonald 1989 Creative Writing
Jill Eisenstadt 1992 Creative Writing
Alison Cadbury 1995 Creative Writing
Jane Bernstein 2000 Creative Writing
Michael Blumenthal 2005 Creative Writing
Christopher Arnold 2014 Creative Writing
Cutter Wood 2018 Creative Writing
Ally Ang 2023 Creative Writing
Ivan Gold 1967 Creative Writing
William A. Roecker 1973 Creative Writing
Marisha Chamberlain 1976 Creative Writing
Renee Lieberman 1978 Creative Writing
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall 1980 Creative Writing
Maura Stanton 1982 Creative Writing
Stanley Kunitz 1984 Creative Writing
David Kaplan 1987 Creative Writing
Joan Murray 1989 Creative Writing
Stephen Murabito 1991 Creative Writing
Michael R. Collier 1994 Creative Writing
Peter Balakian 2004 Creative Writing