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
Michael Paterniti 2002 Creative Writing
Carol Ann Davis 2007 Creative Writing
Killarney Clary 2011 Creative Writing
Micah Dean Hicks 2020 Creative Writing
Kenneth Burke 1969 Creative Writing
Alfred, Jr. Poulin 1975 Creative Writing
Igor Webb 1977 Creative Writing
Lawson Fusao Inada 1979 Creative Writing
Curtis L. Johnson 1981 Creative Writing
John Christgau 1983 Creative Writing
Patricia Dobler 1985 Creative Writing
Alfred Cantor 1988 Creative Writing
Halvard Johnson 1990 Creative Writing
Tadeusz Korzeniewski 1992 Creative Writing
Li-Young Lee 1995 Creative Writing
John Latta 2001 Creative Writing
Jhumpa Lahiri 2006 Creative Writing
Sean Brendan-Brown 2010 Creative Writing
Ellen Bass 2015 Creative Writing
Amy Munson 2019 Creative Writing