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
Pete Dexter 1970 Creative Writing
Richard Hall 1975 Creative Writing
Roger Pfingston 1977 Creative Writing
Tina Darragh 1979 Creative Writing
Leslie D. Epstein 1981 Creative Writing
Susan Shreve 1983 Creative Writing
Barbara Drake 1986 Creative Writing
Joseph Geha 1988 Creative Writing
Sarah Cotterill 1990 Creative Writing
Hugh Ogden 1993 Creative Writing
Daniel Tobin 1996 Creative Writing
Marshall Klimasewiski 2002 Creative Writing
Angela M. Estes 2007 Creative Writing
Joshua Mehigan 2011 Creative Writing
Lindsey Drager 2020 Creative Writing
John Ashbery 1969 Creative Writing
William Woods 1974 Creative Writing
Henri Coulette 1977 Creative Writing
Kit Robinson 1979 Creative Writing
Cheri Fein 1981 Creative Writing