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
Yannick Murphy 1988 Creative Writing
Roger Greenwald 1988 Translation Swedish, Danish
Billy Collins 1988 Creative Writing
Denise Giardina 1988 Creative Writing
Harold Jaffe 1988 Creative Writing
Kathryn Davis 1988 Creative Writing
Patricia McConnell 1988 Creative Writing
Stephen Sandy 1988 Creative Writing
Yusef Komunyakaa 1988 Creative Writing
Edmund Keeley 1988 Translation Greek
Blanche McCrary Boyd 1988 Creative Writing
Dolores Kendrick 1988 Creative Writing
Hayden Carruth 1988 Creative Writing
Kirk Keller 1988 Creative Writing
Patricia Reeves 1988 Creative Writing
Susan Neville 1988 Creative Writing
Linda Lappin 1988 Translation Italian
Brendan James Galvin 1988 Creative Writing
Donald Revell 1988 Creative Writing
Helen Degen Cohen 1988 Creative Writing