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
Robert Hill Long 2005 Creative Writing
Ted Mathys 2005 Creative Writing
Jill McDonough 2005 Creative Writing
Eric Pankey 2005 Creative Writing
Kathleen Peirce 2005 Creative Writing
Bill (Red Pine) Porter 2005 Translation Chinese
Belle Randall 2005 Creative Writing
Spencer Reece 2005 Creative Writing
Martha Ann Selby 2005 Translation Tamil
Andrew Shields 2005 Translation French
Richard Siken 2005 Creative Writing
Sean Singer 2005 Creative Writing
Young Smith 2005 Creative Writing
Mark Smith-Soto 2005 Creative Writing
Adam Sorkin 2005 Translation Romanian
Steven Stewart 2005 Translation Spanish
Michael Teig 2005 Creative Writing
Jeffrey James Thomson 2005 Creative Writing
Virlana Tkacz 2005 Translation Ukrainian
Mark Wunderlich 2005 Creative Writing