Literary Arts: FY 2020 Grants Panelists

Art Works - Panel A
Aug 06, 2019

Anitra Budd
Freelance Copywriter and Editor
Minneapolis, MN

Nora de Hoyos Comstock (Layperson)
Retired, President and CEO
Las Comadres Para Las Americas
Austin, TX

Roberto Carlos Garcia
Publisher, Get Fresh Books, LLC
Assistant Professor of English
Union County College
Union, NJ

Jason Kyle Howard
Assistant Professor of Writing
Berea College
Lexington, KY

Ann VanderMeer
Editor/Anthologist
VanderMeer Creative, Inc
Tallahassee, FL

Martin Woodside
Co-Founder, Calypso Editions
Assistant Principal, Olney Elementary School
Philadelphia, PA

Art Works - Panel B
Aug 07, 2019

JoAnn A Balingit
Assistant Editor, YesYes Books
Adjunct Professor
University of Delaware
Newark, DE

Drew Cohen (Layperson)
Owner
The Writer's Block
Las Vegas, NV

Kelly Dulaney
Editor
The Cupboard Pamphlet LLP
Littleton, CO

Luther Hughes
Executive Editor, The Offing
Editor-in-Chief, The Shade Journal
Kent, WA

Alexis Orgera
Owner
Penny Candy Books
Greensboro, NC

Suzanna Tamminen
Director and Editor in Chief
Wesleyan University Press
Wesleyan University
Durham, CT

Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Panel (Prose)
Sep 10, 2019

Kristina Gomez (Layperson)
Librarian Milwaukee Public Library
City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Stephen Graham Jones
Writer
Boulder, CO

Ander Monson
Director MFA in Creative Writing
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Assistant Professor Literature
American University
Washington, DC

Leah Stewart
Professor, English
University of Cincinnati Main Campus
Cincinnati, OH

Aaron M Thier
Freelance Writer
Great Barrington, MA

Literature Fellowships: Translation Panel A
Jul 10, 2019

Steven E Bradbury
Translator
Melrose, FL

Melissa Hammerle (Layperson)
Visiting Assistant Professor in Education Studies, Middlebury College
Acting Director Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association
Cornwall, VT

Karen Kovacik
Poet/Translator/Professor of English
Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN

Robert Vollmar
Book Review and Online Editor
World Literature Today
Norman, OK

Literature Fellowships: Translation Panel B
Jul 11, 2019

Andres A Alfaro
Student/Translator
Administrative Coordinator
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

John Cayley
Professor of Literary Arts
Brown University
Providence, RI

Daniel J Golembeski
Associate Professor of French
Modern Languages and Literatures
Grand Valley State University
Petoskey, MI

Cathy Jones (Layperson)
Mathematics Teacher
Frederick Douglas High School
Greenbelt, MD

Jenny Wang Medina
Assistant Professor
Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures
Emory University
Brooklyn, NY

Gabriella Page-Fort
Editorial Director
Amazon Crossing
Amazon.com
Seattle, WA

Art Works II - A
Nov 25, 2019

Colin Channer
Assistant Professor Faculty Director, International Writers Project
Department of Literary Arts
Brown University
Providence, RI

Carolina Ebeid
Faculty, Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Founding Member, Refugee Poets Collective
Denver, CO

Sean Murphy
Executive Director, 1455
Reston, VA

Craig Santos Perez
Associate Professor & Director of the Creative Writing Program
English Department
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Aiea, HI

Laura Sauser (Layperson)
Community Manager
Urbandale Public Library
Des Moines, IA

Amanda Uhle
Publisher and Executive Director
McSweeney's Literary Arts Fund
Ann Arbor, MI

Art Works II - Panel B
Nov 26, 2019

Matt Mason
Nebraska State Poet (2019-2023)
Executive Director
Nebraska Writers Collective
Omaha, NE

Jay Melder (Layperson)
Assistant City Administrator
Executive Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser
District of Columbia, Office of Planning
Washington, DC

Tracy Mumford
Producer, On Demand Programming
Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN

Sara Ortiz
Program Manager
The Believer Magazine and Black Mountain Institute
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV

Sasha Pimentel
Associate Professor
Department of Creative Writing
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX

Donney Rose
Forward Arts Poetry Educator
Humanities Amped
Baton Rouge, LA