Literature: FY 2017 Grants Panelists

Creative Writing Fellowships: Poetry
September 14, 2016

Amy Quan Barry
Poet, Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI

Rachel Brumbach (Layperson)
Teacher, McCaskey High School
School District of Lancaster
Lancaster, PA

Rigoberto González
Poet, Professor
Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey
critic-at-large
L.A. Times
Forest Hills, NY

francine j. harris
Poet, Writer in residence
Washington University
St. Louis, MO

Douglas A. Powell
Poet, Professor
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Dean Young  
Poet, William Livingston Chair of Poetry
University of Texas
Austin, TX

Art Works - Panel A
August 3, 2016

Kevin Craft  
Editor-in-Chief, Poetry Northwest
Chair, Department of English
Everett Community College
Seattle, WA

Erin Keane  
Writer
Culture Editor
Salon
Louisville, KY

Marcela Landres
Editorial Consultant
Co-Founder
Comadres and Compadres Writing Conference
Brooklyn, NY

Evan Lavender-Smith
Founding Editor, Noemi Press
Editor-in-Chief, Puerto del Sol
Assistant Professor, Department of English
New Mexico State University
Los Cruces, NM

Wayne Miller
Editor and Managing Editor, Copper Nickel
Associate Professor
University of Colorado-Denver
Denver, CO

Art Works - Panel B
August 4, 2016

Neil Aitken  
Editor
Boxcar Poetry Review
Vancouver, WA

Danielle Dutton   
Founder and Editor
Dorothy, a publishing project
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO

Saeed Jones
Executive Editor, Culture
BuzzFeed
New York, NY

Erica Mena   
Editor
Drunken Boat
San Francisco, CA

Eric Obenauf  
Editorial Director and Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Columbus, OH

Hope O’Keeffe (Layperson)
Associate General Counsel
Library of Congress
Arlington, VA