We are pleased to announce that NER contributors Cate Marvin and Maud Casey are among the 175 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients chosen from an applicant pool of almost 3,000 individuals.

Cate Marvin has received numerous honors for her poetry, including the Whiting Award and a Kathryn A. Morton Prize. She has published three books of poetry and currently teaches creative writing at Columbia University’s MFA Program, the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. She has contributed to six issues of NER (19.2, 20.2, 21.1, 22.2, 34.3-4, 36.1).

Maud Casey is the author of three novels, including most recently The Man Who Walked Away, and a collection of stories, Drastic. Her essays and criticism have appeared in A Public Space, Literary Imagination, the New York Times Book Review, Oxford American, and Salon. She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize and a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, and has received numerous international residency fellowships for her work in fiction. She is a Professor of English at Maryland University. Her essay on the photography and mystery of Vivian Maier appears in NER Digital.

Congratulations to Maud, Cate, and all of the 2015 Guggenheim recipients!

 

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/cate-marvin/

http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/maud-casey/