Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

Bhion Achimba (they/he) grew up in rural southeastern Nigeria and came to the US as a Scholar-at-Risk fellow at Harvard University. Their manuscript Cantos...

Roda Avelar (she/they) is a trans woman poet from Fresno, California. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of California Riverside...

Ariana Benson (she/they) is a southern Black poet born in Norfolk, Virginia. Their debut collection, Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023...

Chrysanthemum (she/her) is a poet, a performance artist, and a public historian. She is the winner of a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg ...

Poet, designer, and musician Willie Lee Kinard III (he/they) earned a BFA from the University of South Carolina and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh...

Tarik Dobbs is a writer, an artist, and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Their poems appear in the Best New Poets and Best...

Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, won the 2019 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her awards and prizes include the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious...

Poet and community organizer Tariq Luthun was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in nearby Dearborn. His first collection of poetry, How the Water ...

Troy Osaki is a Filipino Japanese poet, organizer, and attorney from Seattle, Washington. He won a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship...

Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez is an Afro-Indigenous poet; an installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México; and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent ...

Bryan Byrdlong grew up in Chicago. He earned a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in creative writing from University of Michigan. His poetry has...

Steven Espada Dawson grew up in Los Angeles. He earned a BA from University of Colorado Denver and an MFA in creative writing from Purdue University. ...

Noor Hindi is a Palestinian-American poet and reporter. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry magazine, Hobart, and Jubilat. Her essays...

Natasha Rao is the author of Latitude (September 2021), selected by Ada Limón as winner of the 2021 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize....

Simon Shieh is a Taiwanese American poet, an essayist, and an educator. He is the author of Master (Sarabande Books, 2023), winner of the 2022 Kathryn...

Isabella “Isa” Borgeson (she/they) is a queer, mixed race, white and Filipina poet, community organizer, and educator from Oakland, California. She was...

Luther Hughes (they/them) is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022) and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). They are...

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (he/they) is the author of SLINGSHOT (Nightboat Books, 2019), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He earned a BA...

Darius Simpson is a writer, educator, performer, and disruptor from Akron, Ohio. His first poetry collection is Conversion Theory (2018). He earned his...

Khaty Xiong is the author of the poetry collection Poor Anima (Apogee Press, 2015) and the chapbooks Ode to the Far Shore (2016), Deer Hour (2014), and...

Franny Choi is the author of the poetry collections Soft Science (Alice James, 2019) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), as...

Jane Huffman grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan. She earned a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop...

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, the author of Citizen Illegal (2018), the co-author of Home Court (2014), and the co-host of the poetry...

Poet and essayist Justin Phillip Reed was born and raised in South Carolina. He earned his BA from Tusculum College and an MFA from Washington University...

Michael Wasson is the author of the forthcoming collection Swallowed Light, as well as This American Ghost (YesYes Books, 2017). He earned a BA from Lewis...

Safia Elhillo is Sudanese by way of Washington, DC. She is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), winner of the Sillerman...

Hieu Minh Nguyen is a queer Vietnamese American poet and performer based in Minneapolis. He is the author of the poetry collections Not Here (Coffee House...

Sam sax is the author of the poetry collections PIG (Scribner, 2023); bury it (Wesleyan University Press, 2018), winner of the James Laughlin Award; madness...

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) and The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015). She ...

Paul Tran earned a BA from Brown University and an MFA in poetry from Washington University. Their work appears in the New Yorker, Poetry magazine, and...

Poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a South-Asian American Muslim writer. Asghar is the author of the poetry collection If They...

Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, and scholar. Her debut collection of poetry is Arrow (Alice James Books and Carcanet Press, forthcoming September...

Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry ...

Roy G. Guzmán was born in Honduras and raised in Miami. Their work has been featured in Kenyon Review, Verse of April, and The Best American Poetry blog...

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017), winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize, selected by Maggie Smith. Her...

Kaveh Akbar is the author of Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf Press, 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017; Penguin UK, 2018). He is also the...

Trans poet, writer, translator, and intertextual artist jos charles is the author of the poetry collections Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016) and feeld...

Angel Nafis is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics, 2012). She earned her BA at Hunter College and is an MFA candidate...

Alison C. Rollins was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and Library of Small Catastrophes...

Poet Javier Zamora was born in the small El Salvadoran coastal fishing town of La Herradura and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine, joining...

Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. His first book, Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize...

Erika L. Sánchez is a CantoMundo fellow and winner of the 2013 “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize. Her books include Crying in the Bathroom (Penguin, 2022...

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Her first full-length collection, Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), won a Whiting...

Called “a modern-day Renaissance woman” by the Chicago Sun-Times, Jamila Woods is a poet, singer, and teaching artist. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee...

Hannah Gamble (they/them) is the author of Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast (Fence Books, 2012), selected by Bernadette Mayer for the 2011 National...

Born in Istanbul, Turkey, to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied and taught with...

Danez Smith was born St. Paul, Minnesota. They are the author of Don't Call Us Dead (2017), a finalist for the National Book Award; [insert] Boy (2014...

Born in Saigon, poet and editor Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned a BA at Brooklyn College (CUNY). In his poems, he often explores...

Born in Shandong, China, poet Wendy Xu was raised in New York and Iowa. She earned a BA from the University of Iowa and MFA from the University of Massachusetts...

Born in Waterloo, Iowa, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday is the daughter of Northern Soul singer/songwriter Jimmy Holiday. Her father died when ...

Matthew Nienow was born in Los Angeles and spent most of his youth in Seattle. He earned an MFA from the University of Washington and a degree in Traditional...

Hannah Sanghee Park was born in Tacoma, Washington. She earned a BA from the University of Washington, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and an ...

Natalie Shapero was born in Chester, Pennsylvania and earned a BA in Writing Seminars from the Johns Hopkins University, an MFA in Poetry from the Ohio...

Phillip B. Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois and earned an MFA from Washington University, where he was a Chancellor’s Graduate fellow. He is the...

Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of a memoir and three books of poetry. His memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming...

Nicholas Friedman is the author of Petty Theft, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize. In a comment on this “brilliant, beautifully crafted first book...

Richie Hofmann is a graduate of the University Professors Program at Boston University and earned an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University and PhD from...

Rickey Laurentiis grew up in New Orleans and earned an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. They are the author of Boy with Thorn, selected by...

Poet and editor Jacob Saenz was born in Chicago and raised in Cicero, Illinois. He earned a BA in creative writing from Columbia College in Chicago. His...

Olivia Clare was born in New York in 1982 and raised in Louisiana. She earned a BA in English from University of California, Berkeley, an MFA from the...

Theodore Zachary Cotler was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1981 and raised in Marin County, California. Cotler earned a BA in English from Cornell University...

Farnoosh Fathi was born in 1981. Raised in California, she attended UCLA, NYU, and the University of Houston, where she earned her PhD in creative writing...

Marcus Wicker was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the author of Silencer (2017), which won the Society of Midland Authors Award, as well as the Arnold...

Brooklyn Copeland was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection Siphon, Harbor (2012), as well as numerous...

Miriam Bird Greenberg was born in 1980 and grew up in rural Texas. Her limited-edition letterpress chapbook The Other World (2019), is available from ...

Nate Klug was born in Minnesota, grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and earned a BA in English at the University of Chicago and a Masters from Yale ...

Dora Malech grew up in Maryland and earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale University and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her awards include...

Malachi Black is the author of Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) and two limited edition chapbooks: Quarantine (2012) and Echolocation ...

Chloe Honum grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA from the University of Arkansas, and a PhD from Texas...

Jeffrey Schultz lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Pepperdine University. He received the 2009 “Discovery” / Boston Review prize.

Joseph Spece received BA degrees in English and philosophy from Boston College in 2005 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2009.

Nicky Beer (she/her) is a bi/queer writer and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022), winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award ...

Roger Reeves (he/him) is the author of Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley...

Alison Stine is the author of five books, including three books of poems: Wait (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), winner of the Brittingham Prize;...

Colin Cheney is the recipient of a 2006 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse...

Miller Oberman is the author of The Unstill Ones (Princeton University Press, 2017). He lives with his family in Queens, New York.

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait...

Poet Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union city of Odessa. He lost most of his hearing at the age of four after a doctor misdiagnosed mumps...

Wayne Miller was born in Cincinnati and earned his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA from the University of Houston. His books of poetry include the...

Christina Pugh is a poet and critic. Her fifth book of poems, Stardust Media, was awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry (University of Massachusetts Press...

Born in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, poet Morri Creech earned a BA at Winthrop University and an MA and MFA at McNeese State University. His formal ...

Poet, translator, editor, and essayist Christian Wiman was raised in West Texas and earned a BA at Washington and Lee University. A former Guggenheim ...

Davis McCombs was raised in Hart County, Kentucky. He earned a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from the University of Virginia. His collections ...

Born in Jackson, Mississippi, James Kimbrell received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of Missouri...

Greg Sellers attended Louisiana State University and earned his MFA at Arizona State University and his MLIS from the University of Alabama. The recipient...

Catherine Wagner’s collections of poems include Nervous Device (2012), My New Job (2009), Macular Hole (2004), Miss America (2001); and a dozen chapbooks...

Born in Washington, DC, poet and editor Saskia Hamilton earned a BA at Kenyon College, an MA at New York University, and a PhD from Boston University....