Lannan Foundation Announces 2016 Literary Awards & Fellows

The Lannan Foundation has announced its 2016 Fellowships, both in fiction and poetry! Full list of Poetry Fellows is below. Congratulations to everyone!

The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in 1989 to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality. The awards recognize writers who have made significant contributions to English-language literature. The fellowships recognize writers of distinctive literary merit who demonstrate potential for continued outstanding work.

Don Mee Choi, 2016, Current, Fellowship, Poetry
Tyehimba Jess, 2016, Current, Award, Poetry
Craig Santos Perez, 2016, Current, Fellowship, Poetry
Solmaz Sharif, 2016, Current, Fellowship, Poetry
Ocean Vuong, 2016, Current, Fellowship, Poetry
A. Van Jordan, 2015, Current, Award, Poetry
Philip Metres, 2015, Current, Fellowship, Poetry
Mark Nowak, 2015, Current, Fellowship, Poetry
Layli Long Soldier, 2015, Current, Fellowship, Poetry
Adrian Matejka, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
Jamaal May, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
Jill McDonough, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
Claudia Rankine, 2014, Award, Poetry
Natalie Diaz, 2012, Fellowship, Poetry
Dennis O’Driscoll, 2012, Award, Poetry
Sherwin Bitsui, 2011, Fellowship, Poetry
Atsuro Riley, 2011, Fellowship, Poetry

To help celebrate, check out a new poem, written in solidarity with the protests at Standing Rock, "Water Is Life," from Lannan Fellow Craig Santos Perez. Perez is the author of, most recently, from unincorporated territory [guma'] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2014).